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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



effort to have had something done about 

 it this year. However late, we will 

 make the attempt at once. 



In the town of Wenham there are 

 thousands of apple trees. Each year 

 all the foliage is eaten off early in June 

 by the canker worms. Some of our 

 fruit growers are foolish enough to spray 

 their trees with paris green while they 

 are in bloom. One man did this last 

 year against our earnest protest. Jn 

 less than an hour after the trees were 

 sprayed, a heavy shower washed them 

 clean. We didn't cry about it. 



BEE SUPPLIES. 



We have made arrangements with 

 Messrs. Tomlinson and Satterthwaite, 

 No. 1 6 North Warren Street, Trenton, 

 New Jersey to handle our goods and 

 general supplies. 



The Bay State Bee-hive, Drone -and- 

 queen traps, Self-hiver, Sections, Foun- 

 dation and in fact a full supply of the 

 best and most useful and practical im- 

 plements used in the Apiary, can be 

 found at their store. Save freight and 

 express charges by purchasing of them. 



J. H. M. Cook, 78 Barclay Street, 

 New York, will supply our drone-and- 

 queen trap to his customers the coming 

 season. A. I. Root, Medina, Ohio, 

 Thomas G. Newman and Son, 246 East 

 Madison Street, Chicago, 111., also the 

 W. T. Falconer Mfg. Co., Jamestown, 

 N. Y., G. B. Lewis Co., Watertown, 

 Wis., will do the same. 



Lewis Co. will also manufacture our 

 Bay State Bee-Hive if any of our west- 

 ern friends desire them. If any one 

 orders one dozen hives we will have 

 them sawed at the above factory. 



D. A. Jones will furnish our Cana- 

 dian friends with the self-hiver as well 

 as the drone-and-queeu traps. 



THOSE OUTSIDE WINTER CASES. 



These seem to be doing nicely so far in 

 our apiary. Tlie bees seem to be in just 

 as nice condition as tliose in large cliaft' 

 hives. So far we feel very much encour- 

 aged as to their ultimate success. — Glean- 

 ings, Jan. 15, 18D1. 



Bro. Root seems to be finding out that 



bees can be wintered as well without 

 chaff packing at the sides of the hive 

 as they can with. Chaff packing is a 

 detriment to a colony of bees in winter. 

 It is a useless expense and trouble. We 

 have forty colonies of bees in the Bay 

 State Hive on the sum:ner stands, no 

 packing except over the frames. If 

 anyone can sliow as many colonies in 

 better condition we would be glad to go 

 a good ways to see them. 



THE CLOSED-END FRAME. 



Capt. Hetherington has from 3,000 

 to 4,000 colonies of bees, while P. H. 

 Elwood, also of Otsego county, N. Y., 

 and formerly his partner, has 1,300. 

 They use the Quinby hive with the 

 closed-end standing frame. Many others 

 in New York Slate, having from 400 to 

 500 colonies, use either this frame or 

 the Hoffman partly closed- end hanging 

 frame. — Farm and Home. 



PRICE OF THE BAY STATE HIVE. 



After March 10 the prices of this hive 

 will be as follows : 



One or more hives complete .$3.00. 



In the flat, ])y the h.ilf dozen, each $2.50. 



Prices of the drone-and-queen traps will 

 also be advanced to the regular rates : viz : 

 Per half do/.en, $2.00. Per dozen, .$3 50. 



AVe are now getting a large number of 

 orders for these goods and de.sire to get 

 over ihe most of this class of trade 

 before our quaeu-rearing business begins. 



WE WANT BEES. 



We shall need fifty colonies of 

 bees to use ia queen rearing in the 

 season of 1891. Who can supply 

 them and at what price? The price 

 must be low, colonies strong and 

 free of any disease. We want no 

 foul brood stocks, nor any bees that 

 have been exposed to this disease. 

 The style of hive the bees are in is 

 of no account to us, as they will 

 be taken out of them. 



We are ready to exchange queens 

 or any of the goods in which we 

 deal for bees. Now if any of the 

 small beekeepers desire to send us 

 three or four colonies in exchange 

 for supplies just say the word and 

 we will arrange the ma iter. Write 

 us at once and say how many you 

 can spare and what you desire in 

 exchange for them. 



