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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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of comb honey and 700 pounds of wax. 



Pat says, "Tengo ahora mucho 

 trabajo" (I have now much work), in 

 preparing 744 colonies for another 

 move — 35 kilometers by stone road, 12 

 by train and one and a half kilometers 

 bj'' dirt road, and concludes: "I moved 

 bees here two times already, and now 

 getting ready for another move." 



If ambition and hard work will win 

 out, Pat's success is assured. Seven 

 hundred and forty-four colonies is an 

 encoin-aging start. 



REGARDING THE DEACON. 

 In a letter from Mr. H. J. Gardiner, 

 dated at Christchurch, New Zealand, 

 Feb. 22, and returned to the writer on 

 account of insufficient address and re- 

 mailed in New Zealand to the editor of 

 The Bee-Keeper June 9, Mr. Gardiner 

 says: 



'Give my love to the Deacon) I 

 like this series of letters very much 

 and they are always welcome." 



By this time Mr. Gardiner knows 

 something of the difficulties under 

 which we are laboring to secure a con- 

 tinuation of the Hardscrabble letters 

 for our readers. 



We have, we are pleased to say, 

 been able to get several incoherent mis- 

 sives, as well as some unsatisfactory 

 photographs; but our medium advises 

 us that he is now working on new lines 

 and that within a few days he expects 

 to have a very complete message from 

 the Deacon. We therefore believe we 

 ihall be able to present next month the 

 new illustrated series of Hardscrabble 

 letters. 



Though rather too indistinct for re- 



roduction ir. halftone, some of the 



hotographs secured are quite intet 



ting, and we shall have cuts made 



'pr next issue of some of these in the 



3vent of our inability to get something 



tronger. Meantime, our readers will 



lease not become neiwous over the 



atter, nor take things too seriously. 



THE EDITORIAL SHEARS. 

 In The Bee-Keeper for July was 

 |)ublished an article of exceptional 

 lerit from the Florida Farmer and 

 lit Grower, entitled, "Let the Hon- 

 iy Get Ripe." It is so rarely that one 

 pnds such reliable matter pei'taining 

 apiculture in the agricultural press 

 lat we sought to encourage the evi- 

 dent talent by repn'oducing with favor- 

 )le comment the entire 'editorial." Our 



attention has since been called to the 

 fact that the Florida Farmer and Fi-uit 

 Grower had absolutely nothing to do 

 with originating this matter, which it 

 published as original stuff. It Is a 

 verbatim reproductiou of an editorial 

 which appeared several months ago in 

 the American Bee Journal, of Chicago. 

 Whether the Florida Farmer and Fi-uit 

 Grower stole the article from the Bee 

 Journal, or not, we do not know; but it 

 must have been aware of the fact that 

 it was using reprint and not original 

 matter — and using it without credit. If 

 an agricultural periodical is too poor 

 to employ competent talent to edit its 

 various departments it should be hon- 

 orable enough to give due credit to 

 those upon whom it has to depend for 

 its supply. "Faking" matter in this way 

 is one of the most contemptible tricks 

 of which any office • an be guilty; and 

 if the general public is not aware of its 

 thieving propensities itt.i contempor- 

 aries are, and pity its vain ambition. 



Once more the editor begs to kindly 

 and earnestly request his readers to 

 send all remittances and letters per- 

 taining to business matters to the 

 Falconer, N. Y. office, and not to 

 Florida. Your careful attention to 

 and compliance with this request will 

 greatly facilitate our work. Requests 

 for sample copies or reports of non- 

 receipt of The Bee-Keeper by sub- 

 scribers may be sent to the editorial 

 office. Fort Pierce, Fla. All ai'ticles 

 intended for publication should also 

 be sent direct to the editor; but all 

 else should invariably be addressed to 

 the business office, as stated — at Fal- 

 coner, N. Y. 



Bees. 



A writer, from Portland, Oregon, 

 sends to the Indiana Farmer an ac- 

 count of his experience with bees in 

 that western country. 



A friend, losing his health, was ad- 

 vised to change his locality. He set- 

 tled in the hill connti-y of our Oregon 

 coast, and started with a few swarms 

 of bees. 



Instead of selling his honey at iirst, 

 he made it his staple diet, and entire- 

 ly recovered his lost digestive powers. 

 Gradually adding to his stock, togeth- 

 er with the knowledge of manipulat- 

 ing it, he has become the "bee-master" 

 for the whole country side, adding 

 thus to the good income made from 



