THE AMERICAN APIGULTURIST. 



189 



A new treatise on apiculture "Practi- 

 cal and Profitable Bee Culture" will be 

 begun ill the Jan., 1893, issue of the Api. 

 This work will take more or less space in 

 the journal for some time. Every point 

 connected with practical beekeeping will 

 be touched upon. The younger begin- 

 ners in bee culture will be pleased with 

 the first few chapters, while the older 

 readers will find much all through that 

 will interest and instruct them. 



Our new way of rearing queens, men- 

 tion of which has been made in this pa- 

 per, will appear in some number of the 

 Api before it is time to commence 

 queen rearing another year. 



All queen dealers will be interested to 

 learn how queens can be reared in full 

 colonies without disturbing the bees, 

 queen, or in any way interfering with the 

 working of the colony. The method 

 will be fully illustrated so that it will be 

 easily understood. 



Renew your subscription to the Api, 

 and get some one you know is interested 

 in bees to send 75 cents with yours. 

 Each issue of this journal will be worth 

 $5 to any live beekeeper in the year 

 1893. 



The Api will begin on its eleventh year 

 next month. Now, friends, crown the 

 event with a big number ot subscriptions. 

 I tell you we will make it the banner 

 year so far as interesting and practical 

 matter goes, if you will just help swell 

 the list of subscribers. Read the induce- 

 ments to renew and to new subscribers 

 found on another page of this issue. 



To-day (Nov. 8), several colonies in 

 the Bay State Apiary are carrying in 

 pollen. At the same time the weather 

 reports say there is snow, blizzards and 

 wdiatnot for weather at the west. On 

 Nov. 17, they also carried pollen. 



Castles in the air, so far as the prof- 

 its in beekeeping are concerned, is 

 pretty well ventilated in Gleanings of 

 Nov. 1 . Br<*ther Root cites an instance 

 where a man with little or noex[)erienge 

 in beekeeping purchased 100 colonies 

 of bees and in order to sec lire 15,000 

 pounds of honey, removed hybrid 

 queens and introduced Italians. What 

 folly ! This same man advertised the 

 hybrid queens to such an extent that 

 the sale of the queens did not pay the 

 advertising bills. 



Some queen dealer, most likely one 

 of those five-bandt'd fellows, reaped a 

 rich harvest in the above deal. The 

 old story, a fool and his money, etc. 



Dr. Miller says the Automatic hiver I 

 sent him was a success. It hived the 

 bees, but somehow the swarm deserted 

 the hive, and all returned to the colony 

 they issued from. Excuse us Dr., we 

 read it the other way. 



If I remember correctly, Dr. Miller 

 said the weather was cloudy and stormy 

 for sev^eral days after the bees swarmed. 

 No wonder they returned to the parent 

 hive. I think I would go home and 

 stop with the old folks a while if I 

 could'nt get "corn and bacon" away 

 from home. Wouldn't you, Dr. ? 



Some time ago I saw in one of the 

 bee- papers a statement by a beekeeper 

 that he had attended several bee con- 

 ventions and did not hear anything said 

 in favor of Punic bees. Had that same 

 man attended the conventions held by 

 the Republican party within a few 

 months, he would not have heard much 

 said in favor of Grover Cleveland. Grov- 

 er got there just the same, and so will 

 the Punics. You can bet your money 

 on the Punics with as much assurance 

 of winning, as you did on Cleveland's 

 election. 



