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A JOURNAL FOR THE NOVICE AND EXPERT IN BEEKEEPING. 



Published Monthly. Subscription Price, 75 cts. per Annum. 



HENRY ALLEY, 



Editor. 



VOL. VIII. 



WENHAM, MASS., MARCH 1,1890. 



NO. 3. 



Entered. a.t IPost-office a,s second- class matter. 



®l)£ €(Jltor's department. 



Special notioe. 



We have made arrangements with 

 A. F. Stautfer & Co., Sterling, 111., to 

 supply o\u' clroiie-and-queen trap, 

 Swarm-hiver, Bay State reversible 

 hive and other supplies in which we 

 deal except queens and bees. Their 

 advertisement will be found in this 

 issue. 



One-pieoe sections. 



We have 2000 number one one- 

 piece sections at the factory of J. M. 

 Kinzie, Rochester, Mich. We will 

 ship them F. O. B. to any address on 

 receipt of six dollars. Address Amer- 

 ican Apiculturist, Wenham, Mass. 

 Bees by mail in winter. 



On January 7, we received about a 

 dozen bees by mail from Thos. S. Wal- 

 lace, Clayton, 111. We requested Mr. 

 W. to mail the bees in the same kind 

 of a cage the queens were mailed in 

 which were sent Maj. Shallerd of New 

 South Wales. Th ose sent Maj . S. were 

 received in good condition and so 

 wtu-e the bees sent us this winter. The 

 cage had been in our office more than 

 a week before any of the bees died. 

 With the exception of being larger 

 than the one we use the cage and 

 food are the same. 



Individual rights to manufacture the drone- 

 and-queen trap. 



So many beekeepers desire to make the drone- 

 and-queea trap that we shall oflfer one trap by 

 mail, anil the right to make and manufacture them 

 for one's own use, for the small sum of $1.50. 



If any one desires to make the bee-escapes, the 

 same as is used in the traps, auft the same tilings 

 as are used for bee-escapes for getting bees 

 out of sections, we can furnish tlie tools for $3.00. 

 They can be sent by mail for '2.5 cents extra. 



Five of the tubes are made at one blow with a 

 heavy liammer. In one day a smart mau cau 

 make lOUO of the tubes. 



The Bay State bee-hive. 



Those who are tliinking of adopting a different 

 style hive should not fail to examine the Bay 

 State before making up their minds what liive is 

 . best. The Bay State Hive is not perfect perhaps, 

 but then it is so much nearer perfection tlian a 

 large majority of hives in use that all who have 

 tested tliem liave adopted it. Something may be 

 fouinl in the .January API concerning this Hive. 



VVe can ship these liives direct from the W. T, 

 Falconer .Manufacturing Co., at Jame.-town, N. Y. 



We have a large part of our supplies sawed at 

 the above factory, and better work and stock are 

 not furnished by any one in the business. We 

 have a quantity of tlie Bay State Hives made up 

 at the factory and ready to ship. Any one desir- 

 ing to examine the liivecan obtain one of them 

 by sending $M.OO direct to W. T. Falconer & Co. 

 The hive !s complete in frames, seciums and all. 



The Bay State Hive has but eight frames, aud 

 are of the closedeud style. 



Kotiee. 

 Will each of our subscribers kindly send us on 

 a postal card the addiess of a few intelliKent, re- 

 liatile beekeepers. A copy of the " APi" will be 

 mailed to each one. Tlie names of the •' know-it- 

 all" beekeepers are not wanted. 



Our price-list may be found on page 56, 

 (37) 



