THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



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Michigan Bkk-Kkkpkrs will hold 

 their next annual nieetinfj in Lansing, 

 with the following men as olTioers: Pres- 

 ident, \V. Z. Hutchinson, Mint; \ice 

 President, Geo. H. Kirkpatrick, Rapid 

 City; Secretary. J. A. Dart, Petoskey; 

 Treasurer, vS I). Chapman, Mancelona. 



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Price, complete wilh Lamp, 

 $5.00. 



Patented Feb. 4, 1896. 



THK RAlCHI-rSS, COMHINKI) SECTION- 

 PRKSS AND l"OCNl)ATION-l-ASTENHR. 



In the first article of this issue, Mr. 

 (»ill tells how his wife is able to put to- 

 gether nearly 3,000 sections in eight 

 hours, fill them with foundation, and put 

 them in the supers — filling 100 supers. 

 He says that she uses the Rauchfuss ma- 

 chine, a picture cf which is given above. 

 I suppose it wouM be impossible for her 

 to anywhere nearly approach this amount 

 of work with any other machine or meth- 

 od. It practically saves one handling of 

 the sections. It cuts the work in two. 

 It has always been, and is yet, a won- 

 der to me why extensive honey producers 



in general have not adopted this machine. 

 I presume its cost has stood in the way, 

 but it is certainly an economical machine, 

 if a man has many sections to put to- 

 gether and fill willi foundation. The 

 work is rapid, accurate, and requires 

 little practice. Any one interested would 

 do well to send for circulars giving fur- 

 ther particulars, testimonials etC/ Write 

 to Frank Rauchfuss, 1440 Market St., 

 Denver, Colorado. 



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OUKENS are often injured in shipment. 

 Of this there is no doubt. One proof is 

 that a very superior queen often turns out 

 to be a ver}^ poor queen after a long jour- 

 ney; while daughters of this queen prove 

 to be most excellent. I have often sent 

 out a queen that I knew to be the best 

 that could be secured, only to have my 

 customer complain; and then, the next 

 year receive a letter of apology, saying 

 \.\vA\.a. daughter oi this queen had proved 

 superior to a7iythi}ig in the apiary. A 

 queen should be bought, not so much for 

 the work that she may do herself, but for 

 the blood that she will bring into the 

 apiary. 



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Increasi':d Breeding in the spring 

 comes from the handling of honey. If 

 the honey comes from the fields, well and 

 good, if not, similar results can be secured 

 artificially by any method that induces 

 the bees to handle honey. In this direc- 

 tion, advantage may be taken of the fact 

 that bees are inclined to lear their brood 

 near the entrance, and to store their 

 honey in the back part of the hive; sim- 

 ply pick up the hive and turn it half way 

 around, putting the back end of the hive 

 at the front, or where the entrance was 

 before — that is, reversing it or turning it 

 end for end. This puts the brood at the 

 back of the hive, and the honey at the 

 front. This does not suit the bees, and 

 the)' at once begin to remove the honey at 

 the front and replace it with brood; 

 this leads to the handling of honey and an 

 increase of breeding. This point was 

 given by R. C. Aikin at the Denver con- 

 vention. 



