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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



This was at the time when the Hon. 

 R. L. Taylor, of Lapeer, Mich., was con- 

 ducting some apicultural experiments for 

 the State and several of the devices (I 

 think three of them) were sent to him for 

 trial. Mr. Taylor gave in the Review a 

 full account of the experiment. The six 

 colonies placed on trial swarmed out 

 repeatedly. If I remember correctly 

 there were 15 swarms issued. I was 

 present when one swarm issued. The 

 colony that is depleted will destroy its 

 queen cells (also lose quite a lot of its 

 unsealed brood) and the colony that gets 

 the extra bees will swarm without wait- 

 ing to build queen cells. 



Of course, no one doubts that friend 

 Hand has succeeded exactly as he says 

 he has, and 1 sincerely hope that there is 

 some hidden kink in his management that 

 will enable him to continue his success, 

 but, I must confess that 1 am far from 

 hopeful. 



rapidly, and so as not to 

 ounces for the whole crop. 



four 



FILLING HONEY CANS. 



How it may be Done with 

 Measuring Faucet, 



5elf- 



Where the honey is stored in large 

 tanks, and drawn off later into 60-pound 

 cans, I know of no better plan for filling 

 the cans than the one described by John 

 G. Corey in Gleanings. Here is the plan: 



Thirty-five years ago, when I became 

 a producer of extracted honey by the 

 carload, I found that the largest syrup- 

 gate to be procured in the market would 

 not allow a ton of the heavy honey we 

 were producing in Ventura Co. to pass 

 through it in less than three hours. This 

 slow process not being satisfactory I 

 availed myself of my knowledge of labor 

 and time saving appliances by procuring 

 a measuring faucet made by the Enter- 

 prise Mfg. Co. With this device I could 

 draw off and case up a ton of heavy 

 honey inside of an hour. The faster the 

 crank is turned, the shorter time is re- 

 quired to fill the can. The dial is ad- 

 justable; and if the can, as it comes 

 from the factory, should hold a pint or a 

 quart over or under the 60 lbs. desired, 

 the dial can be moved to zero for each 

 can, and five-gallon cans can be filled 



Bee Keeping not a Rosy Success in 

 the Tropics. 



I have always greatly enjoyed every- 

 thing that came from the keen and versa- 

 tile pen of Mr. H. E. Hill, ex-editor of 

 the American Bee Keeper, hence you can 

 im.agine with what interest I perused the 

 following: 



Ft. Pierce, Fla., Sept. 24, 1910 

 Mr. W. Z. Hutchinson, 



Flint, Mich. 

 My dear W. Z.— 



The Review for September 

 is at hand. 1 have been more than 

 usually interested in the plans of Mr. W. 

 C. Morris, as set forth on page 278 of 

 that issue. How vividly it recalls the 

 plans of my boyhood days, when, like 

 Mr. Morris, I was overflowing with am- 

 bition. 



When I had had four years of personal 

 experience, though, my faith in the possi- 

 bilities were, perhaps, not less than those 

 of Mr. Morris. I was somewhat un- 

 certain of my personal ability to grapple 

 with big problems which I anticipated. 

 I therefore spent a year with one of the 

 old and successful producers, and my 

 confidence in myself increased. So, 

 armed with a certificate of ability, I 

 undertook the task. One more season, 

 in Pennsylvania, which was more than 

 ordinarly successful, tended to still 

 further increase my confidence and en- 

 thusiasm. 



Then, as you know, I tackled the 

 tropics— the south coast of Cuba. Pros- 

 pects were bright and I was determined. 

 The result was failure. E. M. Storer, 

 H. G. Burnett and a score of others from 

 the North who have tested out the great 

 possibilities of Jamaica and who have no 

 supplies to sell, can give Mr. Morris some 

 valuable pointers as to the difficulties of 

 bee keeping in the tropics. While 1 sin- 

 cerely trust that it may be otherwise, I 

 fear Mr. Morris will be the one who will 

 ultimately have to "crawl into a hole." 



Your appended comments are most 

 wise. It would be nothing short of 

 criminal for one of experience to do any- 

 thing to encourage heavy expense in such 

 an enterprise, for, as sure as day follows 

 night, disappointment awaits the pro- 

 moters of this enterprise, and, as you 

 suggest, why should one seek a country 

 where the business is fraught with diffi- 

 culties ten-fold, when he has demon- 



