THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



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AMERICAN APICULTURIST 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 

 Henr>' Alle\', Wenham, ^/IQSS. 



Established in 1883. 



SuRSCRiPTiON Price, 7 sets. Per Year. 



Entered at the P. O. Wenham, Mass., as second class 

 mail matter. 



EDITOKIAL NOTES. 



GOLUKX CAliNIOLAN BEES. 



How many of the readers of the An 

 have read that the etUtor and Mr. E. L. 

 Pratt are two big swindlers? If you 

 want to know our record, just waste 

 your time in reading our history in that 

 little, mean, two cent publication that 

 styles itself a bee-paper. The only 

 rei)ly that would seem to fit the charges 

 made against us^ is, " let the little dogs 

 bark." They are now having their day. 

 When the editor of a publication can 

 find nothing but personal abuse with 

 which to fill his paper, he is pretty hard 

 up for copy. 'I'he articles above referred 

 to were offered the editor of a respect- 

 able bee-publication and were declined. 

 They were welcomed by a man who 

 has a strong desire to injure two of his 

 friends. Were we guilty of ever hav- 

 ing done the editor in question any 

 mean act, he might have some excuse 

 for making use of the lying, scandalous 

 and contemptibly mean copy he did. 

 No fair-minded man, nor one who has 

 any respect for himself, his paper or his 

 readers, would make use of such bosh. 



Our only crime is that we have been 

 enterprising and have developed a val- 

 uable strain of bees from a worthless 

 race. Some people make it a practice 

 to throw every obstacle in the way of 

 enterprising men. We are as badly 

 abusetl as Father Langstroth has been. 

 His only crime was the invention of the 

 best principle applied to bee-hives. 



Let those fellows who continue to stick 

 to it that there are no such bees as goi- 

 iien Carniolans, vent their spleen through 

 the dirty sheet. One thing is certain, 



very few beekeepers will ever see it. 

 The paper has not (in our opinion) 

 twenty-five subscribers and probably 

 never will have. It cannot damage any 

 one more than its editor. If its readers 

 can find any information on bees in tiie 

 issue referred to and are pleased, they 

 must be a queer set of subscribers. 



Well, all the same, we have a strain 

 of bees that are much handsomer than 

 the golden Italians, and a strain that 

 possesses all the good traits of the dark 

 Carniolans. As no swarms have issued 

 from our golden Carniolan colonies, we 

 think that worst of all trait in any race 

 of bees has been bred out. This strain 

 of bees has not one particle of Italian 

 blood in them. We bred them up straight 

 from the dark Carniolan race. We are 

 receiving orders for them by every mail, 

 and, although the price is $2 each, yet 

 beekeepers do not care for that if they 

 can get a superior strain of bees. We 

 guarantee these bees to be just as rep- 

 resented. If they are not, don't foil to 

 make your complaint to the Api. 



Do you know why those fellows who 

 have stamped us as frauds, call us such 

 pet names? Well, 'tis plain enough. 

 Beekeepers who want Carniolan bees 

 and queens, send their orders here as 

 they know they will get just what they 

 pay for. They know that a mean, worth- 

 less black queen will not be sent them 

 for a pure Carniolan. Who cares to 

 have those dirly black bees in his api- 

 ary that have but one trait, and that is 

 swarming to death ? Introduce the beau- 

 tiful golden Carniolan queens, and thus 

 stock your apiary with the handsomest, 

 the most industrious as well as the 

 gentlest strain of bees in the world. 

 Take no stock in what those foul- 

 mouthed fellows say ; they are disap- 

 pointed in their expectations. They 

 had planned it to do a large queen busi- 

 ness in selling those twenty-five cent 

 black queens for Carniolans. 



Bear in mind, that no one can rear 

 good queens and sell them at fifty cents 

 each. To rear good queens requires 

 lots of time, skill and patience. A word 

 to the wise, etc. 



