THE AMERICAN APIGULTURIST. 



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will often speedily quiet them. In 

 heating cellars no smoke should be 

 allowed to escape from the stove into 

 the cellar and the light should be 

 shielded from the bees by any suita- 

 ble means. Passing among the bees 

 with a faint light does no harm. 



Write it down — When you think 

 out a good thing or get a good point, 

 write it down. 



It may prevent your forgetting it 

 and save some brain racking when 

 you wish to recall it. 



Keep pencil and paper with you 

 when in the honey house or among 

 the hives and stop in the midst of 

 your work when you have a sugges- 

 tion or thought worth remembering 

 and write it down. 



Bee papers would have better arti- 

 cles than they do if all followed this 

 plan. Articles wTitten while under 

 the inspiration are the most forcible 

 and telling. 



If you have any pet theory or 

 train of thought write it down ; it may 

 otherwise be forgotten. Then, when 

 you have time, arrange these thoughts 

 and send them to us. Never mind if 

 any one does pitch into your ideas, 

 remember no one knows it all. We 

 are all weak or in error on some 

 point. You may be able to contrib- 

 ute your share to the general fund of 

 knowledge. 



Again, I say, turite it down, and be- 

 fore you send it in " boil it downy 



The October "Api." — We hope 

 every one who receives this number will 

 I'ead Dr. V, C. Miller's review aud crit- 

 icism, found in another place, of the 

 essays published in the Oct. "Api." The 

 doctor rulis us all down so nicely and 

 smoothly that Avhat he says is very in- 

 teresting reading. That's right, doctor, 

 pitch into the editor, manager, corre- 

 spondents and all, show up the weak 

 and strong points. So far as the allu- 

 sions to the editor are concerned, no 

 defence will be made at this time. Per- 

 haps in a future number, we may allude 

 to the matter, aud if possible explain 



the meaning of the short editorial re- 

 marks referred to by our esteemed cor- 

 respondent. 



Our Price Iiist. — We have no 

 price list or catalogue of any sort ex- 

 cept what is found in the last pages of 

 each inimber of the Apiculturist. Please 

 examine every page of the "Api," as 

 there is sometlnng of interest to all. 



Imported Queens.— In his answer 

 to qiierj' No. 7, Prof. Cooksa3^s, "un- 

 less Italian bees from Italy are supe- 

 rior to our own — and why should they 

 be? — we gain nothing by importing. 

 If ours are better than imported stock, 

 we lose. I believe we have as good 

 liere. If not, it speaks ill for our 

 breeders." 



For years we have contended that 

 our American Italians are superior to 

 any stock ever imported, and when 

 occasion has presented an opportunity, 

 we have expressed our opinion on suclr 

 matters. Some breeders advertise 

 "Queens reared from imported stock 

 only." That is one of the "tricks of 

 the trade." Our American breeders 

 will improve any race of bees tiiey 

 propagate. American beekeepers are 

 in every branch of apiculture far 

 ahead of any nation in the world. 



There is an American (?) somewhere 

 in Europe who has "boomed" imported 

 stock about all it would bear. Now 

 that beekeepers here have discovered 

 that imported Italians, Cyprians, and 

 Syrians are almost a humbug that same 

 person is "booming" the Carniolaiis. 

 This latter race was tested five years 

 ago in the Bay State Apiary. They 

 are not half as good as the Italians. 



The careful queen-breeder 



makes frequent additions of fresli stock 

 for the purpose of infusing new blood 

 into his apiary. One need not send to 

 Germany or Italy for queens, as there 

 are so many queen-dealers in this coun- 

 try that an occasional exchange of 

 queens with some other dealer will cer- 

 tainly prevent any bad results from 

 in-breeding. No in-breeding is ever 

 practised in the Bay State Apiary, as 

 no queens are reared from the queen 

 whose drones we use, nor is a dron^ 

 reared from the queen whose eggs we 

 use for cell-building. 



Our Own Bees. Up to date, our 

 bees are in fine condition. None of 

 any account have died, although there 

 are more dead bees about the hives 

 in the cellar than about those on the 

 summer-stands. 



