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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



sonal attention at once. These 

 letters do not all relate strictly to 

 business. A large number of 

 questions coine to hand b}' every 

 mail, all of which must be an- 

 swered [)ersonall3' or through tlie 

 Api. At any rate we liave to an- 

 swer- nearly all of them, and of 

 course it takes time to do it. Let 

 no one think by this that we are 

 not read}' and willing to answer 

 all. 



Every order received is regis- 

 tered, numbered, and before all is 

 finished the name and full address 

 of each customer have to be writ- 

 ten not less than four and some 

 five times. This is necessary in 

 order to keep a straight account. 

 Not only do we attend to all the 

 correspondence, care for 260 nu- 

 clei, 60 full colonies, rear and put 

 up for mailing all the queens, 

 address the hundreds of sample 

 copies of Apr, but we have the pub- 

 lishing of the Api to attend to each 

 month besides. The reader will 

 notice that we supply several pages 

 of the reading matter each month, 

 as well as make all the blunders in 

 its make-up. Some of 3"ou must 

 have noticed one mistake made last 

 month. We refer to the letter of 

 Mr. Trowbridge at the head of Mr. 

 Doolittle's article. Well, we had 

 iust four hours' time in which to 

 make the "dummy". As all may 

 not understand what the dummy 

 is we will tr}^ and explain. It is 

 made in this wa^- : all the matter in 

 the Api is sent to us on strips of 

 paper, each of which when cut up 

 will fill three columns of the Api. 

 This is called "galle}'" proof. On 

 these strips all corrections are 

 made on the margin at each side of 

 the reading matter. The manager 

 of the Api is furnished two copies 

 or proofs of each galley : one is to 

 make all needed correction on and 

 is returned to the printer ; the other 

 copy is to cut u[) to make the dummy 

 for a model for the printer to work 



by. When enough has been cut in 

 strips it is then cut off into pieces 

 one column long and pasted over 

 the columns of another copv of the 

 Apr. This part of publishing a 

 journal is not a small job by any 

 means, and if a fellow is in a hurry 

 or does not keep his eyes open he 

 will find when the pnper is ready 

 to mail to his subscril)ers, that sev- 

 eral mistakes have been nnule. It 

 is impossible to get an}' printed 

 matter perfect. In our great haste 

 to get the July Api out on time, 

 the mistake above referred to was 

 made. 



In order that all may know why 

 Mr. D. wrote that most excellent 

 article "Working for Extracted 

 Honey" we have had printed the 

 letter" of T. K. to which Mr. D's 

 article is an answer ; and a slip 

 containing the same will be found 

 in this number of the Api. Those 

 who care to preserve it can cut it 

 to the proper size and paste it 

 over the letter of Mr. Trowbridge. 

 Had I spent as much time in read- 

 ing the make-up of the Api as I 

 have in explaining how such a mis- 

 take happened it would not have 

 occurred. Please excuse us for 

 doing so, and we will assure the 

 reader that more will occur late.i 

 as the}' are sure to do in all publi- 

 cations. 



DIFFERENT METHODS FOR REAR- 

 ING QUEENS. 



As is natural with us, I have 

 been experimenting more or less 

 this season on the different methods 

 for rearing queens. Have tested 

 five new methods, not one of which 

 is down in the books. I need not 

 say none of them were satisfactory. 

 There is no other method by which 

 one can rear queens that equal 

 those reared under the swarming 

 impulse except the one given in 

 the "Beekeepers' Handy Book." 



Wenham, Mass. 



