SUPPLEMENT 



TO THE 



AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



Wenham, Mass., Mat, 1890. 



ALLEY'S 



SELF-HIVER. 



Notice. 



Will each of our subscribers kindly send us on 

 a postal card the address of a few intelligent, re- 

 liable beekeei)ers. A coiiy of the " Api " will be 

 mailed to each one. Tlic iiames of the " know-it- 

 all '' beekeepers are not wanted. 



CATCHES AND HIVES EVEEY 

 SWARM THAT ISSUES. 



PRICES OF THE 8ELF-H1VER- 

 In the flat, by express, per half 

 dozen, $2.50 ; per dozen, $4.00 ; in 

 lots of 50, $15 ; in lots of 100 or more, 

 $25. The metal in the Swarmer to 

 stop the queen has three more rows of 

 perforations than is used in the drone- 

 trap. This, of course, gives nearly 

 double the room for the bees to pass 

 out and in that the drone-trap does. 

 The Swarmer is adapted to anj^ hive. 



What Dr. G. L. Tinker says of the trap. 

 Friend Alley :3 



Your drone-andqueen trpp 1 and hundreds of 

 our best bee men now regard as an invaluable in- 

 vention. 



The swarmer a good thing. 



Le Clair, loica. 

 Mu. Henry Alley*:— If the swainier vrorks 

 all right it will be a great thing for beekeepers, 

 especially those who have out-apiarits. 



Marion Miller. 



Likes the trap very much. 



Cazenovia, N. Y. 

 Mr. Alley : I have tifty of your drone and- 

 queen traps in use and like them very much. 

 Herewith find amount for individual right to 

 manufacture them for my own use. 



W. W. Heath. 



A good Carniolan queen. 



Martinsville, O., March 4, 1890. 

 Mr. Henry Alley:— 



Dear Sir: Please change the address on my 

 paper from Wilmington, O., to Martinsville, O. 

 Am well pleased with the Api, and could not do 

 without it. The Carniolan queen I got of you last 

 September has three frames of brood in a five- 

 frame stand at present. Hei- workers are beau- 

 ties. Yours truly, 



J. E. Thrushek. 



The drone-trap and swarmer, 



Flint, Mich. 

 H. Alley:— 



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 my opin- 

 ion, going to be a good thing. 



M. S. West. 



