THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



60S 



"Fewer Bees and better care" was 

 the subject of a recent article in the 

 Review, and the American Bee Journal 

 considers it passinj^f strangfe that such 

 .in article should appear in the Review 

 when its editor preaches the doctrine 

 of "keeping' more bees " It was pub- 

 lished simply because its editor believes 

 in beinj^ fair, ami showing up both 

 sides. 



Gleanings is rapidly becoming a "de- 

 partmental" paper. Dr. Miller has a 

 department "Stray Straws, "then there 

 is "Bee-Keeping Among the Rockies," 

 by J. A. (ireen; "Conventions with 

 Doolittle; ' "Facts and Fancies" by J. 

 10. Crane, and, perhaps I have missed 

 some, and there has lately been added 

 "Notes from Canada," by K. F. 

 Holtermann. 



An Automatic cover for comb carry- 

 ing boxes on a wheel barrow is one of 

 the bandy things described by Wm. 

 Lossing in Cileanings. Pressure by 

 foot on a treadle raises the cover, and 

 a coiled wire spring returns the cover, 

 when the pressure is released. The 

 arrangement allows the use of both 

 hands, and is away ahead of using the 

 ordinary "robber cloth." 



Localities difler greatly only a few- 

 miles apart. J. A. Green tells in 

 Gleanings of g^reat differences in this 

 respect. He had six apiaries the past 

 season, and the poorest and best were 

 only two miles apart. He says there 

 are several factors in the problem that 

 he has not j'et worked out, but he 

 is satisfied that it is a great deal safer 

 to have several apiaries than only 

 one. 



A Special Car will leave Chicago on 

 the forenoon of Nov. (>ih for the San 

 Antonio convention, reaching St. Louis 

 on the evening of the same day, where 

 several bee-keepers expect to join the 

 party. The round trip will cost S2.").0() 



for the railroad fare with an additional 

 charge of $4.25 to pay for a berth two 

 nights. For further particulars, write 

 to (reo. W. York, 334 Dearborn St., 

 Chicago, Ills. 



Requeening colonies in the easiest 

 possible manner, says J. A. Gre^n in 

 Gleanings, is that of giving ripe (jueen 

 cells, protected b}' a West cell-pro- 

 trtctor. No, he does not hunt up and 

 remove the old cpieens. The young 

 queens will, in many cases supersede 

 the old ones; and, if queens are kept 

 clipped it is an easy matter to know 

 whether the old (lueens hive been sup- 

 erseded or not. 



Lazy Bees for gathering honey are 

 sometimes very sharp at robbing. I 

 have referred, in one or two places in 

 this issue to a strain of bees that we 

 had this year which were poor workers; 

 well, when we took off the supers and 

 stacked them up, these bees were the 

 first to Hnd the honey in the combs, 

 and to carry it home. They would be 

 Hying in full force from these colonies, 

 while scarsely a bee could be seen 

 leaving the other hives. 



A Power Driver extractor (one driven 

 by a gasoline engine, for instance) will 

 secure more honey because the con- 

 tinued high speed empties the combs 

 dryer. It might be said that the honey 

 goes back and is taken out by the bees, 

 but Mr. J. T. Mclntyre says that when 

 there is much drip the bees are improv- 

 ident, and eat more than is actually 

 necessary to sustain their bodies. 

 Then the use of power really takes the 

 place of, or does the work, of one man. 

 A man can uncap a set of combs, put 

 them in the extractor, start the 

 machine, and then go on uncapping 

 another set while tlie engine is running 

 the machine. 



Cleaning Honey Boards, those of the 

 wood-zincstyle, is something- thatsome- 

 times needs doing, and J. A. Green says, 



