THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



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success, we make the following extra- 

 ordinary liberal offer to all who desire 

 to invest. One swarmer will be mailed, 

 also one of the best queens, Italian 

 or golden Carniolan (either one you 

 will value at ^lo when she has been in 

 the hive long enougli to develop her 

 size, beauty and prolificness), the Api 

 one year and deed of a farm-right to 

 manufecture and use the swarmer, all 

 for the small sum of ^5. 



BKKS DOIXG WELL. 



Not an unfa^•orable report up to date. 

 Bees doing well in all parts of tlie coun- 

 try. \Vq judge this is correct as we 

 are getting so many orders for queens. 

 The increase in our queen business may 

 be owing to the free advertising we are 

 getting froai our friends (?). That's 

 right, gents ; keep on calling us a fraud 

 and don't fail to say as often as you can 

 that the yellow Carniolans are a hum- 

 bug and that there are no such bees. 

 By and by we shall convince you all 

 that tliere are such bees as golden Car- 

 niolans, and those chaps who now dis- 

 like to believe the fact will feel about 

 as cheap over the matter as it is possi- 

 ble to feel. 



One Lowmaster, the man who sent 

 us the inferior black queens for dark 

 Carniolans in the season of 1890, has 

 racked the world all over to fn 1 some 

 enemy who will come out and give Al- 

 ley a dig on his yellow Carniolans. Even 

 Mr. Frank Benton has been appealed 

 to. Benton is ready to say as bad 

 things of Alley as any editor will pub- 

 lish. He has tried his little game on 

 nearly all the first-class bee-papers, but 

 his copy has been refused. Now Bro. 

 B., send your articles to that two-cent 

 bee-paper. Tiiey will use it. They are 

 hard up for copy. Then again, we, that 

 is, the editor of that bee-paper and our- 

 selves have always been friends, and he 

 has good reasons to try to do us an in- 

 jury. Bro. B., don't fiiil to bear in mind 

 that we have on our desk several letters 

 from people in Australia who would like 

 to hear from you, — yes, they would. 



Some of these fellows should not cry 



fraud till tliey have first purged their 

 own records. 



That man Robinson, the crank whose 

 article has appeared in several bee-pa- 

 pers is hardly worth our notice. It has 

 been repeatedly shown in the bee jour- 

 nals that he is not responsible for his 

 wild statements. His statement con- 

 cerning what A. I. Root has said about 

 golden Carniolans is a lie from begin- 

 ning to end. Root has said nothing of 

 tlie kind. The liars in the bee business 

 seem quite active this season. 



The reader will excuse these ramb- 

 ling remarks. It is actually necessary 

 for us to make some reply in defence 

 of the unwarrantable attack on us in 

 public print. We will not mention the 

 name of the paper that has tried to do 

 us an injury. " Don't care to advertise 

 the dirty sheet, you know. When the 

 editor and publisher has experimented 

 in his line, and spent money enough 

 to learn that he does not know how to 

 publish a paper, and has no fliculty for 

 such work, then the little thing will go 

 the way of all that is earthly. 



Peace to its ashes ! 



The attack on us is as mean as it is 

 cowardly, and without the slightest pre- 

 text as to cause. 



We have taken legal steps to secure 

 justice, and intend to leave no stone 

 unturned, to bring the guilty editor to 

 realize that he either does not under- 

 stand the law, or that he has no taste 

 of decency and good breeding. If 

 falsehood and slander will make bee- 

 ]xiblication successful, that fellow's pa- 

 per should have a big circulation, as he 

 takes the cake for meanness, lying and 

 misrepresentation. 



QUEENS IN EXCHANGE FOR HONEY. 



If any reader desires to send us white 

 clover honey, either extracted or comb, 

 in exchange for queens or any other 

 goods on our list, please notify us at once. 



We want to purchase fifty colonies ot 

 bees this coming foil. Will pay cash or 

 exchange goods for them. Write us 

 how many you have for sale and kind 

 of hives they are in. 



