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October, 1913 



American "Bee Jonrnal 



Only those supplies that he can eco- 

 nomically make are sawed out, the rest 



he buys. 



By looking at the illustrations you 

 can realize that Mr. Xichols is deter- 

 mined to have things so he can get his 

 work done well and on time. His 

 honey crop was a fair one and of good 

 quality. He had already harvested it 

 when I visited him in August. 



IlOMF.MADE 



SUI'KF^ <.F Mr Xii IK 



EixR Western W Bee-Keeping 



Fall Conditions in Colorado 



The honey-flow has lasted well into 

 September in northern Colorado, which 

 is unusual, as in ordinary years Aug. 

 1-5 to 2-5 sees the close of surplus honey 

 storing : in comb honey supers at 

 least. But this year the bees have 

 been busy on the alfalfa later, and 

 while the nights have been too cool for 

 comb-building, what supers were well 

 stored will nearly all be finished. The 

 bee-keeper who has many unfinished 

 sections this year in the northern dis- 

 trict, is not the bee-keeper he should 

 be. The honey-flow closed earlier than 

 usual in the .\rkansas valley, about 

 .\ug. 20, finishing the alfalfa surplus. 

 Sweet clover was nearly through blos- 

 soming by .\ug. 2-5, having seeded 

 heavily, so that what honey has come 

 since then has been alfalfa. While 

 alfalfa has yielded well, the rosin weed 

 had little attention from the bees. 



Many bee-men have utilized this late 

 flow by taking one or two combs oi 

 honev from the brood-chamber and 

 filling in with full sheets of foundation 

 or drawn combs. This has been a very 

 favorable year for such a procedure, as 

 September has been warm enough for 

 drawing comb and storing honey in 

 the brood-chamber, though little could 

 be done in the surplus chambers above. 

 In many of my hives the e-xtracting 

 supers and full-depth supers with full 

 sheets of foundation put on above have 

 been unoccupied, while the combs pn 

 in the brood-chamber have been quiet 



Conducted by V.esley Foster. Moulder, Colo. 



With a Progressive Bee-Keeper 



1 recentlv spent a very pleasant day 

 with Mr. E. D. Nichols, of Montrose. 

 His home is several miles below Mon- 

 trose, and is a homestead under the 

 Gunnison tunnel irrigation project. 

 He has a very pleasant home with 

 bath and hot and cold water. The ob- 

 stacles in the wax of having these con- 

 veniences would have discouraged 

 manv a man, but Mr. Nichols has 

 proven that he can make some things 

 go that others think hardly possible. 

 He has demonstrated that a bee-keeper 

 can successfully rear good queens by 

 the most approved methods and pro- 

 duce a crop at the same time. Most of 

 his bees are at his home yard, and a 

 very neat and well cared for apiary it 

 is. He has a far better shop and honey 

 house than the average bee-man, and 

 gets his shop work done with dispatch 

 because of having things well arranged. 

 .\ gasoline engine runs his saw and 

 extractor. One soon realizes what a 

 convenience a saw is when the various 

 appliances Mr. Nichols has made are 

 seen. He has made every part of a 

 bee-hive, but I do not think he prac- 

 tices making all his supplies now. 



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