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A JOURNAL FOR THE NOVICE AND EXPERT IN BEEKEEPING. 



Published Monthly. Subscription Price, 75 cts. per An 



HENRY ALLEY, 



Editor. 



VOL. VIII. 



WENHAM, MASS., JANUARY 1, 1890. 



NO. I. 



Entered at Post-office as second-class matter. 



Sl)e (fbitor'0 ?I)epartm£nt. 



A happy new year to all our subscribers. 



How rlo you like the appearance of this copy of 

 the API ? 



Blr. Doolittle has sent us a long reply to our 

 criticisms of his method of queen-rearing. It 

 will appear in a later issue. 



The programme of the International Bee-asso- 

 ciation was sent us by R. F. Holterman, but too 

 late to be inserted in our December issue. Tliis 

 is why it did not appear. 



We want about three thousand more names up- 

 on our subscription book than we now have. We 

 can have them if eacli reader of the API will send 

 in a new name with his own. 



■Wide top-bar frames. 



It is with a good deal of satisfaction that we 

 note the discussion now going on in Gleanings 

 concerning wide top-bars for brood frames. For 

 nearly thirty years we have urged beekeepers to 

 discard tlie narrow top-bars and adopt the wide 

 one. I am pleased to know that our time used in 

 this line has not been wasted. The person who 

 uses the narrow top-bar knows little of the value 

 of a wide top-bar, or of the comforts of beekeep- 

 ing. 



The Paris Exhibition. 

 American beekeepers ought not to be censured 

 for not making a better exhibit at the Paris Fair. 

 It could not be done. In order to make a good 

 display of goods, it is necessary for the exhibitor 

 to attend in person or at least to have a compe- 



tent and trusty person to take charge of and 

 place his goods in position, and, above all, to 

 have some one on the spot at all times during the 

 exhibition to show the goods; explain what they 

 are for, and how to use them. 



There will be plenty of time in the year 1891 for 

 American beekeepers to make preparations for 

 the fair to be held here in 1892. 



K"ew subscriptions and renewalsi^ 

 Though renewals are pouring in by every mail, 

 there may be a lew old subscribers who will for- 

 get to send in their subscription, and for tliat rea- 

 son this issue of the API will be sent to all whose 

 names were upon our book in 188'J. We also want 

 our old friends to see the improved make-up of 

 the API. Now, friends, please don't forget that 

 the API will cost you lait 75 cents per year, and 

 that we give more than tlie money's worth in any 

 issue of our .Journal. One old subscriber says of 

 the December API, "Your suggestions regarding 

 feeding bees, on page 179, are worth five years 

 subscription to the Api." 



It is our intention to make each number of our 

 paper better than the previous one. 



The Canadian Honey Prochicer of which R. H. 

 Holterman was editor went out of existence with 

 the December (1889) issue. If many more of the 

 bee-papers go off, those remaining will begin to 

 feel lonesome. It is now nearly a year since any- 

 one 8tarte<l, or even have threatened to start a 

 bee journal. 

 The editor of the Honey Producer says : 

 "To the public generally we may say, that the 

 Canadian Honey Producer is self-sustaining; and 

 every prospect that iis subscriijtlon list will in- 



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