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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



Jos. M. McCaul informs us that 

 he has resigned his position with 

 H. K. & F. B. Thurber & Co. 

 as manager of the honey depart- 

 ment and proposes to open a store 

 and devote his whole time and 

 attention to the sale of honey and 

 wax. We certainly wish him suc- 

 cess and can assure him on behalf 

 of the beekeepers that so long as 

 he will do an honest, square business 

 — shunning every form of adulter- 

 ation of honey or wax — that he 

 will be supported. We need, in 

 every portion of our country, men 

 who will become interested in the 

 sale of honey, men who will place 

 our honey on the market just as 

 inire as when received from the 

 hands of the producer, and who 

 will not for the sake of mere gain 

 defraud the producer and consumer 

 by adding to our honey, glucose or 

 any other adulterant. 



Friend Pond sends us a first-class 

 report of his apiary. For this season 

 / the three colonies run for surplus 

 honey have given him over 500 lbs., 

 and he has increased from seven in 

 the spring to eleven and sold two ; 

 he has nine colonies now and wishes 

 to sell three or four of them as he 

 intends to make two or three more. 

 We would state that we have seen 

 queens that were reared from his 

 stock and any one who buys one of 

 his colonies will get his money's 

 worth. 



While at friend Alley's a short 

 time since I examined some comb 

 foundation which he had been test- 

 ing and must confess that although 

 I have handled thousands of pounds 

 of it and used a larger amount yet 

 I never saw any better or that 

 which was worked out by the bees 

 more quickly or perfectly than some 

 Dunham foundation that Mr. Alley 

 obtained from Mr. Taylor of Sin- 

 clair, 111. The foundation was clear, 

 bright and pliable with very heavy 



side walls, and when worked out 

 by the bees was just perfect. Not 

 one cell stretched or sagged, neither 

 did the sheet waip. We feel that 

 much credit is justly due Mr. 

 Taylor for the excellent qualit}^ of 

 the foundation which he sends out. 



F"riend Jones writes that his 

 reason for not writing more for the 

 " Api " is that he is taking in from 

 3,000 to 5,000 pounds of honey per 

 day. Surely we would not wish to 

 interrupt such a honey flow as that 

 and, for his sake, would willingly 

 wait some time for an article before 

 doing so. 



Last month we published a letter 

 from Mr. Pond relating to our new 

 bee feeder. Our object in doing 

 this was to establish the fact that 

 we originated this feeder. Since 

 we first began to experiment' with 

 it over three years ago, several 

 parties have tried to rob us of the 

 invention ; and now that we are 

 able to defend our claims we propose 

 to do so, not that we intend to 

 manufacture them, but simpl}' that 

 the beekeeping public ma}'^ under- 

 stand who invented the first practi- 

 cal and perfect stimulative feeder. 

 We have disposed of the invention 

 and do not intend to manufacture 

 or sell them, but would call the 

 attention of our readers to the fact 

 that they have proven a success. 



The August number of the Bee 

 and Poultry Magazine chronicles 

 the death of the Beekeepers' Ex- 

 change. It seems a pity that a 

 journal established under such fa- 

 vorable circumstances and support- 

 ed by such prominent apiarists 

 should fail to succeed ; but a 

 combination of circumstances which 

 would crush any enterprise decided 

 its ftite. 



Having been in the employ of 

 Mr. Ncllis for about two and one- 

 half j-ears, we became quite inter- 



