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much better. M3^ extractor is an 

 8-frarne, and when I g-et another it will 

 be a 10-frarne. The larg^er the ex- 

 tractor the less brood it will throw out. 

 It is the little honey extractor that 

 wastes the brood. Next, g^et a honey 

 cait to cart yourIione3' from the apiary 

 to the honey house. It should have 

 spring-s, and the comb boxes should be 

 made with a tin bottom to catch the 

 drip. Your storing tank should hold 

 2,000 gallons, and have a large honey 

 gate from which to fill the honey bar- 

 rels. The tank should sit on the floor, 

 and the barrels filled from the outside 

 of the honey house. 



Your uncapping box should be made 

 of good white pine, put together with 

 white lead, and well prafHned. It 

 should have a wire strainer within six 

 inches of the bottom, which should be 

 made on a slant so the honey can be 

 readily drained out. Each out-apiary 

 should have a good up-to-date set of 

 tools to work with. When I sa\^ the 

 best, up-to-date tools, I mean extract- 

 ors, smokers, knives, etc ; and please 

 permit me to state rig-ht here that the 

 most important and money saving part 

 of all this great work is to buj' two 

 good foundation mills and make your 

 < ivn foundation. I make all of mj' 

 foundation, and I find it one of the 

 greatest saving points in managing 

 large out-apiaries. 



I read in the bee journanls, ever}' 

 now and then, where some writers 

 claim that thej' have a non-swarming 

 strain of bees. This, I claim to be 

 utterly false When you breed out 

 natural swarming, you have bred out 

 all success in bee-culture. Nature 

 knows more than we ever did; and 

 God saw fit to multiply and replenish 

 the earth by Nature's wa\'s. 



From my experience in building up 

 4,000 colonies of bees I find it more 



satisfactory to have one, good, ex- 

 perienced man in each apiary; then if 

 anything happens there is some one 

 present that knows just what to do, 

 and how to do it. It will pay the 

 owner of large out-apiaries to pay 

 cash for labor; but the proprietor 

 should know every little detail in the 

 bee business; in fact, he must have 

 practical knowledge. If you are to 

 follow the system here laid down, you 

 must absolutely understand the details 

 and manipulation of the apiary. Man 

 advances just in proportion as he 

 mingles his thoughts with his labors. 



DAMPNESS THE GREAT ENEMY IN 

 WINTERING 



Dampness in winter is the bee-killer. 

 It is not the cold weather that kills the 

 bees. 1 advise the bee-keeper to use 

 ch a If hives. I prefer forest leaves for 

 the sides and ends, plenty of paper on 

 top of the brood chamber, and plenty 

 of g-ood stores, with the back end of 

 the hive two inches higher than the 

 front end, and then let them remain on 

 their summer stands. I will warrant 

 the sale wintering of good stocks every 

 time. 



With all of my experience in bee- 

 keeping. I have found foul brood the 

 greatest plague, I have often thought 

 if I could just have all the bees, hives, 

 honey and wax that have been con- 

 signed to the flames, I would not need 

 any more to last me through life. To 

 cure this disease, simplj' throw the 

 swarm upon full sheets of foundation; 

 but all diseased swarms should be 

 treated at the same time. Do not trust 

 to chemicals to destroy the spores of 

 foul brood; the drugs are not powerful 

 enough. 



Ma-panzas, Cuba, Dec. 12, 2904. 



