THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



GLEANINGS FROM CORRE- 

 SPONDENCE. 



To Tin: Amkuicax Apicui/iurist, 

 Wenham, Mass., 



U. 8. America. 

 Mr. Editor : 



Will you kindly allow nie to ex- 

 press, throusih your honored Bee 

 Joiniiiil, my most cordinl thanks for 

 all the friendliness and cordiality which 

 were so profusely shown to nie during;; 

 my memorable visit anion*; the Amer- 

 ican and Canadian bee friends. I shall, 

 as lonii as I live, take delijjht in look- 

 ing back over my trip, and never, no 

 never, forget the world's most able 

 beekeepers, nor their exceeding hos- 

 pitality towards me, as a stranger. 



I only regret that my time was so 

 limited, that I had no opportunity of 

 personally calling on the many more, 

 Avlu)se names were so well known and 

 dear to me from the bee journals. 

 Respectfully yours, 



IvAR S. Young, 

 Christiaiiia, Norxcay, November, 1887. 



yellow boos ! Tn proper time they ap- 

 peared and were beautiful. I antici- 

 pate mnch pleasure with them the com- 

 ing season. 



J. P. SMirii. 



HOW THE API IS APPRKCIATED. 



Sunapee, N. II., Jan. 2, 1888. 



Mr. Ai.lky : I want to thank you 

 and express to you the appreciation of 

 many beginners in beekeeping, for your 

 efforts to enlighten and help them. 



Your treatment of special practical 

 topics, such as "How to WniterBees," 

 "Comb Honey," and "Prevention of In- 

 crease," is of priceless value to all be- 

 ginners, and there are many such, who 

 are hungering and thirsting for just 

 such practical instruction as these 

 essays afford them. They do much 

 towards lilting us up to higher planes. 



I see you offer a prennum for the best 

 article on "Fastening Comb Founda- 

 tion in Frames and Sections." 1 hope 

 you will give us the benefit of these 

 essays. Please give us a good practical 

 way of fastening full sheets of founda- 

 tion in sections. Legions of us need 

 instruction on this point. 



Your plan of giving us several es- 

 says on these special subjects in a 

 single . number of the Api I wish 

 specially to commend. They render it 

 a priceless boon to every beekeeper. 



The four queens I ordered of you 

 last summer all came safe to hand and 

 they were beauties. All were suc- 

 cessfull}^ introduced. How anxiously 

 I watched for the appearance of the 



THE ITALIANS LEAD. 



Joetta, III. 



Mr. Alley : I was much pleased 

 with the sample copies of the Apicul- 

 TURisT you sent me. Will soon sub- 

 scribe. I am a beginner in beekeep- 

 ing. I bought two colonies last spring ; 

 one swarmed and I now have three 

 colonies of Italian bees. 



It has been so dry here that the 

 German or brown bees did not gather 

 sufficient stores to winter, while n.y 

 Italians stored about ten pounds of 

 surplus honey. Tiiis is rather discour- 

 aging, but I do not despair. 



B. F. Barb. 



WINTERING BEES IN CELLARS. 



Oronoco, Minn. 



Mr. H. Alley: Find herewith $1.00 

 for API, 1888. 



I keep about one hundred colonies 

 of bees. Very little honey in 1887, not 

 more than enough to keep the bees 

 through winter. I winter in cellar — 

 temperature of cellar 40° to 42°. I 

 think 40° in a dry cellar the best; in a 

 damp one it should be warmer. 



Geo. W. Wirt. 



worth one year's subscription. 



Dwight, m. 

 Mr. Alley: 



Although I take other bee papers, 

 I find in looking over the two numbers 

 of the Amkrican Apiculturist itgives 

 one so much valuable information, not 

 found in any other bee journal, that I 

 am already paid for one year's sub- 

 scription which I herewith enclose. 

 A. L. Leach. 



BEST BEE journal AND BEST BEES. 



Walton, Ky. 

 Friend Alley : 



I have just received January num- 

 ber of Api and, if possible, it is supe- 

 rior to others which have preceded it 

 already, the best in America. 



I now have fifty-five colonies of bees 

 in winter quarters, doing finely. About 

 twenty of the colonies have queens 

 reared from one I obtained from you in 

 1885, and the loss this winter so far 

 in bees, from all twenty colonies, has 

 not been one-half a pint. 



L. Johnson. 



