\merican Bee=Keeper 



lARRY E. HILL, 

 iRTHUR C. MILLER, 



905, 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



167 



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excellent article on the honey situa- 

 tion. It can not fail to result ad- 

 vantageously to producers of pure hon- 

 ey. 



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BMtorial. 



In the July Amencan Bee-Keeper 

 Mr. Davis took the writer to task lor 

 ioubting the story of the bees -seal- 

 ing a snail to the floor of their hive 

 with propolis. ThikS was cited by Bevan 

 as an example of the wisdom of bees, 

 rhe fact of the bees so sealing a snail 

 was not doubted, but that it was an 

 evidence of wisdom or thought on the 

 part of the bees was ishown tO' be 

 wrong, as the bees will sOi treat a peb- 

 ble or any other object which they 

 an not move. 



A. C. M. 



Manager York, of the Honey Pro- 

 lueers' League, has recently had pub- 

 lished in the Chicago Daily News an 



In this day of short crops and short- 

 er prices, bee-keepers are alert for 

 "short cuts" and kinks which tend to 

 facilitate their work. In view of this 

 fact, the said bee-keepers will doubt- 

 less be pleased to note that Editor 

 Root finds an automobile a great ad- 

 vantage to one looking after an out- 

 apiary. 



Mrs. Sarah A. Smith, of Grant, Fla., 

 writes to have her copy of The Bee- 

 Keeper changed to Brooklyn, N. Y., 

 where she i-s going to undertake the 

 sale of honey. Mrs. Smith, it may be 

 remembered, is the one who advocated 

 the theory that, "the way to raise the 

 price of honey is to raise it." It is 

 to be hoped that Mrs. Smith may be 

 successful in materially increasing the 

 market price of honey in Brooklyn. 



Leslie Burr, in Gleanings, reports 

 black mangrove in the swampy lands 

 of Cuba, near the sea, and says that 

 said "swampy lands" are the home of 

 the "hungriest mosquitoes in the 

 world." While this corroborates 

 several other reports which we 

 have received, that the black 

 mangi"<ove does grow in the 

 West Indies, and in some places very 

 extensively, it also proves Mr. Burr's 

 ignorance of the mosquito question. 

 Florida's horde of hungry mosquitoes 

 have from time immemorial vigorously 

 defended the world's championship belt 

 in the fastness of its mangrove 

 swamps, and no mere statement of an 

 envious Cuban is likely to wrest from 

 Uncle Sam's "skeets'' their long-cher- 

 ished trophy. Burr should spend a 

 season in Florida swamps before he 

 goes on record. 



HUSTLING CALIFORNIA. 

 Mr. .T. F. Mclntyre, the noted apiar- 

 ist of California, said in the June 

 Review: "It is my opinion that a 

 man can not run out apiaries and be 

 as happy as he was when one apiary, 

 one wife and two or three babies were 

 all he had." Are we expected to in- 

 fer from this that he adds a wife and 

 set of babies with each apiary? 



