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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



dress. Like Mr. Newman we are in- 

 lending to increase our subscription 

 list 5000 or more inside of the next 

 year. We can easily do it, provided 

 each reader will send us one new 

 subscriber. Are not the inducements 

 offered sufficient to " enthuse " every 

 reader to make an effort to send us 

 one new subscriber? 



If any subscriber is in want of 

 another publication we will obtain it 

 for him at a reduced price, say at 

 20 per cent discount. 



Discount on Prices of Sup- 

 plies.— We are prepared to lill ordeis 

 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, 1887. 



Discount as follows: one dozen 

 Drone and Queen-traps, one made up 

 (thirteen in all) $2.75 ; regular price, 

 $3.50. Sample, latest improved, Ijy 

 mail, 50 cents: regular price, G5 ; or 

 Trap and Apiculturist, one year, $1.35. 



Queen-nursery, 18 cages, which Mr. 

 Doolittie says is the 1-est he has seen, 

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



We intend to sell goods very cheap 

 from now untiljan. 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. 



We desire to retain on our list the 

 name of every subscriber and as an 

 inducement for all to renew and to new 

 subscribers a discount oCfrom twenty- 

 flve to fllty per cent will be made on 

 anyone article found-in our list of sup- 

 plies. Our price list of apiarian sup- 

 plies will be found on the last pages of 

 any number of the " Api." 



To Correspondents-: — We receive 

 much interesting correspondence that 

 certainly would be inserted in the 

 Apiculturist, but it is so mixed up 

 with business matters, and written 

 on both sides of the sheet, that we 

 cannot use it ; we have not time to 

 copy it all. Please write on one side 

 of the paper only and not mix matters 

 so confusingly. Send us any items 

 of interest; they are always welcome. 



HIVES IN THE FLAT. 



No one should purchase one of 

 our new hives in the flat, thinking 

 he can " put it up" without a model 

 to work by. The Bay State Revers- 

 ible Hive is far from being a com- 

 plicated one in construction, yet it 

 is unlike any other in use. 



The condition of the honey mar- 

 ket is about the same as in October, 

 therefore market reports are omitted 

 this month. 



WASHING HIVES INSIDE WITH 

 WHISKEY. 



Westfield, Vt. 

 Mr. Editor : Last season I had 

 two swarms go off to the woods af- 

 ter being hived. Some old people 

 told me to wash my hives with water 

 mixed with whiskey. I did so and 

 lost no more bees. Perhaps I would 

 not have lost them anyway had no 

 whiskey been used. Is this an old 

 idea ? 



S. B. H. 



Ans. We cannot say how old tlie 

 idea is, but it must be quite ancient, 

 and a most foohsh one, too. In 

 washing the hives with whiskey and 

 water they were cleansed of the cob- 

 webs or other foreign matter, and 

 thus made habitable for the bees. 

 The old box-hive apiarist washes his 

 new hives with molasses and water, 

 but the beekeeper of the present day 

 uses nothing of the kind to cleanse 

 his hives, to prevent the bees from 

 deserting them. Tell your old bee- 

 keeping friends to read the bee pub- 

 lications of the present day, and they 

 may give up such old ideas. 



to PREVENT TWO SWARMS FROM 

 UNITING. 



When several new swarms issue 

 at about the same time they may be 

 prevented from uniting provided one 



