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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



Eighteen hundred pounds of sugar 

 and several hundred pounds of honey 

 have been used in the Bay State Api- 

 ary since July i, 1887. Our bees 

 were fed sufficiently to take them 

 through the winter by Sept. 18. We 

 believe in feeding early. 



Golden rod was in great abundance 

 from the last of August to October i . 

 The bees gathered from it more or 

 less each pleasant day, but many cold 

 and rainy days prevented them from 

 getting enough for winter. 



Our hives are full of bees and finer 

 colonies cannot be found. So say 

 all our visitors. Call and see them. 



QUEEN-BEES TO CANADA —A cor- 

 respniHlcnt wiites us a coniplaini. that the 

 postmaster at Detroit lias retiinieii two pack- 

 ages (containinji' queen-bees) for iusulBcieiit 

 postage when thev were to be sent to Canada 

 and stamps bad been placed upon them, the 

 same as required lor the U. S. iiostage. Our 

 correspondent is at fault, and as others may 

 be misintonned we make this explanation. 

 Queen-bees have to be sent to Canada as mer- 

 chandise, and according to the law, it requires 

 ten cents postage on every package weighing 

 eight ounces or less. As the postage must be 

 lire|>.nd, the postmaster at Detroit was re- 

 quired to return them, or retain them and let 

 them i\\e.— American Bee Joiirnal. 



[We have sent a large number of 

 queen bees to Canada this year, but 

 have paid only four cents postage on 

 each queen. The postmaster at Sus- 

 pension Bridge returned the first 

 package of bees put up and sent as 

 merchandise on which ten cents for 

 each eight ounces had been paid. We 

 were informed that queens would not 

 go when thus packed and further in- 

 formed that the cages must be placed 

 in envelopes the same as a letter 

 and then they would go all right. 

 Since then we have packed queens 

 as instructed and all have been deliv- 

 ered safely to our Canadian custom- 

 ers. We pay letter postage on the 

 packages, which amounts to four 

 cents per queen. 



It really looks as though the post- 

 master at Suspension Bridge was of 

 more importance than any other man 

 connected with the postal department 

 of Canada.] 



Mr. Ivar S. Youns, in his letter to us and 

 other editors says: "1 am going to visit the 

 first and greatest beekeepers of the world— 

 the Americans— in order to study practi<-al 

 beekeeping." We did not state h's language 

 in our notice on page ii."), but the Canadian 

 Bee Journal did so, and its editor remarks 

 thus: 



"While he may consider the Americans the 

 greatest beekeepers in the world, we hope to 

 show him th t the Canadians can make a 

 much liiier displ ly of their product. Before 

 Ins visit is over, we expect to be able to hear 

 him say that he sliould have couiiled Canada 

 with America in the statemect which he has 

 made." 



The following is just received from a sub- 

 scriber of our Canadian contenipoi-ary, and 

 fully explains it-^elf: 



"Frikxu Xewman:— What is the matter 

 with D. A. Jones? Is he jealous or crazy? 

 See page 350 of the Canadian Bee Journal lor 

 July 20. Is not Canada a part of America? 

 His talk is tUter nonsense, and tends to make 

 'hard feelings;' like the 'Canadian linden 

 honey and United States basswood article of 

 a year ago. I do not like such talk." 



Bro. .Jones is at fault in his knowledge of 

 geography; that's all 1 He evidently thinks 

 that Canada is bigger and of more importance 

 than the whole continent of America; when 

 in fact it is but a small ))ortion of that conti- 

 nent. The article about "Canadian Linden 

 Honey vs. American Basswood" was. no 

 doubt, a great blunder! as was the naming of 

 his paper? But we must overlook such little 

 tilings in him. It is his nature to heimpulsive, 

 and to make very inflated statements. We do 

 not think he intended to be discourteous to 

 the apiaiists south of the great lakes, even 

 though his language made it so ai)pear. 



That Canada obtains a good crop of honey; 

 tliat it is of excellent quality ; that they make 

 grand exhibits; and that they have some of 

 the best apiarists of the world, we freely ad- 

 mit, without even a thonglit of jealousy, or 

 feeling of envy I And when Americans are 

 referred to as '-the greatest lieekeepers ol the 

 world," as they are by Mr. Ivar S. Young, 

 we never think of depriving Canadians of 

 tlieir full share of the honor; or imagine for a 

 moment that thev desire to secede Irom the 

 rest of the Continent, or wish to detract from 

 the glory and reputation of America, or Amer- 

 ican apiarists.— No! We all say most enthusi- 

 asticallv — 



" No pent-U)) Utica contracts our powers; 



The whole unbounded continent is ours." 



[The foresoinff was taken from the 

 American Bee Journal. We are uot 

 going to be so sparing of our modesty 

 as Bro. Newman, tjut will claim that 

 the beekeepers in the United States 

 are far ahead of those in any other part 

 of the world, and we do not intend to 

 make any exception, no, not one — and 

 we shall iucUide all parts of the bus- 

 iness, from a patent bee-hive to pub- 

 lishing bee books and bee journals, 

 Who has over made any very great im- 

 provement on the well-known Laug- 

 stroth hive? who publishes better bee 

 journals and better bee books than 

 are published in the United States? 

 Who has ever produced more honey to 

 a colony than a beekeeper of the state 

 of Texas? Where can be found more 

 successful beekeepers than Doolittle, 



