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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



A fellow must look over the illustration 

 of Prof. Cook's museum on page 12, a 

 long time before he can take it all in. 

 Rambler's comic ilUustrations knocks 

 Puck clean out. 



In the Clielsea (Mass.) Police Court, 

 David Hollaiul-rei- of Soutii Boston, for 

 selling honey adulterated with glucose, 

 was lined §50. 



That's how a swindler is punished in 

 Massachusetts when detected in cheat- 

 ing the public. How would it do for 

 beekeepers in each state to petition their 

 respective legislatures to enact such a 

 law regarding the sale of adulterated 

 honey as Massachusetts has? 



G. W. Demaree expresses the same 

 opinion as the Api often has, that the 

 principal cause of queens being unpro- 

 lific is owing to the rough handling in 

 the mails. Yes, it is true that some 

 queen dealers do not exercise as much 

 care in selecting the most promising 

 queens and having only such fertilized. 

 Poultry fanciers and in fact all breeders 

 of horses, cattle, or of any animals, know 

 that there is a great difference in the 

 quality of the undeveloped young ani- 

 mals. 



"Danjjerous advice" is what the C. B. J. 

 terms the advice of the D. B. J. to di>in- 

 fect the combs of foul-broody stocks with 

 the fumes of burninj!: sulphur, said combs 

 to be then used as safe. — Dr. Miller.'] 



Yes, it is dangerous to meddle with 

 foul broody combs in any way. De- 

 stroy them as quickly as possible. Don't 

 waste time in trying to cure a colony 

 that has foul brood, or any other incur- 

 able disease. 



La grippe seems to hold its grip on 

 Thomas G. Newman, editor of the Amer- 

 ican Bee Journal. The Api extends 

 sympathy, yet it cannot do so from any 

 experience with la grippe. The only 

 thing that ever made an attempt to get 

 a grip on the proprietor of the Api was 



tried the last year. Quigley, Robinson 

 & Co. intended to get a solid foothold 

 here. The editor of the Api happened 

 to be in such fine condition that the 

 scourge was easily and quickly repulsed. 

 Another visitation of the golden-yellow 

 fever is looked for on the return of warm 

 weather. The disease will frighten no 

 one, as it is so easily managed and put 

 to flight. 



Tlie editor of the Review, says a west- 

 ern bee-paper, was the first to "show up" 

 the yellow Carniolans. This is another 

 one of Bro. Hutchinson's mistakes. 



The Apiculturisi' was the first l)ee- 

 paper to "show up" the Carniolans. 

 The Api will continue t»-show them up 

 by publishing testimonials from those 

 who purchased them. Did Brother H. 

 read the testimonial from Mrs. L. C. 

 Axtell in a recent issue of the Api? 

 Now Bro. H., if you really desire to be 

 fair, just insert in your paper what Mrs. 

 Axtell says of the yellow Carniolans. Try 

 and be fair in your opinions and criti- 

 cisms. "Don't forget your remarks on 

 "berating" people you recently applied 

 to the editor of this paper. 



The A. B. J. has no less distiniiuislied a \ 



correspondent than I'iios. \Vm. Cowan, of I 



the B. B. -T. The occasion was an article ^ 



in favoi- of Funics, anil Mr. Cowan rather -I 

 more than hints that there are no such 



bees.— Z>/-. MilUr.] • 



Which side of this question will T 

 W. Cowan land on? First he states to 

 the readers of the B. B.J. that there 



are such bees as Funics, '"as several \ 



beekeepers are trying them," and later \ 



on says he kiiows nothing about them. j 



Now the Api is informed that this dis- \ 

 tinguished correspondent of the ^. ^.y, 



proposes to visit Tunis to satisfy himself ! 

 that tliere is or is not such a race of 



bees as Funics. j 



Brother Cowan seems to go to con- i 



siderable trouble to demonstrate the 1 



truth or falsity of a question he long ago '■ 

 settled — /// his ouni mind. 



