378 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



Notice to Advertisers and Correspondents. 



We find it impossible to get out the Rrvikw on time and close 

 our forms the SSth of the preceding month, so hereafter the forms 

 will close the 20th of the month preceding date of publication. Cor- 

 respondence to appear in the following number must reach this 

 office not later than the 10th of the month preceding publication. 



If our friends will co-operate with us along these lines, it will 

 be greatly appreciated at this offtce. 



Tlic Johnson Milk Co., Battle Creek, Mich., produce both milk 

 and honey. They also have a milk route in the cltv where they 

 deliver milk daily to their customers. In connection with the de- 

 livery of their milk, honey is sold. The nice feature of this milk- 

 honey route business is that they use their regular pint and quart 

 milk bottles to deliver their honey the same as milk, the bottles be- 

 ing emptied the same as for milk and picked up the next trip. The 

 reader may or may not have a milk route. If not, he may be in a 

 location where he can interest some one who has, and in this way 

 dispose of his honey. 



For several reasons we have decided that hereafter we will 

 have our extracting combs cleaned of any honey they may contain 

 after extracting, during the fall. If these combs were to be put 

 back on the swarms as soon as extracted, the bees would clean them 

 and store the honey right back into the combs being cleaned. Our 

 combs will be put back on the hives this month (October) and 

 cleaned, a la Guernsey. During October, as the brood hatches from 

 the broodnest, instinct provides that the bees carry in from the out- 

 side combs enough honey to fill every available cell that previously 

 contained brood, said removed honey being left unsealed, read\- for 

 immediate use during winter. 



Taking advantage of this trait of the bee, we will set our wet- 

 with-honey extracting combs on the hives at this time, expecting 

 them to be cleaned dry, and the honey they contain carried into 

 their "winter nest." 



Where no disease has ever been among oui' bees, and they are 

 located where they will not annoy neighbor?, combs can be cleaned 

 by spacing them a bee-space apart, then criss-crossing the upper 

 stories, one above the other, out of doors. One day will usually 

 clean the entire bunch of extracting combs at a yard. After be '^t 

 cleaned they should be carried back into the honey house, still 

 spaced, and piled up, one above the other, and covered away from 

 mice and dirt. 



