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Of recent years, when there is much 

 tendency to rob, or where I do not want, 

 owing to the location, to excite the bees, 

 we leave the wet combs in the extracting 

 house or barn until the last thing- at 

 night. That means that 1 begin so late 

 in the day that we can get them all on 

 the hive before dark. In any case, unless 

 honey is coming in very fast, it is a bad 

 practice to bring wet combs into the 

 apiary and keep them standing out until 

 room is made for them by taking out 

 combs of honey. Of course, when bees 

 are not liable to rob, it is more expeditious 

 to have the combs ready. To put combs, 

 which have been extracted, on the last 

 thing at night during robbing-time is a 

 great factor in the prevention of robbing; 

 by morning the combs have been made 

 dry and they no longer excite. 



It is my temperment to forsee danger 

 and try and guard against it when I can. 



That is what is needed in preventing 

 robbing. Where we extract the second 

 day, 1 am careful to clean up all I can at 

 night and be on the ground in the morn- 

 ing before the bees get busy. Such well- 

 Known methods as exposing no honey on 

 the wagon, cloth or supers are so well 

 known, I need not enlarge on them. 



Last summer I had with me a young 

 man from Ohio, who was at the National 

 Convention at Detroit. He came to 

 learn how to produce extracted honey, 

 and, having previous knowledge of bees, 

 he picked up ideas rapidly, as he himself 

 said. Before leaving, he stated that it 

 had been his full intention to use bee 

 escapes, but, after seeing with his own 

 eyes our methods, he was thoroughly 

 satisfied that our method without the 

 bee-escape was better and quicker. 



Brantford, Canada, Jan. 21, 1910. 



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EDITORIAL 



The National membership now mounts 

 up to 3,850. 



up members 

 "Legal Rights' 

 for sale. 



are entitled to receive 

 free of charge. No copies 



The National Convention is to be held 

 in Albany, New York, October 1910. 



Nine Days is the age given by Mr. 

 Lyon, in his book, as the age at which 

 young queens take their wedding flight. 

 According to my experience, six or seven 

 days is more nearly correct. I have 

 frequently had queens begin laying at 

 nine days. 



"Legal Rights," have been sent out to 

 members of the National Bee Keepers' 

 Association, if any member has not re - 

 ceived a copy let him write to Manager 

 France of Platteville, Wisconsin. Paid 



Mr Oliver Foster in an article which 

 will appear next month, calls attention to 

 the advantages and disadvantages of 

 different plans for preventing swarming. 

 It is doubtful if there is any plan entirely 

 free from objections; but, if bees were al- 

 lowed to swarm in an unwatched apiary, 

 the loss of swarms would be still more 

 objectionable. 



L. B. Tyrrell, secretary of the Michigan 

 bee keepers' association, recently sent out 

 100 letters to honey buyers, and he 

 writes that replies are coming in by 

 every mail. He already has requests 

 for over 500,000 pounds of honey. This 

 list of buyers, together with their wants 



