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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



SELECTED ARTICLES. 



{Continued froin page 348) 

 is a rare exception when the bees con- 

 tinue attempts at supersedure after the 

 transposition of brood when the queen 

 is really good; so if the queen is par- 

 ticularly valuable it is \yell to remove 

 started cells again and change another 

 comb of capped brood for one of un- 

 sealed larvae. By combs of capped 

 brood or unsea'ed larvae is meant where 

 the greater part of the continued young 

 are of the character specified. The 

 foregoing procedure is based on funda- 

 mental laws of bee life. 



Big Money in Bee Raising Out West 



— Government Starts a Boom 



for Honey-Industry. 



Under the above double heading, the 

 Detroit Xcws gave the fol owing item, 

 space in a recent issue. While we may 

 not all be willing to accept the "Profits 

 of about 150 per cent a year" sentence, 

 we should be pleased with the publicity 

 given the industry by a paper of such 

 wide circulation. It should give us en- 

 couragement to give items of general 

 or local interest to the press concern- 

 ing bee-keeping, as it all tends towards 

 that "general advertising" we have 

 talked about so much. The item was 

 as follows : 



WASHINGTOX. Xov. 9.— "Young 

 man, go west and make honey." is the 

 form to which Uncle Sam has changed 

 Horace Greeley's advice. 



Profits of about 1.50 per cent a year 

 can be made in the bee industry on 

 some of the government reclamation 

 projects of the west, according to ofii- 

 cia's of the reclamation service. 



"The average price of bees in the 

 west," said C. J. Blanchard, statistician 

 of the service today, "is probably about 

 $5 a hive. The manager of a large 



apiary on one of the irrigated tracts, 

 gives the average production of his 

 hives at 76 pounds of surplus honey 

 per annum. At 10 cents a pound the 

 returns would be $7.60. In addition to 

 that, the increase averages 100 per cent 

 a year, doubling the original investment 

 and making a total of 150 per cent 

 profit each year on the original invest- 

 ment. 



"Reports indicate that the quality of 

 the honey being raised on some of our 

 government projects is most excellent," 

 continued Mr. Blanchard. "Many bee 

 farmers have located in fruit sections, 

 and the combination is found to be mu- 

 tually advantageous. The trees furnish 

 an abundance of honey during the blos- 

 soming period, and orchard men state 

 that the economic importance of the bee, 

 from the standpoint of its value in the 

 pollenization of fruit, cannot be over- 

 estimated." 



Try Our Liner Columns for Results 



American Butter & Cheese 

 Co., 



31-33 Griswold St., Detroit, Mich. 



Always in the market for choice 

 comb honey. Write us. 



WANTED 

 WHITE HONEY 



Both comb and extracted. Write 



us before disposing of 



your crop. 



HILDRETH & SEGELKEN 



265-267 Greenwich St. 



New York, N. Y. 



RIGHT NOW IS A GOOD TIME TO FIGURE 



Many bee-keepers have found it profitable to figure out in early winter what b 

 supplies they would want next season. After doing this they would then send the list 

 supply men for prices. Naturally we can give you better prices now than we can later 

 the season. Let us help you figure it out. Send us your list of supplies wanted. 



M. H. HUNT & SON, Lansing, Mich. 



