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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



moldy. We cover all with shavings to 

 the depth of six or eight inches, and so 

 adjust the cover that no water can enter. 

 Now if your bees have a supply of good 

 stores, you may confidently expect to 

 find them all right in the spring. 



If mice are troublesome, a dish of corn- 

 ed meat with a little Paris green on the 

 top of the packing is advisable. We 

 used to make a temporary box, as recom- 

 ended by D. A. Jones, and remove it in 

 the spring. Our present method saves 

 all this packing and unpacking in the 



of the clamps in summer, there is suffi- 

 cient ventilation. Bees lie out very lit- 

 tle, even in hot weather. In cool nights 

 the bees are not driven out of the supers. 

 Mr. Hetherington says that it is not quite 

 so convenient to handle the hives as when 

 they are set out singly in the yard; and 

 he thinks that more queens are lost in 

 returning from mating. 



FrjNT, Mich., Oct. 15, 1899. 



AN ADDITIONAL VIKW OF XUH HETHERINGTON APIARY. 



fall and spring. The swarms build up 

 faster in the spring than those unprotect- 

 ed, and they need no shading in the sum- 

 mer. They winter as well as in any 

 place, excepting a good cellar. 



This method has been used quite ex- 

 tensively in this vicinity for several 

 years, and we find no more trouble in 

 loss of queens than when the swarms are 

 further apart. 



It is a little more work to take off hon- 

 ey than when the hives stand separate; 

 but the advantages of this method more 

 than overbalance this extra labor. 



Mr. Hetherington writes me that he 

 likes this plan because the bees are so 

 easily packed for winter, and so easily 

 unpacked in the spring. The packing is 

 left over the hives in the spring until it 

 is time to put on the sections. There is 

 plenty of shade, and, by opening the ends 



QUEEN-TRAPS. 



Some Most Excellent Reasons why They can 

 be Used to AdvjintaKc. 



\V. E. FLOWER. 



MN page 269, Dr. Mason says he knows 

 ^ of but one reason why traps should be 

 used: and that is that "the presence of a 

 queen in a trap will always reveal the 

 fact that a swarm has issued." There 

 are hundreds, yes thousands, of people 

 who keep from one to half a dozen col- 

 onies. These people are lawyers, minis- 

 ters, doctors, merchants and mechanics, 

 those whose occupations will not permit 

 them to be at home when the bees are 



