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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



sue contain ample evidence as to 

 whether our method for rearing queens 

 is a good one or otherwise. 



Mr. D. may have testimonials by 

 the million for all we know, com- 

 mending his methods and views, yet 

 though we liave walclied the bee-pa- 

 pers i)retty closely, none to our liuovvl- 

 edge have ever got into print. We 

 have no doubt, however, that Mr. D. 

 rears good queens, perhaps better than 

 ours. Although Mr. D. is not slow 

 in tooting his horn about the only 

 "scientific and natural method" for 

 rearing queens, he has been slow and 

 very backward about the testimoni- 

 als, which he should have, and which 

 people demand of any dealer com- 

 mending his goods. A dealer who 

 cannot show proper evidence that his 

 goods are all he claims for them should 

 be driven out of the business. 



Fifty- cent queens. 



About every mail brings us letters 

 asking ns what we will furnish fifty or 

 a hundred queens for. In no case 

 have we stated a price less than the 

 one found in our regular price-list. 

 We have no fifty-cent queens, cannot 

 rear first-class queens at those fig- 

 ures. When you want such low- 

 priced queens please apply at the next 

 shop. Good queens cannot be reared 

 at such lovv figures. When we can 

 fill our orders at our regular prices, 

 and have a surplus of queens, then 

 a proposition to sell at a less price 

 will be in order. 



Though we have been rearing and 

 shipping queens thirt}^ 3'ears, there 

 never has been a time when we had 

 a surplus of queens in our apiary. 



We are ready to sell each subscrib- 

 er to the Api one queen for 75 cents, 

 and that is the lowest we can sell 

 queens to anyone. Every queen sent 

 out from our apiary is worth $5. We 

 venture to say that hundreds of queens 

 go out from our apiary every year 

 that cannot be bought for even more 

 than $5 each. Let me tell yon about 

 one of them. 



Neiohurgh, Indiana, July 14, 1890. 



Mr. H. Alley: Herewith find 75 cents, for 

 another queen; the one you sent me last year is 

 a splendid queen. Have taken thus far this sea- 

 son 112 pounds of honey from her colony and ex- 

 pect to jjet 28 pounds more if tlie weather does 

 not cor.tinue too dry. Dr. Geo. Lacke. 



There, friends, isn't such a queen 

 as that worth $5? Who says no? 



If such a testimonial as the above 

 does not suit you, please read the one 

 from Mrs. M. G. Barker on page 122. 



Our orders. 

 We want to say to our friends that 

 there has l)een considerable unavoida- 

 ble delay in filling some orders we have 

 received. However, we have done the 

 best we could, and each customer will 

 get what he has ordered as promptly as 

 possible. One man whose poor hand- 

 writing we could not make out or- 

 dered two queens, also, one drone- 

 trap. These things were sent and we 

 supposed we had addressed them cor- 

 rectly, after a while our friend vvrote 

 brother Root that he sent Alley so 

 much money and could get no word 

 nor goods from him. We investigated 

 the matter and found the trap had 

 been sent, and although the order was 

 for but two queens we had mailed 

 three to the supposed address of this 

 man. Later on, postmasters in several 

 towns in Ohio notified us that there 

 were packages there for which thej' 

 could find no owner ; and then the 

 cards and letters we had written this 

 fellow came back. Now this customer 

 thinks we must and should send these 

 things again. It is not our fault that 

 he did not get his goods. 



When ordering supplies, please 

 write the address so that we can make 

 it out at a glance. We sometimes 

 have to call upon the neighbors to aid 

 us in making out a badly written ad- 

 dress. 



A few days ago a registered letter 

 came to hand said to contain 75 cts. 

 The letter was unsealed (but it was 

 not noticed till we arrived home) and 

 contained no money. No one in my 

 opinion had meddled with the letter. 



