Some Wintering Suggestions 



It is time to be preparing the bees for winter. Every beekeeper knows that a young queen, 

 plenty of young vigorous bees, plenty of good stores, and a location where the cold winter winds 

 cannot sweep unbroken over the hives, are indispensable necessities for good wintering. There is 

 another requirement for good wintering that a good many beekeepers unfortunately neglect — pro- 

 tection of the hive itself. Good beekeepers don't neglect this very important mutter — they either 

 use permanently packed double-walled hives, or they pack their hives from the outside in some 

 sort of winter case. 



THE BUCKEYE DOUBLE-WALLED HIVE. 



Here is a hive, beautifully made, long tried, and proven fit for all the cold and storm of win 

 ter. Its first cost, to be sure, is greater than that of the single-walled hive, but it pays for itself 

 within two or three seasons ordinarily, because: Bees winter in this hive with the very least loss; 

 the hard labor of cellar-wintering or special packing is done away with; there is a saving of 



winter stores; strong colonies are assured for the 

 beginning of the honey flow. Notwithstanding all 

 these admitted advantages in favor of the perma- 

 nently packed Buckeye Hive, we have known of bee- 

 keepers buying single-walled hives and providing 

 winter-packing cases for them (necessitating ail the 

 labor of putting up and packing in the fall and tak- 

 ing down in tlie spring), at a larger expense than a 

 Buckeye Hive for every colony would have cost them 

 originally. 



And right now it would pay many a beekeeper 

 to make his bees safe and secure for next winter 

 and all winters by transferring from old hives to the 

 Buckeye. The beekeeper who does this has the 

 safest, slickest, nicest-looking, easiest-to-hahdle api- 

 ary in the world. The small beekeeper especially 

 should do this. The backlotter certainly should do it. 

 But — we do not advise any beekeeper with 

 good single-walled hives to discard them. Pack them 

 in some way for winter. Slater's felt tied about a 

 single-vsralled hive, as advised and illustrated in 

 Gleanings in Bee Culture for October, 19'21, is the 

 best cheap packing, we think. Any right-sized box, with exit from the hive entrance properly 

 arranged, may he made to serve as a winter case. The rather expensive quadruple winter case is 

 excellent and will pay, if the beekeeper has the money to buy it. We shall be glad to quote prices 

 on quadruple winter cases, in small or large quantities — but they are not cheap. We will quote 

 the very lowest figure possible, however, material and quantity considered. 



The Buckeye Double-Walled Hive. 



BARGAIN PRICES FOR A WINTER CASE. 



We have some winter cases for single-walled hives, 

 both 8-fraine and 10-frame. that virtually convert a 

 standard single-walled hive into a Bvirkeye. The case, 

 the same size as the outside wall of the Buckeye, fits over 

 any standard 8 or 10 frame hive, leaving space for pack- 

 ing with sbavings. chaff or leaves; and the regular Buck- 

 eye teleseo))ir8r metal cover completes the outfit, which 

 is very satisfactory. We have in stock 1.58 of the 8- 

 frame, and 120 of the 10-frame of these dovetailed win- 

 ter cases. AVhile they last, we will sell the 8-frame in 

 packages of 5, knocked down, for $9. .50; the 10-frame 

 in packages of 5, knocked down, for $10.00. First come, 

 first served. They won't last long. 



10,000 HAVE BEEN ASKED FOR. 



The beekeepers of this country have already asked 

 us for 10.000 copies of our little booklet, "How to Sell 

 Honey." Perhaps you want one. If so, it's free and 

 a postal card to us will bring it to you. 



Dovetailed Winter Case with 

 Metal Cover. 



THE A. I. 



WEST SIDE STATION 



ROOT COMPANY 



MEDINA, OHIO 



