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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



you never see a horse spend his steam 

 and speed scoring for the race, and utter- 

 ly fail in the race ? Remember 'tis not 

 the colonies that are strong now nor 

 thirty nor sixty days hence, but those 

 that are in the pink of condition ninety 

 to one-hundred days hence, and that re- 

 main so from sixty to ninety days more — 

 these are the ones that get the big hon- 

 ey crops. 



I have always thought that there was 

 a limit to a queen's capacity for a sea- 

 son's work. Who has not seen their 

 choicest colonies "get left" just before, 

 or early in, the honey harvest (like the 

 horse before mentioned) and entirely 

 outstripped by those which arrived at 

 their zenith at the right time ? 



REPAIRING OI.D COVERS. 



Therefore, after making the examina- 

 tion, leave the bees alone during the 

 month of March; and, while it is a fact 

 that no one has as much time as the very 

 busy man, better employ these days put- 

 ting up a few more sections than you had 

 figured on, repairing old leaky covers by 

 putting strips of thin muslin over the 



cracks and openings. First put on a 

 coat of heavy paint, then the cloth, then 

 again paint on top, and you will be 

 pleased with the result. 



KEEP MORE BEES. 

 Editor Hutchinson has wisely said that 

 the best business to go with bees is "more 

 bees," so if you are not running to your 

 full capacity, better look around the 

 neighborhood and pick up some more. 

 Perhaps there are some neglected bees 

 right in your own field that you can buy, 

 or, if not, then lease them. They may 

 be breeding foul brood for your apiaries. 

 Don't try to bore a two-inch hole with a 

 gimlet, but absorb the spirit of Trust 

 that is in the atmosphere, and if you can 

 better the conditions of your community 

 without doing any one harm, do so. 

 Remember, an honest failure is better 

 than to never have tried. As these 

 articles are to run along through the 

 season, there is not much to write about 

 in March, and, as "sufficient unto the day 

 is the evil thereof" I will close until next 

 month. 



LoNGMONT, Colo. March 3, 1902. 



MANAGING OUT- APIARIES. 



BY F. GOVERDALE. 



Things that May be done in Keeping Down Swarming 

 When Working for Comb Honey. 



This seems a most seasonable foresight— milton. 



OTHE greatest problem in running out- 

 "T* apiaries for comb honey, is that of 

 managing swarming. To keep a man at 

 each yard, or send one every day during 

 the swarming-season, is too expensive. 

 Then, again, such help is not easy to pro- 

 cure. Caging the queens is quite a task, 

 and, in my locality, gives poor results. 

 Better produce extracted honey than be 

 compelled to remove queens. Plan after 

 plan has been recommended for prevent- 

 ing swarming, or for hiving the swarms 



automatically. To sift out the plans 

 worthy of adoption by a comb honey 

 producer has ever been my aim, and I will 

 endeavor to set forth the plan successful- 

 ly used in my apiaries the past three 



years. 



CLIPPING QUEENS. 



First, all of the queens are clipped. 

 This is done during willow or apple 

 bloom, before the great mass of young 

 bees begin to hatch. A 12-year-old boy 

 or girl to look on the opposite side of a 



