THE BEE-KKEPEkS' REVIEW. 



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or two of hatchinu^. so as to arid to or 

 take wax from them as they see fit, siill, 

 if the proper temperature be maintained, 

 and, as they can be inserted without 

 rougli handling, or changing their po- 

 sitions, it can be done any time after all 

 are well sealed; and thereby reduce the 

 numi)er of days of queenlessness when 

 built by queenless bees, or allow the giv- 

 ing of a fresh batch oftener to those over 

 an excluder. 



In nmltiplying nuclei the reasons for 

 leaving the queen and unsealed brood on 

 the old stand is that the field force and 

 enough. comparatively young bees return 

 to it to feed the larvae and keep the queen 

 laying, leaving the others in a better con- 

 dition to receive a young queen, which 

 will have a field force by the time she be- 

 gins to lay, and bees hold more tenacious- 

 ly to the hive they have for some time 

 occupied, and will sulk when the field 

 bees quit coming to it, instead of desert- 

 ing the brood as they often do when given 

 a new hive and location without their 

 {jueen. 



If the queen be carried to the new loca- 

 tion she will be comparatively idle until 

 the bees begin field work, whereas, at the 

 old stand she is kept busv. 



CrkivK, X. C A])ril 14, igoo. 



EDITORIAL 



ffcrings. 



Several Artici^es on queen rearing 

 (gootl ones) are from necessity left out 

 of this issue. They will appear in later 

 numbers. 



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LoNT. BoTl'LES are used by Mr. J. L. 

 Strong as stakes upon which to set his 

 hives. He secures plenty of them by 

 paying boys five cents a dozen for them. 

 This I learn from the .\merican Bee 

 Journal. 



THK RKVIHW'S NEW COVER. 



The trees have donned their summer 

 dress, and the days have come when we 

 can sing: 



" Now i.s the tiine for the dress that i.s lawnj-. 

 Now is the time for the shoe that is tawny;" 



and why shouldn't the Review come out 

 in a new summer suit? Perhaps it is no 

 more beautiful than the old dress of 

 cream and claret, but a change is some- 

 times agreeable simply because it is a 

 change. 



AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE FERRIS 

 WAX EXTRACTOR. 



Whether the discussion of a year ago 

 in regard to the need of pressure in get- 

 ting all of the wax out of slum-gum 

 stirred up Mr. Perris to further invention 

 in that direction, 1 do not know. Be 

 that as it ma}-, he has added a screw and 

 follower that can be applied while the 

 slum-gum is still under steam heat. It 

 would seem as though this left nothing 

 further to be desired in the line of wax 

 extractors. 



Rai'IDITv ok Plow is something that 

 should be considered carefullj', says 

 Mr. R. C. Aikin in the American Bee 

 Journal. By this wc may judge how 

 many sections to give, and how soon to 

 give theni in tiering up, etc. He says 

 that this matter may be determined much 

 more rajndly by having a colony or two 

 on scales. The scales will show the ten- 

 dency ol flow two or three days sooner 

 than it will be shown by an examination 

 of the sections. 



Hi'.AVV I.ii-TINC, of hives of honey is 

 avoifled by Mrs. A. J- Barber by putting 

 bed -casters on a board made to fit upon 

 her Daisy wheelbarrow. The hive for 

 holding the extracting combs is .set upon 

 this board, and when the hive is full the 

 wheelbarrow is trundled up to a platform 

 of just the right height so that the board 



