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TEE AMERICAN APICULTURIST, 



A New Section Case Mr. 



Hilas D. Davis has kindly sent us one 

 of his new section cases. As it is 

 new to us, we will let him give its 

 good points in the following quota- 

 tion taken from his letter : 



I, ixs well as a number of other par- 

 ties', tested this case, and have a good 

 reason to state we can get from its 

 use, at least, one-third more honey, 

 with better filled sections, and less 

 soiling of the cappings. The double 

 separator overcomes the difficulty of 

 choking up the passage way in the 

 tiering-up method. That is, the bees 

 have a passage way from one tier to 

 another without interfering with the 

 comb builders, or clusters in the box. 



Mistakes will Happen. — On 

 page 2S2, December number of the 

 "Api," we credited answers to ques- 

 tions to A. E. Manum. This was a 

 mistake, the answers were given by 

 Dr. G. L. Tinker. Mistakes, you 

 know, will happen. 



The Apiculturist goes to press 

 on the 20th of each month, and is 

 mailed to its subscribers five days 

 later. If any one does not receive 

 it in the course of ten days from the 

 date of mailing, they should notify 

 us at once and we will forward an- 

 other copy. 



The Quinby Smoker. — A de- 

 scription of the improvement made in 

 this well-known smoker was given in 

 the "Api" some time ago. We now 

 have a lot of them on hand. This 

 smoker, as now made, is the most 

 perfect of any bellows-smoker in the 

 market. The good points are these : 

 if the fuel is dry, a smoke can be had 

 in a minute's time by merely apply- 

 ing a lighted match to the "fire-hole" 

 at the base of the barrel. Those who 

 use the old style Quinby smoker are 

 obliged to go to the stove for a coal 

 of fire in order to ignite the punk. 



To New Subscribers and Re- 

 newals.— Each yearly subscriber to 

 the Apiculturist will receive free, 

 by mail, one of our latest improved 

 drone and queen- traps (the regular 

 price of which is 65 cents), thus re- 



ducing the price of the "Api" per 

 year to 35 cents. As the traps can- 

 not be sent, by mail, to Canada, the 

 price of the Apiculturist to Cana- 

 dian subscribers will be 75 cents. 



We guarantee the drone and 

 queen-trap to give perfect satisfaction 

 in all cases. If it does not work as 

 well as stated, the trap may be re- 

 turned to us, at our expense, and we 

 will return or credit the amount paid 

 for it. Remember that the trap will 

 save ten times its cost to any bee- 

 keeper in our season. No swarm 

 can abscond, nor will any valuable 

 queens be lost. When a colony 

 swarms, if the trap is used, the bee- 

 keeper need pay no attention what- 

 ever to the bees, but at once make 

 preparations to hive them as they will 

 surely return to the spot from which 

 they start. If three or more swarms 

 issue at one time, each colony will, 

 when it misses its queen, return to 

 the parent hive. If swarms issue 

 and the beekeeper cannot attend to 

 them, or is absent from home, the 

 bees will return to their hive and 

 come off again the next fair day. 

 Or, if desirable, while the bees are 

 in the air, the queen-cells may be 

 destroyed and swarming will be given 

 up altogether, or, at least, they will 

 not issue again for four days. If the 

 bees issue from a reversible hive, the 

 brood-chamber may be inverted 

 which operation will certainly pre- 

 vent any further swarming for the 

 season. Bear in mind that the trap 

 gives perfect control over swarming. 



The best, quickest and easiest way 

 to hive a new swarm is to remove the 

 parent hive a few feet back, and 

 place the new hive on the old stand. 

 The bees will return and enter the 

 new hive, and the queen may then 

 be released and allowed to run in 

 with them. 



There are 50,000 of the traps in 

 use, and, so far as we know, they 

 have given satisfaction in every case. 



The trap will be sent by mail for 

 65 cents, or one dozen in the flat, one 



