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While we do not, as a rule, advise the 

 shifting of bees into a hive already con- 

 taining a colony, yet, by the method of 

 placing one colony on top of the other, 

 as previously mentioned, and shifting the 

 bees over into the top hive after placing 

 it dov^n upon the vacant side of the 

 switch board, we have never yet known 

 a colony so treated to cast a swarm; 

 however, it may not work in all locations. 



There are many ways in which the 

 new principle may be applied to the 

 successful control of bees. While the 

 principle is equally effective in all loca- 

 tions, the method of applying it must be 

 governed by the location, time and dura- 

 tion of the honey flow. 



Every well informed bee keeper can tes- 

 tify to the truth of the assertion that the 

 shook-swarming system is the only one 

 that has ever amounted to anything by 

 way of swarm-control; the objection to it 

 in the past has been the labor that is 

 required to operate it. Besides, there is 

 no convenient method of holding the 

 brood in reserve to reinforce the swarm 

 which is perceptibly weakened in the 

 midst of the harvest by the dropping ofT 

 of old bees with no young ones to fill up 

 the depleted ranks. The new system 

 accomplishes all that shook-swarming 

 does, with the added advantage of a 

 continuous influx of young bees, by which 

 the swarm is continually increasing in 

 numerical strength. Add to this the 

 fact that the arduous labor of lifting 

 heavy hives, shaking and brushing bees, 

 etc., is entirely eliminated, and we can 



better realize what the new system 

 means to bee keeping, but it is only by 

 actual use that we can fully comprehend 

 its possibilities along the line of con- 

 trolling bees and minimizing labor, which 

 are the two crying needs of apiculture, as 

 well as the most important factors in the 

 cost of honey production. 



I am aware that many will attempt to 

 make the equipment from the description, 

 without a sample to work from, and, 

 doubtless, will condemn the system, when 

 the fault will be improper construction. 

 In order to obviate this niaisance, the 

 inventor has thought best to protect it by 

 patents, furnishing the equipment to the 

 public through his regular authorized 

 agents. 



In conclusion, I invite honest criticism,, 

 and would be especially pleased to have 

 experienced bee keepers name the weak 

 points of the system as they see them. A 

 system that will not bear the closest 

 scrutiny is not worthy of a place in the 

 ranks of modern bee keeping methods. 

 My advice to all is, go slow, prove all 

 things and hold fast that which is good. 



Birmingham, Ohio, Jan. 9, 1911. 



[It is with pleasure that I make room 

 for the foregoing, as it is evident that, 

 while the principle of the Langdon and 

 Hand devices is identical, the system of 

 management by the latter is distinctly 

 different. In one sense, it is "shook- 

 swarming," but the device enables the 

 the bee keeper to compel the bees to 

 "shake themselves," so speak. — Editor,] 



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May your joys be deep as the ocean; 

 Your sorrows as light as the foam. 



Bro. York has extended the time to 

 March 1st of his offer of Doolittle's 

 Scientific Queen Rearing free with the 

 Bee Journal. See his ad on page 61. 



The Ohio State Bee Keepers' Associa- 

 tion meets in convention February 1 6 and 

 17, at the Grand Hotel, 4th St. and 

 Central Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio, Halls No. 

 1 and No. 2. Mr. N. E. Shaw, chief 

 inspector of bees of State Department of 

 Agriculture will address the convention 



