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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



above for sale. Will explain why I 

 make this request when I reply to your 

 card. This is important, so please 

 write the card if you are thinking of 

 bu}'ing during the next jear. 



A Bee-Keeper for Fifty-five Years — A 

 Review Reader Since It Started. 

 J. L. Lewis is a familiar figure at 

 the Michigan state bee-keepers' con- 

 ventions. For fifty-five years he has 

 been keeping bees, and has been a 

 reader of the Review ever since it 



J. L. LEWIS, DiAMONDAi.E, Mich. 

 A pioneer reader of the Bee-Keepers' Review. 



started. He has been a resident of 

 Diamondale, ^Michigan, since he was 

 five years old, and he is now 69. 



We are sorry to learn that ]\Ir. Lewis 

 has suffered a stroke of paralysis and 

 is in very poor health. 



Bees For Sale. 



The above sign will no doubt be 

 very much in evidence this fall and 

 next spring. After the short honey 



crop this year, a great many so-called 

 bee-keepers will conclude bee-keeping 

 doesn't pay, and will want to get out. 

 This of course will thin the ranks per- 

 ceptibly and is the best time in the 

 world for the fellow with grit to hang 

 on. With so many wanting to sell 

 bees you can buy cheap. Next year is 

 apt to be a good one when with your 

 "more bees" and less competition you 

 can reap the benefit. Even if it is a 

 poor year it only thins the ranks that 

 much more and makes the price that 

 much better when the good year does 

 come. 



Just as soon as the good season does 

 return, then there will be another crop 

 of bee-keepers raised, and then is a 

 splendid time to haz'c bees for sale. All 

 these fellows will want to get into the 

 ranks, concluding that it is ''just the 

 business they were looking for." Just 

 now your slogan should be, "Buy 

 more bees." 



Having Queens Mated Above an 

 Excluder. 



In at least one-half of the cases 

 where unsealed brood is placed above 

 ?. queen excluder, queen cells will be 

 Imilt and queens hatched. I know this 

 from the experience of hundreds of 

 cases, during several years, but have 

 never tried to have these queens fertil- 

 ized and begin laying in these upper 

 stories. As nearly as I can learn, this 

 plan of getting queens fertilized has 

 not proved a practical success. Mr. 

 G. AI. Doolittle made a success of it, 

 and so reported in his Scientific Queen 

 Rearing. Later he reported that he 

 could succeed only during the flood of 

 honey that comes during the basswood 

 harvest. Now he reports failure even 

 duri-.ig the basswood flow, and he ad- 

 mits that he does not know why. Of 

 course, the keeping of nuclei over a 

 strong colony, to get the benefit of its 

 heat, is a different "proposition," as 

 they say; there is where there is a 



