THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



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The p Bee-Keepers' + Review, 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY. 



W. Z. HUTCHINSON, Editor & Proprietor. 



TERMS:— so cents a year in advance, two 

 copies for 95 cents; three for $1.35; five for $2.00; 

 ten or more, 35 cents each; all to be sent to one 

 POST OFFICE. In clubs to different post offices, 

 NOT LESS than 45 cents each. 



FUNT. MICHIGAN. JUNE 10, 1889. 



EEMOVING QUILTS AND HONEY-BOAEDS. 



We had no idea such a discussion could be 

 stirred up on this subject. Now that such 

 able correspondents are coming forward and 

 ranging themselves in opposing ranks, ivf 

 shall keep still, at least for the pre.sent. It is 

 very pleasant to note, though, as point after 

 point is brought out, how one man arrives at 

 one decision, and another at an opposite 

 one, yet both are sincere. 



ONLY SIXTEEN PAGES. 



For the past three months we have been 

 giving you twenty pages, and perhaps may 

 do so again the next month or two, so we 

 hope you will not complain if the advertise- 

 ments do crowd the reading matter pretty 

 hard, while we are taking the little rest that 

 we feel we m iisf have. We take it helping to 

 clean house, running the lawn mower, mak- 

 ing garden, and transferring forty colonies 

 of bees. Not much rest about that ? Ask 

 the man who has been brought up out-of- 

 doors, and then been tied to a desk or type- 

 case a year and a half, if the greatest rest he 

 could have would not be to be allowed to get 

 out and dig with a hoe in the clean, mellow 

 soil. 



IS SHADE KEALLY NECESSAEY ? 



We are surprised to see with how little 

 shade for their bees many of our best bee 

 keepers succeed, and how difficult it is to 

 prove that shade is absolutely necessary, or 

 even profitable. Of course, we don't knmc, 

 but we very much doubt if bees suffci- be- 

 cause their hive is unshaded ; if it becomes 

 too hot, they simply walk out and sit down 

 in the shade upon the north side of the hive. 

 Whether it is profitable to allow this pro- 

 ceeding, is a question which the Review has 

 not so satisfactorily settled as it has some 

 others. It has, however, brought out quite a 

 number of valuable hints upon the subject. 



It has shown what an important relation 

 there is existing between a good circulation 

 of air and the necessity for shade. The ven- 

 tilation that the bees can give the hives, also 

 has a bearing. If the apiary is located 

 where the cool breezes can fan the heating 

 sides of the hives, wafting away the heat 

 ere it accumulates, and a broad generous 

 entrance is furnished each tidy, white hive, 

 we are persuaded that shade is not so very 

 essential. If the hives are dark in color, or 

 the apiary located in any place where there 

 is not a free circulation of air, we feel sure 

 that shade is an absolute necessity to prevent 

 the combs from being melted down, if for 

 nothing else. What shall that shade be ? 

 For the comfort of the apiarist trees are ad- 

 visable : but for the man who hasn't trees in 

 number and position for the proper shading 

 of the bees, the shade-board, to our mind, 

 offers the most advantages. 



MIGEATOBY BEE KEEPING. 



The following interesting bit of news is 

 just to hand on a postal : 



Capac, Mioh., June G, 1889. 

 W. Z. Hutchinson, — 



Dear Sir,— Your postal inquiring after 

 Mr. Walker is at hand. He went to Kenton, 

 Tenn., the Kith of April, bought 1(K) colonies 

 of bees, has taken a crop of 1,'.)(K) lbs. comb 

 and 1,4()0 extracted, and is now just on the 

 road with them to Wis. I will write you 

 again when he gets settled. I did not send 

 him your letter as I knew he was so very 

 busy. Yours truly, 



Mrs. Byron W^alkee. 



Friend Walker seems to "get there" every 

 time; not by "going west," but by "going 

 south ; " and it looks as though he wouldn't 

 rest easy until he had proved the success or 

 failure of migratory bee keeping. And this 

 reminds us that we are thinking quite 

 strongly of devoting, say the August Review, 

 to a discussion of this subject. It may not 

 be advisable for all of us to go on a jaunt up 

 and down the* Mississippi, but some of us 

 might find it profitable to move our bees a 

 few miles to some otlier location where a fall 

 crop could be secured. 



queens, and THEIR INFLUENCE UPON SUCCESS 

 IN BEE CULTURE. 



As we expected, our views upon queens, as 

 expressed in the review of Mr. Doolittle's 

 book, have aroused queen breeders, and a 

 few honey producers. Neither are we sur- 

 prised at the difiference of opinions express- 



