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thus getting- them at wholesale; the 

 other that of advertising- tlie honey of 

 its members, thus lielping- them to 

 mal<e sales. As being- easier to put 

 into execution, it was voted at the last 

 meeting to use what money there was 

 in the treasury in adopting the latter 

 plan — helping the members to sell their 

 honey. About the first of August each 

 member is to report to the Secretary 

 tlie number of pounds of honey he has, 

 whether comb or extracted, the quality, 

 how put up, etc. The secretary will 

 tabulate these, giving the names and 

 addresses of the members, the amount 

 and kind of honey appearing opposite 

 each respective name and address. 

 This will all be printed on a neat 

 folder, giving the advantages of honey 

 as a -food, some receipts for cooking 

 with honey etc. Tlien an advertise- 

 ment will be inserted among the 

 "liners" of soi-ne daily paper having a 

 large circulation in the State, saying 

 that the names and addresses of the 

 members of the State Association of 

 the bee-keepers, together witli the 

 amounts and Icinds of honey they have 

 for sale, will be sent free to any ad- 

 dress, thus enabling consumers to buy 

 honey direct from the producer. Upon 



receipt of responses from the advertis- 

 ing, the Secretary will mail the folders. 

 Some of the members of the Associ^ition 

 often wish to buy honey, instead of 

 selling, and this list will be a help to 

 them in that respect. Some of the sup- 

 ply-dealers have offered to help out a 

 little by putting advertisements in the 

 folder. If there are any bee-keepers 

 in Michigan who are not members of 

 the State Association, who wish to be- 

 come such, let them send their dollar 

 to the Secretary, Mr. E. B. Tyrrell, 

 Davison, Michigan. This will not 

 onlj^ make them members of the State 

 Association, but also of the National, 

 and, in addition, as just explained, 

 their names and addresses, with the 

 amount of honey they have for sale, 

 will go out on the folder. The publi- 

 cation of the names and addresses, to- 

 gether with the amount of honey pro- 

 duced, as published in the report of 

 the General Manager of the National 

 Association, helped many of the mem- 

 bers in disposing of their crops, and 

 it is expected that this plan will act 

 in a similar way, with this addition, 

 that special pains will be taken to get 

 the list into the hands of actual con- 

 sumers. 



SHOOK-SWARMING. 



Shaking two big Colonies into one Hive. 



Sonnething About the Building of 



Drone Comb. 



When bees build their own combs 

 without the use of foundation, except 

 as starters, the question of drone 

 comb is most important. Before they 

 have swarmed there is no question that 

 they build it for the purpose of rear- 

 ing drones. In the earlier days of my 

 bee-keeping I once took a comb or two 



of bees and brood from the center of 

 each of about 25 strong colonies, mak- 

 ing up some five or six colonies from 

 these combs, giving each a queen. 

 This was just before swarming-time, 

 and I thought that these strong colo- 

 nies could spare these extra combs 

 just as well as not, that it would re- 

 tard swarming a few days, and allow 

 them to get a little better start in the 

 sections. The colonies thus formed 

 were a success, but, as I used starters 

 only in the frames, every frame put in 

 the place of a removed comb, was filled 

 solid full of drone comb, and the combs 



