THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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Place your colonies in these boxes any 

 time in September, or later; see that the 

 little hoard over the entrance is so placed 

 that the bees can run under and out 

 through the outside entrance. Take off 

 your wooden cover used during the 

 summer, place a piece of canvass over 

 the frames, then some burlap, bag or 

 quilt of soma description, oyer this, and 

 then two or three thicknesses of news- 

 paper over this, if you live where it gets 

 very cold, and then over all place your 

 packing material around the sides and 

 ends, and over the hives to a depth of 10 

 inches, or more. With this amount of 

 packing there will be no condensation of 

 moisture in the hive; the quilts and paper 

 will be bone dry; the frames of comb and 

 honey will come out bright in nearly 

 every case, and any colony that is in 

 shape and that would winter any where 

 will come out 0. K. 



Regarding winter feed, be sure that 

 the bees have a plenty of good honey, or, 

 better still, cane granulated sugar syrup. 

 This syrup will winter them perfectly. 



Regarding ventilation: See that there 



is a free passage of air above the hives 

 over the packing. This is done by nail- 

 ing the strip that the cover slides on so 

 as to leave, say, an inch, between the 

 top of the box and cover. During the 

 winter, at least once, reach in with a 

 bent wire and clean out all the dead 

 bees. If the snow is deep, shovel it out 

 in February, and clean out the dead 

 bees, as the usual space under the 

 frames is not sufficient to hold what 

 bees will die in some colonies. In the 

 most of the colonies it may be all right 

 if you do not clean ouo the dead bees, 

 but it will do no harm, and you will save 

 those that would otherwise perish; for, 

 just as sure as the bees find they are 

 blocked in they will become excited, con- 

 sume honey, and get the disentery ere 

 they can get out. 



You can leave the bees in these winter 

 hives until they get built up strong, but 

 they will do better if put out when 

 settled warm weather comes. They 

 need the sunshine. 



East Jordan, Mich., Sept. 14, 1910. 



The Honey Market and Factors Contributing to 

 The Selhng of Honey. 



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 III 



ing little opening for 

 while I may differ in a 

 I shall confine myself 

 extension of its scope. 



M. V. FACEY. 



rnHIS article There are two great factors in the 

 T is based up- successful marketing of any article; 

 on an editorial first, the kind of product the market 

 in the Review demands, and, second, the proper pre- 

 last May, re- sentation or exploitation of it; and suc- 

 lating to the cess can never be complete without the 

 selling of honey, last factor, nor durable without the first, 

 a splendid art!- When the bee keeper produces his crop 

 cle, full of wise of honey, he is also doing his part to 

 suggestions and determine what the dealer may ask for 

 good common it or be compelled to sell it for; whether 

 sense, and leav- the market shall be extended or cur- 

 criticism, hence, tailed. 



few minor items, "The majority of bee keepers are good 



principally to the producers." In my business I use a 



good deal of comb as well as extracted 



