1,2 THE beekeepers' DIRECTORY. 



How to preserve a queen several days after she is received by mail. 

 Many of those who purchase queens do not seem to know 

 how to keep them until they can be introduced. If the queen 

 is received in good condition the cage may be placed over a 

 colony (one having no queen is best) in this way : Make an 

 inch hole in the honey-board or arrange it in any way so that 

 the part of the cage having the queen in can be so placed 

 that the bees in the colony can get at it and feed her through 

 the meshes of the wire cloth. Not only will the bees feed the 

 queen, but she will remain perfectly quiet all the time while 

 thus confined. Place the cage on a queenless colony if one 

 is in the apiary. 



Bee Periodicals published in America. 



There are no less than nine publications in America devot- 

 ed partly or wholly to apiculture. TWo are published in Can- 

 ada and seven in the United States. 



Of those published in Canada, D. A. Jones & Co. issue the 



^^ Canadian See Journal." This is a weekly and its corps 



of writers are able and well known in the apieultural world. 



The other Canadian publication, " The Canadian Honey 

 Producer" is a monthly and is edited by E. F. Holterman of 

 Brantford. Mr. Holterman was formerly one of the best cor- 

 respondents the ApicuUurist had. The *'■ Canadian Honey 

 Producer" is ably edited and should meet with success. 



In the United States we have The Beekeepers' Advance, ed- 

 ited and published monthly by J. B. Mason of Mechanics 

 Falls, Maine. ''The Bee-Hive," by E. H. Cook of Andover, 

 Conn, is also a monthly. Then we have the " Queen Breed- 

 ers' Journal" by E. L. Pratt of Marlboro, Mass. This is a 

 new publication and comes monthly. It is the smartest of 

 the new papers devoted to bee culture. 



"TAe Beekeepers' Review" is in its second year and is pub- 

 lished monthly. Its editor is W. Z. Hutchinson, of Flint, 

 Mich. Brother H. knows how to keep bees and how to edit 

 a paper. Should say the enterprise is in a condition to suc- 

 ceed. 



