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and cutting- out all queen cells. Pos- 

 sibly by the next visit they will have 

 changed their minds and don't care to 

 swarm. If so, well and g^ood; but, if 

 they again show a disposition to 

 swarm, they now have hatching- bees 

 that can be depended upon to save the 

 brood. 



Always have the little records under 

 the cover to show the individvial needs 

 of each colony. And its surprising 

 how quickly three people can g-o 

 thoroughly over 100 colonies, where all 

 fixtures are uniform, where proper 

 individual records are kept, shake 10 

 per cent, of all the old colonies in the 

 apiary, and be readj' to leave for the 

 next apiary. On several different 

 days the past season, my wife and I 

 and our helper would drive 18 miles, 

 go over 350 colonies, and shtike from 



25 to 40 of them; and I offer as evi- 

 dence of thoroughness the fact that in 

 all our nine apiaries we didn't have 

 one prime swarm in the air; at least, 

 we never missed one, and we did no 

 cutting out of cells to speak of, and 

 only found where five old colonies had 

 cast a second swarm. 



So, again, I must say, that I am 

 still in favor of forced swarming for 

 out-apiaries. We go every day, be- 

 cause we can, and because we have to, 

 for four or five weeks; and Oh! what a 

 relief, when we know that swarming 

 is over, and that now we can stamp 

 under foot that condition wliich has 

 held us as slaves for a month — but 

 there is a satisfaction in work well 

 done. 



LoNGMONT, Colo., Oct. 10, 1903. 





BY JAS. A. GREEN. 



"K/rOST bee-keepers 



produce either 

 comb or extracted honey exclusive- 

 ly. Those who run largely for extracted 

 honey are likely to consider the pro- 

 duction of comb too fussy and par- 

 ticular, and something that it will not 

 pay them to bother with. I have 

 known extensive producers of comb 

 honey who had no extractor, and 

 others who used an extractor only 

 rarely. 



The extracted honey man has the 

 more justification for confining him- 

 self to his specialty. In most cases it 

 will not pay him to attempt to pro- 

 duce a small amount of comb honej'. 



Whether comb or extracted honey 

 will prove the more profitable is a 

 question that each must decide for him- 



self, according to his local conditions. 

 But even if he decides that it will pay 

 him best to make comb honey his main 

 crop, it is my opinion and firm con- 

 viction that he cannot afford to confine 

 himself exclusively to that. There are 

 three main reasons for this. 



THE COMBINATION SYSTEM GETS THF, 



BEES STARTED IN THE SUPP:RS 



EARLY IN THE SEASON. 



The first is the fact that it is often 

 difficult to induce the bees to begin 

 work promptly at building comb and 

 storing honey in the supers. 



Upon this hinges much of our trouble 

 with swarming, and not a little of our 

 success or lack of it in getting a good 

 crop of honey. Often a colony will do 



