THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



107 



Mr. Bennett \ATitos me that his i)a- 

 per, the racitic I>ee Journal, will be 

 started apiin this month. 



One Hundred (V)lonies is the limit 

 in numlier that can be profitably kept 

 in an ordinary loeatioii. one year with 

 another. 



When extraotin.i;- at a time that bees 

 will rob. nothini;' will stir up a colony 

 and set it to tryiny to rob, as will 

 the .yiving- of freshly extracted combs. 



A Queen caged and placed on the 

 bottom sash of the window will collect 

 and hold all of the bees scattered 

 aI)out a bee or honey house. — Henry 

 Alley. 



Old Bees can not rear good queens, 

 says Henry Alley. They will com- 

 mence cell-cups, and complete queen- 

 cells, but no strong queens will come 

 from them. 



Feeding must be resorted to in 

 queen-rearing when there is no forage 

 in the fields, and Mr. Alley says tliat 

 experience has taught him that sugar 

 syrup, with some honey, is as good as 

 clear honey. 



Your editorials headed: "A Man 

 Can't Know Too Much About His 

 Business," "Successful Commercial 

 Bee-Keeping," and ^Ir. Townsend's 

 article, strike me just right."— E. R. 

 Jones, Beeville, Texas. 



A Queen Breeder cannot do a suc- 

 cessful business on a small scale. He 

 must liave liundreds of queen cells 

 growing all of the time, and liundreds 

 of laying (pieens on liand ready to 

 use in tilling orders. — Henry Alley. 



The t^ieen Nursery is one of the 

 most valuable implements that a queen 

 breeder can have in his apiary. It 



saves one-half the expense in money 

 and bees. It is used for cell-holding, 

 for keeping botli virgin and fertile 

 (jueens.— Henry Alley. 



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Out-Apiaries, hoAv many colonies a 

 man should have before starting one, 

 how far away to locate it, liow to 

 manage it, and so on, and so forth, 

 were enthusiastically discussed at the 

 recent meeting of bee-keepers in 

 Northern Michigan. It is 'one of the 

 hopeful signs of the times. 



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Granulated honey may be removed 

 from the combs by uncapping the 

 honey, diping the combs in water, and 

 then allowing the bees access to them. 

 Placing the combs, or sections, under 

 a hive of bees is an excellent way of 

 giving the bees an opportunity for re- 

 moving the honey. 



The Rearing of Queens above a 

 (fiieen excluder, with a laying queen 

 below, is not advised by Mr. Alley, un- 

 less it is done at swarming-tirae. He 

 says bees do not do the work with 

 tlie same interest as wlien about to 

 cast a swarm, or Avhen absolutely 

 (lueenless. 



"The Review keeps boosting me 

 higher and higher up the mountain 

 side of apiculture. With each ascent 

 I can see further across the plain of 

 possibilities. The March issue very 

 l)lainly pointed out a delightful local- 

 ity, about ")() miles away, with a rail- 

 road station only 10 miles from here." 

 —Extract from a private letter. 



Breeding Queens are kept by ]\Ir. 

 Alley in small hives, each containing 

 five combs about five inches square. 

 To remove eggs from such a hive is 

 much less trouble than opening a full 

 colony, the mutilation of large combs 



