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I tliink tlie above queen was one of a lot reared 

 from our $100 queen, of whioli mention has been 

 made in the API. We shall have to work our 

 hundred dollar queen pretty hard in the season of 

 1S!)0 to till all orders from her stock, at the rate 

 the orders come in. 



Maumee, Lucas Co., Ohio, Noremher 10, 1889. 



Dear Friend Alley:— Would you be kind 

 enough to describe tlie manner of tiering up the 

 sections and also tlie method of working for ex- 

 tracted honey (wlien using your Bay State Re- 

 versible Ilive), in the Deccniber number of the 

 Apr, for the benefit of your new subscribers (my- 

 self one of tlie nuuitief) ? As your hive is unlike 

 any other, I presume it requires a different man- 

 agement also. You say that queen-excluders are 

 not needed in producing comb honey. Do you 

 use them in producing e.xtracted lioncy ? If so, 

 how and what kind, zinc, or zinc and wood com- 

 bined ? 



Can Dr. Tinker's 4J X *J X IJ. with open 

 sides sections and wooden separators, be used 

 in your ''reversible section case?" 



Hoping to see an answer to the above questions 

 in the December Api, 1 remain. 



Very truly yours, 



Lewis Jaessing. 



[We will reply to the above in the February is- 

 sue. — El).] 



Honey crop of 1889— fine queen bees. 



Angelica, New York. 

 Editor American Api : 



My crop of honey of 1889 waS' better 

 than those for the two preceding seasons, but the 

 long-|iredicted good honey season has not yet 

 arrived. White clover blossomed heavily but 

 secreted little honey, as the weather was too wet 

 and cold. 



Bees have started for winter with plenty of food, 

 although they gathered a good deal of dark honey 

 and honey dew. My crop of honey averaged 

 over thirty pounds per colony. 



The two queens I ordered of you came to hand 

 safcdy and were successfully introduced. They 

 were the largest and finest queens I ever saw. 

 I can't see how any improvement can be made in 

 your stiippiiig-and-iiitroducing cage. 



I cannot see what any one wants to ship a 

 pound of bees for by mail, as the few that come 

 With the queen are enough. 



I am using both chaff and double-wall hives; 

 this winter; will see which is the best for win- 

 tering bees. My hives have the Simplicity frames 

 ten frames to the hive. Shall try eight frames 

 next season to see if I can get more box-honey. 

 J. H. Common. 



"Warm weather. 

 All our bees had a good flight December 2.5. In 

 the allernoon the sky was cloudless, no wind, and 

 temperature 60° in the shade. 



Shipping queens in cold weather. 



Mr. E. L. Pratt bhipiied a queen saiely by mail in 

 November. In January, 18U-2, we mailed a queen 

 to the late Samuel Wagner, who wa.s then pub- 

 lishing the American Bee Journal in tlie city 

 of Washington, D. 0. This queen was mailed 

 in a shipping cage we devised and the bees were 

 in a good condition when received. 



I found it was saler to ship queens in Novem- 

 ber, December or January, than it was during cold 

 spells ot weather in September, and the early 

 part of October. While the mail cars are warmed 

 in November, and later on, they are not warmed 

 in September and but little in Octoljer. For this 

 reason it does not require as much " science " 

 to ship bees after the middle of October, as it 

 does in September. 



Bees by pound. 



The present methods of shipping bees-by-pound 

 any distance are total failures. By tliem it is al- 

 most impossible to send a pound of bees over 

 two hundred miles without killing seventy^flve 

 per cent of them and more. I have had consid- 

 erable experience with bees-by-pound from many 

 dealers and for me there has been no money in 

 them. Southern expresses either handle them 

 roughly or else they are not properly packed. 

 Breeders will need to give this subject a little 

 more thought than they have in the past. Where 

 is tlie trouble? 



Missing copies of the Api. 



If our subscribers who do not get tlie Apicul- 

 TURIST before tlie tenth day of each month will 

 tify us promptly, they will do us a favor, and 

 save us considerable tiouble. 



We have a person to look after our subscription 

 book and seldom look at it ourselves and not at 

 all unless some complaint is made. If the API is 

 not received on time, please do not wait from 

 three to six months before you notify us ol the 

 fact. 



We usually mail the Api the first day of each 

 month or a few days before. 



Club rates lor the Apiculturist. 



Five copies of the Api will be sent for $3 00; or 

 ten copies for $.").00, all to one address, or : d- 

 dresseil to ten different offices. 



Any one sending for three copies and $2.2.5 will 

 receive a copy of the Beekeeper's Directory, 

 bound in clotli, free by mail. 



Any one wanting the Api and one or all the 

 other bee-papers, may send their subscription di- 

 rect to us, and we will order from the publishers. 

 We will allow a liiscountof 10 cents on each pa- 

 per, if one or more are ordered with the Api. 



Beekeepers' Supplies. 

 We can furni.-h Bee Supplies ot all kinds. What 

 we do not kee]) in stock we will order from the 

 manufacturer and no article shall cost the pur- 

 chaser more than the manufacturer's i)rice. See 

 our price-list on second page of cover, Dec. issue. 



