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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



3. Not usually ; but if be can- 

 uot raise tbem by the swarming 

 impulse handily he can raise them 

 just as well and often better by the 

 method in the Handy Book. It is 

 not always the most profitable to 

 have colonies sAA'arm in the honey 

 harvest. Artificial methods are 

 advantageous in rearing queens 

 earlier or later than the swarming 

 season. The beginner must ad- 

 vance and learn which is his favor- 

 ite method. 



Bradford, loiva. 



ANSWERS BY J. E. POND. 



1. I don't understand the ques- 

 tion. Is it meant what state or con- 

 dition of the bees will show the local- 

 ity of a queen ? or is it meant how 

 can a lost queen be discovered dur- 

 ing swarming? Give more data to 

 make the question intelligible. 



2 . Sometimes they will, and some- 

 times not. If honey is being gath- 

 ered freely, no other queen is in the 

 hive, and all queen cells are destroyed, 

 they will do so in nearly every in- 

 stance. 



3. A beginner, wanting to raise 

 a few queens, can perhaps do no bet- 

 ter than to raise queens in this way. 

 If, however, he wants a few first-class 

 queens his better way to obtain them 

 will be to purchase them from some 

 reliable breeder ; and I take pleasure 

 that none are more reliable or fur- 

 nish better queens than our good 

 friend Alley, editor of the "Apicul- 

 turist" and proprietor of the Bay 

 State apiary. 



Harrison, Ohio. 

 Mr. Alley : 

 Will you please answer the follow- 

 iiiii query : "What is a Lighlninj? 

 Gluer" as used in making xection-boxes 

 for honey ? Where can they be bought 

 and what do they cost? G. A. S. 



[The "Lightning Gluer" is the in- 

 vention of Mr. A. E. Manum of Bris- 

 tol, Vt. Address Mr. Manum and 

 he will probably give you the desired 

 information. We never saw one of 



them and cannot, of course, describe 

 it, or say whether it is practical or not. 

 Think, however, it must be a good 

 thing, as Mr. Manum does not have 

 much time to spend upon worthless 

 tools.] 



SUGAR STORES AND REVERSIBLE 

 FRAArES. 



iMiLBURT, Mass. 

 In rcprard to reversible brooilliames, where 

 the bees are wintered on sntjar syrup, ami 

 fed (or stinuilatioii on the same, will thej' not 

 cany it up into the surplus boxes when the 

 frames are reversed? 1 have a device for 

 rever.^iiisi: bioodfiames that is much more 

 simple anil more easily worked than any I 

 have seen or heard of yet. Sliall try it this 

 summer, and if it works well will imblish it. 

 Willis S. Yeaton. 



[No, the bees will not remove 

 sugar-stores from the brood-chamber 

 to the sections, neither do we think 

 they will remove stores of any kind 

 to the sections from the brood-nest. 



Your device for reversing frames 

 may work all right and be the best 

 in use but any method for reversing 

 frames singly is not wanted by bee- 

 keepers, nor is it practical. What is 

 wanted is a device for reversing all 

 of the frames easily and quickly when 

 there is necessity for so doing. 

 Reversible hives and not reversible 

 frames are what beekeepers want 

 and demand.] 



Under date of Feb. 3, 1887, Mr. A. 

 E. Manum wrote thus: A warm day 

 last week revealed tiie fact that my 

 bees are wintering well on summer 

 stands; all seem to be in the best of 

 couditions — not a dead colony yet. 



EDITORIAL. 



Rearing Queens. —Our remarks, 

 on page 2o, A'ol. V, in reference to Dr. 

 Miller's book and his method given 

 the rein for rearing queens, have brought 

 a most interesting article from Mr. O. 

 O. Poppleton, in which he says that 

 he has trouble in separating the queen 

 celts when reared by the process given 

 in tiie Handy Book. We call Mr. Pop- 

 pleton's attention to the illustration on 

 page 159, Vol. IV. If the comb con- 

 taining the eggs is used curving or 

 placed in a convex position as repre- 

 sented in the illustration, there will be 

 no difficulty in separating the cells with- 



