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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



made will be found at the head of each 

 urtifle. 



The API is issued Ave or six days 

 previous to the date thereof; by so 

 doiiii; we place the journal in the 

 hands of most of its readers on the first 

 day of each montli. If not received by 

 tlie tenth of the month, notice should 

 be sent us at once wlieu another copy 

 will be mailed. Do not wait six months 

 before sending sucli notice expecting to 

 get tlie baclv numbers. In some cases 

 baclv numbers might be sent, but we 

 cannot promise to keep a stock of 

 Journals on hand for such a purpose. 



In conclusion we will say to those 

 who renew or to those who subscribe 

 they will get one of the Drone-and- 

 Queeu tn"aps free by mail. Price of trap 

 witlioutthe paper is sixty-five cents, by 

 mail. 



The Estate of the manager of the 

 API has been attached in the sum of 

 five hundred dollars. We do remember 

 that something was said to us some 

 three years since about endorsing a 

 note of several hundred dollars for a 

 certain young man who was at that 

 time publishing a bee paper, and had it 

 not been for our aid tlie said paper 

 would have gone the way of some half 

 dozen other such enterprises. Well, 

 we are now called upon to make good 

 that endorsement. The person by whose 

 earnest pleadings we were induced to 

 do such a friendly act has really for- 

 gotten the arrangement and promises 

 he made at that time. It would be 

 unwise for us to speak further upon 

 this subject now, but after the case has 

 been tlirough the courts we shall feel 

 at liberty to give a full history of the 

 whole matter. 



This lawsuit, no matter how decid- 

 ed, will, in no way, affect the Api. We 

 shall continue to mail it to our sub- 

 scribers as regularly as we have since 

 we took charge of it. 



Any Person who will send us the 

 names of three new subscribers and 

 three dollars will get one of our 

 best queens free by mail, at any time 

 during the queen-rearing season. Each 

 subscriber can also get one such queen 

 for fifty cents. One of the latest im- 

 ported Drone-and-Queen traps will be 

 sent free by mail to all subscribers, or 

 to those who renew. 



The Present Number completes 

 Vol. V of the Apk'ui.tuuist. We return 

 thanks to those who have kindly fa- 

 vored us with articles during the past 

 year. That the Api has been well ap- 



preciated by its numerous readers, we 

 need only refer to the testimonials that 

 have appeared in the cohiuiiis of the Api 

 from time to time the past year, and in 

 ihe support received from subscrip- 

 tions that come in by every mail. 



Sample Copies of the Api will be 

 sent free to any address. If the reader 

 of this can place half a dozen copies of 

 our Journal in the hands of beekeepers 

 Avhere they will be of some benefit to 

 us we will cheerfully mail them. We 

 know of no better method to aid the 

 publisher. 



Pine Honey.— The finest lot of 

 houey to be found in the city of Bos- 

 ton may be seen at the stall of John 

 A. Peabody, No. 112, N. P. H. M. Tlie 

 honey came from parties in Vermont. 



The Api will be sent to any address 

 on receipt of 7.5 cents. Those who ac- 

 cept of this otter will not be entitled to 

 the drone-and-queen trap. 



" Amateur Expert" has favored the read- 

 ers of the API with a most interesting article 

 regarding Englisli bee-hives. There seems to 

 be a very close similarity between one of tlie 

 hives described :ind the new Heddon hive. 

 As we have never seen either tlie Hedilon or 

 Carr-Stewarton hives, we have no means of 

 deciding wliether or not Mr. Heddon's claim 

 has been antedated. 



One thing is certain, Mr. Heddon's first 

 claims did not snit him, as we understand 

 he has re-issued his patent. .Something must 

 have been wrong in the first place. 



Pleurisy-root. — One of the readers of the 

 API will import a quantity of seed of the 

 above plant whicli we can supply at $i.00 per 

 ounce, or at ten cents per package. Direc- 

 tions for its cultivation will be given in a fu- 

 ture number of the Api. 



Don't fail to read the advertisement on an. 

 other page, of the Beekeepers' Directory to be 

 issued from the office of the Ai'l. Blanks to 

 fill out will be mailed to all beekeepers whose 

 names we have. 



The January API will give full particulars 

 regarding the contents of the directory. 



One of our Bay State Reversible Hives 

 complete, including the surplus arrangement, 

 weighs but thirty-four pounds. When packed 

 ready for winter the weiglit of all will not 

 exceed forty pounds. Thus it will be seen 

 that most any body can lift one such hive 

 with ease. Another point is the fact that 

 when one of these hives is sent by ex|»ress 

 the charges will uot amouut to more than the 

 cost of the hive. 



