THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



known to you by the crowd of would-be 

 robbers bobbing around the Exchange; but 

 if the Exchange is quiet you may feel com- 

 fortably assured that honesty prevails 

 throughout the yard. 



" Sept. 22ud. Frost. Hcijan taking away the 

 sections for the season. At 11-9 the bees had 

 already carried down the unsealed honey." 



And thus the season is over at last — or 



rather the last weighable ounce came in the 



next day, Sept. 23rd. And these bees were 



rather unusually [)rompt in getting about 



their winter preparations. 



" Sept. 26th. Bloom now pretty much con- 

 fined to the aster," 



I hardly know whether to be pleased or 



displeased with this too-subsequent trait of 



the asters. It's nice to have some bloom 



always outspread whenever bees can fly; but 



another result is that we never, or scarcely 



ever, get any surplus honey from asters. 



" Sept. 27th. Contracted the entrances to two 

 Inches. Put up part of the shelter boards over 

 the entrances. I was moved to these measures 

 by seeing that part of the colonies had got the 

 habit of morning sneak thievery while others 

 were torpid with cold." 



Here's bee nature again very prominent. 

 When cold nights come soon after a run of 

 honey the comb close to the entrance has 

 unsealed honey in it; and at dawn either no 

 bees cover this honey or they are too torpid 

 to resist. Certain colonies in the apiary are 

 pretty sure to "go in" on this state of things. 

 As among men so among bees, the Judases 

 can hold out against drowsiness and cold 

 when the Peters and Johns can not. 



RiOHABDS, Lucas Co., Ohio, Aug. 26, 1892. 



Advantages of the Hastings Perfection 



Feeder, and how Spring Feeding has 



Paid its Inventor. 



M. E. HASTINGS. 



•N my own experience of five years the 

 Perfection feeder has given me entire 

 satisfaction as an every-purpose feeder. 

 The advantages claimed for it are: First, for 

 stimulating it is perfection itself, as the 

 flow can be regulated to any desired amount. 

 That is something I practice every spring 

 in building up for the honey flow, and it has 

 paid me well. Last year I had twenty-eight 

 colonies, spring count, and they averaged 

 ninety pounds to the colony; this year I 

 have not figured up the average yet, but I 

 believe it will not be less than seventy or 



seventy-five, average per colony, and this 

 season has been a very poor one with bee- 

 keepers about me. I believe the credit of 

 my success belongs to spring feeding. 



PATENT ED 



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HASTING S PEKFECTION FEEDEB. 



Second, it can be used when the thermom- 

 eter is below zero, as the feed is right over 

 the cluster. In 1890 I fed my bees in De- 

 cember when the thermometer registered 

 below zero, and fed them up for the winter. 



Third, there is no danger of robbers 

 troubling, as there is no dripping, and it 

 can be refilled without any loss or daubing 

 of the bees or hive; in fact it is, with me, 

 one of the articles that would be indispen- 

 sible in the apiary. 



New Yobk Mills, N. Y., Aug, 20, 1892, 



The Value of Young, Vigorous Queens.— 

 A Poor Season in Colorado. 



E. O. AlKIN. 



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OOLITTLE 

 says that to 

 have colonies 

 build u p evenly 

 and make an even 

 record in honey 

 gathering, more 

 depends upon the 

 queen than any- 

 thing else. I do 

 delight in having 

 rousing colonies 

 during the honey 



flow, for that's where the profit comes in. 



How provoking to strive to get a queen to 



