(ESTABLISHED 1888) 



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NATIONAL BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



E. B. TYRRELL, Managing Editor. 

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VOL. XXVI. DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FEBRUARY 1, 1913 No. 2 



Farm Journal offers the legal advice that the owner of the land 

 upon which the bee tree is found has first right to it, whether he is 

 the finder or not. Take heed, ye bee hunters !— W. F. 



Mr. D. C. Polhemus, who operates more bees than any other 

 man in the Centennial state, winters many of his colonies by bunch- 

 ing and banking up with dirt to the covers, making an entrance 

 right under the cover for the bees' winter entrance and exit. It is 

 dry in the Arkansas valley, and this may be practicable there, but 

 it would cause trouble in damper parts of the country. — W. F. 



How about your supplies for next year? Have you found out 

 that you can manufacture some of them much cheaper than to buy 

 of the dealers? One of our Colorado bee-keepers has found that he 

 can pay fifty dollars a thousand for lumber, and make his own bot- 

 tom boards from it. and they cost him but about one-third the cost 

 of factory goods. Another one of our men says he can make $10 a 

 day by making his own foundation. It would surprise many of my 

 readers to know how well some bee-men are doing by. making their 



