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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



March 



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A red wrapper on your paper indicates that 

 you owe for your subscription. Please give 

 the matter your early attention. 



As an experiment, an apiarist in 

 quest of a situation invested twenty- 

 five cents in the Bee-Keeper's cent-a- 

 word column, recently. Before the 

 month was out he wrote that inquiries 

 had been received from bee-keepers 

 from "Vermont to California. As a 

 southern location is preferred, he has a 



choice between Texas and Mississippi, 

 from both of which business proposi- 

 tions have been received. Possibly, 

 other of our readers have failed to ap- 

 preciate the efficiency and cheapness 

 of this department. 



Texas has a new bee-keepers' asso- 

 ciation, organized at Beeville, Texas, 

 Feb. 1, and to be known as the Nueces 

 Valley Bee-Keepers' Association. Mi*. 

 W. H. Laws, of Beeville, is secretary 

 of the new organization. 



An association of bee-keepers was 

 organized .Tan. 30, in Knox county, III. 

 The regular annual meeting will be 

 held in April and a rousing attendance 

 is anticipated. Mr. J. E. Johnson, of 

 Williamsfield, is president, and E. D. 

 Woods, of Galesburg, secretary of the 

 new society. 



In the last annual report of the 

 National Bee - Keepers' Association 

 there appeared a list of prices on 

 honey cans. General Manager France 

 desires to inform the readers of the 

 American Bee-Keeper that "these 

 prices will not be granted any longer.'' 



In view of different opinions re- 

 cently expressed in these columns, in 

 I'egard to the amiability or viciousness 

 of the Cyprians, it would be interest- 

 ing to have a brief statement of the ex- 

 periences of the fraternity in general 

 upon this point. We shall be pleased to 

 hear from those who have had to do 

 with this race of bees. 



A winter of unusual severity is 

 drawing to a close, and its 'efPects upon 

 the bees is a matter of quite general 

 interest. Brief reports of the results 

 in wintering would be quite in order 

 for the April Bee-Keeper, and we shall 

 be pleased to hear from our readers 

 throughout the country in regard to 

 this point. 



SECTIONS. 

 • Commenting editorially upon Mr. 

 Heddon's article in The Bee-Keeper, 

 the American Bee .lournal says: "If, 

 perforce, we must go back to four- 

 piece sections, we may as well take all 

 the comfort we can out of the advan- 

 tages thew oflFer. They can be made 

 out of any kind of wood, and no one 



