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actly express our opinion. We 

 often set words of encouragement 

 from Professor Cook, Dr. G. L. 

 Tinker, James Ileddon and from 

 hundreds of our readers, but some- 

 bow, we consider the one from Mr. 

 Baldridge the best of all.] 



NOTICE. 



Bristol, iY. H. 

 Mr. Alley : 



Herewith find $2. Please sejid me 

 the Am. Apiculturist and your Handy 

 Book on Queen-rear:ug. I have 

 bought several bee-books. They all 

 tell how to rear queens ; hut not one of 

 them tells how to keep the queens after 

 they are reared, until wanted to use or 

 sell. Do the authors think because 

 they know how to do it, everybody else 

 ought to ? 



G. B. Sanborn. 



[We have often told the readers 

 that the Beekeepers' Handy Book 

 would tell them more about queens 

 and queen-rearing tlian all other 

 books combined. Mr. Sanborn 

 will find this out.] 



Edgar, Neb. 

 Henry Alley. 



Dear Sir : — The drone trap received 

 and works all right. This has been a 

 poor season here for honey. Too much 

 dry weather; but the bees are doing 

 well now. 



When can I get some of the Bokhara 

 or sweet clover seed {Melilotus alba). 

 Respectfully, 



Ezra E. Howard. 

 [Any one who can supply the 

 seed called for above will please 

 answer.] 



All who Subscribe for the Apicul- 

 turist, at any time, will receive one 

 of our combined Drone and Queen- 

 traps free by mail. This is our method 

 of introducing the Apiculturist and 

 our Drone and Queen-traps iuto every 

 apiary in the United States. 



Those who receive the trap as a pre- 

 mium must not expectto get the Handy 

 Book or a queen for fifty cents, as the 

 profits are so small that only one pre- 

 mium can be given each subscriber. 



We do not advertise to give premi- 

 ums to those who subscribe through 

 other parties. We pay news' agents a 

 percentage on all subscriptions sent 

 us, and if you choose to give the agent 

 a profit instead of sending direct to us, 

 it is no fault of ours. 



TO ADVERTISERS. 



We will accept of bees, sections or 

 foundation in exchange for advertising 

 space in the Apiculturist. 



The Qixinby Smoker. — A de- 

 scription of the improvement made in 

 this well-known smoker was given in 

 the "Api" some time ago. We now 

 have a lot of them on hand. This 

 smoker, as now made, is the most 

 perfect of any bellows-smoker in the 

 market. The good points are these : 

 if the fuel is dry, a smoke can be had 

 in a minute's time by merely apply- 

 ing a hghted match to the "fire-hole" 

 at the base of the barrel. Those who 

 use the old style Quinby smoker are 

 obliged to go to the stove for a coal 

 of fire in order to ignite the punk. 



NOW IS THE TIME. 



Send $1 .50 and get the Am. Api- 

 culturist one year, and a copy of 

 the Beekeepers' Hanut Book. 



The book contains 300 pages, 

 100 fine illustrations, is handsomely 

 bound in cloth and sent to each 

 subscriber by mail, for fifty cents 

 in addition to one year's subscrip- 

 tion to the " Api." Regular price 

 of book, $1.10 by mail. 



This work treats of the best 

 methods for rearing queens, and is 

 pronounced by Rev. L. L. Lang- 

 s-troth to be " the best authority on 

 this important branch of beekeep- 

 ing." 



