THE AMERICAN APICULTJJRIST. 



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described in Supplement of the May 

 Api with this difference : The one des- 

 cribed in May is a brood-chamber placed 

 in front of a colony about ready to swarm, 

 and the drone-trap in front to catch the 

 queen when she comes out, while the 

 bees are hived in the box. The one 

 here described is a hive, and trap com- 

 bined, in feet it is nothiug more than a 

 queen-trap made large enough to hold 

 a big swarm of bees. The ordinary 

 queen trap has but one tube for the 

 drones and queen to pass through into 

 the trap. This arrangement has four 

 tubes, and as surely as a drone ventures 

 out he is trapped. 



This device can be easily attached to 

 any style hive. Little labor is required 

 to adjust it to hives having no porticoes. 

 It can be used as well on those hives 

 having porticoes, by making a covered 

 bridge to connect the hive and self-hiver. 

 A stake is driven in the ground for front 

 end of swai-mer to rest upon. 



One comb is placed in the swarmer 

 for the bees to cluster upon when they 

 swarm. 



The queen finds her way back, to the 

 comb in the box through perforated 

 metal having holes large enough to let 

 her pass, but which are too small for the 

 passage of drones. 



This hiver cannot be sent by mail. 

 The best way to do is to purchase the 

 right to make them, and either manu- 

 fecture or get the nearest dealer to get 

 them out. 



I will sell an individual or farm right, 

 and one sample hiver and deliver the 

 same free in any part of the United 

 States on receipt of $5. 



1 guarantee to pay $10 in every in- 

 stance where the trap does not catch ev- 

 ery queen that comes oif with a swarm. 

 It will not fail to do that in any case. 



In case any desire to purchase the 

 combination trap and self-hiver, I can 

 ship them by express at the following 

 prices : Per half dozen, one made up, 

 five in flat ^4. Per dozen, one nailed, 

 eleven flat, $7. One sample, nailed, 

 $ 1 .00. Whole weight of one hiver about 

 3 lbs. 



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EDITORIAL NOTES. 



10,000 ONK-PIECK SECTIONS. 



I have in stock 10,000 first quality, one- 

 piece sections of G. B. Lewis & Co. make. 

 These sections do not brealv when liandled, 

 are wliite as snow and as smooth as it is 

 possil)le to make them. Price, $1 per 

 1,000; 2,000, $7.00. 



It has Ijeen a hard time since May came 

 in for queen dealers. However t have 

 managed to get a good many cells started 

 and to rear about 200 queens 



Some dealers claim to have Ave banded 

 bees I can see but one very wide band that 

 nearly covers the entire body of the bee. 

 These bees are very handsome and very 

 energetic workers. Shall have 100 such 

 queens ready to mail second week in June. 



Notwitlistanding the backwardness of 

 the spring, the bees commenced to swarm 

 about May 12. 



In September last we introduced to a 

 raiher weak colony a Tunic quten ; but it 

 was too late to say much regarding the 

 character of the bee.s that subsequently 

 hatched out. We find this spring that 

 they are doing finely. The queen is very 

 prolific, and the bees behave very much 

 like Italians; in fact, tliey resemble them 

 in many respects, except in the conspic- 

 uous ab>ence of the yellow bands. They 

 look different from the Carniolans and also 

 from the common blacks. We believe it 

 has alnady been intimated that the Ital- 

 ians and Funics are descended from a 

 common ancestry. The fact that their 

 oriiiinal homes aie not so very far apart, 

 and that they are alike in disposition and 

 general temperament, may make this pos- 

 sible. — A. I. Root in Gkanings, May 15, 

 1892. 



For the thinnest foundation 14 to 16 sq. 

 feet to the pound, send to W. H. Norton, 

 Skowhegan, Maine. 



