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frames, and then turn the mixture over 

 the bees, frames, combs and all. This 

 will compel the bees to get a taste of the 

 medicine, and will end the trouble. 



THE QUEKN-TRAP — USING FOUNDATION IN 

 THE BAY STATE HIVE — THE SELK-HIVEK. 



Clarence, Iowa. 

 Mr. Alley: Please answer the follow- 

 ing que.stioiis in llie Api . 



1. Wlien your queen-trap is on a hive 

 and a swarm issues in your absence what 

 do you do? 



2. Do you use foundation in tlie brood- 

 frames of your Bay State bee hive. 



3. Will yimr B. iS. Hive winter bees as 

 well as a cellar in northern Iowa? 



4. Wlien your self-hiver is used how 

 many days after the lirst swarm issues 

 Can it be removed ? 



ScoTT McNeil. 



1. We usually let the queen return to 

 the hive and if a swarm issues the next 

 day as they usually do (and if we are at 

 home) the hive is opened while the bees 

 are in the air and all the queen-cells re- 

 moved or destroyed, the bees are then 

 allowed to return. No more swarms 

 will issue from that hive for four days 

 at least, providing all the queen-cells 

 were removed. 



2. Certainly we use foundation in our 

 Bay State Hive. We also have as good 

 a method of fastening it in the frames 

 as can be devised. 



It requires no melted wax or founda- 

 tion machines to do the work. 



3. Yes, the B. S. hive will winter bees 

 better than any cellar or cave used for 

 that purpose. 



4. It IS not safe to remove the self- 

 hiver, nor the queen-trap in less than 

 twelve days after the first swarm issues. 

 Both should be removed then, to give 

 the young queen a chance for a flight 

 to mate and become fertile. 



A CONUNDRUM. 



Big Creek, Ga. 



Mi{. Alley: Can you answer this ques- 

 tion? A beekeeper was passing my api- 

 ary the other day, and 1 was telling hiui 

 that I intended to send north for some 

 Italian queens. He said "Never; always 

 send souili for queens." Please give me 

 the philosophy of it as he did not. 



Wm. Gloue. 



That fellow is one of the know-it-all 



kind. We will wager two to one that 

 tiiat fellow never saw a bee-paper, and 

 that he does not even know there is a 

 publication of the kind in existence. 

 Call him a crank, Bro. G. and let it go 

 at that. 



APIGULTURIST MAIL BOX. 



ENJOYS THE API. 



CochituatP, Oct. 21. 

 Mr. Alley: I notice m the Api to those 

 who lenew liieir subscription at once you 

 will send the joiinial, Thirty years among 

 the liees, and the Directory for $1.25; en- 

 closid {)lt-ase tiiid that amount. I enjoy 

 reading the Api very much; there is al- 

 ways so much in it that seems to be just 

 wnat 1 am looking for. 



Mrs. W. H. Bent. 



what one colony did. 



Gaylordsville, Conn. 



Mr. Alley: Inclosed tiiul seveiity-flve 

 cents for one of your queens from that 

 one-liundred dollar mollier we liave heard 

 so much about. If tliey are better than 

 one I raised from the queen I had of you 

 two years ago, I must have one. 



The above mentionetl queen is one year 

 old. Her colony did not svvaim, but iiave 

 tilled nearly one hundred and twenty one- 

 pound sections and are still Hlling. They 

 are large, finely markeil, and very gentle, 

 and when not worliing, are very quiet. 



'iHOMAS D. FlYNN. 

 THE BKST QUEEN HE EVER HAD. 



Spriiigville, N. Y. 

 Editor Api : I have a queen I got of you 

 two years ago that I consitler the best 

 queen I ever liad. 



L. P. Brown. 



BETTER THAN HE EXPECTED. 



Btirket, Ind. 

 H. Alley : Queen received all right. 

 She is a daisy ; larger and nicer than 1 ex- 

 pected to get. 



G. W. Snydk.k. 



TWO SWAUMS CAUGHT. 



Shirley, Mass. 

 Friend Alley: I hived two swarms 

 with your Self-hiver. 



F. E. Merriman. 



^ HIVED THREE SWARMS. 



Eevere, 31ass. 

 Henry Allky : I hived three swarms 

 this season with your automatic Swaim- 

 hiver. I am away from home all day and 

 found the swarms self-hived when I re- 

 turned at night. Frank H. Prescott. 



