THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



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— We had some experience with 

 two pound sections this year that 

 shows the advantage of tilling the 

 boxes full of foundation. 



We put on some sections wliich 

 were but half full, and got the most 

 tantalizing lot of drone-brood in 

 the bottom of the sections. A 

 queen-excluding honey board would 

 have prevented all this, but filling 

 the boxes full of foundation would 

 have been better. 



Care should be taken to take off 

 the clover honey from the hive be- 

 fore the darker buckwheat begins 

 to yield. A box of fine white 

 clover honey may be spoiled to sell 

 as first-class by a few cells of dark 

 honey put in around the edges, or 

 through the centre. 



— There may be such a thing as 

 bringing out the bees too strong in 

 the spring. A friend of ours win- 

 tered his bees in a veiy warm place 

 out of doors, having packed them 

 very warm with dry leaves. They 

 came out very strong, and swarmed 

 before fruit-blossoms fairly opened 

 and they have kept up swarming 

 all summer, but have made hardly 

 any honey. Our bees were not as 

 strong so early as his, but got 

 ready as soon as there was honey 

 to gather, and have brought in a 

 fine lot of honey, casting but few 

 swarms. 



— We have Italian bees that are 

 gathering honey from red clover, 

 (second crop)while no other race 

 we have in our apiary is doing 

 anything. 



— Don't fail to read our adver- 

 tisement, on another page, of the 

 Bay Statk Reversible Bee-hive, 

 and the inducements offered those 

 who desire to manufacture the 

 Drone and Queen-trap. 



— In order to meet the large call 

 by dealers and others for terms for 

 manufacturing the drone and queen 



trap, we have had some brass- 

 stamps made to be attached to 

 each trap. Those who purchase 

 the stamps and attach them to the 

 traps can manufacture and sell all 

 the traps they desire in any part 

 of the United States. 



The call for the trap the past 

 year has been immense, and an- 

 other year it will be much larger. 

 All who can manufacture them 

 should do so, as the beekeeper will 

 be most likely to purchase them at 

 the nearest place they can be ob- 

 tained. 



We will establish a sort of direc- 

 tory giving the names and address 

 of all of whom the traps can be 

 obtained. Those who manufacture 

 them and have not the facilities for 

 making the tubes can obtain them 

 of us, by mail. 



See prices on another page. 



— The regidar number of readino- 

 columns in the "Apieulturist " is 

 forty-eight. The other pages are 

 for advertisements. To accommo- 

 date advertisers and to make room 

 for correspondents, other pages 

 will be added as occasion requires. 



RENEWALS. 



Remember that all who renew 

 their subscription, and all new sub- 

 scribers can get a select Italian 

 queen by return mail, by sending 

 fifty cents in addition to the one 

 dollar for a year's subscription to 

 the Apiculturist. 



THE HONEY CROP OF 1886. 



[The following reports were 

 crowded out the August number.] 



Bradford, Iowa. 

 Counting for the past twelve 

 years the honey crop in my locality 

 is hardly up to the average ; but 

 for the last five years it is some- 

 what above the average. As to 



