THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



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Subscriptions and Renewals.— 



Every mail brings us more ov less uevv 

 subscriptions and renewals. To all 

 such we will send one tested queen 

 for 50 cents in addition to the one dol- 

 lar for one year's subscription. If you 

 do not need a queen, we will send a 

 copy of the third edition of the Bee- 

 keepers' Handy Book by mail for 50 

 cents to any subscriber or on receipt 

 of 40 cents (.$1.40 in all) the Apicultu- 

 risi will be sent one year and a sample 

 of the improved Drone and Queen-trap. 

 We desire to retain on our list the 

 names of every subscriber and as an 

 inducement for all to renew and to 

 new subscribers a discount of from 

 twenty-tive to fifty per cent will be 

 made on any one article found in our list 

 of supplies. Our price-list of apiarian 

 supplies will be found in the last pages 

 of any number of the "Api." 



Book of the Dog.— We have re- 

 ceived from the As.-ociated Fancier's, 

 237 South Eighth Street, Philadelphia, 

 a copy of their Dog Buyers' Guide. 

 It contains a finely executed colored 

 frontispiece; well-drawn engravings 

 of nearly every breed of dog, and all 

 kinds of dog-furnishing goods. We 

 should judge that the book cost to pro- 

 duce a great deal more than the price 

 asked — 15 cents — and would advise all 

 our readers who are interested in dogs 

 to send for the book. 



and this applies much better to printed 

 matter than to anything else we know of. 



Our Orders— Every order we have 



received for queens and other supplies 

 has been tilled. If any one has ordered 

 queens or other goods .•aid have not re- 

 ceived them, they will oblige by notify- 

 ing us at once, before the supply of 

 queens gives out. We still have about 

 150 choice queens on hand, and can fill 

 a few more onlers if sent in soon. 



Discount on Prices of Sup- 

 plies.— We are prepared to HU orders 

 for any kind of goods found in our 

 price list, and a liberal discount will 

 be made to all customers who will pur- 

 chase this fall or at any time before 

 Jan. 1. 



Discount 1887 as follows : one dozen 

 Drone and Queen-traps, one made up 

 (thirteen in all) $2.75; regular price, 

 $3.50. Sample, latest improved, by 

 mail, 50 cents; regular price, G5 ; or 

 Trap and Apiculturist, one year, .$1.35. 



Queen-nursery, 18 cages, which Mr. 

 Doolittle says is the be^st he has seen, 

 by mail, .$1.25; regular price, $1.G0. 



We intend to sell goods very cheap 

 from now until Jan. 1, 1887, and a most 

 liberal discount will be made on all 

 goods except the Bay State Reversible 

 Hive; the price for that is as low as 

 we can place it. 



Questions and Answers, Letter 

 Box and Notes from the Bay State 

 Apiary are crowded out this number 

 in order to make room for all the es- 

 says on "Wintering Bees." We 

 have a large number of Questions and 

 mutter for the Letter Box all of which 

 will ri^ceive due attention in later num- 

 bers. 



The Apiculturist will be discon- 

 tinued at the expiration of the time it 

 is jKiid for, unless we are requested to 

 continue it. If any subscriber is not 

 prepared to renew at once, we will 

 send the "Api," provided you notify 

 us tliatyou desire the papercontinued. 

 Subscriptions may commence with any 

 number. 



A Correction : Mr. Doolittle says 

 our "typo" made him say one- inch wide 

 frames, when he said or meant to have 

 said two-inoh wide frames. We find 

 that the "typo" made a blunder in Mr. 

 Jones' letter to Mr. D. by transposing 

 the words in the third line thus destroy- 

 ing the sense. There is nothing perfect 



late-CtAthered honey. 



QUKSTIONS BY THE EDITOR. 



1. Sometimes during a wet fall the 

 bees gather honey that is very thin and 

 Avatery and unlit for winter stores. 

 Where this is the case, what should be 

 done ? 



2. We will suppose it is as late as 

 September 10 and the combs are full of 

 unripe honey. Now, knowing that this 

 honey will not properly ripen or be 

 capped owing to the lateness of the 

 season, would you advise removing it 

 with the extractor and immediately 

 feeding the bees with wholesome 

 sugar-syrnp or pure honey? 



3. Have you ever fed bees late in the 

 fall? What Avas the result? Do colo- 

 nies fed late, say as late as October, 

 winter well? 



4. Have you not found that uncapped 

 honey sours and rims out of the cells 

 long before the bees can fly in the 

 spring? and is not a colony pretty cer- 

 tain to be ruined under such circum- 

 stances? 



