THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



171' 



the getting of multitudes of bees, 

 just at the right time, has more to 

 do with the successful working for 

 honey than anything else, and when 

 all realize this and work for the 

 same to the fullest extent, one- 

 half of the colonies will gather as 

 much surplus as the whole do under 

 one present management. 

 Borodino, N. Y. 



For the American Jpicullurist. 



NUMBER SIX OF THIS 

 YEAR. 



J. 5r. Shuck. 



The June, 1887, " Apicultu- 

 rist" is worth a great deal to the 

 l)ractical producer of honey. If 

 50,000 intelligent beekeepers 

 would read this number tiie honey 

 crop of the United States, the sea- 

 son being favorable, would be 

 twenty-five per cent larger b}'^ the 

 reading and consequent practice 

 than it would without it. 



The series of articles starts out 

 with Doolittle (what a misnomer! 

 it ought to be Do(o)much) at the 

 head. Some men are born to lead. 

 If you would put Doolittle with 

 his burly form, his accurate, never 

 failing mental vision far in the 

 backgi-ound, the natural sweet fer- 

 mentation and agitation of human 

 thought would work and push him 

 to the fore. The writings of Doo- 

 little are simply monumental as to 

 the vastness of their truths and the 

 lilliputs of their errors. What a 

 volume they would make and how 

 well they could l)e relied upon by 

 those who desire to learn and 

 never unlearn. 



Then follows Doctor Tinker who 

 makes the nicest sections in the 

 world and who prides himself on his 



nice, accurate-working machinery, 

 "if he don't make a cent." If 

 rightly informed, the doctor is not 

 such a noted producer of honey as 

 some, but if his experiments in 

 the production of honey are con- 

 ducted upon the same careful, 

 painstaking basis, as are those he 

 employs in the manufacture of 

 hi\GS, sections, etc., his conclu- 

 sions must be valuable. One item 

 of interest in the doctor's article 

 will attract attention antl that is, 

 that " inverting the brood-nest has 

 come to stay." The doctor has 

 not always believed this. We are 

 thankful to the doctor for this ; it is 

 always a pleasure to see a good man 

 also right, and aside from the doc- 

 tor's article in question he is right 

 in another thing : he hates " cheap 

 John" goods in our line as the 

 devil hates holy water. He doesn't 

 make anything merely to sell, he 

 makes things to be used, so that 

 he who buys gets the worth of his 

 mone3^ 



Next in the list comes A. E. 

 Manum, It is a nine days' won- 

 der how this beekeeper was got- 

 ten into the public view. He 

 has been so busy for years taking- 

 honey, " dead loads of it," that 

 no one supposed he could be in- 

 duced to tell about it. He still 

 sticks to separators, cli]is his 

 queens' wings and jumps his rows 

 of sections to insure even work in 

 the cases and tfniform color as to 

 tiie combs. INIr. Manum gives 

 much of the detail of his practice, 

 but the article is so cut off here 

 and there and elsewhere, tiiat it 

 shows in the plainest manner pos- 

 sible that he has not begun to tell 

 wliat he knows about getting comb 

 honey. Everybody should read 

 Mr. Manuni's article. 



Next comes Dr. Miller who 

 apparently looks over the field, 

 takes in a long breath and says, 

 '' I have just told all about this 

 thintr in a book and what more 



