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THE BEE-KEEPERS" REVIEW 



sections, that they may be used as 

 ■"bait" sections the next spring? 



Is there a profitable method of feeding 

 to secure the drawing out of foundation 

 in sections in advance of the season? 



Give the best method of feeding to 

 secure the completion of unfinished 

 sections at the end of the season. 



How best to fasten sheets of founda- 

 tion into shallow frames that have been 

 used once for chunk honey, and the groove 

 is filled with wax. 



How best to make a living from, bees 

 alone. Would like to hear from Dr. 

 M Her and Mr. Doolittle. 



Would like an article on queen rearing 

 from Mr. Geo. B. Howe. 



Give details of the Pratt method of 

 •queen rearing. 



What IS the best method of transfer- 

 ring bees from box hives to standard 

 hives? Would like to hear from 

 Townsend? 



Is there any practical way of cleaning 

 propolis off sections, aside from scraping 

 it off with a knife? 



What are the merits of the golden 

 Italian bees, as compared with the dark 

 ■or leather-colored Italians? 



What are the advantages of the di- 

 visible brood chamber hive? 



If a queen is reared, fertilized and be- 

 gins laying in an upper story over an 

 excluder, what are the prospects of her 

 superseding the old queen if she and the 

 bees are shaken down in front of the 

 •entrance? 



What is the best method of fastening 

 foundation into sections? 



What is the best method of securing 

 rapid increase? 



Would like an article from Aaron 

 Coppin on his comb honey production. 



Describe the Betsinger case and 

 separator for comb honey. 



What is the best method of straining 

 the unusually thick honey produced in the 

 West? 



What IS the best method of furnishing 

 •a substitute for pollen where one is 

 needed? 



How long before the honey flow ought 

 our queens to be doing their best, and how 

 near the end of the harvest ought we 

 begin to discourage breeding? Would 

 like to hear from J. E. Crane. 



Of what does the "ripening" of honey 

 consist? 



What would give to bee keeping the 

 greatest impetus? 



What is the best method of securing 

 drawn combs for use in extracting 

 supers? 



Has stimulative feeding a tendency to 

 make "lazy" bees out of "'busy" bees? 



What is the most practical way of 

 building up colonies for the white clover 

 harvest? Would like to hear from 

 Townsend. 



What is the best method of introduc- 

 ing a queen in the shortest possible time? 



Are cappings melters a pract'cal 

 success? 



What is the best method of building up 

 weak colonies in time for the honey 

 harvest? 



Here are 54 topics upon which sub- 

 scribers would like information. If any 

 reader can give it, upon one or a dozen 

 of the subjects mentioned, let him not 

 be backward. I will pay for such arti- 

 cles as aie used. 



The Importance of Renewing Subscrip- 

 tions Promptly. 



The Review is nearly 25 years old. 

 and 1 believe that, in all this time, I have 

 never "dunned" my subscribers through 

 its columns, nor so much as referred to 

 the matter of delinquent subscriptions. 

 Probably 1 shall never again refer to the 

 matter, but, just now, I have been going 

 through the list, and sending out "re- 

 minders" to those in arrears, and I have 

 been so impressed with the number of 

 those who are from one to two years 

 behind, that I feel as though I must free 

 my mind. Not many are two yea' s in 

 arrears, but a very large number are 

 over a year behind, and a still larger 

 number are several months in arrears. 



Perhaps somebcdy, yes, several "some- 



