THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



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AMERICAN APICULTURIST 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 

 Henry Alley, "VN'enham, ^v<IclSS. 



Established in 1883. 



SuBSCRiPi'iON Price, 7scts. Per Year. 



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

 mail matter. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



PUNIC QUEENS. 



We can ship one hundred Punic 

 queens by return mail, and here 

 state that the description of these 

 wonderful bees in the August API 

 is NOT OVERDRAWN. 



REMEMBER safe arrival and 

 sure introduction, if directions are 

 followed, are guaranteed. If all is 

 not satisfactory, other queens will 

 be sent. 



THE FUNICS. 



These bees are not beautiful but 

 they do come up to the claims made for 

 them iu the August issue of the Api. 

 Have not tested as yet their houey- 

 gatheriug qualities, but will do so 

 before tlie next issue of the Apr, as 

 we now have these bees fl^^ing in our 

 apiary. 



The workers are strong and vigor- 

 ous and very geutle, not one bee has 

 attempted to use its sting. 



I believe these bees will please all 

 who purchase them. Bear iu mind 

 that if j^ou wait till another 3'ear be- 

 fore introducing them into your 

 apiary you will be one year behind. 



Safe introduction is guaranteed if 

 directions for introducing are fol- 

 lowed. Printed directions sent with 

 each queen. 



The price is Z^ for each warranted 

 queen. No change this year. For 

 prices see page 133. 



One selected golden Carniolan 

 queen and the American Apicultu- 

 rist one year for the small sum of 

 $2. The queen will be worth $5. 



THE GOLDKN C.VHNIOLAX.S. 



A large majority of our orders for 

 queens now are for the golden Carnio- 



laus. At the first of the season we used 

 but thirty nucleus hives for these 

 queens, now we have upAvards of one 

 hundred. If you cannot afford to 

 purchase the Punic queens, b^^ all 

 means try the golden Carniolans. 



Tins is one of the gentlest, most 

 industrious and beautiful strain of 

 bees in the world. 



All who have them state that the 

 queens are large, unusually prolific 

 and beautiful. They are far superior 

 in all respects to the Italians or gray 

 Carniolans. 



THE BEE WOULD. 



Falconer & Co. have purchased the 

 subscribers' list of the Bee World. We 

 really hope the White Mountain Apia- 

 rist will not have to "go up" in conse- 

 quence of this sale. Bro. EUenwood 

 said he received more calls for his jour- 

 nal from the Bee World than from all 

 other papers in which he advertised. 

 Had he ever inserted an "ad." in the 

 Api he would then realize what a big 

 thing it is to advertise in a first-class 

 publication. Try it, Bro. E. 



WIIX WAGER A NEW HAT. 



In speaking of one of those little 

 western bee-papers, the editor of a 

 well-known bee publication saj'^s : 

 "We will wager a new hat that that 

 paper has not got one hundred sub- 

 scribers." Well, we will bet two new 

 hats that it has not fift}' subscribers, 

 and several more new hats that it never 

 will have that number of subscribers. 

 While speaking of new bee papers, we 

 can't help thinking of the reason that 

 induced those fellows to commence the 

 publication of a paper. Did they 

 really suppose they could publish a 

 better paper tlian other people ? That, 

 no doubt, is just what they supposed 

 and appears to be the size of it. 

 Well, a lot of them have tried the ex- 

 periment and lost tlieir mone}', and if 

 not richer, are wiser men. 



We think the publication of new bee- 

 papers has reached high-water mark, 

 and probably no more money will be 



