THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST SUPPLEMENT. 



in-and-in breeding is allowed in our 

 apiary in order to produce that hand- 

 some yellow color, which some de- 

 sire. The queens we shall send out 

 will be beautifully and purely marked. 

 The purity, extra quality and safe ar- 

 rival of all queens sent out from our 

 apiary is guaranteed. Don't fail to 

 try one of these queens if you desire 

 to see perfection in bees. 



The Api for one year and one select 

 queen of above strain will be sent for 

 $1.50. 



A good thing if, it works well. 



Batavia, Jan. 11, 1890. 

 Dear Sie: — I saw in the Americcm 

 Bee Journal that you have a self- 

 hiving arrangement so that a bee- 

 keeper can go away from home and in . 

 case his bees swarm they will hive 

 themselves. I would like to get one 

 if they do not cost too much. 



I have talked wdth a good many 

 beekeepers here and they thought by 

 the looks of the illustration m the Bee 

 Journal that it would be a good thing 

 if it works well and the jDrice is not 

 too high. 



There are a good many about here 

 who keep bees and they lost a good 

 many sw^arms last season. I think 

 the S warmer will take well here. I lost 

 several swarms last summer; they 

 skipped out while I was away from 

 home. Wish you w^ould answer the 

 following questions. 



1. Can't a queen get out of the 

 same place a worker bee can? 



2. Will the swarm-hiver interfere 

 wdth the bees during the workino- sea- 

 son? . 



3. Does the swarmer prevent the 

 drones from flying ? 



1. A queen is larger than a worker bee and 

 cannot pass tlirough the perforated metal while 

 the worker bees can easily do so. 



wf;., ,T!l^. "'^'"-^ 'iocs not very much interfere 

 with the bees; in fact it seems to make no ditfei- 

 ence whether the swarmer is on or off alter the 

 first hour or so. 



3. No drones can pass the metal, as the drone 

 IS larger than either queens or worker bees —Ed J 



JVotice. 



om-T^A'Tfi'"'''**"^^" *'*'P I «"•' hundreds of 

 ventiou! " °°'^ '■*'«*''''^ *^ '^» invaluable in! 



Who will reply? 



I wish to ask a question in your Api. 



hundred pounds or less is made.' ° 



P. L. S. 



The swarmer a good thing, 

 nin^hfr^filte^-^'- Jf thei;^rer^rrks 



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Marion Miller. 



cihi,^;,, i"^ Alley: Is it too late for you to* 

 ,,.!' 'Y "'I® ?'■ ^"■'^ ™ore queens ? I am well 

 pleased with the one sent me. They are the most 

 gentle bees I ever handled. A DuNci^ 



Like the trap very much. 



oniil' ^^^^^.'- I have fifty of your drone-and- 

 wlt-pn-iH^Pfl '.° "'^ '^'"^ l*e them very much. 

 Heieuitl find amount for individual right to 

 mauuhicture them for my own use. 



W. W. Heath. 



A good Carniolan queen. 



MR. HENRT AlS!!'"'"'' ""■' ^"'•'"^ ^' '^^^' 



..o^f.t^.^^^i,,.,^'?''^*' change the address on my 

 paper Horn Wilmington. O., to Martinsville, O 



without It. The Carniolan queen I got of you last 

 Septemljer has three frames of brood in a five- 

 frame stand at present. Her workers are beauties. 

 Yours truly, 

 J. E. Thrusher. 



The drone-trap and swarmer. 

 H. alley:- Flint, Mich. 



Last spring I purchased some of your drone- 

 and-queen traps of Thomas G. Newman & Son 

 Chicago. ' 



I like them very much and they seem to take 

 well with my customers. 



The new self-hiving arrangement is, in myonin- 

 lon, going to be a good thing. ' 



M. S. West. 



Chaff packing under hives. 



„ . West Nicholson, Pa. 



Manager am. Api : 



,j ,-. ^ "™ ^ novice in beekeeping and 

 would like to see the following queries answered 

 in the API. £ l. Travis 



1. Wliat is the proi)er distance from tlie ground 

 to set hives to winter on summer stand-' Two 



2. Is chaff packing under the hives an advan- 

 tage lu winter ? No. 



