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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



All my hives face the east, so that the 

 supers are placed, as you might say, 

 behind the bees. Every first or bottom 

 super is set on a hive-stand with the 

 hive-bottom in its proper place; and 

 every entrance so formed (all supers 

 with regular hive-bottoms are perfect 

 hives) is securely closed, using one of 

 the sawed-out rabbet-strips as an en- 

 trance block. The bait sections are 

 sorted out as soon as possible, and 

 stacked in like manner after all capped 

 honey they contain is scratched with an 

 uncapping comb. 



During the accumulation of supers all 

 bee-stacks are kept perfectly tight, and 

 covered. Not a bee is allowed to get a 

 taste until all combs, baits and extract- 

 ing are ready for the cleaning. I select 

 the first pleasant, warm day; and, if 

 there is still a little fall honey coming in, 

 all the better. I wait till about three 

 o'clock; then 1 open the whole outfit from 

 top to bottom, except the crack between 

 the two lower supers and the regular 

 hive-entrance at the bottom. This latter 

 1 keep clo-ed, for I do not wish to show 

 my bees the way that might lead them 

 into mischief later on. All openings are 

 either at the back or higher up, where 

 they could not find an entrance in a 

 common, hive, if they should take a 

 notion to look for trouble. 



It takes only a very few minutes for 

 the jubilee to begin. It seem.s as though 

 all the bees of the >ard were summoned 

 by magic to this very spot. But there is 

 such a large area of accessible honey, 

 and no restriction whatever against 

 entering and partaking of it, that there is 

 no fighting nor crowding, and the bees 

 are too busy to attack any one. I fre- 

 quently walk right through the thickest 

 of them without veil or protection of any 

 kind, and am hardly ever molested by a 

 single bee. It is the crowding and fight- 

 ing that makes them ill-tempered. 



As the day draws near its close, the 

 multitude of bees decreases, and by sun- 

 down everything is quiet again, and that 

 is all there is to the cleaning process. 

 As scon as the last bees have left I cover 

 up and m^ake everything bee-tight as it 

 was before. Under no consideration 

 would 1 leave any combs exposed after 

 dark, for that is the time when the wax 

 moth gets in its deadly work Being late 

 in the season, the danger from that 

 source may not be very serious; but I 

 would rather err on the safe side. Ad- 

 hering rigidly to this precaution 1 never 

 have any trouble with worms in my 

 extracting combs nor in sect'on honey 

 either. To fumigate is almost an un- 

 known term to me. I have had no oc- 



casion for its practical application in 

 twenty years or more. 



Taking everything into consideration, 

 the plan I outlined above is undoubtedl/ 

 the simplest and m.ost practical in use. 

 But it has this drawback: All honey 

 thus fed back to the bess is distributed 

 in a promiscuous way. All have not 

 only an even chance, but the strong 

 colonies that need it the least get the 

 most, while some that may need feeding 

 get very little. However, to countera^.t 

 this difficulty we have a way out. It is 

 an easy matter to reserve at our last 

 extracting a few dozen, or as many as 

 we may need, of extra heavy combs of 

 honey, and use them to supply the needy 

 ones. This is by far the easiest, most 

 complete, and least labor requiring 

 method we can employ to supply our 

 light colonies with their necessary winter 

 and spring stores. 



SWARTHMORE'S 



PEDIGREED 



GOLDENS 



Queens from the well known SvVARTHiVlORE. 

 Acia-ies of the late E. L. Pratt. Tne b-igntest 

 husii'ers and the most gentle pure strain of Golden', 

 in ihe United States. 



The Swarthraore Apiaries, Swarthmore Pa. 

 7-10-3t 



)meeiis 



Virgin queens, reared from a select, chamoion 

 layer, imported from Italy, 30 cts. each. Mattd 

 queens reared from a select breeding queen of the 

 famous J. P Mooie st'a'n, 65 cts These queens 

 are mated wheie the drones or her own daughters 

 predominate 



3S or 40 last year's queens that 1 wish to replace 



and a few this year's queens at the rate of three fc- 



Sl.CO 8-10-tf 



A. H. K.^NAGY, KishacoquiKas, Penn. 



Tlh® Fliraest Hoi^es^o 



We I ave the finest honey in Texas It is from 

 the Gaibclaw; is a very light amber, but much liKe 

 white clover. ItisDutup in 60 pound cans, two 

 in a case, and we ofTei it at 9 cts. a pound F. O. 

 B. here in Texas. Address 



W. B. DAVIS, Del Rio, Texas. 

 6-10-tf 



Cyprians 

 Golden Jubilee Queens 



It is just 50 years since 1 began bee keeping in 

 Souihern Michigan and 30 years since I advertised 

 queens for sale from my apiary in Central Michi- 

 gan; 30 years ago 1 sent the first Cyprians direct 

 from ihe Island 01 Cyprus to America They aie 

 great honey gptherrrs Queens bred and mated n 

 Cyprus in 1910, S5 and S6 each; home-bred, $1 

 each, 5 for $4. 

 Frank Benton, Box 17, Washington, D. C. 



