THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



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found on another page. I'hose who 

 purchase filty swarmers will be given 

 an intliviclual riglit to make and use in 

 their own a[)iaries all the swarmers they 

 please, while those purchased may be 

 sold to :iny one. '1 hose who purchase 

 patenteil articles of the patentee, have 

 the same right to sell them, as goods 

 non patented. So you see you can sell 

 the swarmers to your neighbors, thus 

 realizing a good profit, and then have 

 the right to make all you need for your 

 own apiaries. 



We want agents in every country in 

 the United States to push the sale of 

 the Swarmer. We offer the most liberal 

 inducements. Eve'y beekeeper in the 

 country will purchase when it has been 

 shown and explained. '1 he fact that 

 the swarmer makes a much better 

 drone and-queen nap than the one we 

 have sold the past eight years, should 

 induce all wiio keep bees to test them. 



Send $1.50 and get the America.v 

 ApicuLiuKisr one year and a swarmer 

 by mail. 



SOMKIUING ABOUT QUKKX-CKLLS. 



Queen-cells which are lar^e and corru- 

 jraied aie .siiUl lo proihice niucli belter 

 quei-iis ihau tlo lliose which aie Miiallaiul 

 Miioolh. those qiieeii-cell.s wliich lia\e 

 Iheir cover cm dtl' Miiooliily and evenly 

 by Ihe qneeu when eiiiei-yinii, and in wliicli 

 tlie ruyal jelly is. iiolall cou>UMieil yive.-ii- 

 periur queens. A scarcity »jf royal loud 

 nnan.s Miiall or ini^erlect queens. — G. M. 



DUOI.ITTLK. 



The above is going the rounds of 

 many country agncult iral papers. Why 

 it is creditetl to Mr. Doohttle is a puz- 

 zle. The same thing may be found in 

 the* "'iJeckeepers' Handy Book" pub- 

 lished in 1883. If we are not mistaken 

 it can be found in Mr. Langstroth's work 

 published more than thirty years ago. 



rOLLKN-GATIlEHING DRONKS. 



R. I. Davis says in A. B. J. that he 

 saw drones carrying pollen. The above 

 statement will do to go with the "queen- 

 stingiiig-bee" story as related by Dr. C 

 C Miller. Don'i""jaw" Dr., because 

 no one will believe that story. 



There is not a beekeeper of any ex- 



jierience who does not know that drones 

 never gather pollen or honey. 



There is too much nonsensical talk in 

 some of the bee papers. A iellow im- 

 agines he sees something wonderful, or 

 something new, and at once strikes for 

 pen and paper ; off goes an article to 

 some editor and then after the reader 

 has waded through a three-column ar- 

 ticle finds that he is no wiser than before 

 he spent his time in perusing such 

 twaddle. Why not spend your time, 

 ye fellows who can " sling ink," in giv- 

 ing the readers of bee publications some 

 practical ftcts? Most of those who 

 are keeping bees want the profits from 

 their apiaries. Leave the cheap story 

 papers to publish the nonsense. 



Al'ICULlURIST MAIL BOX. 



FULL OF Good AOVICIC. 



Wlinti'lii-, 3fass. 

 Hesry Allicy, Esq. : ICnclosed rind 

 .$1.25. Send Api another year. It is full 

 of good advice. 1 could not get along 

 without it. C. A. GUAVES. 



JUK BAY STATE HIVE. 



Aurora, Mo. 

 FuiEXnAiLKY: I saw in Glenniiifjs oi 

 December 15, a description of the Bay 

 State liEE-iiivE It is the hive I want. 

 Geo. Inma.v. 



Stromsburi/, Xebraska. 

 Mr. Henry Alley: I have been stucl- 

 ing the good points of your Bay Staie 

 HivKand have made up my mind to try 

 some of tliem. G II. Morkuw. 



FINDING A QUKEN. 



Povglikeepsip, N. Y 

 Mr. Allk.y : The queen you sent me last 

 year was successfully introduced. I tried 

 tlie plan recommended in An, for rinding 

 a queen, by using a drone-trap placed at 

 the entrance of the hive. I am glad to 

 know such an easy and sure way of ac- 

 complishing this task, tliat I liad before 

 found so difflcult. S. E. Wiley. 



TO SUPPLY DEALKRS. 



Supply (U-;ilei> have fouml tliiit it pays to ad- 

 vel•ti^c in tin- AiMi ultukist a> oiii- \vfll-lille<l 

 (•nluinns amply testily. We have limml that ad- 

 vci tisemeiit> aie read mid neiieiiilly aM>\vered liy 

 those who semi I'or .s;tmple copies. W<? get calls 

 l»v eaili iiihII lor Ironi twelve to lilty copies ofllie 

 A"i>I We mail lliciii at oiiee. IScsides. our friends 

 are conliuuallv seiidiiiRus name.- of live Ijeekeep- 

 ers; to8ui;ti. a specimen co|iy is at once ni;iiled. 

 This 18 why it i>:iys to ailvertiM'. Ilundreils of 

 new heekeepevs read the Ai'i each week. 



