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better give up the old, worn-out bees, 

 and utilize the hive and combs for an 

 early swarm. 4. I should return the 

 money if I had chanced to send out such 

 a queen. — G. W. Demaeee. 



' 1. Remove the drone-layer, and intro- 

 duce another queen, which is very easily 

 done at this time of the year, in such a 

 case. 2. As they have probably been 

 reared in worker-cells, I would not trust 

 the drones. If stronoj, by giving the 

 colony some brood now and then, and 

 destroying the queen-cells, until about 

 time for drones to fly, you could. 8. 

 That would depend on the circumstances 

 of the case. 4. Yes ; or a queen. — E,. 

 L. Taylor. 



1. Pinch the drone-layer's head and 

 give the colony another queen. Add a 

 frame or two of emerging brood from 

 some strong colony, to assist in building 

 up. 2. If the drones are hatched in 

 worker-cells, they would be physically 

 defective, but if in drone-cells, they 

 would be capable of fertilizing your 

 queens. 3. No. 4. He should replace 

 the queen, provided you informed him 

 that she was a drone-layer as soon as 

 you discovered the fact. — J. P. H. 

 Bkown. 



1. Kill the queen and give a frame 

 (from another colony) of hatching 

 brood, and one of eggs and small larvte, 

 to keep the colony in heart till they can 

 rear a queen. 2. Yes ; as I have given 

 above. 3. No; I think not; only as 

 brood is given. 4. Well, that depends. 

 If a "dollar queen," according to the 

 "father" of this idea, all you were 

 guaranteed was that a laying queen was 

 to be sent you, so you have no right to 

 ask a return of your money. If a tested 

 queen (unless you can prove that a poor 

 queen was purposely sent you), she was 

 doubtless injured in transit, and if so, 

 was the breeder to blame ? If not, why 

 should he refund the money ? Again, 

 the queen may have been injured after 

 reaching you by the bees or yourself, 

 and afterward "proven worthless." If 

 the queen was a warranted queen, or in 

 any case, it seems to me the proper 

 thing to do would be to kindly state the 

 case to the breeder, and ask if he would 

 not replace her. If he is a gentleman, 

 he will do so — unless the queen was a 

 "dollar queen." — G. M. Doolittle. 



The colony is not worth fussing with. 

 Destroy the bees and queen ; and save 

 the combs and honey. If the queen was 

 guaranteed, of course the breeder will 

 replace her. — The Editor. 



Hiver and Drone-Trap.— Mr. 



N. C. Petrie, of Cherry Valley, O., has 

 obtained a patent on a new hiver and 

 drone-trap, one of which is sent to our 

 Museum. Mr. Petrie says : 



Its special object is to direct a swarm 

 of bees into an empty hive. The attach- 

 ment is hung on the hives by hooks 

 secured to the upper side of the device. 

 It is an elongated L-shaped box, with 

 openings in the end, and deflecting 

 cages or guide ways laid from the open- 

 ings. These guide ways are made of 

 zinc, perforated, the perforations being 

 of a size to permii. the workers to pass 

 readily therethrough, but pervents the 

 escape of the queen and drones. The 

 guide ways are entirely open on the 



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sides adjacent to the hives, so that the 

 bees may freely enter, and by them be 

 directed into the attachment. They 

 may be also open at the bottom to affect 

 an economy of material, the ledge of the 

 hives preventing the bees from passing. 

 The front and left sides are covered by 

 wire screening, so that the movements 

 of the bees may be observed. 



The main idea of our swarmer is to 

 allow enough workers to accompany the 

 queen to induce her to remain in the 

 new hive, and we think that our swing- 

 ing partition will allow three times as 

 many bees to accompany the queen as 

 can go with her by using the cone. 



The swinging partition is hung from 

 the top of the box, and is met about two- 

 thirds of the way by an elevated plat- 

 form or step, which reaches to within 

 % of an inch of the bottom of the parti- 

 tion or gate, leaving room for a worker 

 to get under, but forcing the queen or 

 drone to swing it inwardly. It is pre- 

 vented from swinging outward by a 

 staple in the top of the box inside. 



-Prof. Xotten, of Yale University, 

 predicts that the millennium will come 

 early in 1899. His startling contribu- 

 tions to Frank Leslie's Illustrated News- 

 paper on this subject are attracting 

 world-wide attention. 



