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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



The office is located about fifty feet 

 from the main factory and is a model of 

 neatness and convenience. It embraces 

 a main office, mailing room, store room 

 and private office. Five clerks are kept 

 busy here and three typewriters are in 

 operation continually. 



Th^ factory and other buildings are 

 equipped with all modern improvements, 

 including an electric light plant run- 

 ning 150 lamps, an electric watchmans' 

 clock, an automatic time clock by which 

 each employee registers his own time 

 and automatic sprinkler system to guard 

 against fire, with city water-works pres- 

 sure and a 10,000 gallon tank of water 

 on the roof of the main building as a 

 secondary supply. There are also stand 

 pipes with several hundred feet of fire 

 hose on each floor. 



The goods made by the W. T. Fal- 

 coner Man'f'g Co. need no recommend- 

 ation. They are as good as can be 

 made, and the firm has built up an en- 

 viable reputation for honest and satis- 

 factory dealing;. 



The proprietors of the firm are W. 

 T. Falconer and E. E. Merrill, both 

 comparatively young men but with old 

 heads, and have had long experience in 

 the manufacturing business. They are 

 full of energy and determination ; men 

 to whom the word "fail" is unknown. 

 Careful and conscientious, they have 

 fairly won the laurels of success that they 

 enjoy. 



QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. 



MAKING FOUNDATION. 



Mr. Allky : Will you please state in the 

 Api the best lubricator to use while mak- 

 ing foundation to keep the sheets from 

 sticking to the rolls. P. L. Smith. 



I never have had much experience in 

 making foundation. I think hard soap 

 is used by most manufacturers of foun- 

 dation forthe purposes mentioned above 

 A thin flour paste has also been used, 

 I do not know that either works as well 

 as it should or as desired. 



the}' have been in the hive all winter. My 

 colonies are in good condition and the 

 drones look like j'oung ones. 



2. When is the best time to transfer 

 bees? 



3. How do you keep worms out of your 

 hives? We are troubled a good deal with 

 them. 



Joseph P. Sicwell, Cannnings, Iowa. 



1. Should say, as the winter has been 

 an open one in Iowa the drones were 

 reared this spring. Drones will not live 

 through the winter, as the average life of 

 a drone is only about sixty days. 



2. Best time to transfer colonies is 

 just before, or about the time the bees 

 commence to gather honey. 



3. I know of but one way to keep 

 worms out of the hive, and that is have 

 your colonies strong. Worms do not 

 destroy the combs till the bees are so re- 

 duced in numbers that they cannot long- 

 er protect them. 



CAHNIOI.AN I5KKS. 



Mu. Alley: I am ii beiiinner andof very 

 little experience and would lii<e to have 

 your opinion in regard to tlie Carniohin 

 bees. Are they l)elter work(;rs than Ital- 

 ians? I find, them to be very good work- 

 ers; but, as I am informed by Mr, Duval, 

 they are great swarniers, I fear to invest 

 in tiiem. Mr. Duval saiil he gave the Car- 

 niohin bees a fair trial; they would do 

 iioLJdng but swarm, swarm, swarm. "Will 

 you please tell me more about them? I 

 examined all my colonies, they are in 

 good condition; but one thing surprised 

 me — I found two eggs in one cell of about 

 ten cells ina colony having a large', pro- 

 lific Carniolan queen. What will become 

 of the egiis? Will they l)oth hatch? 



GicoRGE Gkiib, 3It. Wiiians, Md. 



Mr. Duval's statement of the Garni - 

 olans is correct. That has been the ex- 

 perience of all, or nearly all, who have 

 tested these bees. 



The queen laying two eggs in one cell 

 is all right. Very prolific queens often 

 do as your queen has done. Unless both 

 eggs were deposited at the same tirne 

 (which is not probable) one will hatch, 

 and the other is removed. Both would 

 hatch if one was not removed by the 

 workers. 



DRONES IN WINTER. 



Mr. Alley: I notice drones going out 

 and in my hives. I want to know whether 



DIVIDING BKES. 



Mr. Henry Alley: The two queens 

 came in good shape last fall, but the bees 



