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correct address none of our cards or 

 letters sent him were received. 



When the correct address was known 

 we received a threat that he would 

 jnihlish us in G/eanings \i we did not 

 fill his order at once. "Go ahead and 

 publish was our reply, or withdraw the 

 threat." Now we are about two dollars 

 out of pocket, and the man did not get 

 his goods and for no other reason than 

 making the word Wazee read like 

 Wayne. It was not our fault in any 

 particular, yet we suffered all the annoy- 

 ance and lost our goods through his 

 carelessness, and now he threatens to 

 expose us. Rather unreasonable. 



THE API AND liKEKEEPER. 



We have been so kindly treated and 

 so well supported by the American Bee- 

 keeper in the yellow Carniolan contro- 

 versy, that we really desire to do as much 

 as possible toward building up the sub- 

 scription list of that paper. We know 

 of no better way to do so than by mail- 

 ing the i?^(?/Cr(i^<?rand Apiculturist one 

 year for one dollar. 



The Apt will be mailed from Nov. i , 

 1891, to Jan. I, 1893, to all who accept 

 of the above. We have made no ar- 

 rangements with the Beekeeper iox doing 

 so, but have no doubt the subscription 

 to that paper can begin Nov. i, as well 

 as the Api. Now, friends, the Beekeeper 

 is a good paper. Its editor is not afraid 

 to give his opinion on any of the ques- 

 tions of the day, nor will every article 

 sent to the Beekeeper find room in its 

 columns. We are knowing to the fact 

 tiiat several parties have tried to use the 

 A. B. K. in which to give vent to their 

 spleen. But the editor says No. So 

 these parties applied elsewhere, and if 

 you read some of the bee-papers printed 

 liere in America, you will have no 

 trouble in placing your eye on one or 

 more of those rejected articles. 



TflK GIUI'PE. 



Bro. A. I. Root has had the Grippe. 

 Editor Newman had it several times 

 and Bro. Root only laughed at him for 

 making such a fuss o\-er so small a mat- 

 ter. Whose turn is it to laugh now ? 



One C. J. Robinson, is doing his best 

 to kill us off, that is, our business. Such 

 cowardly attacks as that by this man 

 as appeared in one of the bee-papers, 

 never can hurt anyone. Robinson can- 

 not write an article on bee culture with- 

 out trying to do some one an injury. I 

 am happy to say that there are editors 

 even of bee-papers who will not use the 

 scandalous and mean emanations from 

 Robinson's cranky brain. \Vonder how 

 Fxiitor Newman'came to break over his 

 usual rule and admit to his columns an 

 article which he well knew was full of 

 falsehood, misrepresentation and down- 

 ri.iiht insult. 



IMPORTING ITALIAN QUEKNS. 



It has sometimes been questioned 

 whether there is any use of importing 

 queens from Italy, says the editor of 

 Gleanings. \\'e think there is no use 

 to send to Italy for hybrid queens. 

 Plenty of such can be had in this country 

 and at much cheaper rates as well as a 

 better class of queens. If any one has 

 ever received what is considered a ////r 

 queen from Italy, let him speak up loud 

 enough for all to hear. 



HOUSE-APIAUIES. 



It is our intention to experiment a 

 litde this coming winter on a house- 

 apiary. Shall erect a small building 

 and so arrange the interior that it can 

 be heated to a temperature of about 90°. 

 No artificial heat, however, will be used 

 till the latter part of March, or until 

 the bees have had several cleansing 

 flights in the spring. What all northern 

 queen breeders need are large colonies 

 about the first of May to rear their early 

 queens. Now we propose to force 

 brood rearing so early that the hives will 

 be full of bees at the last of April. This 

 can be done in a warm room, provided 

 the temperature is kept at the proper 

 degree for several weeks in succession. 

 The hives will be arranged in two rows, 

 one above the other, with room enough 

 between to easily lift the combs out if 

 need be. The brood-chamber alone 

 will be placed in the bee-room. Until 



