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latter were purchased of Mrs. 

 Mary E. Pray of Greenland, N. H. 

 The husband of Mrs. Pray was one 

 of the most enthusiastic beekeepers 

 in New England but by the merest 

 scratcli to his foot from a rusty nail 

 in August last, while he was re- 

 pairing his house, he lost his life 

 by lock-jaw in just nine days after 

 the wound was made. Mrs. Pray 

 could not care for the bees and so 

 we bought the lot, and moved them 

 to Wenham. 



We found among the bee fixtures 

 of Mr. Pray all sorts of modern ap- 

 pliances used in the apiary. He 

 ■was a beekeeper who kept up with 

 the times as all beekeepers do who 

 take an interest in apiculture. 



BLACK BEES IN SHIPPING CAGES. 



As we have stated in our manual 

 of queen-rearing, black bees are 

 far better for nurse bees than the 

 Italians, and so when we can find 

 such bees for sale at prices to suit 

 us, we purchase them. Nearly all 

 our nuclei are made up of black 

 bees, and when we ship queens 

 more or less dark bees will be put 

 in the cage with the queen. This 

 fact is mentioned to save some of 

 our customers from writing thus : 

 "If the bees in the cage with the 

 queen 'you sent me are some of her 

 progeny she must have met a black 

 drone." Oh dear ! how many times 

 we have had to write and explain 

 this same thing during the past 

 thirty years. 



Don't forget that we have per- 

 fect control of the drones in our 

 apiary by the use of the drone-trap. 

 No black drones ever fly during 

 the queen-rearing season about 

 here. 



SMALL QUEENS. 



Sometimes a patron for a queen 

 will write and say "the queen was 

 received in good condition but 

 looks small." Of course the queen 

 is small ; why shouldn't she be after 



being confined in a small cage for 

 nearly a week and 'having in the 

 meantime travelled nearly 2,000 

 miles in some cases? When the 

 queen has been introduced to the 

 colony a week, then your opinion 

 concerning her will be in order. 

 Wenham, 3fass. 



All who Subscribe for the Apicul- 

 TUHiST, at any liine, will receive one 

 of our combined Drone and Queen- 

 traps free by mail. This is onr method 

 of introducini;- the Apicultuuist and 

 our Drone and Qneen-traps into every 

 apiary in the United States. 



Those who receive the trap as a pre- 

 mium must not expect to get the Handy 

 Book or a queen for fifty cents, as the 

 protits are so small that only one pre- 

 mium can be given each subscriber. 



NOTICE. 



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 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. 



Our Club Rates. 



Am. Apiculturist and Am. Weekly Bee 



Journal, $1.80 



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 " " " Bee Hive (bi-monthly) 1.00 



" " " Beekeepers' Handy Book 1.50 



" " '• Cook's Manual 1.70 



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H. ALLEY. 



