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most valuable advertising medium 

 and it will pay all those who have 

 goods for sale to correspond with 

 us as we can offer first-class in- 

 ducements. 



— Promptness in attending to 

 business correspondence, is a val- 

 uable feature, and while in the past 

 we have been overworked, and 

 sometimes have been obliged even 

 almost to neglect a portion of our 

 private correspondence, yet as soon 

 as we get arrangements completed 

 this difficulty will be obviated. 



— We have now enlarged and 

 improved our little "Beekeeper's 

 Companion ;" it also contains 

 a likeness of Mr. Henry Alley, 

 superintendent of our queen-rear- 

 ing department. Please send for 

 a few copies (sent free) and dis- 

 tribute them among your beekeep- 

 ing friends. 



— We should be pleased at any 

 time to receive from our readers 

 any bee hive, implement or fixture 

 designed for use in the apiary, 

 which we will place in our museum, 

 and also bring to the notice of our 

 readers any valuable features that 

 it may contain. 



— Do not fail to send us any 

 questions that you may wish us to 

 answer through our question and 

 answer department. 



— We are having here in the 

 north an unusually trying and 

 backward spring. Keep your col- 

 onies snug, well packed and warm, 

 and do not on any account, spread 

 any of the combs so long as there 

 is any danger of these sudden 

 changes in temperature. Bees will 

 care for more brood, and increase 

 more rapidly if the size of the 

 brood nest is adapted to the size 

 of the colony, so all the brood can 



be covered and kept warm, even 

 during cold nights. At night and 

 during the cold portion of the day, 

 allow the bees only a small en- 

 trance. It will pay to attend to 

 this. Enlarge the entrance some- 

 what when it is warm so as not to 

 bother the bees. 



— Our experience during the 

 past winter only more fully con- 

 vinces us that bees winter best in 

 chaff-packed hives, and on summer 

 stands, and that colonies so win- 

 tered prove more hardy and endur- 

 ing, than those wintered in the cel- 

 lar, and during such a spring as 

 we are now having, there is less 

 loss in bees with the former than 

 with the latter. Where one has 

 two apiaries some distance apart, 

 it is well to use hives so constructed 

 as to take two colonies, the brood 

 nest being large enough to take 

 from fourteen to seventeen frames, 

 and a thin division board should 

 be placed between the colonies. 

 In this way, the two colonies form 

 but one cluster instead of two, and 

 the heat is economized. For var- 

 ious reasons, this will prove very 

 beneficial. We have tested this 

 very thoroughly and speak from 

 experience. 



— After July 1, 1885, the weight 

 of a letter which now can be sent 

 for two cents, will be increased 

 from one half ounce to anything 

 under one ounce. 



— During the month of Febru- 

 ary, 1885, $27,000 worth of honey 

 was imported into Great Britain. 



— A short time since we re- 

 ceived from the Stanley Bros., of 

 Wyoming, N. Y., one of their new 

 four comb honey extractors, and 

 so far as we have been able to test 

 it, we can truthfully say that it 

 works like a charm, and if when 



