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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



on Mr. Getaz' article, says "Unfortunate- 

 ly that is too early for most northern 

 States. We usually cannot get our hives 

 full much before the 15th of May here." 

 What he means by "full" I do not exact- 

 ly know, but 1 should like to have him 

 state from personal examination and 

 measurement, for the information of the 

 small-hive men, exactly how many frames 

 full of brood his large double-decker col- 

 onies have on May 15th next. 



L.\PEER, Mich., March 25, 1S99. 



EDITORIAL 



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Three Miles, instead of five miles, is 

 the distance that the Review ought to 

 have said that Mr. Davenport had known 

 German bees to gather honey profitably. 



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Dr. Miller writes that if putting bees 

 into a cellar without giving them a flight 

 after moving them results in harm one 

 time in ten, he hardly wants to risk that 

 tenth time. 



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E. R. Jones, of Milano, Texas, has 

 gotten out a circular of bees, queens and 

 nuclei that contains an unusually large 

 amount of information in regard to the 

 rearing and introducing of queens. I am 

 half-tempted to cop.y some parts of it in- 

 to the Review, but, as those interested 

 can obtain a copy by writing for it, and 

 so many things are pressing for a place in 

 the Review, I must let it pass with this 

 short notice. 



Spring Management of the right 

 kind is the foundation of our honey crop. 

 Colonies sometimes starve in the spring, 

 or are greatly weakened, or retarded in 

 breeding, by a lack of stores. Mr. H. 

 G. Sibbald of Ontario puts combs of hon- 

 ey outside a division board, and has it so 

 arranged that the bees can have access to 



these combs. This removes all danger of 

 starvation, and greatly encourages the 

 rearing of brood. At the end of fruit 

 bloom he puts the two outside combs of 

 honey in the center of the brood nest; 

 first one, and then, in three or four days, 

 the other. He scratches the surface of 

 the combs. This plan converts the early 

 dark honey into bees. 



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NO-W.\LL FOUND.ATION. 



Mr. T. F. Bingham writes "I take a lit- 

 tle modest pride in the illustrations, com- 

 ments and promises given on page • 2 iS of 

 the current volume of Gleanings. I say 

 this because the Michigan bee conven- 

 tion, held in Mt. Plea.sant in 1896, raised 

 the money for the making of the first ma- 

 chine that would make no-wall founda- 

 tion. Gleaning says it does not 'know 

 for sure, just what shape the ideal foun- 

 dation will take.' In this connection it 

 is worth while to notice that not one ad- 

 verse report has ever been made against 

 the no-wall foundation. To be sure, it 

 has not been extensively used in many 

 apiaries; but it has realized the expecta- 

 tions of its designers." 



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GETTING BEES STARTED TO WORKING 

 IN THE SECTIONS. 



A subscriber writes me that if I will tell 

 him through the Review how to get the 

 bees started to working in the sections 

 I will thereby confer a great favor 

 upon him, and, he thinks, upon many 

 others. I know that some most excel- 

 lent bee-keepers treat this phase of bee- 

 keeping with something akin to con- 

 tempt. "If the bees get plenty of hone\' 

 they will go to work in the .sections; if 

 they don't, they won't," say these good 

 friends of mine. Locality may have a 

 bearing — the same may be said in regard 

 to the variety of bees employed. If 

 there is a steady but not profuse flow of 

 honey from early spring up to the begin- 

 ning of the white clover harvest, just 

 enough honey to keep the bees breeding 

 nicely, and then white clover comes on 



