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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., JUNE 1,1890. 



NO. 6. 



Entered a,t Fost-ofRce a,s second-class matter. 



®l)e (£i)itor's llltpartmmt. 



Editorial points. 



Our prices for queens by the single one or by 

 the dozen can be lound in any issue of the API. 



Self-hivers haveandarenowliavingan immense 

 sale. Tliey are working satistactorily in all cases 

 reported. All who have examined the selMiiver, 

 pronounced it the best tiling out. 



Every reader of the Apiculturist should order 

 and introduce a young queen reared from our 

 hundred-dollar queen, 'i'liis is the linesc strain 

 of Italian bees we have ever had in our apiary. 

 We wish to remind those who send lor sample 

 copies of the AI'ICUI.tukist that tliey can get our 

 paper one year, and a selected daughter of the 

 above queen, for $1.50. Now is a good tune to 

 subftCrioe. We can mail the queen in a few days 

 after tlie order reaches us. 



If any reader or other friemls of the API desire 

 to visit our apiary anil see how we carry on queen 

 rearing, all are vvekome to do i=o. By June 1.5th 

 we expect to have 300 nucleus colonies In full op- 

 eration. Two hundred are now in running order. 

 We shall lake great pleasure in showing all who 

 favor us with a call how we rear queens by the 

 methods given in '• Thirty years among the bees." 

 We shall sliow you how bees leaving a fertile 

 queen rear queens above a queen-excluder; and 

 it any visitor happens here at about tlie proper 

 time, we shall sliow how bees make cell-cups by 

 the only natural method. 



j8®-The APiCULTUUiSTfor April is on our desk. 

 It is, as usual, fliled with spicy reading for bee- 

 keepers. The APICULTUHIST IS fully up with the 

 times, and it is a pleasure to read every copy as 

 it comes to hand. It richly deserves its success. 

 —Am, Bee Journal, April 26. 



Prices of supplies at the Bay State Apiary. 

 We will say to those who call for cur price- 

 list that we have none except what is found in 

 each issue of the Api. Please look it over. If 

 you do not find all you want you can send the 

 order just the same and we will get the goods we- 

 do not keep in stock of those who have them. 



After May 10 the price of the Swarmhiver will 

 be S2.50 per half dozen and $1.00 (ler dozen. Af- 

 ter maiuifactnring several thousands we found 

 the profits not what they should be. When the 

 price was fixed it did not occur to us that, so 

 many dealers would care to handle them. Now 

 supiilj' dealers fi-om all quarters are calling for 

 tliem. 



Although each issue of the Api gives instruc- 

 tions lor remitting money, our friends persist in 

 sending money-orders on all the post-offices in 

 this count}'. Before you purchase a money, or- 

 der look and see where it should be made paya- 

 ble, tialem, Mass. P. O., is the place. 



We are getting inquiries by every mail from all 

 liarts 01 the country from beekeepers wishing to 

 know if we liave queens reatly to ship. We have 

 not and shall not have any queens to ship till af- 

 ter May 20. Commencing with the first week in 

 June we expect to ship one liundred (jueens ea(di 

 week. All will be reared from our famous $100 

 queen. 



If the readers of the API could come to our api- 

 ary on any warm day and see these bees at work 

 we sliouhl be pretty sure to get their oi'der for one 

 or morequeens. On ApiilSO this queen with about 

 one quart of her bees was taken from lier colony 

 and transferred to a small.'i-Gomb hive from whicdi 

 we shall draw one thousand eggs each day until 

 Sept. -20. 



How to remit. 

 All remittances to us should be 

 made payable to the order of The 

 Amkrican Apiculturist. Please bear 

 this in mind. 



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