50 THE BEE-KEEPERS- REVIEW 



Have you nailed up those new hives and frames yet? or cleaned 

 up the supers, and gotten them ready for use, or are you waiting till 

 the bees swarm before you make preparations for them? No use to 

 wait to see whether there is going to be a crop of honey next season. 

 It will be too late then. Get ready for it now, and when the flow 

 comes you won't be caught napping, as you were the past season. 



The mild weather during the fall and early winter has given the 

 white clover a chance to make a good growth. i\s there was an 

 enormous crop of seed last year, there should be a fine lot of young 

 plants for next season's crop. The prospect looks good, so far. any- 

 way. 



Next in importance to the white clover as a honey plant, in this 

 section, is locust. This does not always yield, however; about two 

 out of three years is as much as we can expect in the way of a crop 

 from locust. But usually when it hits, it hits hard. 1 ha\e see'i a 

 colony on scales increase ten to fifteen pounds a day during the locust 

 flow. The honey is water white, slow to granulate, of good body and 

 flax or, many preferring it to clover. The flow here is about the first 

 of May. 



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The queen breeding plant of Mr. J. M. Davis sS: Son, of Spring" 

 Hill. l>nn., is perhaps one of the most extensive of its kind in the 

 world. They operate near a thousand nuclei, and their output of 

 queens for the past four years has been from 4,000 to 6,000 per season. 

 It is a liberal education to go to their place and see how they do it. 

 And last year, in addition to the queen business, they got over "30,000 

 pounds of honey. Mr. J. M. Davis has been a bee-keeper and queen 

 breeder for more than forty years. He has been several times presi- 

 dent of the Tennessee Bee-Keepers' Association. 



I wish somebody would devise some better method of fastening 

 foundation in shallow frames. Pouring hot wax along the top-bar 

 leaves a heavy ridge of wax that is very much in the way when cut- 

 ting out the combs. It may do well enough for extracting combs, 

 but we have a large trade in bulk comb hone}', and there is a lot of 

 waste, and much annoyance on that account. 



St. Louis in 1914. 



All eyes are now turned toward St. Louis. 



