MAY 1, 1914 



A. B. Munliaiu's scheme of truiisfei ri iiu so limt iln- Ijees do practically all tlie work. 



('aucasians, aiul it is also true of (.'arnio- 

 lans — tliey will breed up early, and they 

 will breed when Italians cannot be coaxed. 

 This very quality might make them desir- 

 able for Mr. Wilder in the spring. 



But we should like to know hoAV he han- 

 dles them in the swarming season. If our 

 experience means any thing there would 

 have to be a man at every yard, and' that 

 would be exi^ensive. We operate with an 

 automobile Avhich carries our crew with 

 foreman from yard to yard. If an occa- 

 sional swarm comes out, and is discovered 

 by the farmer or his family, a telephone 

 call will bring one of the boys on a motor 

 cycle, to take care of them. But we have 

 comparatively few swarms, because we use 

 Italians. With our system of management, 

 which, as we figure it, is more economical 

 than to have a man at each yard all the 

 lime, we cannot tolerate Caucasians nor 

 Carniolans; and as a general thing Ave have 

 no difficulty in getting Italians to breed as 

 fast as they ought. A colony that runs to 

 excess in brood-rearing is likely to have 

 chilled brood in the spring. — Ed.] 



of bees, and it is more liaidy — that is, it 

 will live longer under the greatest strain of 

 its -life. 



Lastly and naturally, an apiarist can care 

 for more bees with less expense, so far as 

 labor is concerned, and at a much greater 

 l)i'ofit if he has this bee. 



Cordele, Gra. 



[The reports that have come in to our 

 office regarding the Caucasian bees do not 

 agree with those that have come to Mr. 

 Wilder — that is to say, those who have tried 

 them to any extent in the North do not seem 

 to be favorably impressed with them. We 

 tested them quite thoroughly, as we thought, 

 at Medina, and were compelled to get rid of 

 them. They are the worst bees we ever had 

 for out-apiary work, as they swarm in sea- 

 son and out of season. In fact, they are 

 much like the Carniolans in this respect, 

 with the further disadvantage that they are 

 bad propolizers, and excessive builders of 

 brace combs.. We were very glad to get 

 them out of our yard. 



But there is one Ihinii' in favor of the 



A NEW SCHEME FOM TMANSFEMMNG 

 IINATES ALL THE 



[ BOX HIVES THAT PRAC- 

 CONNECTED WITH IT 



Charlie Repp, of Itliie Eamoiuis Repp Broftliers, Fruiilt-grcDwerg off New Jersey 



BY E. R. ROOT 



■ . When I visited the boys at our Appalach- 

 icola apiary in March, our foreman, ]\Ir. 

 Ernest Marchant, in the course of our 

 conversation relating to the various metho(^s 

 for making increase, remarked : 

 • " Say, Mr. Root, you ought to see father's 

 method of transferiTing from box hives into 

 modern ten-frame dovetailed hives. It is 

 the slickest scheme I ever saw. You must 



be sure to see dad and let him explain it; 

 and do not forget to take along the camera." 



The next day we met the senior Mr. 

 Marchant, and with a launch proceeded up 

 to his Sumatra apiary, where the j^lan is in 

 successful operation. Fig. 1 shows a row 

 of hives in process of treatment ; and Fig. 2 

 is a still closer view of the same. thing. 



You mav sav at first glance, that this 



