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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



In the articles on tlie smoker question 

 that liave appeart-cl of late in the Bee-keep- 

 ers' lievi/'io, the Bingham seems to have 

 carried off the palm, says Gleanings. 



Of course the Bingliam smoker car- 

 ried off the pahn. They are the smok- 

 er. Don't waste your money by sending 

 to that m-5,n in Indiana for one of those 

 cheap and worthless cold blast smokers. 

 By the way, I wish I could get my cash 

 for running that cold blast smoker and 

 tin can feeder advertisment one whole 

 year. Be careful to whom you send 

 money. "A word to the wise," etc. 



There is a feeder being sold under the 

 name of "Hastings feeder." Don't 

 touch it. It is not half as good as a tin- 

 pan or glass jar, described in September 

 Api, and the price you would have to 

 pay for that patent feeder would pur- 

 chase a dozen tin pan or glass jars. 

 I would also like my pay for advertising 

 that Hastings feeder. 



To all new subscribers or renewals, 

 and on receipt of ^i.oo the Api will be 

 sent one year, and adrone-trap of latest 

 style, mailed to each. The Api will be 

 mailed till January i, 1894, to all those 

 who renew at once. 



To any one who will send one new 

 name for Apt, and $1.00, we will mail the 

 paper to both till January, 1894. All 

 such subscribers will be entitled to one 

 golden Carniolan or Italian queen by 

 remitting 75 cents when the queen is 

 desired. 



I want to just double the Api sub- 

 scription list and can do it if each read- 

 er will try and get one of the above 

 premiums. 



Since September came in the weather 

 has been more favorable than usual for 

 the bees. I have watched the yellow 

 Carniolans work and must say that I 

 think there are one hundred bees going 

 in and out the hive where there is one 

 five-banded bee. I only wish that some 

 strangers could have visted the Bay 

 State Apiary and witnessed this pleas- 

 ing sight. 



As stated in a recent issue of the Api, 

 our drone-and-queen trap has been 

 greatly improved, and is now so con- 

 structed that it can be used as a self- 

 hiver. All need be done to make it 

 self-hive any swarm that issues is to con- 

 struct a box as per description in a re- 

 cent issue of this paper. 



In looking over nuclei in my Car- 

 niolan yard, I found I had shipped some 

 queens that I really would like to have 

 kept. If those who have received queens 

 of this race, find they have one or more 

 queens having two very wide bands of a 

 rich orange color, will send me a sample 

 of the bees, I will pay 3 10 each for two 

 or three that I shall select. 



What do you think of the note of 

 ''warning" as given on page 158 this 

 issue? Speak out. 



Will you send one new subscriber to 

 Api, and thus secure the prize offered, 

 and at the same time aid in enlarging 

 our subscription list? What say? 



The excitement over the Hoffman 

 frame has about died out. Well, 'we" 

 went all through the same thing nearly 

 ten years ago, now have settled down 

 on the commonsense, plain Langstroth 

 frame. See the point, eh? 



Why don't our larger honey pro- 

 ducers introduce five-banded bees into 

 their apiaries ? Well, lo/iy don't they ? 



What a novel sight it would be to see 

 a crate of fine honey made by those 

 five-banded bees ! Did anyone ever see 

 anything of the kind ? Most of those 

 fellows who keep such beautiful bees 

 report bad weather and bees doing noth- 

 ing. Is this not correct? 



Those beekeepers who have the 

 homely three-banded hybrid Italians, 

 ship honey to market by tons and seldom 

 complain of poor seasons or bad luck. 

 Wake up friends, and clean out those 



