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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



By F. P. Stiles, Haverhill, Mass.. 



I should remain absolutely passive, especially 

 if the bees were in the cellar. If only one or two 

 colonics became uneasy the quiet of the others 

 might be preserved by ridding the cellar of the 

 riotous few, hut I have never felt the need. 



Feeding bees in winter. 



1. Set one of tlie feeders mentioned below over 

 such, having the contents thoroughly warmed and 

 you will be happily surprised. Perfectly practi- 

 cal at any time and in any weather. 



2. The feeder I use proves successful in all 

 cases. 1 use the Heddon hive. At the close of 

 the wliite honey harvest I replace the case or 

 cases of sections with a single brood case of 

 empty combs whicli the bees fill witli fall honey. 

 That makes an absolutely perfect feeder and I 

 use them as such. " Successful " doesn't half 

 express it. Fuddling with candy and syrup be- 

 longs to tlie dusty past. There never was any- 

 thing either practical or profitable in it and there 

 never will be. 



^^juulturiet illaU-bojr. 



A compliment to Brother Pratt. 



Dark Ridge, X. C. 

 Manager API :— Please renew my 8ubscrii>tion 

 to the API. 1 do not know how 1 could get along 

 without it. The articles of E. L. Pratt are worth 

 more than the subscription price. 



G. W. MCGUIRE. 



Speaks highly of our queens. 



Malone, la. 

 Mr. ALLEY:— Please send me one of your 

 queens. I am acquainted with Mi-. Coverdale of 

 Welton, la., who received some queens from you 

 last fall. He spoke very highly of tliem. 



D. D. Hammond. 



Best crop of the season. 



Limerick, III. 

 Friend Alley: The 75 cent queen you sent 

 me witl) the Ai-i in 1888, gave me this year (1889) 

 100 pounds of lioney, besides one good swarm. 

 The bees are beauties, not cross, good workers 

 and not given too much to swarming. 



E. PICKUP. 



"Who can beat this record? 



North Clarendon, Vt. 

 Mr. Alley:— Herewith find 75 cents for my 

 subscription to tlie API. 1 liave had something 

 to do with bees for more than sixty years, being 

 nearly seventy-six years old. I bought the right 

 to use the Langstroth hive in the j'ear 1858. 



E. L. Holden. 



A valuable paper. 



Forest City, Iowa. 

 Friend Alley: 1 send seventy-five cents for 

 your most valuable pai)er for another year; could 

 hardly do without it. Had in spring forty-three 

 stands; increaseil to sixty-five, and had 1.800 

 pounds surplus. Very dry in this locality. 



\V. W. Wright. 



Bees doing well. 



Hartford, Pa. 

 The bees had a flight yesterday and I also 

 picked dandelions in liloom. The prospect is 

 that iny bees have used up tlie large amount of 

 honey dew which they gathereil in the fall and 

 now stand a good chance to come out all right iu 

 the spring. 



H. M. Seeley. 



The best of all. 



Mount Carmel, III. 

 Editor am. Api: Herewith find 75 cents for 

 renewal of your paper winch to my mind is best 

 of all. 



How any one can get along without the drone- 

 trap is a mystery to me. We have six in constant 

 use and the neighbors would like to borrow if we 

 could lend them. 



Lizzie Hurley*. 



Bee escapes. 



Sheboygan Falls, Wis. 

 Apropos of bee escapes, 1 made a j-iuch auger 

 hole in the flat cover of an S. Langstroth hive; 

 placed the case of finished sections, full of bees, 

 over this cover on the hive; covered the case with 

 an upper story or cap and left it thus over night, 

 in the morning not a bee was left in the sections 

 to tell the tale. 



Mrs. II. Hills. 



Three good queens. 



Nashville, lenn. 



JlR. Alley: I bought three queens of you in 

 18S8. They were not well marked, but for workers 

 they " took the cake." Neither of these queens 

 cast swarms. They stored in pound sections, 

 eighty-one, eighty-two and ninetj'-two pounds 

 ot honey respectively, from white clover as any I 

 ever saw. 



Our bees are breeding rapidly ; they carried in 

 pollen all through December. 



A. H. Noble. 



How an old beekeeper appreciates a 

 sample copy of the Api. 



West Cormvall, Vt. 

 Mr. Alley:— The Apiculturist is just the 

 book I want. I have learned a great deal about 

 bees from the sample copy you sent me. I think 

 it a big book for a small one. I have got a good 

 many bee books, but none like the API. I would 

 like one to read every night. 



I have kept bees over thirty years and can still 

 learn someihing about them. 



Joseph R. Jones. 



