THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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applies to old Dame Nature's domain. Doctor, y )\i are riyht in 

 Your doubt of '"improving bees."' And you are also way. way 

 wrong, see ^ 



Some Glimpses of Bee-keeping in a Warm Climate. 



JOSEPH S. SCOTT. 



'^WX Mr. J. L. Byer's article, April Review, he asks for experi- 

 J]l ences with escape boards. I have used twelve for four years 

 and have never had the least bit of trouble with them. Just 

 slip one between the super and hive or between two supers, as the 

 case may be. and next morning just take off — and there is "nary a 

 bee" in the super. 



THE SWARMING 

 FROBIiEM A SEK- 

 lOUS ONZ:. 



I have o() colonies 

 in Danz hives run 

 for c o m b honey. 

 Have taken oft' to 

 date 400 lbs., and 

 have had about 25 

 or 30 swarms. No 

 joke ! It's a serious 

 thing with me. We 

 would have two or 

 three days warm 

 w e a t h e r and bees 

 would work like fury 

 on ti-ti bloom, then a da\' or two of rain and cool nights and "oh, 

 you swarmy !"' Have done e\'erything I could think of but can't stop 

 them. Had tw^o swarms yesterday, April 15th. and three up to 

 noon today. There is a constant flow of nectar in my locality from 

 fruit bloom in ^Nlarch until cotton stops blooming in October, or 

 when killed by a frost. Sometimes the flow is heavy, sometimes 

 light, but honey is always coming in. A person should have no 

 trouble in averaging 100 lbs. to 150 lbs. per colony in a season. I 

 have gotten as much as 350 lbs. without any other work other than 

 putting on or taking off supers. But I have no market for it. 

 Everybody here makes enough cane syrup to last them through the 

 year and. therefore, buy honey only as a "special dish." Sections 

 like your picture of fancy and No. 1 I can only get 10c for. 



BOX HIVES ARE THE PBEVAII.IirO KIND IN USE. 



All bee-keepers in my neighborhood use the box hive. In many 

 cases thev cut out what honev there is regardless of what kind of 



Brothers to the Carniolan Bee. — Finland. 



