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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



TEriRTY YEARS AMONG TUB BEES. 



This is a work of seventy- two pages 

 giving the author's thirty years' experi- 

 ence in rearing queens. By Henry Al- 

 ley, Wenham, Mass. Price by mail 

 50 cents. 



The methods of rearing queens as 

 given in the above work are brought 

 down to the year 1892. All prominent 

 and successful queen dealers use the 

 methods for rearing queens detailed in 

 this treatise. 



More than 5000 copies of thirty 

 YEARS have been sold to keekeepers in 

 all parts of the world and the demand 

 continues. The book not only teaches the 

 most practical methods of rearing queen 

 bees, but it contains all the information 

 any beekeeper needs concerning the 

 care of queens, queen cells, and introduc- 

 ing queens by practical methods. 



TIIK BEKKKKPERS' DIRECTORY. 



This is another book that should be 

 in the hands of every beekeeper. The 

 work contains 134 pages and, like ''thir- 

 ty YEARS AMQXG THE BEES," profusely il- 

 lustrated It gives the practical part 

 of bee culture. The subjects treated 

 are given in the index found on anoth- 

 er page of this paper. 



With these two books one has all the 

 needed information to conduct the larg- 

 est apiary and produce honey by the 

 tons, or rear queens by thousands. Ad- 

 dress Henry Alley, Wenham, Mass. 



Below is given an index of the sub- 

 jects treated : 



A. 



Advantages ofleaving sections on hives; age at 

 which queen will he superseded; artificial in- 

 crease of the apiary. 



B. 



Beehives.; best way to keep honey; brood- 

 combs, care of; brood-combs, filled with honey, 

 care of; brood in the sections. 

 C. 



Can swarming be prevented? cell-cups, how 

 started; cleansing flight in winter; clipi>ing 

 queens' wings; conditions necessary to construct 

 queen-cells; contracting entrance to promote 

 brood-rearing; contracthig the entrance; combs 

 and eggs for cell-building, how prepared; 

 crating honey; cellar wintering. 

 D. 



Destroying drones; dividing swarms, when 

 two or more (duster together; double-wall hives; 

 Dr. Tinker's hive; <lrone-and-queen ti-ap; drones, 

 how to produce late in the season. 



E. 



Easy method for the Inexpeiienced for rearing 

 queens; entrance to hive, size of. j 



F. 



Fastening foundation in frames ami sections; ; 



feeiiing; forming nucleus (!olonies; framss. how 

 many to a liive ? ] 



H. 



Hay cushions; hibernation, how secured; 

 hiving swarms; liives, tiering sections on; h)ney, 

 care of; honey house; honey sources; honey, 

 where to find a market; honey, where to keep 

 wlien taken from the hive; liow to find a queen; | 



how to know that a colony has a good queen; I 



how to mike cell Ijuilding a success; how to j 



manage an apiary; liow to prepare bees for the ; 



harvest; how to prepare food for bees; how to : 



preserve a queen several days after being received 

 by mail. ^ 



Introducing queens. j 



M. j 

 Materials re(iuired in cell-buiUling; mouldy 

 combs. 



N. \ 



Natural stores ; nuclei, forming of. ' 



P. 



Packing in winter and its disadvantages; partly i 



filled sections, care of; preparing combs and \ 



eggs for cell-building; prevention of swarming. I 



Q. i 



Queen-cells illustrated ; qneenless colonies, how ; 



recognized; qneenless colonies, how to treat 

 them; queen-rearing. 



R. 

 Rearing queens in full colonies; rearing queens ! 



in lull colonies without U'luiving the bees of their 

 queen ; re-queening aiici iIh- i-Mimg of a swarm; 

 reversing to prevent ^waiiiinig; robbing, how 

 known ; robl)ing, how to guard against. 



S. 1 



Sections; section cases; sections, when to put , 



on; sections, wiien to remove; shading hives in | 



winter; spreading brood; spring dwindling; 

 spring feeding; spring packing; standing, or 

 closed-end frames; stores necessary for winter; 

 success in wintering; sugar syrup for winter 

 stores : swarm controllei's; swarming, how pre- 

 vented. 



T. 

 Temperature of cellars for wintering; tiering 

 sections; to get bees out of sections ; too many 

 drones a burden to the apiary. ] 



V. '\ 



Ventilation in winter. i 



W. \ 



What constitutes a gi)od-beehive? when a j 



swarm issues, how to manage; when to reverse j 



sections; when to supersede queens; when to | 



unpack hives; winter ventilation for hives; 

 wintering l>ees; wintering in cellar. 



BEES BY THE POUND. 



A few orders are received each year 

 for bees by the pound. My price for 

 one pound of bees is ^1.50. Price of 

 queen to be added. 



Tlie bees will be shipped by express 

 in a wirecloth cage and provisioned for 

 a journey of ten days. Safe arrival 

 guaranteed. 



