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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



new combs, there will be little trouble 

 from travel-stain, but, with old combs, 

 it is necessary to keep the sealed sec- 

 tions away from the proximity of the 

 brood nest. With tiering-up this can 

 be easily managed. Nine-tenths of all 

 of the sections of comb honey that I 

 ever produced werecapped over with one 

 or more supers between them and the 

 brood nest, and travel-stain has been 

 practically unknown to my honey. 



Mrs. Frey says if I ripen my ex- 

 tracted honey as she ripens her comb 

 honey, I, too, will have swarming. I 

 expect to ripen it on the hive as 



thoroughly as it is possible, to leave it 

 on until it is all sealed — perhaps 

 longer — but I expect to give more super 

 room than would be found in 64 pound 

 sections of comb honey. Perhaps Mrs. 

 Frey gave more than that amount of 

 room, but that is what I gather from 

 the way in which she writes. I expect 

 that at no time will the bees be left 

 without an abundance of empty comb 

 in wiiich to store honey. I presume 

 that I will have some swarming— not 

 much, but some — and I'll tell all about 

 it just as frankly if I do have much.. — 

 Ed. Rkviicw. 1 



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Size of Hives, as it effects the tend- 

 ency of the bees to swarm, is well- 

 illustrated by the experience of Mr. C. 

 F. Smith, of Cheboygan, Michigan. 

 He writes that he has bees in 7, 8, 9, 

 10 and 12-frame hives, respectively, 

 and, of the colonies in the 7-frame 

 hives 95 per cent, swarmed, of the 

 8-frames 85 per cent, swarmed, of those 

 on 9 frames 70 per cent, swarmed, of 

 the 10-frame style 55 percent, swarmed, 

 while only 33 per cent, of those on 12 

 frames cast swarms. 



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The Hoffman frame receives the re- 

 spects of Mr. Chapman as follows: 

 " Don't let Mr. Gill get away with 

 you on the Hoffman frame problem. 

 When I go out to plow, the first thing I 

 take hold of is the handles of the plow; 

 and they ;-tre good ones, too. When I 

 whittle kindlings, the handle on the 

 knife is pretty nearly the main thing. 

 When we handle frames we want good 

 handles to get hold of, and I would 

 like to know where the handle is to tiie 

 Hoffman frame." 



Encouragement is often needed as 

 much instruction. This is exemplified 

 b}^ the following extract from a sub- 

 scriber down in Pennsylvania: "In the 

 winter of 1903-4 I lost nearly all of my 

 bees, and became so discouraged that 

 I almost wished that I had never seen 

 a bee, but the' Review kept humming 

 away on the 'keep more bees' chord 

 till I got up the courage to go at it 

 ag^ain. I had no money, but I kept 

 bees on shares one season, then bought 

 100 colonies, and these, with their in- 

 crease, and a few I bought this season, 

 put me up to 265 colonies, thanks to 

 the Review. " 



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A Hunters' and Trappers' Magazine. 



There are few industries now with- 

 out a periodical exponent. Even hunt- 

 ings and trapping has a magazine. It 

 is called the Hunter-Trapper-Trader, 

 and is published monthly, at $1.00 a 

 year, at 326 East Broad St., Columbus, 

 Ohio. I read it with considerable in- 

 terest, probably because a good share 

 of each autumn in my boyhood's days 



