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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



cau ill atlbrcl to be without the "Api- 

 cnlturist." 



Let me thank you for the two beau- 

 tiful Italian queens which you sent us 

 last summer. They seemed very small 

 when we receivedtiiem, but the chanjie 

 in a few days after introducing thera 

 was wonderful. They began to develop 

 and went to work in. earnest so that 

 by fall both of them were my pride and 

 everybody's that knew anything about 

 bees. C. A. DicRociik. 



Milledgeville, 111. 

 Dear Sir: In last "Api," under 

 "Gleanings from Correspondents" I 

 am made to say I have been a bee- 

 keeper for eight years. It should read 

 twenty-eight years. Tor the past nine- 

 teen years, I have given the business 

 my best efforts. As it stood at eight 

 years, it would not harmonize with my 

 circular statements. Our bees are win- 

 tering well so far. 



You rs, 



F. A. Snell. 



New Bochelle, K Y. 



Your queen and drone-trap received, 

 also the January number of your jour- 

 nal, you must have forgotten February. 

 Please send it soon, for though I take 

 two others, I am very anxious to get 

 my favorite journal on beekeeping. 

 Yours truly. 

 Miss R. Maraghano. 



Corning, Iowa. 



Mr. Alley. 



1 have received three num- 

 bers of the "Api" and find it to be filled 

 with advice for the beginner in bee 

 business by experienced men at the 

 business. Herewith I send a few ques- 

 tions that I wish to see answered in your 

 paper. I have been well pleased to see 

 several questions answered in "Api" 

 that I have often wished to know some- 

 thing about. 



Jas. a. Russell. 



DeKalh Junction, JV. Y. 



Bees quiet and in fine condition. 

 But little snow in this section and the 

 outlook for clover is anything but good. 



Nothing but the most favorable 

 weather iu March and April can save 



it. The ground has been bare of snow, 

 or nearly so, half the time this winter, 

 and is frozen to a great depth. Thaw- 

 ing days and freezing nights wiU use 

 up the clover, I fear. 



Ira Barber. 



Stratford, Can. 



Ed. Am. "Api": 

 I now have 4 vols, of the Apiculturist 

 uniformly bound and consider them a 

 valuable acquisition of bee lore. Hop- 

 ing that in the years to come it may 

 outstrip even its splendid record. 

 I remain, yours truly, 



E. W. Panton. 



Thorn Hill, iV. Y. 

 Mr. H. Alley: — 

 I am surprised to see how rapidly the 

 "Api" is improving. I thought it was 

 as good as it could be, but it is beating 

 itself every issue. Every beepaper on 

 this side of the Atlantic visits our of- 

 fice regularly, and none is more wel- 

 come than the "Apiculturist." C M. G. 



B£E JOURNALS. 



Burlington, loica. 

 Dear Sir: Herewith find 25 cts. for the 

 "Apiculturist" on a three months trial trip. 

 The trouble with our western bee-papers is 

 they are published in the interests of supply 

 dealers. I waut to find something better. 



H. S. . 



[We entered this person's name 

 on our list and will send him the 

 '"Api" for three months. We fear, 

 however, that in dropping the west- 

 ern bee-papers for the reasons lie 

 mentions and taking the "Api" "in 

 hopes of finding something better," 

 that he has only "jumped from the 

 frying pan into the fire," 



We take occasion to inform Mr. 

 S. and others of like opinion con- 

 cerning bee publications and the 

 siippb' business, that no bee jour- 

 nal can exist for any length of time 

 nnless b ^cked by some business 

 (or an iiiherited fortune), and, even 

 then, there is very little profit in it, 

 as there is so much competition in 

 the bee supply business that goods 

 of all kinds are sold at ruinous 

 prices.] 



