THE BEEKEEPERS' REVIEW 



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by F. Coverdale of Maquoketa, Iowa, 

 which appeared in the June number of 

 the "Bee Keepers' Review" 1907. It 

 was entitled ■■Controlling- Increase By 

 Cutting Out the Brood." He stated that: 



•■Any plan that rids the hive of all 

 brood, kills all swarming just as effectu- 

 ally as if natural swarming- had taken 

 place." His plan consists in cutting- out 

 and removing all the brood, leaving the 

 honey parts in the frames. Setting the 

 brood in a box with a screen cone on one 

 side and moved up close to the entrance 

 of the old hive, the young bees hatched 

 out constantly and reinforced the old 

 hive. The c-t out combs had to be 

 spaced in the box so as not to touch each 

 other, and enough bees run in to clean 

 up the drippings and furnish heat for the 

 brood. And this plan required further 

 that enough honey be cut out with the 

 brood to last until all the bees were 

 hatched— the empty brood combs in the 

 hatching box being finally melted up into 

 wax. 



The queer part of it is that Mr. Cover- 

 dale stumbled right over one of the most 

 important discoveries of the last half 

 century, but failed to recognize its possi- 

 bilities. Further along in his article he 

 makes this statement: 



'■To manipulate colonies so as not to 

 swarm at all when run for comb honey 

 is a thing yet to be discovered." 



It read to me like another case of 

 history repeating itself. While it is true 

 that Langstroth was not really the in- 

 ventor of the movable frame hive, he 

 was the inventor of the first practical 

 movable frame hive, a hive that was of 

 real use to the world. To Huber, the 

 Swiss, belongs the credit of- inventing the 

 first movable frame, but his invention 

 was impracticable and not adapted to 

 bee keeping on a commercial scale. 



Without wishing to enter into any 

 argument either for or against the Jones 

 plan, I will admit that when I first read 

 it there came over me a feeling of re- 

 vulsion. It seemed cruel. The doctor, 

 however, brings forward unanswerable 

 arguments on this point. It probably is 

 far less cruel than our treatment of some 

 animals — dehorning cattle, for instance. 

 It is possible, even, that it is entirely 

 painless. I don't know as there is any 

 way of determining this. Perhaps some 

 of the scientists might determine this 

 point. I don't wish to start a discussion 

 until the entire book has been copied 



which will be next month, but 1 could not 

 resist calling attention to the doctor's 

 arguments on the point where his system 

 may receive the most severe criticism. 

 The rest of the book is devoted largely to 

 a description of the author's experience 

 with his method. 



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For Sale. 



In the sunny San Lewis valley, Colo., my Ittle 

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Imported Carnlolaos 



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Queens Cyprians 



1 am wintering a fine lot; each queen bred in 

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