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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



The American Aplculturist. 



Published MontJdtj. 



MANAGER, 



TERMS: 75 CTS. PER YEAR. 

 Wenham, Mass., May 1, 1888. 



THE MANAGER'S CORNER. 



To keep a promise made to the 

 readers of the Api we must tell them 

 about D. A. Jones' new invention. It 

 turns out about as we predicted it 

 would. It is nothing more than a re- 

 versiljle section case. 11" D. A. Jones 

 will come this side of the line tiiat 

 divides the United Slates and Canada, 

 he will soon discover that lots of enter- 

 prising Yankees have invented equally 

 as good reversible section-cases as he 

 has just described in the "C. B. J." Bro. 

 Jones claims some twelve points for 

 his new invention. All of them were 

 long ago met by beekeepers of the 

 States. Bro. Jones has not, we believe, 

 distinguished himself as an inventor of 

 any practical and useful device of the 

 apiary. Try again, brother. 



Our friends who reside in Clear- 

 field Co., Pa., can obtain any of the 

 supplies we deal in of G. W. Fetzer, 

 Cleartield, P. O., Pa. Please give him 

 a call. 



"We want agents in every county in 

 the United Stales to sell the drone- 

 and-queen trap and other supplies man- 

 ufactured at the Bay State Apiary. 



ANNO UN CEMENT. 

 The form of the Api will be changed 

 with our next issue. We have con- 

 sulted the i)rinter and find that twenty 

 per cent of the cost of printing our 

 journal can be saved. 'I'he paper now 

 contains thirty-six pages, including 1 he 

 cover. By using smaller type and mak- 

 ing the columns a little wider all the 

 matter now spread over thirty-six 

 pages can be crowded into about twen- 

 ty pages. While there will be (piite a 

 saving to us, our n aders will lose 

 nothing, as we shall issue a supple- 



ment, occasionally, containing impor- 

 tant matter. A four-page supplement 

 will be sent out with each issue, for a 

 while, containing mostly advertise- 

 ments. 



We are so enthusiastic over the 

 winter strain of pure Italian bees in 

 our apiary we must be excused for 

 speaking about them again in the Api. 

 AVe mean just what we say when 

 speaking of this wonderful strain of 

 Italians. We have no doubt that these 

 bees would endure a conflnement of 

 five months and not sufier in the least 

 thereby. These colonies have been on 

 the summer stands all winter, and at 

 no time could half a dozen dead bees 

 be found about the entrance or on the 

 bottom-board. They do not seem to 

 care about a flight in winter, nor ap- 

 pear to sufier in the least, after being 

 confined several months. They re- 

 main perfectly quiet all winter. There 

 never was any indication of dysentery 

 or the disease called shaking palsy or 

 other disease about these bees. A 

 more hardy, gentle and industrious 

 strain of pure Italians cannot be found 

 in the country. 



If the reader of this is troubled about 

 his bees dying in the winter he should 

 purchase one of our queens. 



We shall produce in the Bay State 

 queen- rearing apiaries 2,000 young 

 queens of this strain the coming sea- 

 son and shall do all the work required 

 to rear the above number of queens 

 ourselves, as well as to attend to 

 putting up and shipping them. We 

 employ no one to help us in tliis work. 

 For prices, see the advertising columns 

 of the API. * 



Our friend Demaree reports that 

 he has been sick several weeks, but is 

 now nuich better. 



Mr. A. E. Manum is also on the sick 

 list, but hopes soon to be in his usual 

 good health. 



Concerning his bees, Mr. Mauum 

 says : 



" My bees have wintered well so far. 

 I have not as yet looked them all over, 

 but I think my loss in wintering will 

 not exceed three per cent; and, as far 

 as I have heard from others in this 

 countj% I think all have wintered well, 

 though we have had a severe winter. 

 My bees did not have a good fly from 

 Nov. to Mar. 26. Many of my hives 

 were buried out of sight in the snow 

 for two months. 



