THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



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keepino; a success ; that is, few can 

 get sufficient profit and income to 

 make it a special business. As all 

 localities where bees are kept do 

 not supply the flora in such quan- 

 tities as would be required for a 

 large number of colonies, therefore 

 bee culture cannot be made a suc- 

 cess under such circumstances. 

 In a fair location, say one that 

 would well support fifty colonies, 

 I would advise a person, if he 

 wanted to keep bees to take up 

 poultry-raising. These two occu- 

 pations seem to go well together 

 and though beekeeping some day 

 may be to some extent overdone, 

 of egg-producing never will, as 

 the United States imports about 

 seventy millions of eggs each year. 



The American Apiculturist. 



I'iiblinlied Monthly. 



MATING QUEENS IN CONFINEMENT. 



Kimhatl, Pa. 

 Mr. Ar.LEY: I am reailinjr Root's ABC 

 book. As I undei-stand Mr. Hoot a queen 

 cannot be fertilizeil in a Iiive. I see you ad- 

 vertise a "fertilizing hive." Now, if a queen 

 can lie fertilized in a hive and any drones 

 used, please let me know. 



E. Hitchcock. 



[Mr. Root is correct. Queens 

 cannot be fertilized in confinement, 

 that is, there has been no practical 

 method yet devised that has come 

 to our attention. 



The hives we advertise as "fertil- 

 izing hives" are only small boxes 

 that will take but four frames five- 

 by-five-inch square. We call them 

 by the above name as they are used 

 only to keep queens in until they 

 can fly out an<l become fertile.] 



MANAGER, 



TERMS: $1.00 PER YEAR. 

 Wenham, Mass., Jan. 1, 1888. 



THE MAX AGE WS GOliNEIi. 



A Happy New Year to all the friends of 

 the Api! All who read this are included; no 

 one is slighted. 



The Fact that the manager's "chitchat" is 

 crowded out of tliis issue is no occasion for 

 an aiiology from us, as our columns ai-e well 

 filled with articles of great value to the read- 

 ers of the API and to beekee|)ers generally 



We are trying to make the Ai'i such a foun- 

 tain of information and so interesting with- 

 al, that no beekeeper when he sees a copy of it 

 can resist the temptation to remit at once one 

 dollar for one year's subscription. 



The Meeting of the North Americaa 

 Beekeepers' Society at Chicago in Novem- 

 ber. 18S7. seems to have been a success. We 

 had an idea that its worthy president and en- 

 ergetic secretary would infuse new life into 

 such a meeting. Judging by the reports of 

 the convention all present had a good time. 

 The essays were rather better than common, 

 and some of them will find space in the API 

 during the present year. 



KXCKEDINGLY INTEUESTING. 



Your December number is exceed- 

 inj^ly rtitcrestiiiir. "Amateur Expert's" 

 chatty letter is worth the price of the 

 API. E. C. 



"autificial" quekns. 



Queens reared when the old queen is pres- 

 ent, often leaves a lump of royal jelly as 

 larjie as a pea in the bottom of the cell after 

 emerging, while it is a rare thing to find one- 

 fourth of that amount in any cell where a 

 queen is reared by the removal of tlie queen 

 by any means. It seems to me that if the 

 friends of any other theory would carefully 

 look into the matter, they would talk less 

 about "artificial" (lueens being as good or 

 better than those reared during natural 

 swiirming.— (t. M. DooLittle in American Bee 

 Journal. 



[Queens reared under the swarm- 

 ing impulse always leave a '• large 

 lump" of royal jelly at bottom of 

 cell after the queen emerges, and 

 the same may be found at the bot- 

 tom of any queen-cell afler the 

 queen has emeiged, provided the 

 queens are properly reared. As 

 most people rear queens, we ac- 

 knowledge that little or no royal 

 jelly will be found in the cells. 



