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and extracting the honey from the 

 cou.bj has much to do 'with breaking 

 up the desire to swarm. AVhen an api- 

 ary is worked for section honey, it is 

 not practical, nor is it convenient or 

 advisable to disturb the brood- nest at 

 all. A colony seized with the swarming 

 fever v/ill surely swarm, even though 

 there is an unlimited amount of surplus 

 room in the hive. It is under the last- 

 named convlitions that a method is 

 wanted for the prevention of swarming. 

 Pardon me if I mention the queen-trap 

 in this comection. I speak of it as it 

 is the only thing that will serve the api- 

 arist when lie has his hives all equipped 

 with sections, and is either away from 

 home, or very busy. When these con- 

 ditions exist the trap will show up for 

 all it is worth. If at home and not 

 ready to attend to hiving a swarm when 

 one issues, it will not be necessary to 

 do so if \\\ Tj ii a trap on the hive. In 

 fac, if a swarm issues from a hive 

 having the sections on the combs ought 

 not to be disturbed for three days, at 

 which time the queen cells should be 

 removed, and the queen that came off 

 with the swarm reintroduced. Any 

 other queen will do just as well and can 

 be safely given the bees if ^ change of 

 queens is desirable. No swarm will 

 issue from that hive till the next season. 

 Several years ago I claimed that a 

 colony of bees having one of my (]ueen- 

 traps at the entrance would store more 

 honey than a colony that had a free en- 

 trance. I now ha\e a statement and 

 figures from a prominent and practical 

 beekeeper confirming that claim. It 

 will soon appear in these columns. 



"There was not the usual crop of U'-w 

 bee-papers started last month that the 

 new year generally brings," says The 

 American Beekeeper for February. 



Pretty smart for our little year old 

 Brother. But it reminds one of a little 

 boy running around with his grand- 

 fathers' great coat and boots on all the 

 same. 



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EblTOllIAL NOTES. 



A simple request on a postal card to 

 discontinue the Api will be heeded by 

 the publisher. 



One enterprising beekeeper has sent 

 a club of six new subscribers to the 

 Api. He will receive therefor a fine 

 Punic queen. T'hose who will take the 

 same trouble shall have such a queen 

 to reward them for their efforts. 



Brothers Newman, Hutchinson and 

 Hasty have got into a wrangle over a 

 sugar-and-honey article that E. M. 

 Hasty wrote for one of the bee-papers. 

 Let them go it. Here's two to one that 

 Brother Hasty comes out on top. If 

 the editor of the paper that publishetl 

 that obnoxious article possessed as much 

 sagacity as the editor of the Am. Bee 

 Journal, said article would have gone 

 into the waste basket instead of his 

 paper. 



The editor of \\\p British Bee Jour- 

 nal has had an attack of La Grippe, so 

 says the A. B. J. That was evident 

 long before it was advertised by Bro. 

 Newman. He will have another attack 

 of something worse than La Grippe 

 when that forty-five page article by Mr. 

 Hewitt meets the eye of the man who 

 knows so little and so much about Punic 

 bees. Now be fair. Brother Newman, 

 ami let the public have both sitles of the 

 question. Don't throw that long article 

 in the waste basket. Of course the truth- 

 ful statements it contains bears rather 

 hard upon your friend across the water. 

 Never mind about that ; the truth sliould 

 he told considering the fact that but 

 half the story has been published' in 

 the A. B. J. 



