(established 1888) 



OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE 

 NATIONAL BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



AND ITS AFFILIATED ASSOCIATIONS 



E. D. TOVVXSEND, Managing Editor, Northstar, Mich. 

 WESLEY FOSTER, Assistant Editor, Boulder, Colo. 



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DETROIT OFFICE. 214 HAMMOND BLDC. 



VOL. XXVI. DETROIT, MICHIGAN, SEPTEMBER 1, 1913 No. 9 



Bees in Colorado are still swarming durin;^" the latter part of 

 August, causing the apiarists untold annoyances. 



Bee men in the west have trusted to luck and mild winters to 

 bring their bees through in good shape. Sometimes they came 

 through and sometimes they did not. Bees need protection in the 

 west. There can be little argument about it except among those 

 who have not had a full round of experience. 



Swarms and the Public. 



Swarming has been so excessive this year that the pu.blic, nearly 

 to a man, has had an intimate introduction to tlie swarming phase 

 of bee-keeping. Swarms have alighted in the tops of automobiles, 

 in abandoning flues of public buildings, frightening the office forces. 

 I have seen swarms on fence posts, under ditch banks, and the 

 houses in the country nearly all have swarms in them if the dwellers 

 are to be believed. The newspapers report that a moving automo- 

 bile encountered a circling swarm in the road, and the wind-shield 

 being down they drove against the back of the top which was up. 

 The autoist stopped and tried to drive the bees out of the machine 

 and was badly stung. 



