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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



THE MANAGER'S CORNER. 



We wish to give notice that no more 

 hives of auy kind can be supplied troni 

 the Bay State Apiary without consid- 

 erable delay after th e order is received. 

 We also wish to say that all the colo- 

 nies of bees in the Bay State Reversi- 

 ble Hives wu had for sale have been 

 disposed of. 



Our thirty-two-page price-list is the 

 October number of the Apicultukist, 

 which we are sending out as a special 

 edition. Prices of all supplies we 

 have for sale may be found in that 

 number, which is sent free to all who 

 apply. If this meets the eye of auy 

 one who has not received that most 

 important number of the Api, by all 

 means send your address on a postal 

 card, for it, and at the same time if you 

 have a friend who keeps bees send his 

 address also. 



Bees in some sections of the country 

 have wintered badly, while in other 

 localities reports most encouraging 

 are being received. On the whole, 

 bees have wintered better than the 

 average for the past ten years. Many 

 complain that the bees seemed to de- 

 s(!rt the hives and leaving the combs 

 well tilled with honey while but few, 

 and in some cases no dead bees were 

 found. 



One well-known beekeeper writes 

 that he is about discoui aged on account 

 of loss of bees in winter and low prices 

 for honey. Wonder if our friend would 

 not be in favor of throwing the ex- 

 tractor to the dogs. 



Our friends have no idea how much 

 it would help us if each reader for 

 the Api would send us the name of one 

 new subscriber for the Anci-'LTumsT. 



Of coarse, no one has forgotten that 

 we send the Api one year for one dol- 

 lar and also mail free to eacii subscrib- 

 er, new or old, one of our Drone and 

 Queen-traps. If you never have seen 

 and examined one of these most use- 

 ful apiarian implements you have no 

 idea how much hav been lost to you 

 without its use. Send and get one or 

 more. Don't l)e annoyed by your bees 

 miming away, or going up on a high 

 tree when they swarm. Use the trap 

 as it will save time, trouble, expense 



and bees, and you will have a most 

 comfortable time during the swarming 

 season. 



Our friends who desire to visit the 

 Bay State Apiary will be welcome to do 

 so. It gives us pleasure to talk of and 

 explain our methods for rearing queens, 

 or to give information concerning bee 

 culture to the extent of our tiiirty 

 years' experience, to all who may call. 

 Our method for fastening foundation 

 in frames and sections, opening a hive 

 and finding the queen in full or nucleus 

 colonies, and in fact hundreds of things 

 too numerous to mention here will be 

 shown all who visit our apiary. The 

 manager of the Api does not have an 

 office from which he excludes his 

 friends nor does he employ boys to wait 

 upon and show visitors about his api- 

 ary. Generally from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

 we are at liberty to attend to all who 

 call. If those who intend visiting the 

 Bay State Apiary will send us acai'd 

 several days before they come they 

 will be most likely to see us. About 

 June 15 several hundred nuclei hives 

 will be in running order, then we can 

 show and explain queen-rearing and 

 interest our visitors to almost any ex- 

 tent. 



We have received, through mistake 

 of some one, 1000 4^ X 4^ sections. 

 There is no name of the shipper or 

 other mai-ks to indicate from whom 

 these came. We found them at the de- 

 pot with other goods. Who can ex- 

 plain? 



We can say this much regarding 

 the sections. One package of 500 has 

 been opened and although we have 

 bought and used thousands of one- 

 piece sections I never saw such fine 

 sections before. Who ever sent them 

 will get an order from here as soon as 

 the shipper's name is known. 



Some person in Whitehall, III., sent 

 one dollar to this office in January last. 

 We cannot fill the order as no name 

 was given. 



Some people do not seem to know 

 where they live, as several calls for the 

 wintei' essays have been received, and 

 mailed to the address given. In a few 

 days they are returned inscribed "no 

 such post-ofhce in the country." 



The mannger of the Apicur.TtTRrsT 

 tenders thanks to tliose who have so 

 liberally favored him with orders the 



