THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



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Manum, Hetheriugton, El wood and 

 thousands of others we mijrht mention ? 



No, the Yankee beekeepers do not 

 make such a big: public display of their 

 products as do some others, but they 

 have the honey just the same. When, 

 in New York city a few years a,a:o, we 

 saw piled up in one room sixty tons 

 of honey, all in prize packai>os; to us 

 it was quite a show. It misht look 

 small to other people's eyes. There 

 was no gt'eat excitement in that local- 

 ity, and no one seemed to be boasting 

 about how much honey he could raise 

 per colony or in one year. 



The fact is, the Yankees have as 

 good hives and facilities, generally, for 

 raising- honey as any beekeepers in the 

 world. When there is any honey to 

 be had we cau get it. When the flow- 

 ers yield none, we go without it. The 

 present is one of the years when we go 

 without it. We guess Bro. Jones has 

 discovered that the Dominion of Can- 

 ada is iu North America. 



INFORMATION WANTED. 



M. M. Baldkidge. 



On pages 227 and 228, Septem- 

 ber number of the "Api," I find a 

 four column article on the "Price 

 of Honey," in which the writer 

 sa3^s — "The question of selling 

 honey, like all questions vital to 

 industrial or political economy, is 

 a hard one about which to agree. 

 And, in the discussion of this ques- 

 tion, we find all kinds of ideas com- 

 ing before us, and many theories 

 urged as certainties, when in reality 

 the}' are only fancies. One of these 

 is the belief that producers can com- 

 bine, withhold the supply and ad- 

 vance the price." 



Now, will the party who wrote 

 the foregoing be so kind as to tell 

 the "Api" readers who has even 

 advanced the idea, in any bee pub- 

 lication that "producers can com- 

 bine," and "withhold the supply," 

 and thus "increase the price" of 

 honey? Please give us the name 

 of just one advocate and where he 

 can be found. Unless this can be 

 done, it seems to me that two pages 



of the "Api," are altogether too 

 much space to be wasted in the dis- 

 cussion of a theory that exists pos- 

 sibly only in the imagination of 

 your California correspondent. 

 St. Charles, III. 



PROF. COOK'S HOUSE FOR 

 THE APIARY. 



R. L. Taylok. 



In almost every essential re- 

 spect I think Professor Cook's 

 plan of a "House for the Apiary" 

 to be correct. I cannot suggest 

 anything that would improve the 

 cellar for the safe wintering of bees, 

 unless it be that the grouting of 

 the cellar floor be omitted. Does 

 not the bare earth absorb much of 

 the impurities thrown off by the 

 bees and so keep the air sweeter 

 and purer? The only other thing 

 about the bee-cellar, to which I wish 

 to direct attention, is the little cis- 

 tern in the apartment for the bees. 

 I have considered how Professor 

 Cook expects to get compensation 

 for the expense of building it by 

 any advantage to be derived from 

 it. 



To the plan of the shop and 

 honey-house I have three objections 

 to make : 



1. If I understand the Profes- 

 sor's plan for preventing bees from 

 entering the hone^'-house by the 

 windows, without preventing those 

 inside from going out, I must say it 

 proved a failure with my bees. 



2. If one is to have as many as 

 one-hundred colonies, the division 

 of the honey department into two 

 rooms would be a serious mistake. 

 The division wall will surely be in 

 the way. 



3. But, in my opinion, the most 

 serious defect in the plan is its 

 failure to call for outside walls as 

 nearl}' as possible impervious to 

 the outside temperature. The heat 



