ms. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



Now, that is all righr, but I don't do so. 

 1 do not allow my bees to swarm be- 

 fore or after the harvest, and in doing 

 so I can make my increase as much or 

 as little as I desire, or not at all, by di- 

 viding after the white honey harvest is 

 over. My plan is to have an adjusta- 

 ble brood chamber in a large hive — one 

 that I can expand or contract at will. 

 This plan is no experiment I am using 

 it this very day, and obtain results that 

 "astonish the natives." 



No caging of queens, no swarming, 

 no clipping of wings, no cutting out 

 queen cells, no waiting for the seventh 

 day for a queen to hatch and no de- 

 queening as per article on page 133. 



Here is a sample obtained from one 

 colony: 



An increase of three full colonies, 

 which are or have been working on 

 buckwheat and fall flowers, and from 

 which I shall obtain over 200 pounds of 

 extracted honey, $10; comb honey, $21; 

 increase (three colonies full-blooded 

 Cyprians), $15; nine young queens, $9; 

 total, $55. 



My plan, with the Acme hive, is 

 surely a success. 



South Wales, N. Y. 



United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture, Division of Entomology, 

 Washington, D. C, Sept. 30, 1898. 

 W. T. Falconer Mfg. Co., Falconer, N.Y.: 

 Dear Sirs: — I fully appreciate the 

 improvements you have been making 

 the past season in The American Bee- 

 Keeper and hope you may succeed in 

 your plan of adding greatly to your 

 subscription list for the coming year. 

 Enclosed are three names to help a lit- 

 tle. Kindl.y send, for enclosed money 

 order for $1.50, The Bee-Keeper from 



October ], 1898, to Jan 1, 1900, to each 

 of the three as per offer in last num- 

 ber. 



Very truly yours, 



FRANK BENT'ON. 



Mountain View, N. J., Oct. 14, 1898. 

 The W. T. Falconer Mfg. Co. 



Gentlemen— Please find enclosed a 

 check to balance account. Would have 

 sent it sooner but have been perfecting 

 plans and intended to send an order at 

 same time. The foundation you sent 

 me is the best I have ever used, the 

 bees accepted it and made the whitest 

 comb produced this year. I noticed its 

 softness and marked each super in 

 which it was used. I shall use no 

 other. All the supplies received from 

 you are better than from any other 

 house. 



I had some separators from you two 

 years ago, 3-32 thick, planed both 

 sides, and find less propolis on them 

 than the sawed ones, and they keep 

 their shape better, in fact, do not 

 wrinkle at all. I suppose you can furn- 

 ish them planed of that thickness now? 



Though the early part of the season 

 was very unfavorable, still, the fall has 

 given me about 1,200 pounds, and the 

 bees have abundant stores to keep 

 them until the next flow of nectar, and 

 I have thirty-six colonies to carry 

 through. 



Very truly yours, 

 B. F. Onderdonk 



CincinnatUh, N. Y., Oct. 5. 1898. 

 The W. T. Falconer Mfg. Co.: 



As I promised to let you hear some- 

 thing of my experience with the new 

 dovetailed supers and bored separat- 

 ors, will try and do so now. As it was 

 rather along in the honey flow before 1 

 received them, I could not tell as well 

 in regard to the willingness of the bees 

 to occupy them, as they were used in 

 tiering up. 



I put them up, according to Pettit's 

 plan, of a bee space outside of the sec- 



