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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



hive. Don't you see how easy it 

 is? 



I notice nearl}^ all our beemen, 

 in giving their experience and ad- 

 vice about wintering bees, recom- 

 mend wintering on summer stands. 

 But this packing in dry sawdust 

 and chaff and all that sort of thing 

 is too much bother for me. I 

 do not want any of it on ray plate. 

 Give me a properly constructed 

 cellar. I want my bees where I 

 can hear them sing* occasionally 

 even during these long, dreary 

 winter days and nights. Their 

 happy, contented song cheers me. 

 Give me the sweet harmony of 

 of fifty or a hundred colonies of 

 bees in a good warm cellar ; it is an 

 entertainment to charm the "gods" 

 and is the sweetest music 1 can 

 hear. 



Neioark Valley, N. Y. 



[We wouia not advise any one to make a 

 swavni-catcher of liis wife. Send ami get a 

 good queen-:uKl-drone trap and thus leiuove 

 aU danger of stings or of tlie swarm abscond- 

 ing. The wife can tlien hive tlie swarm 

 without being stung or by using a big bag on 

 a pole. Tlie l)ees will return to tlie hive or 

 location from which they went.] 



For the American ApicuUurist. 



A DEFENCE OF MR. 

 HEDDON'S RIGHTS. 



O. B. Bakroavs. 



A MAN by prophecy may excite 

 some wonder once or twice, but 

 after that people get to understand 

 that it is in the man . . . Twelve 

 or fifteen years ago I saw at our 

 state fair at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a 

 Mr. Pogenpohl selling farm rights 

 for a beehive with which he war- 

 ranted an ordinary swarm, put in 

 during the month of June, would 

 store four hundretl pounds of honey 

 that season. Not understanding 

 the principle I said to him, "What 

 are you selling me? The sur- 

 plus on the end of the brood-cham- 

 ber is not new. The movable 



frame is not new. Now, in what 

 does your patent consist?" He re- 

 plied, " you do not dare to pile 

 your hives." Sure enough, he liad 

 the horizontal division in the brood- 

 chamber. I did not purchase, but 

 a friend in Benton county did pur- 

 chase a few hives and the right and 

 put his bees in ; but when the bees 

 found what was expected they 

 gave it up and all died, and my 

 friend became disgusted and con- 

 cluded it was a fraud ; but until it 

 can be shown that those English 

 hives have all the cog-wheels, 

 slides, springs, thumb-screws and 

 automatic cut-offs, so essential 

 to a well regulated beehive, there 

 is no use in pretending that our 

 western patents are antedated. 



We western people are jealous 

 of our rights and do not propose to 

 be robbed of them. 



Marshalltoion, Iowa. 



[So far as the patent part of the Heddon 

 hive, or, as for that matter, we will include 

 all patent hives, we do not think it is of any 

 a'icount. 



The question is, or rather the questions are 

 these: Will a colony of bees in a Heddon 

 hive stoie any more honey than tliey would 

 in any good, movable-framfe hive? Will a 

 colony of bees in any hive gather honey when 

 the flowers do not secrete it ? Can one hun- 

 dred pounds of honey be iiroduced by a col- 

 ony of bees at less cost in a Heddon hive 

 than in any other hive? Is it not as much 

 trouble to care lor bees in Heddon hives as m 

 anv good hive? Will bees winter as well in 

 the Heddon hive as they will in any other? 

 Does not the Heddon hive cost as much or 

 more, and is it any less work to make them 

 than it is most other hives? 



If anv reader ot the API can give any facts 

 that will show that the Heddon hive is any 

 better than other good hives we shall be glad 

 to publish such facts.] 



For the American Apicultttrist. 



THE API-SEASON OF 1887 

 — TESTED QUEENS, ETC. 



HARIvEK BROTHElfS. 



A sample copy of the Api was 

 handed us and we are much pleased 

 with it and wish to contribute 

 something, if possible, to add to its 



