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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



April 12, 1906 



for some time it will not be profitable to find his favorite journal tilled 

 with old stuff that he already knows all about, while there i6 so much 

 that is fresh and new. So I am sure you will pardon me if I do not go 

 into detail so fully as under other circumstances I might be glad to do, 

 and answer in a few lines what might occupy page6. 



The first thing you will probably need to do after establishing 

 your nucleus in a full-sized hive, will be to exercise no little patience 

 to keep from meddling with it too much. It simply needs to grow, 

 and if you have furnished it with frames filled with worker-foundation 

 and abundance of food till a bountiful supply is offered in the fields, 

 that's all it will ask of you. Very likely, after the population has 

 doubled, you will begin to think it is time to be doing something by 

 way of making a start in another hive. Don't you do it. Wait till 

 you have brood in at least 6 frames, the hive well filled with bees. For 

 by the time frames are filled with brood the population will have a 

 good deal more than doubled. 



More than one way may now be followed. The quickest way will 

 be to make two 2-frame nuclei, and give to each a laying queen. But 

 as you may not want to buy the queens, and especially as it will give 

 you more practise, I'll give a way that will be very likely to suit: 

 Take 2 of the frames that contain brood and 1 of the outside frames 

 that contains little or no brood together with the adhering bees and 

 the queen. Put these in a hive on a new stand, and plug up the en- 

 trance with grass or leaves. Open the entrance in about two days, if 

 the bees have not already dug it open. A week later let the hives 

 swap places. That's all, if you only want to double. 



If you think the 6eason sufficiently favorable to warrant further 

 increase, divide the queenless colony in two parts, putting one part in 

 a new hive on a new stand, and fastening the bees in for 2 or 3 days. 

 See that each part has a good queen-cell, located where it will be well 

 protected by the bees. Of course, the vacant space in each hive must 

 be filled out with frames filled with foundation. 



2. Don't think of dividing the brood-nest, but put it next to the 

 first frame that contains brood at one side. 



Natural Swarming— 8-Prame and 10-Prame Hives 



lam just reading your book, entitled " Forty Tears Among the 

 Bees," and have never been so interested in a book before, although I 

 have read a great many from Jules Verne to Thackeray. 



I am a beginner in bee-cultre, and am very much interested. I 

 notice you dislike natural swarming, yet use and recommend S-frame 

 hives. Set the " A B C of Bee Culture " says large hives are apt to 

 be non-swarmers. I am in a section of the country where it is profit- 

 able, if at all, to run for comb honey instead of extracted. 



Connecticut. 



Answer. — It is true that large hives are less given to swarming 

 than small ones, and it is certainly true that I dislike natural swarm- 

 ing. In effect, however, I'm limited to an 8-frame hive. You will 

 understand the matter better if you again refer to " Forty Years 

 Among the Bees," page 113, also last paragraph of page 130. Before 

 surplus receptacles are given, no queen is ever limited as to room. 

 She has even more room than a 10-frame hive. When she has filled all 

 the room in 8 frames, she is given a second story, and it is nothing 

 strange for her to occupy 10 or more frames — in rare cases 15 frames. 

 So she isn't much crowded, is she? When it comes time to put on 

 supers, one story is taken away, and 8 of the best frames of brood are 

 left. That limits the room of the queen, but the bees are not limited 

 for room, for super-room is given in abundance. 



I think I can do better at producing comb honey by this means 

 than I would if I allowed 10 brood-frames all the time. Then there'6 

 the advantage — no small one — of the lighter hives and supers to 

 handle. But no one should adopt the S-frame hive unless he knows 

 he will give close attention to his bees. For a very large number of 

 bee-keepers a 10-frame hive is much safer — less danger of starvation in 

 winter. And it is only right to say that for years I used 10-frame 

 hives and harvested good crops of comb honey. 



Nail Order Banking 



Under our banking system, business 

 men everywhere find it to their advan- 

 tage to make remittances by checks, 

 rather than by bank drafts, postoffice 

 or express money orders. There are 

 several good reasons for this, but the 

 two principal ones are these: 



First — The convenience in paying a 

 bill by simply writing out a check, thus 

 making it a great time-saver as well. 



making expenditures for things that 

 many times he does not want, he has 

 brought to his home the great mail 

 order catalogues, and when he wants 

 to make his selection, which is usually 

 done in conference with the "whole fam- 

 ily on a rainy day, or in the evening, 

 he simply writes his order, encloses a 

 check, and the mail order merchant 

 does the rest. 



A recent difficulty has arisen with 

 reference to personal checks, because 

 of the excessive exchange charge im- 

 posed by local banks. The local banker 



LOUIS P. SCOVILLE 



President 



Second — It gives the most satisfac- 

 tory form of receipt for the payment 

 made. 



The farmer has become a business 

 man. In the progress he has made 

 within tin- past ten years he has found 

 it necessary and greatly to his profit 

 and convenience to handle his own fi- 

 nancial affairs, rather than trust them 

 to the local banker, lawyer or mer- 

 chant. Our agricultural colleges, farm 

 institutes, and great conventions, that 

 relate to agriculture in various forms, 

 have all advocated the importance "i 

 the farmer paying more attention to 

 tiie financial end of his business. In- 

 stead of being Isolated from the great 

 commercial centers, as was the case in 

 the earlier days, lie lias, through the 

 means of modern transportation facili 

 ties, rural mail routes, telephones and 

 interurban railwaj -. become very close- 

 ly identified with these great centers. 

 His home is his business office, and in- 

 stead of spending time driving consid- 

 erable distances to his local town and 



is usually biased in favor of the local 

 an rchant, because he is his best cus- 

 tomer. The farmer who wants to save 

 from twenty-five to fifty per cent on 

 his purchases — which he can do through 

 the modern mail order method of buy- 

 ing — finds his local bank a bank of 

 deposit only. How much better it 

 would be for the farmer to make his 

 deposits in a bank in a great mail order 

 i enter like Chicago. Banking by mail 

 has become an established fact, and to 

 keep progress with the great mail 

 order movement, the Ravenswood Ex- 

 change Bank of Chicago, 111., has ar- 

 ranged to carry farmers' accounts, al- 

 ii, wing them to draw their checks on 

 this bank for their purchases, which 

 will be accepted anywhere without ex- 

 change. This will be a great conven- 

 ience to farmers everywhere. 



Mail order merchandising is con- 

 ducted in the city of Chicago to the 

 amount of $200, 000,00m annually. 



Chicago is the greatest live stock 

 market in the world. Many of our 



farmers make direct shipments to com- 

 mission houses at the Union Stock 

 Yards and receive checks in return. It 

 can be arranged to have these checks 

 sent to this bank for deposit to the 

 account of the farmer without ex- 

 change charges. 



Chicago is likewise the great prod- 

 uce center, and commission houses here 

 are remitting millions of dollars an- 

 nually to the farmers direct. By the 

 plan proposed, the farmer can have this 

 placed to his deposit and receive the 

 credit notice from the bank. . 



Chicago is also the great grain mar- 

 ket and the same rule applies in that 

 case. 



This mail order banking proposition 

 is best explained through the litera- 

 ture the Ravenswood Exchange Bank, 

 of Chicago, 111., which will be sent to 

 anyone asking for it. 



The Ravenswood Exchange Bank is 

 composed of men who have had agri- 

 cultural experience and are familiar 

 with the requirements of the farmer 

 along banking lines. The president, 

 Mr. Louis P. Scoville. under whose di- 

 rect supervision the mail order busi- 

 ness is conducted, has had a wide busi- 

 ness experience; he is also a careful 

 lawyer, all of which insures proper 

 handling of not only the accounts, but 

 the loans made by this bank. We are 

 personally acquainted with all the 

 bank's stockholders, directors and offi- 

 cers. In fact, we have done our own 

 banking at the Ravenswood Exchange 

 Bank ever since its organization, and 

 all our experience with it has been en- 

 tirely satisfactory. 



If you want to do business with a 

 city bank that will safeguard your in- 

 terests and treat you right, you can do 

 no better than to connect yourself with 

 the Ravenswood Exchange Bank. If 

 you are interested, don't fail to write 

 at once for their literature, which ex- 

 plains fully their proposition, methods, 

 etc. Address, Ravenswood Exchange 

 Bank, Chicago, 111., and kindly mention 

 the American Bee Journal when writ- 

 ing. . 



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