THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



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On page 12 occurs a mistake of the 

 typo in Dr. Tinker's answer to Query 

 No. 1, tl)at alters the sense of the ital- 

 icized words in the first paragraph ma- 

 terially. The latter part of the sen- 

 tence should read : "(/le markings," 

 not '-the ioor/,i)igs." Reference is had 

 to tlie prepotent influence of the drone 

 in d.etermining the color of the worker 

 progeny. 



SPECIAL NOTICE. 



E. T. Lewis & Co., Toledo, Oliio, are 

 ready to mail their thirty-two page il- 

 lustrated circular and price-list of bee- 

 keepers* supplies. They ofler for sale 

 goods of every description used in the 

 apiary. Tlieir honey extractor, the 

 manufacture of which they make a spe- 

 cialty, may be found in hundreds of 

 apiaries; and as they work to perfec- 

 tion, and are made of the best material 

 they give general satisfaction. Circu- 

 lars free. 



CIRCULARS RECEIVED. 



T)r. G. L. Tinker, New Philadeli)hia, O. 

 hives and fine sections. 



Clias. F. Muth & Son, Cincinnati, O., gen- 

 eral supplies. 



E. T. Lewis & Co., Toledo, O., general sup- 

 plies. 



C. M. Goodspeed, Thorn Hill, X. Y., gen- 

 eral .'-upplies. 



•Jno. A. Thornton, Lima, 111., queens, bees, 

 fowls, etc. 



E. L. Gould & Co., Brantfoid, Ont., bee- 

 keepers' >upplies. 



M. H. Hunt, Bell Branch, Mich., supplies. 



All who Subscribe for the Apicul- 



TUiiisT from January 1st will receive 

 one of our combined drone and queen- 

 traps free by mail. This is our method 

 of introducing the Apicui/ruiasT and 

 our drone and queen-traps into every 

 town and city in the United States. 



Those who receive the trap as a pre- 

 mium must not expect to get the Handj'' 

 Book or a queen for fifty cents, as the 

 pi'otits are so small that only one pre- 

 mium can be given each subscriber. 



We do not advertise to give pre- 

 miums to those who subscribe through 

 other parties. We pay news' agents a 

 percentage on all subscriptions sent 

 us, and if you choose to give the agent 

 a profit instead of sending direct to us, 

 it is no fault of ours. 



See Club List on another page. 



AGENTS FOR TRAPS. 



Messrs. Thos. G. Newman & Son, 

 925 West Madison St., Chicago, 111., 

 are our agents for the sale of the Drone 

 and Queen-traps. Parties west of Chi- 

 cago, as well as those residing within 

 a radius of a few hundred miles of that 

 city, who desire from one dozen to 

 several dozen traps, can save some- 

 thing in freight and express charges by 

 ordering of the above firm. All who 

 can conveniently do so should order 

 traps early, as the trade in them the 

 coming season will be immense, and 

 there may be some delay in filling or- 

 ders later in the season. 



THE OBSERVATORY HIVE. 



By request of one of our readers 

 we give below a description of an 

 observatory hive such as we have liad 

 in use some thirty years ; in fact, our 

 first lessons in bee-culture were taken 

 from the observatory. When I had 

 been a beekeeper about two years I 

 visited our county fair, and there 

 first met Mr. Levi Fish of Danvers, 

 a man who was well versed in the 

 art of beekeeping. Mr. Fish had an 

 observatory hive on exhibition, con- 

 taining queen, bees and brood, which 

 was similar in construction to the one 

 I am about to describe. 



The hive is merely a frame large 

 enough to take one standard L. frame 

 between two squares of glass, through 

 which every movement of the t]ueen 

 maybe seen, and the attention shown 

 her by the bees as she moves about 

 the combs ; how she deposits her 

 eggs ; how the bees remove the pol- 

 len from their legs and deposit and 

 pack it in the cells ; in fact, every- 

 thing that is going on in a full colony 

 of bees may be seen in the observa- 

 tory hive. Remove the queen from 

 such a hive and the whole operation 

 from the loss of a queen to the rear- 

 ing and fertilization of a new queen 

 may be witnessed in the course of 

 three weeks from the time the queen 

 is removed. 



The novice can learn more of the 



