SUPPLEMENT 



TO THE 



AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



Wknham, Mass., Novkmbkk 1, 1887. 



Remember that all who subscribe or renew at once their sub- 

 scriptions to the Apiculturist will get the journal, including this 

 number, fourteen months, for $1.00. Also, free by mail, one of the 

 latest improved Drone and Queen-Traps. 



This is the first supplement ever issued from the office of any bee journal. 



For the American ApiciiUurist. 



NOTES AT RANDOM. 



A. Norton. 



a good wokd for the bay statk 

 reversible bee-hive. 



Friend Alley : 



As I have not time to write 

 much and cannot think fast only 

 when an idea oi- subject takes pos- 

 session of me, I will confine myself 

 to a few notes on ivvo or three mat- 

 ters. 



Candor demands that I should 

 acknowledge my mistake in doubt- 

 ing the advantages of your new 

 hive. I have used eight or ten of 

 the Bay State bee-hives this sea- 

 son, and the result has been quite 

 favorable. Briefly, I can recount 

 the following points in its favor: 

 1. Simplicity and cheapness are im- 

 portant features. 2. Reversing ei- 

 ther the frames singly or the whole 

 brood-nest in a body is equally 

 eas3\ 3. It is easily moved without 

 disarranging frames. 4. One num- 

 ber of frames is about as conven- 

 ient as another, either more or less. 

 Hence you can expand or contract 

 laterally at pleasuie without need 

 of cumbersome division-boards. 5. 

 For tiering up, the projecting end 

 bars secure the right space between 

 chambers with the least trouble, 

 and the least danger of change by 



shrinking. 6. Frames are easily 

 removed and replaced. Main dan- 

 ger of crushing bees is at bottom 

 where frames rest. 7. Sectional 

 chambers or deep ones can be used 

 at option. And I believe that good 

 fit and interchangeability of parts 

 cannot be more easily attained in 

 any hive than in this one. 8. No 

 building comb between ends of 

 frames and ends of hives at odd 

 and idle times. And, in case of 

 bridged or bulged combs, frames 

 can be taken out with a minimum 

 of danger to bees and trouble to 

 yourself. 9. A sectional chamber 

 may itself be made into a fair swarm- 

 ing box from which you do not have 

 to dump the swarm. This is, of 

 course, where one does not use the 

 queen and drone-trap and uses only 

 narrow foundation starters. 



MARKETING HONEY. 



I consider that two propositions 

 in Mr. Woodward's article, last 

 issue, cover the principal part of 

 the marketing problem. 



These are: 1. Cultivate the de- 

 mand at home and abroad leaving 

 the supply to be regulated by the 

 demand ; and 2. encourage the man- 

 ufacture of various articles from 

 honey. I cannot add anything new 

 to these ideas. In fact several 

 persons have advanced them before. 



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