THE AMERICAN A PIC UL TUB 1ST. 



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past few months. We assure our 

 patrons, that the Api has been hiuhly 

 favored by its numerous friends and 

 suijscribers by orders for supplies of 

 all kinds. It really does not appear to 

 us that there are many of our readers 

 who are opposed to the manager and 

 publisher dealing in beekeepers' sup- 

 l)lies. 



Our own advertisements have been 

 removed from the pages of the Api 

 in order that all who favor us with ad- 

 vertisements may reap the full benefit 

 of the money they invest in the Avi. 



A uood many have sent for our price- 

 list and took the occasion to express 

 regret that we have taken our adver- 

 tisements from the Api. I am not sure 

 that the movement was a wise one, but 

 the experiment seemed to me to be 

 worth ti-yiug, for a while at least. 



If any one desires our price-list, and 

 also tlie essays on wintering bees, just 

 send your address on a postal card for 

 it. Tlie essays are the same as sent 

 out in the October number for 1S8G, 

 which occupy seventeen pages, with 

 the addition of fifteen pages of our 

 l)rice-list. 



The special number is neatly printed 

 and is likely to be preserved for a long- 

 time for the valuable essays it con- 

 tains. 



We cannot furnish any more Bay 

 State Hives or Reversible Section 

 cases this season. The large stock 

 which were gotten out last winter have 

 been sold For the next four months 

 our attention must be given to rear- 

 ing queens; though most other goods 

 found in our Price-list can be furnished 

 promptly. Price-list of such things 

 sent to any. Send address or a postal 

 card for it. 



"Subscription Expired" will be 

 stamped on the wrappers of all 

 whose subscriptions expire with any 

 luiniber of the Apiculturist. If 

 the reader desires the paper con- 

 tinued w^e shall be glad to do so, 

 provided he makes known his wishes 

 by dropping us a postal card, 

 dlhervvise the "Apicultukist" will 

 be discontinued when the subscrip- 

 tion expires. We invite all to le- 

 new and send us with their own 

 subscription at least one new one. 



NOTICE. 



We find that not one copy of the 

 Apiculturist, number 12, Vol. IV, is 

 left in our oftice. 



Will some of our readers who do 

 not care to preserve that particular 

 number return it to us? We will 

 gladly pay twelve cents each for twen- 

 ty-five copies, or in return will mail a 

 copy of this issue to any friend whose 

 address may be sent us. 



GLEANINGS FROM CORRE- 

 SPONDENCE. 



One of the best-known beekeep- 

 ers in the world, wrote us a few 

 days ago, as follows : 



" I wish to congratulate you on the 

 excellence of the Api. It is one of 

 our most valuable beepapers I w^as 

 especially glad to read what you say in 

 reference to Mr. Langstroth and his 

 hi\'e. What folly for an_v one to saj' that 

 Mr. L. was not the inventor. Such 

 statements confront truth, justice and 

 the intelligence of the beekeeping 

 world." 



DeaPv Sir : 



Your drone and queen trap just re- 

 ceived by express. Thanks. To those 

 who practise clipi)ing the queens'wiugs, 

 it will be a great help in swarming 

 time in automatically caging the queens 

 and thus preventing them from getting 

 lost in the grass. 



Jas. Erwin. 



Hitchcock, Ind. 

 Mr. Ali.ky : 



I would not take $5.00 for the 

 queen you sent me last year. Please 

 send me the Api and another queen as 

 soon as you can. $1.50 enclosed. 

 VVm. R. 



Ghristianshurg , Kij. 

 Frikxd Alley : 



The Api is certainly an liouor to 

 its proprietor; you have made it a 

 great success. Your plan of having a 

 set of articles published in a single 

 issue on "Wintering" and another set on 

 "Storing Comb Honey," etc., is a mas- 

 ter piece of wisdom, as any one of such 

 numbers is worth more than any book 

 ever published on any single topic on 

 bee culture. G. W. Dealvkee. 



