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larf^e crops of comb honey, with- 

 out swarminj^, in out-yards, and 

 keep their colonies stroiif? and in j^ood 

 shape fo winter. \\'hen they can do 

 t/iis, the\' will have done somethinf^ 

 that is worth g^ivinjj;' to the world. 



The Sibbald plan will not work 

 when bees are determiued to sicarni; 

 the}' will ;/rV leave the queen until she 

 {jj'oes with them. P^ven dividinjif will not 

 work; both sitles will swarm if the 

 honey flow is a ijood one. We want a 

 comb honey system of management 

 that will keep the bees home, and at 

 work, when honey is comin<r in a Hood; 

 f/ioi we will have "honey money" — a 

 plenty of it. 



[Uponreadiug the foregoing', I wrote 

 to Mrs. Frey, sending her a copy of 

 Advanckd B[':e CulturK, and asking 

 her for further particulars regarding 

 her varied experiences with out-apia- 

 ries. Her reply is as follows: — Ed. 

 Review.] 



Dear Sir, I was very much sur- 

 prised when I received your book 

 Advanced Bee Culture. It is rightly 

 named; and a book that will arouse 

 the enthusiasm of any good bee-keeper. 

 Even my children are anxious to read 

 read it. 



About 35 years ago my father-in-law 

 got some bees in box hives He took 

 care of them in this way until 19 years 

 ago, when my husband and I moved 

 upon a new farm. He was tired of tak- 

 ing' care of them in that rude manner, 

 without veil or smoker. I learned 

 what my husband knew about bees, 

 and then I took care of them alone un- 

 til we had 25 colonies. Since that I 

 have usually hired a woman to help 

 me through the busj' season. Some 

 years I hire a boy that is large enough 

 to lift the heavv- supers. My daughter, 

 Dais3', is 17, and she and Harold (21 

 in the spring) have helped me do the 

 shop- work ever since they were old 

 enough to fold sections or drive nails. 



TROUBI.K.S WITH BRUIN. 



I think it was 14 years ago that we 

 had our Hrst out-yard, two miles north 

 of our home. We kept it there two 

 seasons, and an old bear and her fam- 

 ily visited the yard several times, and 

 destro3'ed seven or eight colonies dur- 

 ing the two seasons. Then, one night 

 about two o'clock, when my two 

 brothers were watching- from a scaffold 

 in the bee-yard (and one had fallen 

 asleep) the brother that was awake 

 saw an old bear and three cubs com- 

 ing for another meal of honey. He 

 shot the old bear and one cub, killing 

 them with two shots, and the two got 

 away. 



The second winter three-quarters of 

 the bees in the out-3'ard died, and we 

 brought home what were left. 



Nine years ago we started two more 

 out-yards. We kept from 5 to 75 col- 

 onies in there during the winter. We 

 took up one at the end of two years as 

 the location did not prove to be a good 

 one. One yard was four miles north 

 and one four miles west. 



MOVING NIGHTS AND LETTING THE BEES 

 WORK IN THE DAY TIME. 



Then, seven years ago, we moved 50 

 colonies to Tustin over some or the 

 hilliest roads in Michigan. We put 12 

 single-walled hives in the box, and 13 

 in chaflf hives on a rack on each wagon, 

 We traveled nights, and rested day- 

 times, and let the bees fly from the 

 wagons every day. They had such a 

 small amount of honey that we knew 

 they would perish on the road if thej' 

 did not fl\'. 



I drove ahead of the teamsters with 

 a horse and buggy, in order to warn 

 them of any dangerous places on the 

 road. 



We sometimes had to drive until nine 

 or ten o'clock in the morning, before 

 before we could find a camping place. 



The weather was extremely hot, and 

 we had the hardest rainstorm I ever 



