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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



are then sent out to bee-keepers all 

 along- the route, telling- when and 

 where the meeting-s are to be held. 

 Some prominent bee-keeper at each 

 place of meeting- is also furnished with 

 the cards to send out. Perhaps I can 

 do no better than to reproduce the card. 

 Here it is: 



DO YOU KEEP BEES? 



If you have onlj' one or more col- 

 onies it will pay you to come to 



on at sharp. The State 



Inspector of Bees will be at your Post 

 Office to explain to you many things 

 of value in handling- bees, buv'ing of 

 supplies cheaper, and selling- honej' 

 at better prices. If you have an}^ bees 

 not doing well, bring a piece of the 

 brood comb to the meeting. Perhaps 

 I can help you. This convention is 

 FREE, and you can't afford to miss 

 it. Don't forget the date. 



N. E. France, 

 State Inspector of Bees. 

 ;^i9"Please publish the above in your 

 local paper. 



I have been with Mr. France at two 

 of these meetings and I am satisfied 

 that much good will come from these 

 gatherings. He can thus meet and be- 

 come acquainted with more bee-keep- 

 ers in one week than by weeks of 

 travel and meeting one man at a time. 

 At some of these gatherings local 

 associations are formed that unite in a 

 body with the National Association. 



The G. B. Lewis Company, of 

 Watertown, Wisconsin, has added 

 another story to its factor}'. In order 

 to do this the roof was slowly raised 

 with jack-screws and then side-walls 

 built. The whole job occupied a 

 month's time, but the work of manu- 

 facturing goods was not suspended 

 during this time. Another improve- 

 ment at the factory is the building of 

 a slanting chute, a la toboggan slide, 

 from the top story down to a platform 

 built just outside the factory. At the 

 lower story the chute turns upward, 

 and it is lined with metal, the whole 

 length, upon its lower side. Instead 

 of taking goods down on the elevator 



when ready for shipment, they are 

 shot down the chute, the upward curve 

 at the bottom causing them to slow up 

 so that they simply pop out on the 

 platform, outside, and stop. Some of 

 the boys have even dared to "shoot the 

 chute" sitting on a board. There are 

 openings at each story which allow 

 goods to be placed in the chute. 



Notwithstanding the winter losses of 

 bees in some parts of the countr}', the 

 G. B. Lewis Co. report a larger trade 

 than ever this spring. 



PREVENTING STARVED AND CHILLED 



BROOD WHEN MAKING 



"shook" SWARMS. 



If the bees are shaken or brushed off 

 pretty close when making "shook" 

 swarms, some of the brood is quite 

 likely to perish either from cold or 

 starvation. Last summer, when visit- 

 ing Mr. E. D. Townsend, of Remus, 

 Michigan, he showed me quite a lot of 

 brood that had died in this manner. 

 He told me that in order to make a 

 sure thing of it, to be certain that 

 there would be no after-swarming, it 

 was necessary to shake the combs 

 pretty clean — that it was better to lose 

 some of the brood than to lose a swarm 

 of bees by leaving too many bees. In 

 this connection I wish to say that Mr. 

 J. C. Wheeler, of South Oak Park, 

 Illinois, has a plan that prevents all 

 loss from chilled or starved brood, yet 

 allows the bees to be brushed oflf very 

 clean. The new hive, into which the 

 bees are shaken, is set a little to one 

 side of the old stand, and the combs 

 of brood put into a hive and set upon 

 the old stand. The flying bees return 

 to the old stand and care for the brood. 

 At night the hive containing the combs 

 of brood and the flj'ing bees that have 

 entered it, is picked up and carried to 

 a new stand, and the "shook" swarm 

 placed upon the old stand. Of course, 

 the old bees that are carried to the 

 new stand gradually come back to the 

 old stand and join the "shook" swarm, 



