THE AMERICAN APICULTUIiTST. 



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gles with that of the parent orhome hive. 



Tiie Swarmer as now made is not 

 adapted to all styles of hives in use. 

 In some cases it will be necessary to 

 make some slight changes in its con- 

 struction. For this reason we advise all 

 who wish to use the Swarmer that the 

 better plan is to buy an individual right 

 to make and use them. Then get out 

 a model of the Swarmer and send to the 

 nearest supply dealer for your goods 

 providing of course he can sui)ply tliem. 



Will say to those who purchased the 

 Swarmers sent out last year that they 

 can easily be altered to the new style. 

 Write for particulars. 



Fig. 3. 



The Self-hiver may also be utilized as 

 a queen-trap. Place box B upon box A 

 as shown in fig. 3, and you have a com- 

 plete drone-and-queen trap. 



Prices of the new Swarmer can be 

 found on another page. 



Bee- escapes have received a good 

 deal of attention of late in some of the 

 bee-papers. The Apihas taken no part 

 in the controversy as we felt sure that 

 the whole thing would have a short run. 

 Brother Dibbern devised the best escape 

 of any we saw described. I do not 

 know of so good a way to get bees out 

 of sections as by placing the cases when 

 they are removed from the hive, in a 

 room having but one window. That 

 windowis best when in a door. The bees 

 are attracted to the light, and occasion- 

 ally opening the door soon rids the 

 house of all of them. By this meth- 

 od the bees leave the section without 

 picking into the capping of any of the 

 combs. We have sometimes placed a 

 caged queen just over the window, and 

 find most of the bees clustered thereon. 



AMERICAN APICULTURIST 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 

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Established in 1883. 



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EDITORIAL NOT[':S. 



A Happy New Year to all our read- 

 ers. 



Doesn't the Apt come up bright and 

 rosy this cold January morning? 



Brother E. L. Pratt had a hand in 

 giving the Api the improved condition 

 in which it appears in this issue. 



The G. B. Lewis Co., of Watertown, 

 Wis., have devised an all wood queen- 

 excluding honey-board wliich they claim 

 is superior to others in use. 



Bee-Hive has sold out to the W. T. 

 Falconer Mfg. Co. This reminds us of 

 the sale of an Express Company that 

 did business hereabouts a few years ago. 

 They sold out. All the visible property 

 they had was an order slate that hung 

 in the Post Office, and was worth about 

 ten cents. 



By the way, where is the IVesfern 

 Apiarian? Has that been swallowed up 

 by some enterprising party? Poor thing ! 

 it struggled hard for an existence, but 

 we think it was no go as it is a long time 

 since we saw a copy of it. The paper 

 and press- work were too miserably poor 

 to make the publication attractive. Bee- 

 papers, like the seasons, come and go, 

 and no one seems to miss them. 



Brother Root says every beekeeper 

 should subscribe for the American Bee 

 Journal. That's just what we have 

 been saying for a good many years. 

 Somehow we manage to keep ahead of 

 Brother Root in most everything except 

 in rewarding cash presents to those bee- 

 keepers who invent or devise bee fix- 

 tures. We don't have the money to put 

 out in that line. 



Brother C. C. Miller who is now ed- 

 iting "Stray Straws" in Gleanings quotes 



