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THE AMERICAN APIGULTURIST. 



business were in a town but a few miles 

 from Wcnliam. One of tiie parties re- 

 ferred to reduced tlie price of sugar to 

 the actual cost. Not to be outwitted 

 by such a move, the other merchant did 

 the same thing. As soon as grocery- 

 man No. 1 heard of the reduction his 

 rival liad made, lie at once put the price 

 of sugar at less than cost. 



Groceryman No. 2 said he did not 

 care for that as he was willing his 

 friend should sell all the sugar, and the 

 more he sold the sooner he would have 

 lo close his shop. Well, this proved 

 to be the fact. Now, suppose it costs 

 tjfty cents to print twelve copies of any 

 paper, and the price it is sold for is but 

 twenty-five cents, or fifty per cent less 

 than cost : it is evident that the more 

 subscribers a man has the more he will 

 lose. Go ahead, gentlemen, put out 

 your money. We are not sorry that 

 we have none to pnt out in that foolish 

 way. 



How to winter Bees. — If any of 



our readers have not seen the Essays 

 "IIow to winter Bees" as printed in the 

 "An", October (18S(!)issue, please state 

 tlie fact on a postal card and send your 

 address and a copy will be mailed to 

 all who apply. 



We have just printed a large edition 

 of that (October) number, not only to 

 supply I hose eleven essays, but also to 

 place our price list of apiarian supplies 

 in the hands of all who desire it. 



The essays on wintering bees are by 

 Dr. G. L. Tinker, P. R. Russell, Prof. 

 Cook, J. E. Pond, G. M. Doolittle, 

 Chas. Muth, J. F. Bingham, G. W\ 

 Demaree, A. E. Manum, James Hed- 

 don and C. W. Dayton, all well-known 

 among us as the best and most practi- 

 cal beekeepers in tlie world. 



The essays are printed and issued in 

 a Special Edition of the "Api." 

 Sixteen pages of which are entirely 

 new matter that was not given in the 

 188G issue. 



This special, or extra, number of the 

 ApiCULTuniST will be found to contain 

 a large amount of most valuable infor- 

 mation regarding the care of bees 

 and we hope to i)lace a copy of it in 

 the hands of every beekeeper in the 

 country. Sent free by mail, until fur- 

 ther notice, to all who apply. 



Those who receive the special num- 

 ber will find what will appear to be in- 

 consistency in prices, discounts and 

 oflers of premiums. We will say in 

 reference to that matte'r that the Oct. 

 (1880) issue was plated, or stereotyped 



more properly, and no change could be 

 made unless the entire ptige was reset. 

 After all the new matter was ready 

 for the press we found there were 

 18 pages where 10 pages only Avere 

 needed, anil so pages 241 and 242 

 of tlie phites were left out, but in do- 

 ing so the index was not changed to 

 coVrespoud. In order to lind the right 

 page the reader must count two pages 

 back, (if the one given in the index 

 when it occurs after ptige 240. 



Who believes it?— A fellow trav- 

 elling in New York state was shown 

 some honey iu the comb said to be 

 twenty-live years old. This may be 

 true, hut when it is slated that the 

 honey had not changed in taste or ap- 

 pearance not having granulated even, 

 then we beg leave to say we do not be- 

 lieve it, and iVstrikes us not one man in 

 a million acquainted with honey will 

 believe one word of it. 



The fact is the man who published 

 the statement was sold. 



To advertisers. — One of tlie ad- 

 vantages in advertising in the AMKiti- 

 can Aricui/runiST is the fact tliat the 

 proprietor or manager of the "Api" 

 lias no advertisements in its columns; 

 thus none of those who advertise in our 

 paper do so in competition with us. 



Bear in mind that the Amiciucan 

 Apicultukist is not a local bee paper. 

 We have more subscribers in any one 

 of the western states than we have in 

 all six of the New England states to- 

 gether. 



' We shall undertake to rear a few 

 more Albino queens the coming sea- 

 son, for the purpose of testing some 

 strains which have been brought to 

 our notice. 



Mr. Svvinson and others claim that 

 they have Albino bees superior to any 

 heretol'ore tested in the Bay State 

 Apiaries. We will rear a few hundred 

 queens, antl give our friends and cus- 

 tomers a chance to test them with us. 

 If these bees will winter as well and 

 come up to the work in all respects as 

 the strain of Italians recently de- 

 scribed in the "Api," we shall be satis- 

 fied that all Albinos are not alike. 



