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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



those last eighty colonies up, with a 

 screen over the fronts so that all have 

 plenty of air, and, if very hot, shade 

 the hives, and leave them shut up 

 twenty-four hours. At evening-, take 

 the cages with those new queens, and 

 insert them between the two frames of 

 brood, with the screen down and the 

 candy exposed. Shut them up for an- 

 other twenty-four hours; at which time 

 the screens may come oflf, and bees be 

 liberated. If you are as successful as 

 the writer has been, there will be no 

 loss of any account, and as nice a lot 

 of worker comb will be built on the re- 

 maining empty frames as one can be 

 under any conditions; providing your 

 queen breeder has served you as he 

 should. This yard should be in first- 

 class shape to do good work for the 

 coming season. This way of starting 

 an out-apiary suits me best of all — 

 little work and good results. 



THE HIRED HELP PROBLEM. 



My idea of the hired help problem is 

 that a skilful, trusty operator must be 

 continually in the field, and the work 

 so managed that one band of workers 

 can go from yard to yard, looking for 

 cells or making swarms, or doing what- 

 ever is necessary — especially so during 

 the swarming season. Your helpers 

 will have all of these little honej' 

 houses filled with supers ready to go 

 on the hives before the honey harvest 

 begins, which allows a grand good 

 start in the beginning. 



We have a buzz saw and have made 

 all our hives from start to finish, and 

 it certainly has been a great saving. 



One contemplating the making of hi«= 

 own hives should be very particular to 

 have all hives and all supers in all of 

 their parts, an exact pattern of the first 

 ones made, and that to be of some 

 standard make, so tliat in all time to 

 come all p.irts will be interchangeable. 

 If one can do this and has the leisure . 

 time, I sav make 3'our own hives and 

 supers, for, witliout a doubt, it will 

 pay 3'ou well. 



CLIPPING QUEENS. 

 For clipping q eens, a pair of curved, 

 pointed, little scissors, such as come 

 with a manicure set, are just the thing; 

 and we think all queens should be 

 clipped before the swarming season 

 opens up, for when you clip the queens 

 you have the inside track on the bees. 



CROSS BEES AND STINGING. 



I have learned that it is not good 

 policy to locate the out-apiary too close 

 to where farm work is to be done. 

 Try and have them hedged in by 

 shrubs or trees so that the bees will 

 not bother any one plowing corn, mak- 

 ing hay, or passing by on the highway. 

 In addition, handle the bees so as not 

 to unduly enrage them, this will save 

 you perhaps all trouble along this 

 line. 



If I were renting land to place bees 

 upon, I don't know but I would have a 

 large cellar at home, and haul them 

 home in the fall, and out again in the 

 spring. Thus I would not calculate to 

 be substantially located on another's 

 farm, as a cave is not movable, but all 

 of the rest of the fixtures are. 



Maouoketa, Iowa, Dec. 10, 1S)04. 



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G. A. OLMSTEAD. 



FRIEND HUTCHINSON— I finished 

 moying my bees from the out- 



apiary the day before election, putting 

 some of them right into the cellar, but 



