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THE AMEBIC AN APICULTURTST. 



AMERICAN APICULTURIST 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 

 Henry Alley, WenlTLam, IVItiss. 



Established in 1883. 



Subscription Price, 75cts. Per Year. 



Entered at the P. O. Wenhain, Mass , as second class 

 mail matter. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



DECKNCY OUTRAGED. 



"When an editor, especially one who styles 

 himself an English gentleman, publishes a 

 private letter in order to berate and falsify 

 the statements of a brother editor, decency 

 is outraged. This is what T. W. Cowan, P. 

 G. S., F. L. S., F. K. S., etc , editor of the 

 British Bee Jciirnal is guilty of. 



The American Apiculturist is now 

 ten years old. There are a good many 

 names on its subscription list that were 

 there ten years ago. 



The Api will be of more than usual 

 interest the coming year, as it has in 

 store much new, valuable and interest- 

 ing matter. 



In order to place the doings of he 

 Albany Convention before its readers 

 with as little delay as possible, the Api 

 is mailed several days ahead of its usual 

 time. 



WHAT NEXT? 



Now that the Albany Convention is 

 over, what next? Well, there are now 

 enough new topics to discuss during the 

 balance of the winter months. By the 

 way, how do you like Brother Pratt's re- 

 port of what was said and done at the 

 convention? Bro. Pratt is a newspaper 

 man, and has had a good deal of repor- 

 torial experience. 'Tisthe first tinrje for 

 many years that the Api had a special 

 correspondent on the spot. Some eight 

 or nine years ago, Mr. S. M. Locke, then 

 editor of the Api attended a convention 

 held in Syracuse, N. Y., and made his 

 own report. 



MAILING QUEENS IX AIR-TIGHT CAGES. 



The last two queens shipped from the 

 Bay State apiary were mailed to a bee- 

 keeper in California, sometime during 

 the last week in October. The cages 

 used previous to that time had saw kerfs 

 in them for ventilation, but by mistake 

 those used for the two queens had no 

 ventilating arrangement, rind when the 

 queens were packed the wire netting was 

 placed face to face. , In order to pack 

 securely, the cages were placed in a vice 

 and pressed together as hard as possible, 

 without injury to the wood. In fact, 

 the cages were as near air-tight as it was 

 poisible to make them. A report, 

 "queens received, but both dea-i" was 

 expected, but up to date no word has 

 come from the recipient, and it is natur- 

 al to conclude that the queens were all 

 O K wiien received. The writer has 

 always claimed that no water and but 

 little air was necessary for safe delivery 

 of queens by mail. 



THOSE WHO ADVERFISE IN API. 



Look over the advertising pages of 

 the Api and you will find that nearly all 

 the ads. are new. Not new advertisers, 

 but new ads. from old ailvertisers. It 

 is not necessary to say that all whose 

 ads. appear in the Api are "reliable." 

 These parties have been so long in bus- 

 iness that no one qiestions their hon- 

 esty or ability to fill orders. 



THE APICULTURIST ENDORSED. 



Nearly all those who renew their sub- 

 scriptions to the Api are free in their 

 expressions as to the stand this paper 

 has taken in its defence of those parties 

 who have imported and developed new 

 races of bees. 



One of the new subscribers, and one 

 who had been a subscriber several years 

 ago, but lost the last tiiree years, writes 



thus : ''Your criticisms of were 



just and proper and you served them 

 right. Stand up for your rights, and 

 pay them in red-hot shot." 



