THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



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While Bro. Jones is a little inconsis- 

 tent, tlicre is much found in the Cniia- 

 (Uan Bee Journal we commend. Si)eak- 

 ing of new strains of bees, Bro. Jones 

 says : " Better call them by their right 

 name, and call them good bees. We 

 care not what the name is, so long as 

 the bees bring us plenty of dollars and 

 cents." 



That is right, Bro. Jones ; now when 

 we speak of the golden Carniolan bees 

 we call them by the right name, and 

 also call them good bees, which they are. 



Let's see, 'tis Bro. Jones who says he 

 can keep the dark Carniolans pure on 

 that island where he didn't keep the 

 Cyprians and the Holy Lands pure. Bro. 

 Jones, there is not a person in the world 

 who can keep the Carniolan bees a pure 

 dark color. There is no more fixed 

 purity about the dark Carniolans than 

 there is about the Italians. The ques- 

 tion of impurity of the Italians was long 

 ago settled. 



Italians are h3'brids. They are nat- 

 urally a dark race and are mixed with 

 (yellow) Carniolan. It is easy enough 

 to keep the yellow Carniolans yellow, 

 but no one has ever succeeded in 

 eradicating the black tinge from the 

 Italians. 



F150M AMKRICAX BEEKEEPER. 



Bees enter the hive best against the 

 wind. Most of the wind and rain comes 

 from, the west. If the lay of the land, 

 etc., is convenient, the hives should 

 face the east. The next best position 

 is to face them to the south. — (J. H. A.) 



We wonder if J. H. A. speaks for the 

 whole country. Here in New England 

 the rains, with the exception of a few 

 summer showers, come from the east, 

 that is, points between north and south 

 via east. We face our hives west, and 

 the bees have no trouble to get out and 

 in. 



FROM STRAY STRAWS IX " GLEAXIXGS," 

 SEPT. 1. 



The Review says : "The Apiculturist 

 for August is but little more than a great 



big booming circular for the business of 

 E. L. Pratt' and H. Alley." Now look 

 out for the Api, saymg, "The Review 

 for September is but little more than a 

 great big booming circular for the Hed- 

 don hive." 



The Review is right. That was just 

 what was intended, and we can assure 

 the editor of the Review that it was a 

 success in every sense of the word — we 

 received orders for more than loo Pu- 

 nic queens, 200 yellow Carniolans, 150 

 Italians, and quite 200 new subs, to the 

 Api. Now, if that is not a successful 

 boom what do you call it, Bro. Hutch.? 



Bro. Hutch., why don't you try and 

 boom your paper? Don't be wasting 

 your time over a few hundred subscrib- 

 ers. Get up a boom and show a little 

 more enterprise. 



By the way, why shouldn't we boom 

 our goods in the Api and in our ads ? 

 We pay the bills, and what is more, we 

 cannot boom them in the Review. We 

 paid Bro. Hutch, five dollars for an ad. 

 but none of his readers ever saw it ; not 

 a word came from it. Now, how very ' 

 different our experience has been with 

 ads. inserted in \.\\q. A/nerican Bee Jour- 

 nal, American Beekeeperax\d Gleanings. 

 We have no idea how many subscribers 

 the Atnerican Bee Journal has, but I 

 can say this about it, all of them, it 

 seems to me, read the advertisements. 



Now to come down to solid business, 

 isn't every paper Bro. Hutch, issues a 

 boom for its editor and proprietor? 



Do you not do your best to hold your 

 subscribers, and to get others in each of 

 your monthly issues by making a good 

 paper? That is what all editors are 

 doing. Every paper sent out by any 

 publishing company is intended as a 

 " boom " for those who are concerned 

 in its publications. 



FALL HOXKY. 



Bees worked on golden rod here dur- 

 ing the early part of September. They 

 did not seem to gather as much as 

 they usually do in the fall, though we 



