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the place of the second story, two 

 courses are open. In a week or ten 

 days, either set it on a new stand to 

 form a separate colony, when a queen 

 or queen cell must be g^iven it, or the 

 bees can be shook oil", and the combs 

 of brood divided among^ weak colonies. 

 Such combs would make a good at- 

 traction in other strong- colonies to get 

 the queen up, or they could be lifted 

 bodily to the third story, as in the case 

 of my crooked comb. Have the honey 

 extracted at the end of three weeks 

 from the time the queen left them, and 

 you have a fine set of brood combs 

 which can be used for such purposes as 

 replacing the whitest combs in brood 

 chambers, etc. 



I might just add that my hive con- 

 tains scarcely 2,000 cubic inches; and I 

 think when filled with honey, is 

 heavy enough for a man to lift high, 

 and almost too much for the weaker 

 sex bee-keepers. 



Poor.K, Out., Dec. 1st, 19()r). 



[I did not understand that Messrs. 

 Holterman and Cyrenius had any idea 

 of preventing- swarming- b\' cutting- out 

 queen cells; their desire, as I under- 

 stand it, was to learn if the bees were 

 making preparations to swarm, and, if 

 so, they v'^ould swarm them artificially, 

 probably "shake" them. None of 

 them expected to prevent swarming 

 simpl3' by cutting out queen cells. — Ed. 

 Review. ] 



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and then he paints one side white to 

 use turned up in summer, and the other 

 side dark red to turn up in winter or 

 spring. He discarded quilts and oil 

 oil cloths years ago. 



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The Rural Bee Keeper has been re- 

 duced in price to fifty cents a year. 



The American Bee Journal has come 

 out with some very neat, departmental 

 headings. 



The Editorial work of this issue of the 

 Review has nearly all been done with 

 the roar of honey laden bees in my 

 ears. 



A Magnet is the thing with which to 

 pick up small iron nails if you spill 

 them in the grass, says J. A. Green in 

 Gleanings. 



The Honey Producers' League, or, the 

 w y of its members, to be exact, 



has voted to turn over to the National 

 the balance of the funds on hand, a 

 trifle over Si, 400, the National to use it 

 for the same purposes that it was 

 raised by the League. 



Walter Harmer, of Manistee hi- 



gan, prefers flat board cover xs i« 

 the case with a lot of sengib. 



One Thousand bee-keepers, or some- 

 thing in that neighborhood, were pres- 

 ent at the Bee-Keepers' Field Day, a 

 recent gathering at Jenkintown, a 

 suburb of Philadelphia. I should 

 dearly loved to have been present, but 

 there were too many irons in the fire 

 to allow of my going. 



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Downwardly Projecting Cleats on the 

 ends of hive-covers are obiected to by 

 Dr. C. C. Miller, in Gleanings, as he 

 says that they make the cover unneces- 

 sarily long, and are more difficult to 

 put on without killing bees. I see no 

 objection to an increase of two or three 

 inches in the length of a cover, and, if 

 the cover is made long enough there is 

 no trouble about killing bees when 

 putting it on. 



