1894. 



THE . I MERR '. I X BEE- KEEPER. 



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sure straight combs, as he can't han- 

 dle the sections when they arc filled. 

 Then he must hajre foundation in the 

 brood-chamber to have straight combs 

 there, so he can handle the bees. Bees 

 worked for comb honey will swarm if 

 they ;_ r ct any surplus honey. He wants 

 a one-inch starter in the brood-cham- 

 ber to hive the prime swarms on, with 

 half -sheets in the section-case, or bet- 

 ter, take the case off the parent col- 

 ony and put it on the swarm with the 

 empty one under it, and place the 

 swarm on the old stand, moving the 

 old colony to a new place. 



Then the man who wants to increase 

 his bees, if he has three or more good 

 strong colonies, must have foundation . 

 Then when the weather gets warm — 

 say the first of May — make all the 

 hives two >tories high, if they are not, 

 and when the combs below are all fill- 

 ed with brood, remove half of them to 

 the upper story aud fill their places 

 With full sheets of foundation, and 

 when they are drawn out aud filled 

 with eggs, remove and put above, and 

 fill their places with full sheets of 

 foundation, till both stories are full of 

 combs aud brood. Then he can be- 

 gin to increase. 



He can take two frames from each 

 hive, at dusk, and put them in a new 

 hive with the adhering bees, and close 

 the entrance with screen-wire, and set 

 in a cool place till the next evening, 

 when he can give them a queen, and 

 he has a good average colony, ready 

 for business. By replacing where he 

 took them from, with full sheets of 

 foundation, he can make a colony 

 twice a week while the honey-flow 

 lasts, or through the month of June, 

 if he has queens for them ; and queens 

 are so cheap now that he can buy 



them cheaper than he can rear them, 

 unless he is pretty well versed in 

 queen-rearing, — ./. C. Batch. 



The W. T. Falconer Man'f'g Co., 

 Gentlemen :— The goods arrived to- 

 day and I find them all first class, as 

 1 have always Found your goods in all 

 the years 1 have dealt with you. 



Inclosed find which with the 



$30.00 sent before, balances the ac- 

 count. Yours very truly, 



W. H. Osborne. 



Chardon, 0., May 25, 1894. 



HINTS ON BEE-KEEPING. 



A paper read before the Western 

 Bee-Keepers' annual meeting at Til- 

 bury Centre: — 



" I have gathered a few facts out of 

 my owu experience of 19 years of hard 

 work in apiculture. I have during 

 that time taken a great deal of notice 

 of bee-keepers at large ; have noticed 

 some making money at the bee busi- 

 ness, while others make a total fail- 

 ure ; hence this paper. So I will take 

 for my subject why so many men fail 

 and condemn the keeping of bees 

 for a livelihood. Of course before go- 

 ing further, I don't wish any person to 

 get the idea that I keep my own bees 

 to perfection ; but have the idea all 

 right, so if I preach what I don't prac- 

 tice you will kindly look over it and 

 make no remarks. Now I will pro- 

 ceed to give the facts why so many 

 men condemn the bee or honey in- 

 dustry. 



Some men get the idea when they 

 see a man making a fair livelihood 

 that there is lots of money in the 

 business and little expense; and the 

 work light and Dot much of it to do. 

 "Well, the first thing they will do is to 



