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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



Det's invention ? Ah, yes. His first method 

 had been to dip sheets of tin foil in the wax, 

 thus rolling a foundation that couldnH 

 stretch ; bat that was expensive, and there 

 were some other objections. His next plan, 

 the one of which I speak, was to have the 

 foundation partly supported while the bees 

 were drawing it, on the points of a dozen or 

 twenty tiny rake teeth temporarily struck 

 into it. When the combs were sufficiently 

 advanced the rakes were withdrawn. 

 Richards, Ohio. July 30, 1892. 



Bee-Keepers' Review. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY. 



W. z. HUTCHiriSOri, Ed. & Pfop. 



Terms : — $1.00 a year in advance Two copies, 

 $1.90 ; three for $2.70: five f or $4.n0 : ten, or more, 

 70 cents each, ^f" The Review is stopped at 

 the expiration of the time paid for. 



FLINT, MICHIGAN, AUG. 10. 1892. 



California will not furnish much honey 

 this year. 



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W. D. Sopeb's address is Jackson, Mich. 

 I see that by some " Hocus Pocus " the state 

 was left off the address to his ad. 



" SwARMEBs" is what some folks are call- 

 ing the self-hivers. Why call them " swarm- 

 ers ? " They don't swarm the bees, they 

 hive them. 



The Progressive Bee - Keeper suggests 

 that there ought to be two classes for exhib- 

 iting Italian bees affairs — one for the three- 

 banded and one for the five-banded or gold- 

 en. Good idea. 



" FEEDING BACK " extracted honey to secure 

 the completion of unfinished sections is 

 proving profitable with Mr A. E. Manum. 

 Very properly, he adds X its bulk of hot 

 water. 



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A Movable Honey House, one that can 

 be taken to pieces, loaded on a wagon, 

 taken to an out-apiary and put together 

 again, is owned by A. N. Draper, and a de- 

 tailed description of its construction appears 

 in the American Bee-Keeper. 



Overhead Protection, in the way of 

 shade, is needed by the bees in summer, but 

 it is necessary for the good of the colonies 

 that the sun shine on the ground in front of 

 the hives to a distance of from 25 to 50 feet ; 

 so says Bro. Hill of the Guide, and he speaks 

 from experience. 



different colored hives aid the bees in 

 locating their homes, says Mr. Manum in 

 Gleanings, and I know that it is true, but 

 there are so many manipulations in the api- 

 ary that are aided by having the hives ex- 

 actly alike, in appearance, that I would 

 never paint hives different colors. 



The White Mountain Apiarist, formerly 

 printed two pages at a time on a job press, is 

 now printed on a Campbell press owned and 

 operated by its editor. Five persons, includ- 

 ing the editor, now find work in the office of 

 the Apiarist. There are promises that the 

 Ajyiarist will be out more promptly in the 

 future. 



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Bro. Alley has sent me two self-hivers, 

 and each has caught a swarm since their arri- 

 val. They will catch the whole sivarm. 

 There is no mistake about it. The reason 

 is that the bees in leaving and returning to 

 the old hive, in their every day labors, pass 

 through the hiver, and when they swarm the 

 queen is caught near the outer entrance of 

 the hiver, and when the bees return they stay 

 in the hiver with the queen. 



The bee - keeping editors are all now 

 on pretty good terms with one another. If 

 there Ys one of them holding a "grudge" 

 against another member of the fraternity, 

 I'll tell him how to get his revenge, if he 

 must have it. Let him keep perfectly still 

 about it, but go quietly to work and so im- 

 prove his own journal that it will " run out " 

 the other fellow. 



Migratory bee - keeping is proving a 

 success with one man in Florida. Arthur F. 

 Brown writes : " I have about 10,000 pounds 

 of honey gathered from Mangrove by 100 

 colonies. This was secured as the result of 

 moving my bees, which speaks well for mi- 

 gratory beekeeping. My spring crop was 



