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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



Cartoons for pound sections. 

 A. 0. Crawford of South Weymouth, 

 Mass., filled an order for us for 1000 car- 

 toons for about $5.00. I never used nor 

 yet saw such things before these were re- 

 ceived. The honey when placed in them is 

 completely protected from flies or from 

 being soiled in any way. All the honey 

 being sold l)y retail at the Bay State Apiary 

 is placed in tlie cartoons. The price of 

 them is so low that it is an inducement to 

 all to adopt tliem. 



The Beekeepers' Review. 

 The August issue of this excellent bee- 

 paper treats of "exhibiting honey at fairs." 

 Such men as H. D. Cutting, ProC. Cook, 

 James Heddon, M. M. Baldridge, R. F. 

 Holtei-man, Dr. A. B. Mason, J. H. Mar- 

 tin and other well known writers have 

 taken part in the discussion. 



To our readers. 

 If you are observing, you have noticed 

 that the Apicultukist has four pages add- 

 ed to it this month. This was made nec- 

 essary in order to accommodate tiie large 

 amount of copy on hand, and at tlie same 

 time give the readers some selections from 

 other bee-papers. Sixteen pages of the 

 APicuLTURisr will be filled with the best 

 matter, and so arranged that they can be 

 bound without any advertisements. 



Mailing queens to Canada. 



I notice that much has been said of late 

 in the bee-papers about mailing queens to 

 Canada. I did not think such talk worthy 

 of notice, and vvlien I received an order 

 from tiiat country 1 mailed tlie queens the 

 same as though nothing had been said about . 

 it. Several orders for queens liave come 

 from there this season all of which have 

 been delivered to the persons who ordered, 

 them. I discovered some dozen years ago 

 that the best way to find the trulli of such 

 reports was to post tiie package and con- 

 tinue to do so as long as they were re- 

 ceived at the post olfice and went all right. 



A few years ago just such a canard a])out 

 mailing bees was started in this country. 

 I had an interview with the postmaster of 

 Salem (as all my queens were mailed from 

 that ofiice) and asked liim whether lie had 

 had orders not to receive (jueen bees. His 

 answer was that he had received no in- 

 structions of any kind regarding bees and 

 tliat he would take all I desired to send. 

 Tlie result was that only three tiueens wer J 

 thrown out the mails during the season. 



The "World type-Vriter. 



I had heard so much about the World 

 type- writer tliat I could not longer resist 

 the temptation to test one. Accordingly, 

 I sent $G.OO to the office of the New York 

 World and in a few days the wonderful 

 little machine came. In less than one hour 

 I had got the " hang" of it so well I gave 

 up the pen altogether and shall use the type 

 writer for making all copy that is to be 

 put in type. No doubt those who receive 

 letters from me wish I would use the ma- 

 chine in my business correspondence. 

 Cannot do it, friends. It would take too 

 mucli of my time. "You must grin and 

 bear it" until I am able to get a larger and 

 better machine, though tlie one I have is 

 all I need at present. 



However, I am well pleased with "The 

 World" type- writer and would not take 

 fifty dollars for it if I could not get an- 

 other one. I not only got tlie t3'pe-writer 

 for the sum of six dollars, but the A'eio 

 York World one year besides. The express 

 charges on the package was but thirty- 

 three cents. 



Sflcrt^tr. 



How to tell from what hive a swarm issues. 

 TjiE other day when walking through 

 the yard we found a large swarm clus- 

 tered on an apple tree, and as no one saw 

 them issue and they apparently had been 

 clustered for some time, we commenced 

 looking about to ascertain to wliat liive 

 they beh)nged. We felt very much like I'e- 

 turiiing them to the parent colony, but 

 not knowing which one it was, we then 

 found the difficulty. We walked up one 

 row and down another, looking at each 

 hive, and the bees seemed flying as fast at 

 one entrance as at another. Directly, we 

 found a large double colony with the bees 

 entering more rapidly than in any other, 

 but apparently no bees or scarcely any 

 leaving tlie hive. About ten bees would 

 return laden with honey and pollen to one 

 that would go to the Held Irom the hive. 

 This convinced us that this hive must have 

 swarmed, wiiether this cluster was the 

 one that belonged to it or not, so putting 

 a little flour in a tin dish, dipping a few 

 bees into the flour, we took them to the 

 centre of the yard and tossed them up in 

 the air. After flying about for a sliort 

 time some of them returned to tiiis col- 

 ony. Occasionally, one would light on 

 another liive, liut the majority of them 

 either returned to the swarm clustered on 

 the tree or to this hive which had so many 



