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451 



will be one of the 

 most valuable fea- 

 .t u r e s. It will 

 make possible the 

 marketing of comb 

 honey from tw^o 

 weeks to a month 

 earlier than is 

 now done, and in 

 some instances 

 this plan would 

 hasten the prep- 

 aration of a car of 

 honey for market 

 by two months. 

 Boulder. Colo. 



For Testing the Percent of Water 



[See Editorial Depai tmeni.\ 



in Honey. 



[Photo by 



Toivnsend.\ 



A Beginner's Transferring Experience. 



A. C. AMES. 



•V^ U RI X'G May. of 1909, a swarm of bees settled on one of the 



JJJ/ maple trees in front of my residence. Until that time I had 



never given bees a thought. I w^ent to the phone and called 



a man whom I had bought honey from and told him that if he would 



come and get them he was 

 welcome to them. He said 

 he had sold his bees, but 

 would bring a hive down and 

 get them. He brought an 

 old box hive and put the 

 bees in it. Then he said he 

 did not care for them, and 

 gave them to my 12-year- 

 old brother. That winter I 

 bought them, and got a few 

 l^ee books and subscribed for 

 all the bee journals, and began 

 to study bees. 



I did not attempt to trans- 

 fer them that summer. They 

 cast a swarm and I hived 

 that in a modern hive. The 

 next spring I began to think of 

 transferring them, so T read 



Master Wilburn Withrow, Buffalo, III., 7 Years Old 



and the Youngest Member of the National 



Association in the World. 



