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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



Review. It is one that promises to be 

 superior to "shook-s warming'" in the 

 following respects: No shaking; no 

 liandling- of the brood; no possibility 

 of the queen being- in the wrong hive; 

 no clanger of after-swarming; no pos- 

 sibility of absconding; no increase un- 

 less desired; no hunting for and des- 

 troying- of queen cells, yet the whole 

 force of bees is kept together the whole 

 season, and the colony may be re ■ 

 queened with a cell built under the 

 swarming impulse if so desired. Too 

 g-ood to be true ? Well, it has proved 

 a success with one of Ontario's most 

 successful bee-keepers, and he has 

 described it in an article for the 

 Review. 



the making of a motion to that effect, 

 letting the increase begin with Janu- 

 ary 1st, 1905. If there are any objec- 

 tions let me hear them. 



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The General Manager that we 

 now have for the National Association 

 is doing more good for the cause than 

 was ever done by any other Manager. 

 I think all will agree to this, and that 

 no one's feeling-s will be hurt by the 

 assertion. Twice at the St. Louis 

 convention, the matter of his small pay 

 was broug-ht up, and a vote was taken 

 instructing the Directors to find some 

 way of increasing his salary. It is true 

 that the amount of work that he does, if 

 performed for somelirm, or corporation, 

 would secure a salary of several hun- 

 dreds of dollars, while he receives onl3' 

 about $150. His labor is largely a 

 labor of love. When the Board, some 

 three years ago, reduced the Mana- 

 ger's salary from 20 per cent, of the 

 gross receipts to 15 per cent., not 

 nearly so much work was being done 

 by the Manager, and nearly all of the 

 members were paying $1.00each. Now 

 nearly all the members come in on the 

 half dollar rate. The membershiphas 

 doubled, while the gross proceeds have 

 not greatly increased. This means a 

 lot of work for the Manager, with very 

 little more pay. In my opinion, the 

 Directors cannot do less than pay their 

 Manager the full 20 per cent, allowed 

 by the constitution. I have in mind 



KEEPING BEES IN LARGE NUMBERS. 



When urg-ing the keeping of more 

 bees, bee-keepers have said to me: 

 "That is all right, but tell us how to 

 do it. How shall we secure the desired 

 help, and how shall the work be 

 done?" An important feature of the 

 Review for the coming year will be the 

 g-iving of that very information. In 

 response to my request for articles on 

 this subject, I now have on hand arti- 

 cles from a dozen veterans who, in the 

 aggregate, own more than 10,000 col- 

 onies I No one of them owns less than 

 400 colonies, and one of them has 1,700 

 colonies. These men will tell how 

 they have been successful in keeping 

 larg-e numbers of bees. The first 

 article will appear in the January 

 Review. 



HOUSE-APIARIES PECULIARLY ADAPTED 

 TO OUT-YARDS. 



This month's Review brings out 

 clearl}^ some of the advantages of 

 house-aplaries for use at out-yards. 

 With the houses made portable, a la 

 Townsend, it seems as if this system 

 would be peculiarly adapted to the 

 management of out-yards. One most 

 important point, especially where sev- 

 eral apiaries are managed by visiting 

 them at regular intervals, is that the 

 bee-keeper is independent of the 

 weather. That is, the actual work of 

 the apiary be performed even if it does 

 rain. This eliminates one of the un- 

 certainties of managing several apia- 

 ries on the "shook-swarming" plan in 

 a country where it is likely to rain for 

 several days in succession. Of course, 

 there might be some travelling to be 

 done in the rain, but b}'^ the use of 

 water proof clothing and blankets, 

 this can be endured rather than to 

 allow the bees to get the start of the 

 bee-keeper. 



