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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., AUGUST 1, 1890. 



no. 8. 



Entered at Fost-oifice as second-class matter. 



®l)c Q!t)itor's Department. 



The honey crop. 



Our splendid honey crop was cut short by 

 drought. Nevertheless, we got more honey and 

 of a much better quality, than for several years 

 past. 



Supersede your old queens. 



Don't allow any colony to go into winter quar- 

 ters with an oUl queen. Such a queen will most 

 likely fail early tlie next season. A colony wliich 

 gives promise early in the spring ot a good yield 

 of honey will do nothing on account of the failure 

 of the queen. 



It will pay to requeen colonies each year. Old 

 queen bees are very poor property. 



When a queen is two years old she has seen 

 her best days and should be superseded. If you 

 are a subscriber to our paper send seventy'flve 

 cents and get one of those daugliters reared from 

 our $100 queen. If you are not a subscriber, 

 send $1.50 and get a queen and the API one 

 year. 



Rearing queens. 



We have experienced a temporary set-back, 

 in our queen-rearing operations since July came 

 in. Had we not expected something of tli'e kind 

 our customeis might have had to wait for queens. 



For some cause which we cannot make out, 

 about four hunilred queen cells failed to hatch. 

 As we have plenty of queens no one will have to 

 wait for them a,great while. 



Yellow- banded Carniolan bees. 



The queens reared from our yellow Carniolan 

 mother are very large and handsome. We liave 

 in the a|iiary about flity such queens and all are 

 laying finely and seem to be very prolific. If 

 they are duplicates of their mother in all good 

 points, they will satisfy any beekeeper. Prices 

 same as for Italians. 



We have one very dark Carniolan queen that 

 is giving the most beautiful three-bandeii workers 

 we have. She is such a curiosity that we shall 

 introduce her to a full colony. 



Every reader of the Apiculturist should order 

 and introduce a young queen reared from our 

 hundred-dollar queen. This is the finest strain 

 of Italian bees we liave ever had in our apiary. 

 We wish to remind those who send for samijle 

 copies of the Apiculturist tliat they can get our 

 paper one year, and a selected daughter of the 

 above queen, for $1.5U. Now is a good time to 

 subscriiie. We can mail the queen in a few days 

 after the order reaches us. 



Queens in exchange for honey. 



We will exchange some of our fin- 

 est queens for either extracted or comb 

 hone}'. Anyone desiring to exchange 

 will please address Henky Alley, 



Wenham, Mass. 



The drone-and-queen trap. 



If you have not seen one of our drone-and- 

 queen traps we will mail one to your address on 

 receipt of fifty cents. If satisfied with it and 

 think you desire an individual or township right, 

 the fifty cents may be deducted from the prices 

 for rights given on another page. 



How to remit. 

 All remittances to us should be 

 made payable to the order of The 

 American Apiculturist. Please bear 

 this ill mind. 



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