AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



19 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY. 



THE W. T. FALCO^JER MANFG. Co. 



PROPRIETORS. 

 H. E. HILL, - EDITOR, 



FORT PIERCE, FLA 



According to Gleanings, there are 

 300,000 Russians keeping bees. It is 

 gratifying to know tnat they can keep 

 something — they won't keep peace. 



W. K. Morrison, in Gleanings, says: 

 "There are some ideal locations for 

 bees >n the Bahamas, but life on a 

 coral reef is awfully lonely." Parisian 

 social conditions and desirable honey 

 localities are rarely found keeping 

 company. 



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The Root people have been experi- 

 menting with a device for extracting 

 wax by centrifugal force. It seems 

 the affair was not quite all that could 

 be desired. It will probably be a long 

 time before a better method than pres- 

 sure under steam is discovered. 



The general manager's annual re- 

 port of the affairs of the National Bee- 

 Keepers' Association makes a most 

 creditable showing- for the organiza- 

 tion. Mr. France is the right man in 

 the right place, if one may base his 

 verdict upon the evidence presented 

 through the report; and we know of 

 no better evidence. 



Dr. W. H. Ashmead, of the United 

 States National Museum, recommends 

 a change in the generic name of Apis 

 dorsata to Megapis dorsata. If the 

 doctor will prevail on our Uncle Sam- 

 uel to go fetch enough of these giant 

 East Indian bees to America to make 

 a thorough test of their merits on 

 American soil, we'll agree to call 

 them Megapis, or even Nutmegapis. 



It is said that Illinois has 35,000 

 bee-keepers. Some of them are good 

 ones, too. 



A quantity of matter recently sub- 

 mitted for publication, is found un- 

 available on account of its extreme 

 length. One, in fact, is too long for 

 McCIure's. It is not space-fillers that 

 we require. We always need short, 

 wholesome and pointed articles on 

 bee-keeping subjects. The least of 

 our trouble is space-filling. We pay 

 cash for good articles that meet these 

 requirements. 



"Tincture of virus" is the word 

 used by chemists to designate bee 

 poison which is used in medicine. The 

 fellow to whom a dose is adminis- 

 tered in the end of the nose by a bee 

 I itself, usually has another name for it. 





The Chicago-Northwestern con- 

 vention, recently held at Chicago, 

 fully sustained its well known reputa- 

 tion for "howling successes." If they do 

 nothing else, the Chicago-Northwest- 

 ern people always unite in proclaim- 

 ing each successive convention a 



