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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



If those dealers who send out imiuire queens 

 would use a good drone and-queen trap Hiey 

 would have no tiouble in getting queens 

 j)urely mated. Tliove are a good many people 

 who think they "know liow"or"know it all," 

 and tlnuk the trap amounts to nothing. Well, 

 friendH, keep on in-breeding and sending out 

 hybrid queens and let the better methods 

 take care of themselves. 



Publishers sometimes receive very funny 

 comnuinieations and an editor often gets 

 good advice, and sometimes a scolding, from 

 his readers. One good friend sent us along 

 article the othei- day to which was attached a 

 private note from which we make this quota- 

 tion : 



"You may send me your journal next year 

 (I8S8) provided you run it independently and 

 are willing to print such communications as 1 

 enclose, otherwise you may return this arti- 

 cle." 



Well, we guess we can run the "Api" inde- 

 Ijcndently enough lo suit our friend, and we 

 shall assert our independence by informing 

 the author of the above, that only such mat- 

 ter, as in our judgment is proper, will be in- 

 serted in the "Api." W^heu we are ready to 

 conduct the publication of our paper to 

 suit parties who never contribute one cent 

 towards its support, due notice will be given. 



We would gladly return the "communica- 

 tion" in question, but as tlie author failed to 

 remit the necessary amount of stamps for its 

 return we cannot do so. 



Uon-Patented.— Several persons have 

 written to us to know if the Bay State hive is 

 Ijateuteil. It is not. Any one purchasing a 

 hive of us can^make and use as many as he 

 desires. 



We claim that the B. S. lieversible hive 

 combines more good features than any other 

 hive in use. 



There are fifty-five colonies in these in the 

 Bay State apiary wintering upon the summer- 

 stands all alive up to date (Jan. 15). Each col- 

 ony is in perfect order. The hives are so con- 

 structed that the entrance can remain open full 

 width during the winter. Unless it is neces- 

 sary to remove dead bees, the hive needs no 

 special care in winter a.s tlie entrance is a 

 long, low and dark one and the light of the 

 sun cannot penetrate, and thus induce the 

 bees to take a flight when the weather is not 

 warm enough, neither can the snow block the 

 enti-ance, yet the hive is perfectly ventilated 

 and only at the regular entrance. 



Any one thinking of purchasing a new style 

 hive should by all means get one of the B. S. 

 lieversible hives and thoroughly examine 

 every feature about it before purchasing any 

 other. 



No. 1, Vol. xxiv, of the American Bee 

 Jourmil is on our de^k, and we must confess 

 that Editor Newman has made his paper look 

 very nice in its new dress and new type. The 

 head-lines of all articles are in large, clear, 

 full-face type. The contents and general 

 makeup of the A. B. J , are pei'fe<:tion. Bro. 

 Newman is a man of progress and never takes 

 a back stej). 



We can furnish the "Api" and "American 

 Bee Journal," for $1.80; without premium lor 

 $1.60. 



The Api in England —We shall mail a 

 large number of sample copies of this issue 

 to English beekeepers. If our English sub- 

 scribers, also those who receive this copy 

 of tlie API, will send us the address of all bee- 

 keepers who would be most likely to become 

 suliscribers, we will gladly mail sample cop- 

 ies to such. 



T!ie API will lie sent to subscribers in Eng- 

 land and Scotland, one year, post-paid, at live 

 sliillings per annum. 



We have made arrangements with parties 

 in England, of wliom queens reared in the 

 Bav State apiary can be procured after June 

 20,"l888. See June issue of API. 



Another "best bee-paper published in the 

 English language" has appeared. It is " The 

 Beekeepers' Review"publislied atFlint.Mich., 

 by W. Z. Hutchinson. We are surjirised to 

 see that so much space is taken to review a 

 subject of so little importance as "Disturbing 

 bees in winter." Disturbing bees in suiniTier 

 would have been much better; no doubt we 

 shall get that by and by. The first issue does 

 not exactly meet our expectation, neverthe- 

 less, the " Review" is a good publication. 



Let all those who have the least desire or 

 idea that they can get rich in pui.lishiiig a 

 bee-paper, try their hand at it. Experience 

 that costs nothing is worthless. Who next? 



The Beekeepers' Review and the API will be 

 mailed to one address for $1.00 per year. No 

 premiums. 



Mr. J. E. Crane of Middlebury, Vt., has 

 been lor many years tlie largest inoducer of 

 comb honey in New England, and is well 

 known as a successful beekeeper. Mr. Crane, 

 like J. E. Hetheiington, writes but lililel'or the 

 bee publications, yet we have made arrange- 

 ments with him to give the readers of the 

 API an essay on "The Production of Comb 

 Honey." There is no one connected with 

 beekeeping who can give more valuable in- 

 Ibrmation on the above subject than Mr. 

 Crane. The essay will probably appear in 

 our April or JUay issue. 



Attlio request of a well-known l)eekee]>er 

 we have also made arrangements witn Mr. H, 

 B. Isliani, of New Haven, Yt., to furnish an 

 essay on the above topic. Although Mr. 

 Isham is but little known to the beekeeping 

 public, we are informed by his friend in 

 Vermont that he has few peers in the art of 

 proilucing comb honey. Mr. I. says: "1 will 

 describe my method which difl'ei-s very much 

 from that practised by most beekeepers." 



The beekeeper w ho" fails to read the "Api" 

 the present year will sadly miss it. Not less 

 than 500 of our sul)s('ril»ers have said: "Yon 

 publish the best and most practical bee-jiaper 

 extant. It isn't all "tally" either. 



TIIK HKSr BEK JOUKNAL. 



One of the best-known writers on Apicul- 

 ture, also a well known beekeeper of great 

 experience writes thus: "The January 1888 

 Ai'i is tlie b(?st bee journal I ever saw. It is 

 full of practical facts." 



