THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



141 



— Since the last issue of the Api, the 

 Bay State apiary has been visited by a 

 large numb.^r of apiarists. All were well 

 pleased with what they saw. The Fu- 

 nics were shown, yet not one of those 

 vindictive litde black cusses offered to 

 sting any one. All who see the Funics 

 here get a good impression of them. 



No one was allowed to depart with- 

 out examining the Perfection Self-hiver ; 

 they were admired by all ; "we will try 

 them next season" was the promise of 

 everyone. 



— I have seven full colonies of Punic 

 bees in my apiary and have occasion 

 to pass the hives as many as fifty times 

 on some days. I never have known a Pu- 

 nic bee to fly around my head or offer 

 to sting me on such occasions. My 

 Punic l)ees never fly or "buzz" around 

 those who visit my apiary. 



If Mr. Root, Mr. Langstroth or any 

 person in the world will vibit my apiary, 

 and is stung by a Funic bee, or dis- 

 covers a Punic bee buzzing around his 

 head, I will promise to destroy every 

 colony I have in the yard. The Funics 

 never volunteer an attack. 



— Say, you fellow reading this, why don't 

 you ask your beekeeping friends to sub- 

 scribe for the Api? Just tell them that in 

 the near future one whole number of 

 the Api will be devoted to queen rearing 

 on a new and improved system which is 

 original with us and unknown to any one 

 else. The entire thing will be so illus- 

 trated that all can understand and at 

 once put it in practice. Why ! that one 

 copy of the Api alone will be worth 5io 

 to any beekeeper. Rearing queens by 

 this new plan will be like husking corn, 

 — anyone can do it. 



— I want to tell the readers of the Api 

 about making paste. 



In all first class pul)lishing offices like 

 the Api for instance, a good deal of flour 

 paste has to be used. In hot weather, 

 it must be made fresii about every day 

 or it will sour, the flies get in and soon 

 it is full of vermin and throws off a hor- 

 rid smell. Now all this annoyance is 



easily prevented. When the flour and 

 water is mixed for the paste, just add a 

 teaspoonful of alum to each quart. It 

 will keep good and sweet for a long time 

 and not a fly will touch it. 



— Our foreign beekeeping friends take 

 more interest in bee iiiatters than we 

 Americans. At a convention of bee- 

 keepers recently held in New South 

 Wales, there were upwards of one hun- 

 dred beekeepers present. It is hoped 

 they do not carry their petty jealousies 

 to such places and discuss persons and 

 things personal as is done in some of the 

 conventions held in America. Go to 

 the convention and tell those present 

 what you have discovered that is of ad- 

 vantage to beekeepers generally. Don't 

 say "I ordered a queen of a certain 

 dealer and never got it ; or, he sent me 

 a hybrid, a small or an impure queen." 

 Tliose who do not attend conventions 

 are as honest, fair dealing and as hon- 

 orable as many of those who do attend. 



— Witliin a year the Api has had tv/o 

 advertisements to which we wisli to caU 

 particular attention. One of the adver- 

 tisements in mind Tan through a whole 

 year, and the person agreed to pay the 

 price as per contract when the time ex- 

 pired. Up to date he refuses to pay. 

 The advertisement was for a feeder and 

 smoker. The smoker is a very good 

 one, but much better ones in all respects 

 can be purchased for less money, and 

 from those who pay for their advertising. 

 The feeder isa f:iilure, and wortliless ; in 

 fact, it is so constructed that the syrup 

 leaks out and sets the bees robbing. 

 — VVe here take occasion to say that no 

 more "Electric Belts" will be advertised 

 in the Api. The contract for that ad- 

 vertisement was for a year. We cannot 

 advertise for nothing. 'Tis not advisa- 

 ble to send money to above parties. 



SAVES WORK. 



Mr. Allky :— Enclosed findcasli for one 

 ItaliiUi queen.- I have your drone-lrap and 

 it saves me lots of work. 



W. S. Sevipson. 



Fairfield, Maine. 



