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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



June 



to the Zoological Society of London, 

 and in 1859 its poisonous qualities 

 were still retained. 



Tlie Pacific States Bee Journal cites 

 as Its authority for the statement that 

 a Honolulu bee-keeper produced 300,- 

 000 pounds of honey in a season from 

 200 colonies, the last annual report of 

 the National Bee-Keepers' Association. 

 There are a number of things in that 

 report which should be revised before 

 reproduction. 



Mr. E. M. Storer, who returned from 

 Cuba, as recently noted in these col- 

 umns, and purchased an apiary at Wa- 

 basso. Fla., writes that he will not 

 get honey enough for breakfast from 

 the saw palmetto this year. He is now 

 making inquiry as to rates for ti-ans- 

 porting bees to Cuba. During the past 

 poor season in Cuba, Mr. Storer took 

 from 900 colonies ten thousand gallons 

 of honey and eleven hundred nuclei. 

 It appears that Cuba is still in the 

 race. 



Perhaps no other question is more 

 often asked, in regard to apiculture, 

 than, "Does bee-keeping pay?" A hard- 

 er question would be difficult to imag- 

 ine. Does store-keeping pay? Yes and 

 no. Under the same conditions either 

 is profitable to certain persons. Under 

 the same conditions neither is profit- 

 able to others. Some succeed where 

 otliers fail. Some fail where others 

 would have succeeded. It's so the 

 world over, in all brnnches of industry 

 and commerce. 



The Modern Farmer and Busy Bee 

 makes the following pertinent com- 

 ment, with reference to the National 

 Association and its doings: 



Let the membership have a report of 

 the annual meetings, advertise honey 

 everywhere, promote the general inter- 

 ests of the industry, go after adulter- 

 ators, get laws passed for the promo- 

 tion of the industry, see that bee-keep- 

 ing sets proper recognition at the 

 hands of all fair associations, county, 

 state and nation. 



From a recent editorial in the Amer- 

 ican Bee Journal, it appears that the 

 old Cotton hive fake is again being 

 worked. Lizzie must have been hi- 



bernating, and but recently awakened; 

 but her schemes to extort money from 

 the ambitious, though unwary bee- 

 keeper will doubtless fall short of the 

 success with which they met "'some 

 twenty years ago." Bee fixtures with 

 which the name "Cotton" is in any 

 way associated have about them an 

 unsavory odor in the nostrils of the I 

 practical apiarist. It would be well j 

 for the uninitiated to "fight shy'' of | 

 Cotton goods until their history has j 

 been investigated. We have for some 

 time had an article in hand, by Mr. 

 E. F. Atwater, Boise, Idaho, in regard 

 to this hive, which is well known in 

 his locality. We hope to publish it 

 next month. 



Editor Root, of Gleanings, thinks we 

 need have no fear as to the results of 

 the iiopular advertisement, "better 

 than honey for less money." There is ! 

 no fear as to bee-keepers, or others i 

 who are familiar with the excellence 

 of honey as a food, but it is the mil- 

 lions of others who know practically 

 nothing of honey who will be duped; 

 and their experience with the glucose 

 in cans may bar the way to the intro- 

 duction of honey, pure and wholesome. 



The time to clip a laying queen is 

 the moment you find her. The plan of 

 keeping all queens clipped enables the 

 operator to control swarms and to 

 identify his queens. 



If a hive contains a clipped queen, 

 have some exterior mark which to the 

 eye of the apiarist means, "Clipped 

 Queen". Then, if the record shows the 

 date upon which she was clipped a 

 case of supersedure will oe readily 

 recognized by a sight of of the young 

 queen. 



Those who labor so vigorously to 

 proclaim the obstacles with which the 

 publicatian of a bee journal is fraught 

 and consequentl.v advise so earnestly, 

 against others embarking in the field, 

 we have never known to observe the 

 fact that the most beautiful, and one 

 of the most valuable .iournals in the 

 world is comparatively new in the 

 field: nor the additional fact that the 

 .iournal having by far the largest cir- 

 culation on the whole list of bee jour- 

 nals. Is by no means the oldest. The 

 adage, "there's always room at the 



