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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



two or three, but the one I followed is 

 as follows: Take out two outside 

 combs, on each side of the upper stor}', 

 putting foundation in their places, and 

 being careful to see that an old sealed 

 or brood comb was placed next to the 

 foundation on each side. Then put 

 the four old combs, that were removed, 

 in the upper (third) story, placing two 

 on each side, at the outside, with six 

 sheets of foundation hanging between 

 them. Care was taken that the side of 

 the comb that came next the founda- 

 tion was sealed, or filled with brood. 

 This plan worked to perfection, get- 

 ting the sheets of foundation drawn 

 true and even with cells of the proper 

 depth. 



There has been very little swarming 

 — not more than eight or ten swarms. 

 When the first few colonies swarmed, 



the old colonies were divided up into 

 nuclei, each nucleus being given acell; 

 then, as fast as a colony swarmed, its 

 combs of brood were used lo build up 

 these nuclei. The most of these newly 

 formed colonies now average ten 

 combs apiece. It is a plan that I like 

 extremely well. 



preventing the loss of young 

 oui':ens by the use of 

 landmarks. 

 In the view given of the apiary there 

 will be noticed some barrels, boxes, 

 hive covers, etc., scattered about pro- 

 miscuously; these are to aid the young 

 queens in finding their homes. Al- 

 though the hives are in straight rows, 

 both ways, there has been a loss of 

 only two young queens out of 30. 



Flint, Mich., June 30, 1906. 



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F. GREINER. 



FRIEND Chapman's article in the 

 March Review interested me very 

 much. It is good, every bit of it, and 

 a good deal may be learned from it. 

 I am running for comb honey, and I 

 am not able to run an out-yard with- 

 out fiequent visits; how I Jiiighi get 

 along if I were running for extracted I 

 cannot guess. I have often thought of 

 producing liquid honey, only because 

 it is evident that such may be pro- 

 duced much easier, three to one here in 

 my locality, but there is an obstacle, 

 the finding of a market for it, even at a 

 low price. I have learned to sell comb 

 hone^', but I fail to find an outlet for 

 the extracted, except in a ver3- limited 

 quantity, and the Review might well 

 make it an object to show us what to 

 do with the extracted honey. [See 



Tovvnsend's articles in the Review for 

 190") —Ed. Review.] 



horizontal wiring does not pre- 

 vent S.\GGING. 



Friend Atwater also makes some 

 good points in his article. My own 

 experience as regards shallow brood 

 frames versus deep ones corroborates 

 his. More pollen is found in section 

 honey over a shallow frame brood-nest, 

 although the deep frames may not pre- 

 sent more comb surface. On wir- 

 ing frames I do not fully agree with 

 him. With me and my 10-inch-deep 

 frame (10 in the clear) sagging is not 

 prevented b^' horizontal wires when 

 using medium brood foundation, no 

 matter hoiv many wires are used. The 

 best and most serviceable combs I ob- 



