1906 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



The Top Notch 



135 



Is what I at one time felt the Bee-keepers' Review had 

 reached in 1905. There was a time when I honestly 

 doubted if I would ever be able to get out a volume that 

 would contain as much useful information. Corres- 

 pondence that I have been able to secure in the last 

 few weeks has dispelled all doubts— the information 

 given by the Review in 1906 will surpass that of any 

 former year. 



Mr. R. F. Holtermann, of Brantford, Ont., Canada, 

 secured 60,000 pounds of extracted honey from 300 col- 

 onies, and he is now preparing for the Review an arti- 

 cle ^giving in detail his method of extracting. Get- 

 ting the honey off the hives, the bees off the combs, un- 

 capping, extracting, straining, and canning, will be 

 considered. He has not hesitated to depart from es- 

 tablished methods, and there are some happy surprises 

 in store even for the old-timers. t::;:^ "is 



Mr. L. A. Aspinwall, of Jackson, Mich , has, for 

 about a dozen years, been using a non-swarming hive 

 and system of management in the production of comb 

 honey. Last year, from about 50 colonies he secured 

 an average of 128 pounds to the colony, which mig ht 

 easily have been 150 pounds had it not been for some 

 experiments that he was carrying out. His hive and 

 methods will be illustrated and described in an early 

 issue of the Review. 



R. C. Aikln, of Loveland, Colo., has written an article 

 on the control of increase when working for comb 

 honey, and I consider it the best article he ever wrote 

 Not only does he tell how to manage to prevent swarm- 

 ing and get good results, but there is a vim, and a 

 dash, and an inspiration about it that is worth reading 

 for itself alone. 



P. S.— Each new subscriber for 1906 will receive, free of charge, any back numbers of 1905 that may still be on 

 hand. At present I can send a complete set excepting the January and April issues. March is getting pretty 

 low. As long as they last, however, any numbers that are left will be sent froe. 



A. K. Ferris, of Madi;on, Wis., will illustrate and de- 

 sciibeatwin baby nucleus which, by a simple change, 

 that it seems strange that no one has thought of be- 

 foz'e, enables the queen- breeder to maintain these little 

 nuclei permanently without renewing the bees— they 

 can breed and maintain their numbers. M. A. Gill will 

 tell how to make 100 per cent increase, get a good crop 

 of comb honey, yet have no swarming. S. D. Chapman, 

 Mancelona, Mich., sent an' article criticising some of 

 the proposed plans of the editor, and he did the work so 

 graphically and so humorously that I laughed until the 

 tears rolled Cown my cheeks— and there was a lot of 

 good sense , too, in what he said. Frank Coverdale, of 

 Maquoketa, Iowa, illustrates and describes a feeder 

 that can be used on any hive for any purpose, yet it 

 costs only five cents— the simplicity of \i makes one ex- 

 claim, "Why didn't we think of it before? ' E. D. Town- 

 send has sent an article, and promised to send two or 

 three more. But space fails me to tell of all the good 

 things in store for the readers of the Review for 1906. 

 In short, the man who is keeping bees to make money 

 out of them can't afford not to send $1.00 for the Review 

 —it will come back to him many fold. 



Then there is the new edition of Advanced Bee 

 Culture, with its handsome engra\angs, and delicate, 

 beautiful binding in three colors, making it an orna- 

 ment for any parlor table The conk- nts are terse, con- 

 cise, pi-actical, and to the point, telling how to manage 

 bees by the most advanced methods from the beginning 

 of the season until they are snugged away for the win- 

 ter. Price $1.20, or, with the Review one year, for only 

 f2 00. 



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