96 THE BEE-KEEPERS" REVIEW 



Their bees are mostly in out-yards, some little distance from the 

 home, and are wintered on their summer stands. With their large 

 10-frame Quinby hive of a size of about 13 Langstroth frames, not 

 much fall feeding is necessary. 



A trip in the Fall to pack the bees for Winter, then another one 

 in the Spring to unpack, covers a considerable portion of the year's 

 work. For an upper story comb to extract from they use a frame 

 different from the brood frame, it being only six inches deep. Their 

 mode of leasing ground for the bee yard is unique and of their own 

 originality, for they give a fourth of the crop for this rent. At first 

 thought this rent would seem exorbitant, but the landlord is inter- 

 ested in the bees and crop and takes extra care, and is presumed to 

 hive a portion of the 5% of swarms they have each year. Then the 

 men and teams are taken care of while at work at the yard without 

 additional cost. This liberal trait is a characteristic of the Dadants 

 and has gone a long ways toward building up their great business in 

 comb foundations. The most of the work of driving to the yards 

 during Summer is done with a Ford automobile, a couple of men 

 visiting several yards each day to give room and make up winter loss 

 as the case may be. At extracting time, after the crop of white honey 

 is all -upon the hives, two men go ahead in the auto and have every- 

 thing ready by the time the team gets there with the extractor and 

 cans to hold the honey. 



"Mis^ratory Bee-Keeping," by Mr. H. C. Ahlers, of Wisconsin, 



Mr. Ahlers not being present the secretary read a paper sent in 



which we hope to get space to publish in the near future. 



"Relation of the Bee-Keeper to the Fniit Grozcer," by Prof. R. 



H. Pettit, East Lanshig, Mich., was illustrated by lantern slides. 



This subject is of so much importance that we are sroing to ask Prof. 



Pettit to write it up in detail for the pages of the Review. 



"Imagination as Applied to the Bee Business," bv Secretarv of 

 the National, E. B. Tyrrell. He dwelt upon some of the possibilities 

 yet to be developed in bee-keening". One thought was that of build- 

 ing up cars of bees in the South, shipping them North at the opening 

 of the clover flow, work them throusrh the season, then extract a!l 

 their honey, melt up the combs into wax, then have the hives built 

 collapsable, so they could be shipped back South to be refilled asrain. 

 Another "scheme" would be to sell the bees in the f^ll. after taking 

 the crop. It might be practical to shin them North for the white 

 honey flow, then return them South to winter and either take a snr-ng 

 crop of honey South, or double the number of bees, as one thought 

 best. 



Mr. J- Pomerov Munson, Grand Ranids, Mich., President Mich- 

 ig-an State Horticultural Association, spoke of the benefit of bees to 

 that of fruit along the line of pollen distribution. The only com- 



