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the top supers and get the honey off as soon as possible. 



If you have a hundred colonies in this apiary you can place the 

 hundred bee-escapes after supper, and this is all there is to it. Leave 

 about two days, sometimes three, and then early in the morning, if 

 the bees would rob, start wheeling" in the honey to the bee-tight honey 

 house. Should there be some drones in some supers they may be 

 brushed off before taking in. Now take oft' the escapes and replace 

 under another lot, and so on until all are removed. At this time I 

 usually put on a super to catch any fall honey and incidentally to 

 avoid swarming, as the colonies will be very strong. 



The honey is piled up in the honey house and an oil heater lighted; 

 a man is employed to turn the extractor, and with myself at the uncap- 

 ping with a steam-heated knife we soon have the honey in 60-pound 

 cans, cased, and off to the depot. Don't think you must remove the 

 honey by brushing to have it warm, and waste your time. Don't think 

 it is better to have the bees fly to the windows of your honey house and 

 incidentally have the building swarming with bees. I tell you the bee- 

 escape is one of the best inventions out, and still a failure without the 

 use of the queen excluder. Use a wood and wire excluder — an all-wire 

 one would be better. They are not honey excluders. Try them. 



Pile your honey in a bee-tight house with escapes on the window. 

 Make the building warm — take off" your surplus clothing — dress like an 

 athlete, and see what a real comfort it is to extract. 



There is no question but that we keep bees for the money there 

 is in it, and in order to keep bees enough to make a financial success 

 we have to have things to do with. You must invest a little money to 

 make money. 



The corner grocer does not make the money that Sears, Roebuck 

 & Co. do, but look at his business, look at his system. I am telling you 

 to invest in feeders, bee-escapes, bee-tight houses, queen excluders, steam 

 uncapping knives, hive bodies galore, full sheets of foundation, always, 

 and then do your work with pleasure and ease and do more of it. T might 

 go on and tell you a lot of little things that you perhaps know, and take 

 your time, but as the different phases of bee-keeping are discussed con- 

 tinually in our bee journals under their proper heads, I will simply say 

 remove all supers before the fall flow stops and place on feeders and 

 feed plenty of sugar syrup, making it two parts sugar, and prepare for 

 winter in accordance with the method you pursue. 



Redkey, Ind., November 4, 1913. 

 Editor Review : — I notice in the last Review a friend suggests 

 that we change the motto of the Association from "Keep More Bees" 

 to "Eat More Honey." I heartily agree with the idea, that it is the 

 advertising or, rather, the consuming part, that needs stirring up. 

 We had, here in Indiana, before we saw the suggestion, hit on prac- 



