JANUARY 1, 1913 



Cold facts showed heavy winter losses a year 

 ago. We can look for losses this winter, too. 



How about NEXT winter? What are you doing 

 about it? We suggest the Buckeye Beehive as ttie 

 remedy. One severe winter will save more than 

 the cost of the hive. You can buy them cheaper 

 'in January than June. . . Write us about it. 



M. H. HUNT & SON, LANSING, MICH 



141 CONDIT STREET 



LEWIS BEEWARE^s Vi 



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FIC WORKMANSHIP y^^ ^j,^ j^ ^^^^ nearest Distribater. 



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By Anna Botsford Comstock. A most entertaining and practical book for the 



beginner. Tells a beginner's experiences in a way to help other beginners 



PRICE $1.10 I'OSTPAID. The A. I. Root Co., Medina, Ohio. 



DO BEES REASON ? A BRIEF FOR THE 

 INSECT. 



If Nol, How do Bees Know What to Do with Comb 

 Foundation? Why do They Fill Cracks in the Hive 

 with Propolis durins Hot Weather? An Ant Story. 

 Bee Scouts. Reflex Theory Insufficient. A Prob- 

 lem for the Breeder. 



CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DRONE 

 MOST APT TO BE TRANSMITTED. 



The First Breeder of Italians in His Locality Tells of 

 His Early Experiences. Takes Issue with Dr. Bon- 

 ney, and also Supports Him. Some Theories Upset. 



By H. L. Jeffrey, ^yoodbury, Ct. 



SOME THINGS TO OBSERVE IN EX- 

 TENSIVE BEEKEEPING. 



Advocates Steam-heated Uncaoping-knlves, Portable 

 Extracting-outfjts; a Six or Eight Frame Extractor- 

 Sells 2000 to 50,000 Pounds of Honey Each Year' 

 Mostly to Consumers. Heats Honey as soon as Ex- 

 tracted. 



By Virgil Sires, North Yakima, Wash. 



These are just three of the articles that will ap- 

 pear soon in the Beekeepers' Review. There were 

 74 of them during 1912. We had 64 contributors. 

 They were not articles written out for pay, either, 

 but those sent in on the spur of the moment, when 

 all the faculties were tingling, and that kind is always 

 the best. Possibly their fingers were daubed with 

 propolis when they wrote some of them. But they had 

 an idea they wanted to give you that had helped them. 

 It came just as they would have told you had you 

 been where they could talk to you. And that is just 

 the kind of contributors we will have for 1913. 

 Their articles will ring with practicality ; and the 

 best articles often come from the most unexpected 

 places. 



Send in your $1.50 now, and get full member- 

 ship in the National, full membership in a branch, 

 and the Review each month for a year. 



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A Beginners' Department to start In the 

 January number 



