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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



less than 14}^ ounces." But when it comes to lowering our No. 1 

 grade by picking out all the nicest combs for fancy, and still have 

 our really fancy honey left out with no grade for it, I think we 

 are making a mistake. 



Then again, when we pick all the best out of our No. 2, to make 

 that "choice grade" and allow sections with still more unsealed 

 cells to make up our No. 2, it is scarcely above the cull pile. I, for 

 one, believe in holding our grades fully as high as they have been, 

 and keeping the old Colorado grading rules with a really fancy 

 grade added. 



Any thing not good enough for those rules should be extracted 

 and used for baits, or cut out, mashed up, and let drain through un- 

 capping can, or some similar vessel. Let us work for a higher 

 standard of honey, as well as bee-keeping. 

 Roswell, N. M. 



Some Good Sized Runaway Swarms. 



G. FRANK PEASE. 



A Runaway Swarm Caught. 



' ■!! AM sending you some 

 jl photos to put in the Rv:- 

 viEW if you see fit. No. 1 

 is of a swarm that I chased 

 two and one-half miles and 

 brought home on a stick with 

 a cloth wound around them. 

 They have paid me several 

 dollars for my trouble and 

 they made me run, too ! 



In the photo is one of my 

 combination covers ; one of 

 glass, and the other of tin. 

 Two 8x10 glass in a frame 

 makes a cover from which I 

 can tell the condition of a 

 swarm at a glance by remov- 

 ing the tin cover. 



The big (No. 2) swarm 

 was another runaway that 

 led me to a stray swarm, 

 which it finally united with. 

 On top of this is a home- 

 made smoker of copper. The 

 bellows are from a Clark 

 cold-blast smoker. The other 



