THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



cannot be given that will apply to all 

 the different hives in use. All that 

 is needed is to so arrange it that all 

 the bees must pass through the trap in 

 coming out and returning to the hive. 



When a swarm issues, the queen 

 and many drones enter the trap. 

 Now to trap the drones and at the 

 same time let the queen return to the 

 hive, a small piece of perforated 

 metal, which has holes large enough 

 to let the queen pass, is placed in the 

 trap. 



All bee-keepers kn/>wn when a 

 swarm issues the bees go into the air, 

 and if their queen is not with them 

 the bees soon return to the hive. 

 About the time they get back, the 

 queen, in case where the trap is used, 

 has found her way out of the trap and 

 back to the hive, and the bees have 

 hived themselves. Now in order to 

 make the trap-swarmer a success, a 

 clean brood comb should be placed in 

 the new hive at the front. The queen 

 will take possession of it, when the 

 bees will join her and settle down to 

 business. The swarm should be given 

 a new location as soon as possible. 

 The trap should then be placed on the 

 old hive and left there until the 

 twelfth day after the first swarm 

 issued, and then removed to give the 

 young queen a chance to go out and 

 mate. 



I invite all who have the traps to 

 test this swarmer and report their 

 experience through the bee-papers. 

 Henry Alley. 



Wenham, 3fass. 



Clubbing List. 



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American Bee Journal, ($1 00) SI 35 



American Apiculturist, ( 75) 1 15 



Bee-Keeper's Review, (100) 135 



Canadian Bee Journal, ( 75) 115 



Gleanings in Bee Culture, (1 00) 1 35 



LITERARY ITEMS, 



It is said that Gen. B. F. Butler 

 intends to give the tail of the British 

 lion an unusually severe wrench in 

 the May number of the North Ameri- 

 can Review. His article is on the 

 present status of the Behring Sea 

 question. The same question from 

 another point of view will be treated 

 in that number by the Marquis of 

 Lome, the former governor-general 

 of Canada. 



WALT WHITMAN. 



I have seen a manuscript, a part of 

 "November Boughs," a single page 

 of which was composed of at least a 

 dozen kinds of paper, written in black 

 pencil, blue pencil, black ink, and red 

 ink. Some of the parts of this man- 

 uscript were written on bits of brown 

 straw paper, others on manilla paper, 

 others on the blue paper that had 

 once formed .a part of the cover of a 

 pamphlet, and each piece of a different 

 size, shape and color, suggesting the 

 idea that as a thought or a sentence 

 had come into the mind of the writer 

 he had made a note of it and pasted 

 the whole together without thinking 

 it worth while to give to the total 

 result coherence or form. 



His nickname, Walt, he told me 

 himself he had received from the 'bus 

 drivers in New York, with whom he 

 rode as constantly when he lived in 

 that city as he did with those in Cam- 

 den when he made the latter place 

 his home. 



To those who knew him Walt 

 Whitman was such a straghtforward 

 man that the apparent eccentricity of 

 costume which -he affected seemed 

 almost inexplicable, as indeed it was 

 to me until he told me that he had 



