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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



I shall also want some of jowv queen 

 and drone traps. I tried a sample 

 trap last season and it worked to per- 

 fection. I cannot be watching my bees 

 at swarming- time and without your 

 trap I am running the risk of losing 

 my swarms. I lost a nice swarm of 

 Carniolans two seasons ago by not 

 being present when they swarmed and 

 came very near losing a strong swarm 

 of Italians last summer. I was two 

 miles from home at work when they 

 s^varmed. When I got home they had 

 taken the second flight and ckistered 

 in the top of a tall tree; there was no 

 ladder to be had that was near long 

 enough to reach the bees, so I had to 

 scale the trees and with the aid of a 

 second party I cut the limb and let 

 it down with a rope. Such a job I 

 mean to i^revent in the future. Your 

 trap will be a valuable device for me. 

 I feel grateful to the Messrs. Bar- 

 ker Brothers of Hornerstown, N. J., 

 who recommended the An to me. I 

 should have been left in the dark 

 in a great many matters pertaining 

 to bee culture without the Api. 



Joseph EiBEL. 



That's it. The trap saves bees, time and labor. 

 and in a good many cases no donbt prevent a 

 bi'oiien neck. 



Those who do not read a flrst-chiss bee-paper 

 will get left. Subscribe for all the leading bee- 

 journals and keep up with the advancement in 

 apiculture.— Eu.] 



Absconding swarms— how prevented. 

 Last season was the most remarkable for swarm- 

 ing ever known here. Bees absconded to the 

 •woods in great numbers. A great many trees 

 were lound and cut. Some were found in logs 

 and liollow roots. I liave tliree swarms taken 

 from as many trees, all at one time.— S. J. Young- 

 man in Avi. Bee Journal. 



Such things are prevented wliere 

 the drone-and-queen trap, or our au- 

 tomatic Svvarm-hiver is used. The 

 S warmer not only prevents the loss 

 of swarms, but saves tlie beekeeper 

 the ti'ouble of hiving the swarms and 

 also the trouble of going into a tall 

 tree for the bees. We will mail a 

 sample of Svvarm-hiver to the address 

 of any subscriber for 75 cents. You 

 all will admire the simplicity of the 

 latest and most useful apiarian labor- 

 saving device. 



A liard hit at some paper. 

 Georgeville, Pa., Feb. 21, 1890. 

 Mr. Alley: I received your Journal 

 and think it the best I received among 

 five others ; there is so much informa- 

 tion about bees and not mixed with a 

 lot of other affairs like poultry, etc. 

 When 1 subscribe for a bee journal 

 I mean that; if I want a poultry 

 grower I will send for that, or a farm 

 journal. I don't expect to see in any 

 of the others how to care for and 

 manage bees: or if I do see a few 

 words about bees I have no confidence 

 in what I see in other journals as in 

 the regular bee-journal. I am just 

 commencing the bee business and 

 need all the information I can get. 

 Mrs. Hettie E. Lydic. 



Bees and hens do not seem to go well together; 

 that is, so far as i)u1)lishing a paper. Several 

 parties have tried it and have discovered their 

 mistake. I'he Canadian Bee Journal vvliich has 

 been published as a poultry and bee journal for 

 a year or two, has now been changed to a ''pure" 

 bee paper again. 



The Apr has continued fi-om the start to be a 

 paper i)ublislied in the interest of beekeepers and 

 will so continue as long as the present editor has 

 charge ofit. 



It is for the interest of every reader of tlie 

 API to send iis one or more new subscribers for 

 tlie API. Just give us a large subscription list 

 and we will give you in return double tlie amount 

 of matter we now do.— Ed.] 



The swarmer.— .Catching drones. 

 Wells Pohit, Texas. 



I have one swarm of Italians, and 

 as they are the only Italians in the 

 neighborhood, I shall want them to 

 raise drones. With your "Swarmer "' 

 on the hive, will not the drones get 

 out the same way the queen will and 

 be unable to return to the hive '? What 

 course shall I have to pursue in order 

 to get the advantage of the Italian 

 drones and at the same time not lose 

 my swarms? 



W. H. WiNGO. 



Swarms usually issue before noon and drones 

 seldom lly before 12 o'clock. In your case the 

 Swarmer can be pushed about half an inch away 

 from the entrance to give the drones a chance to 

 fly. Do this about noon and replace early the 

 next morning. 



Twelve days after the first swarm issues the 

 Swarmer should be removed I'rom the hive that 

 cast a swarm to give the young queen a ohauce 

 to fly and become fertilized.— Ed. J 



