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swarms, as I am over sixty. I have had 

 as many as ten swarms in tlie air at once ; 

 without the traps I could have done noth- 

 ing ; with them I got every swarm in good 

 shape. I would say to all beekeepers 

 who have not the trap in use, tru litem once 

 and you Avill never be without them 

 Cazenovia, N. Y. W. W. Heath. 



On March 31 bees were carrying 

 natural pollen in the Bay State apiary. 

 They had been «'orking in flour since 

 March 14. 



Several subscribers have requested 

 that our price-list be again inserted in 

 the Api. This we cannot do for the 

 reason that it would fill about eleven 

 pages. However, that part of our cat- 

 alogue relating to prices of queens will 

 be found in each issue for a few months 

 during the queen- rearing season. 



Where is the White Mountain Apia- 

 rist with its 1600 subscribers? A paper 

 with that large number of readers ought 

 to get around oftener than once in six 

 weeks. 



Now that the Api has presented suf- 

 ficient evidence to convince all fair- 

 minded people that there are and always 

 have been yellow or golden bees in Car- 

 niola, and that I have not mixed Italians 

 and dark Carniolans in order to produce 

 yellow-banded bees, it will not be nec- 

 essary for any one to further discuss this 

 subject with a view to make people be- 

 lieve that I am a swindler. Such parties 

 can now devote their time in a direction 

 that might prove more profitable to 

 themselves, if not to other people. 



Those friends who so gallantly came 

 to the aid of the Api and treated the 

 question with such fairness, have reason 

 to be proud to know that their opin- 

 ions have been so well sustained by the 

 facts found on another page of this issue. 



[From Am. Bee Jonrnal, April 7.] 



The editor's health has l)sen so much 

 impaired by three annual attacks of La 

 Grippe that if some radical improvement 

 is not made very soon, a collapse is im- 

 minent. His physician prescribes "a com- 

 plete rest and change of air." Accord- 

 ingly he will leave the city next week for 

 a month's rest. The drudgery of desk 

 work has brought on neuralgia and brain 

 troubles. A vigorous constitution, and 

 strong will-power have contributed in no 

 small degree to his hohling out so long 

 auainst theinsiduons Avorking of that dire 

 disease, and its results. 



Meanwhile the eilitorial Avork on the Bee 

 Journal will devolve upon the Editor's as- 

 sistant, Mr. George W. York, Avho has 

 been connected Avitli the office for several 

 years, and is thoroughly conversant Avith 

 the dnties of that department. 



The plans of those beekeepers who 

 expected to rear large bees by cross mat- 

 ing the smaller races with the Apis 

 dorsata, are upset, as it is understood 

 that the queens of this "coming bee" 

 mate with their drones in the evening. 

 Probably they select fine moonlight 

 nights for the wedding tour. Beekeep- 

 ers will believe that mating story perhaps 

 when they know more about the Apis 

 dorsaia. 



How very good the ereat nation of 

 the United States is to its own people ; 

 for instance, to those citizens who rear 

 queen bees. This great government 

 will let us mail queens to any country 

 except to the places we desire to ship 

 them. Most any sort of mercliandise 

 can be sent by mail to us, but Ave can- 

 not mail even a drone- trap to England. 



It is amusing to read what some peo- 

 ple predict of the weather, honey pros- 

 pects, etc. Sam Wilson, of Crosby, 

 Tenn., predicts, or rather makes a "fore- 

 cast" of what the honey crop is likely to 

 be in Iowa the coming season. "It will 

 be good in some places and not so good 

 in others." ^^^'ell, the Api makes the 

 same predictions for each year and for 

 just 1000 years in advance. 



The only thing that will interfere with 

 the verification of this prediction is the 



