. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. (Be«««®®®e«®«e®e«««®®®®®«®®®««®®®®®®®®®®®e«®«®«« ^s^bZ/J ^';^ERIGA§. ^ Eniered at the Post-Oflice at Chicago as Second-Class Mail-Matter. aeORGE W. YORK, Editor. CHICAGO, ILL, JAN. 7,1904, Vol, XLIV—Na t. Editorial Commente ) Volume Fopty-Four Begins. The Atnerican Bee Journal, with this issue, begins its forty-fourth volume. In a few years more the half-century mark will be reached. Id its first eight or ten volumes it had two editors, and in its past thirty or more it has had only two. While not its editor except dur- ing the past twelve years, for


. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. (Be«««®®®e«®«e®e«««®®®®®«®®®««®®®®®®®®®®®e«®«®«« ^s^bZ/J ^';^ERIGA§. ^ Eniered at the Post-Oflice at Chicago as Second-Class Mail-Matter. aeORGE W. YORK, Editor. CHICAGO, ILL, JAN. 7,1904, Vol, XLIV—Na t. Editorial Commente ) Volume Fopty-Four Begins. The Atnerican Bee Journal, with this issue, begins its forty-fourth volume. In a few years more the half-century mark will be reached. Id its first eight or ten volumes it had two editors, and in its past thirty or more it has had only two. While not its editor except dur- ing the past twelve years, for nearly twenty years we have been closely connected with its publication; that means for almost half of its en- lire existence. It seems quite a long time. Especially so when one thinks of the many changes and advances made in the pursuit of bee- keeping during that length of time. While it has been the American Bee Journal's aim to keep in the vanguard of progress, it does not claim to have done all that has been done. It has helped. It will continue to help. It will try to make the year upon which it now enters—its forty-fourth—the best and most helpful year of its whole existence. It is in a better position now, in every way, to do better work—to be of more value than ever before to its readers. The American Bee Journal's friends and supporters have grown with the years. It has become in thousands of homes a welcome weekly visitor. We are often told in most appreciative and grateful words of its helpfulness to those who have read and studied its con- tents most faithfully from year to year. We rejoice that it is so. It goes far to brighten and illuminate our pathway, to know that our efforts have not been in vain. It will also be an encouragement, per- haps, when we say that without the loyal and enthusiastic support the American Bee Journal has had throughout the passing years, we could not have carried out our part of the pr


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