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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



December, 1922 



For Real Success You Should ^uy 



Woodman's Inner Overcoat Hives 



'BEE CAUSE: 



1. Protected Bees work day and night. 

 It has been shown by careful obser- 

 vation that maintaining a tempera- 

 ture of 98 degrees permits corab-buikl- 

 ing to go on both day and night. The 

 bees will thus devote more daylight 

 titae to gathering honey. 



2. Larger Honey Crops are assured. The 

 bees are enabled to rear brood earlier 

 in the spring, with no danger of 

 chilled brood on account of cold 

 snaps. One bee in March is worth 

 one hundred in July. 



3. You will practically eliminate winter 

 losses. With your colonies in normal 

 condition (that is, Avith plenty of 

 good stores, a young queen and young 

 bees) you will be able to winter prac- 

 tically 100%. 



4. The Inner Overcoat Hive will last a 

 lifetime, as the outer hive walls are 

 the same thickness as in the single- 

 wall hive. In other words, WOOD- 

 MAN Inner Overcoat Hives are a 

 lifetime investment — not an expense. 



5. Out of-door Wintered Bees have many 



advantages over cellar -wintered bees. 

 They do not spring-dwindle and are 

 stronger at the opening of honey 

 flow. 



6. Insures Close-up protection. A per- 

 son may have any amount of blank- 

 ets fastened up to the wall of his 

 room and still freeze to death if left 

 in the center of the room without 

 close-up protection or insulation. The 

 close-up protection in the Inner Over- 

 coat Hive is what does the trick. 



5 one-story regular depth hives, $25.00: Jumbo depth, $27.50 



Special circular on WOODMAN'S Protection Inner Over- 

 coat Hive, showing 10 large illustrations, sent on request. 



A. G. WOODMAN COMPANY, Sole takers 



238 Scribner Ave., N. W., Grand Rapids, Mich. 



