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s warmer lias been made a success in 

 many cases, and with a few minoi- 

 cininges in applying it to the hive will 

 work perfectly. 



The drone- and-queen trap. 



The utility and practicability of the 

 drone-and-queen trap was established 

 the Orst year (1884). We need not 

 say one word in its favor. All who use 

 them praise and speak in the highest 

 terms of this wondeiful labor-saving 

 device for the a[)iary. Supply dealers 

 from all parts of the country are or- 

 dering trai)s by the quantity for their 

 customers. Of the 100,000 now in use, 

 no beekeeper has ever found any fault 

 with them. They do all we claim 

 for them. One beekeeper says the 

 trap is a more important invention 

 than the movable comb frame. This 

 beekeeper is obliged to be away from 

 home every day but Sunday and says 

 he can leave his bees feeling that not 

 a swarm can decamp ; and if a swarm 

 has issued during the day all he has 

 to do to know it is to exnmine the tr;q) 

 when he returns home. If a queen is 

 found in any of the traps he knows 

 just what to do. 



Those who kee^) bees and are in the 

 apiary all the time will find that the 

 trap saves them the trouble of climb- 

 ing into trees for a swarm, or hunting 

 on the ground for a queen in case her 

 wing is clipped. No swarms can de- 

 camp as the queen is certain to be 

 found in the trap when a swarm issues. 



The utility of the trap is now so 

 well established that in the future we 

 propose to sell individual, township 

 and county rights for people to use 

 and inanul'acture them for sale. 



We can supply the cone tubes, the 

 only difficult thing to make about the 

 traps, at a low figure. The wood parts 

 may be obtained of the nearest dealer. 

 Express charges are high, and they 

 can be saved if one has the right to 

 make and use the traps. The cone 

 tubes can be sent by mail. I know of 

 no better way for beekeepers to do in 

 order to get the traps at the lowest 



possible cost than to club and pur- 

 (thase a townshi[) right. 



We will sell one tovvnshi[) right, 

 and send one tr;i|) b}' mail for $5.00. 

 The person who purchases territory 

 can maiuifacture and sell as many 

 trnps as lie can find demaiul for in the 

 territory deeded to him, without fur- 

 ther expense. 



A county right will proliably be the 

 best to buy for one who has the nia- 

 chiner}- to get out t.he wood parts of 

 the traps. 



We will sell the right for any 

 county for the small sum of $15 or 

 any three counties for $40. 



Just as we wrote the last line, Mi-s. 

 Alley came into the office and said 

 "The bees are swarming." 



As good fortune would have it, the 

 bees were issuing from a hive on which 

 we had just placed one of those drone- 

 trap swarm-catchers. 



The air was full of bees, and in the 

 course of half an hour the entire swarm 

 was in the drone-trap, nicely boxed 

 and all ready to be hived. Well, 

 didn't that work like a charm? That 

 is the second time we have tried the 

 drone-trap as a swarm catcher and in 

 both cases it worked just as we sup- 

 l)osed it would and as we intended it 

 should. 



Those of our readers who also read 

 Gleanings in Bee Cxltxire must have 

 read our description of this swarmer 

 in the June 1 issue of that paper. We 

 also will call to min<l the remarks in 

 brother Root's footnote at the end of 

 my article. We ventured the predic- 

 tion that this device would hive ninety 

 nine out of every hundred swarms 

 that issued. Brother R. said he 

 hoped it would, l)ut he said it in such 

 a way that all understood that he did 

 not take much stock in my statement. 

 We shall probably live long enough 

 to convince all beekeepers that that 

 statement was not an idle one. 



Well, the swarrn we caught is now as 

 quiet as can be. We have demonstrat- 

 ed to our entire satisfaction that this 

 drone-trap swarm-catcher is a success. 



