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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



Jennie Atchley is known as a writer on 

 bee culture and probably keeps more 

 colonies and does a larger bee supply 

 business than any other woman engaged 

 in beekeeping. 



One word here about the trap and 

 swarmer. If the beekeeper is absent 

 during the day the automatic swarmer 

 is tlie thing to use. If present in his 

 apiary during swarming time, the trap is 

 rather the best for this reason : When 

 a swarm issues and the beekeeper de- 

 sires to save and hive them, it is the 

 easiest thing in the world to do. When 

 the queen is seen in the trap all that is 

 necessary to hive them, or rather to 

 make the bees hive themselves,- just 

 place the trap on the new hive near the 

 old one and the bees will hive tli em- 

 selves. We will stake our reputation on 

 the statement that not one swarm in looo 

 will fail to hive themselves by this 

 method. 



NO CAUMOLAX BEES TILL ABOUT JUNE 5. 



Will say to those who have ordered 

 Carniolan queens, that we cannot ship 

 them till above date as it was in'possi- 

 ble to induce the bees to rear drones. 



The man who has inserted an adv. 

 in a bee publication concerning Carnio- 

 lan bees is the same man who last year 

 sent us the meanest black queens for 

 Carniolans that any dealer ever sent out. 

 When we received the queens, we at 

 once informed him that his queens 

 looked like black ones, and were infe- 

 rior in appearance. The queens were 

 sent us for pure Carniolans, and this 

 same man says that pure Carniolan bees 

 are gray in color. Notwithstanding 

 his statement, more than half the bees 

 from these ///rd' Carniolan queens we re- 

 ceived from him had yellow bands. 



This same man says there are no 

 yellow Carniolan bees in existence, yet 

 a man in Austria is advertising them, 

 and several queens are expected from 

 him in June. 



Prof. A. J. Cook has just issued 

 another edition of his Beekeepers^ 

 Guide {the i6th thousand). It con- 

 tains 461 pages, and is nicely printed 

 and bound, and the price is now re- 

 duced to one dollar. Such a full and 

 complete work, at such a low price, 

 should be a very popular one, and the 

 sales should be very large. It is thor- 

 oughly scientific and practical, and ful- 

 ly abreast of the times, in our ever-ad- 

 vancing pursuit. — A. B.J. 



A copy of the above book is on our 

 desk, and we endorse every word Bro. 

 Newman says of it. I'he Beekeepers^ 

 Guide and the Api one year will be 

 mailed for $1.25. 



Winter cases for hives have been en- 

 dorsed quite freely of late, but they are 

 not ''a new idea." Henry Alley claims 

 to have had a patent on them some 19 

 years ago, and has used them in the 

 I>ay State Apiary ever since that time. 

 He says he is glad that Mother Earth 

 did not claim him before some of his 

 ideas in bee-culture were adopted. In 

 this. Brother Alley is ahead of many 

 worthy men, whose ideas were not put 

 to practical use until they were dead. — 

 A.B.J.,May7. 



THE SWAKMER IX CANADA. 



We have made arrangements with E. 

 L. Gould & Co., Brantford, Ont., Can- 

 ada, for the sale of the Swarmer in 

 Canada. Send your orders to them. 



CARTOONS FOR ONE-rOUND SECTIONS. 



On May 12, we had the pleasure of 

 seeing Mr. A. O. Crawford of So. Wey- 

 mouth, Mass., manufacture cartoons. 

 His factory has facilities for making 

 15000 cartoons per day. The work and 

 stock are first-class. 



While at Mr. Crawford's we pur- 

 chased fourteen of the strongest colonies 

 of Italian bees to be found in New Eng- 

 land. There were eleven frames of 

 brood in some of the hives. The queens 

 in these colonies were from the Biiy State 

 Apiary. 



