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1 H E A M ERICA N BEE-KEEPER. 



coming in very handy. Having had 

 La Grippe this spring am not ahle to 

 do much but. read and write. We 

 read that " All things work together 

 for good to those that love God." 

 Then let us seek first the kingdom of 

 Heaven and its rightousness that all 

 things may be added lo us. Not that 

 we may lie millionaires in this World 

 but the world to come. 



Mrs. F. A. Dayton. 

 Bradford, la., July 10, 1891. 



W. T. Falconer Mfg Co, Dear 



Sir : I may at times have found some 

 fault with you but I believe I never 

 will again. I made a trade with a man 



for 15 of 's dovetailed hives and I 



have been putting them up. They are 

 the worst lot of hives I ever saw. 

 Now T want some good ones. 



Ship me '•'•' "- ;: * '-'•'- "-'■'- Ten of 

 the hives are for a customer, so please 

 mark those, and park the rest of the 

 things with the other five for me. 

 Please send as soon as possible as 

 people will wait till the last minute 

 about giving me their orders. 

 Yours truly, 



YV. II. ' »SBORNE. 



Chardon, 0., June 5th, 1891. 



[The dovetailed hives referred to 

 were from a leading manufacturer. 

 We refrain mentioning names as it. 

 would only injure his -ales and not 

 materially help u<, besides, we do not 

 wish to prosper at a brother manu- 

 facturers expense. Kl>.j 



Arrange the apiary in nice straight 



row?; , or Mime of the more fancy fig- 

 ures. Don't allow a lot of empty hives, 

 cases and other traps to be scattered 

 around. It looks bad and isn't busi- 

 ness. 



HKWAltK OF Too MANY SWARMS. 



Nearly every person who starts in 

 (he bee husine>s in anxious for many 

 new swarms during (he swarming sea- 

 son. This iU sire is a serious nii.-take 

 and sooner or later the apiary contains 

 nothing but small colonies that easily 

 perish when adversi v comes. An ac- 

 quaintance who has kept bees for forty 

 years is an admirer of the swarming 

 instinct. His bees divide and sub- 

 divide until their strength is all spent 

 in swarming. Instead of storing sur- 

 plus what they get goes into the brood 

 chandler. They just about hold their 

 own and gather honey enough for 

 winter stores if the seasons are fairly 

 good. When a poor season comes they 

 perish by the wholesale. The hives are 

 then piled up with coin hs left in, which 

 gives the moths a line chance to fill, 

 not only the hives but the vicinity for 

 miles around with their offspring-. 

 When the swarming season comes the 

 owner begins the same round over 

 again, by hiving swarms in these pest 

 boxes. He never gets surplus enough 

 to pay for hiving th j bees, to say noth- 

 ing about ihe other expanses. My 

 greatest trouble is the pievention of 

 increase, hough 1 have succeded ad- 

 mirably the past two seasons. If I 

 was absolutely certain that in the 

 future, my bee;- would cast no swarms 

 I would start in the business with re- 

 newed zeal, calculating to succeed with 

 one-half the head-work 1 have used in 

 the past. The best advice an old 

 stager can give a beginner is to be- 

 ware of keeping too many colonies. 

 — Farm ami Home. 



