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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



the spirit of sincerity and sobriety 

 of expression, with none of that 

 "wouid-be-facetiousness" that spoils 

 so many press articles on bee-keep- 

 ing. We commend it. — E. G. B. 



Out Customer Now Supplied With Bees- 

 wax 



Several of our members realized 

 3 6c per pound for their beeswax 

 through the NATIONAL, but at 

 present our customer is supplied 

 and we know of no place where 

 we can get more than market price 

 for members' wax. We hope to 

 make a similar arrangement anoth- 

 er season to dispose of members' 

 wax at an advance price. 



In making up winter loss, or 

 where one has combs to be filled 

 with bees, the better way of pre- 

 venting swarming is as follows: 

 when a colony is found starting 

 cells in preparation to swarm, a 

 comb containing small unsealed 

 brood, WITHOUT CELLS is select- 

 ed and placed in the center of the 

 set of empty combs to be filled. 

 The queen is now found and run in 

 on this comb of young brood and 

 empty combs. The old hive is now 

 set aside and this prepared hive 

 set in its place with an excluder on 

 top. Now put on their part filled 

 upper stories, one, two or three as 

 the case may be. On top of these 

 upper stories place a second ex- 

 cluder, and the brood nest con- 

 taining cells on top of all. On the 

 eleventh day following you will 

 either have very ripe cells, or a 

 virgin in the brood nest above, 

 which can be set on a stand of its 

 own if increase is desired, or left 

 and extracted, as you prefer. The 

 mission of the second excluder is, 

 to keep the virgin in the story you 

 want her in, (should she hatch dur- 

 ing the eleven days) and save your 

 hunting through several sets of 

 combs for her when you are ready 

 to set her off with the now sealed 

 brood. With this method you get 

 the finest cells possible for your 

 new colony and with but little 

 trouble and expense. 



Rain! Rain! Rain! About three 

 days rain then a clear day. The 

 redeeming feature was that when- 

 ever the sun did shine, there 

 was an abundance of nectar in the 

 clovers, and we secured about a 

 fourth what honey might have 

 been harvested, had weather con- 

 ditions been more favorable. 



The BassAvood (Lynn) Flow 



The Basswood timber, although 

 rather scarce in this locality, blos- 

 somed profusely this year, and 

 with ideal weather conditions, dur- 

 ing the two first weeks of bloom, 

 as much or more basswood honey 

 was secured as clover. 



This is July 15. At this writing 

 we are having heavy rains again 

 which we expect will end up the 

 white honey flow for 1914. The 

 crop is every pound of it still upon 

 the hives, and will not be extracted 

 until the last gathered nectar is 

 well ripened by the bees. 



This is the 20th century method 

 of producing extracted honey, al- 

 though the product will be mixed, 

 about half and half clover and 

 basswood. Had we tried to have 

 kept our clover honey separate 

 from the basswood, it would have 

 necessitated extracting in the midst 

 of the honey flow. Watery, poor 

 thin honey would have been the 

 results. None of it for us! But in- 

 stead we have fully ripened, on 

 the hive, honey, that we defy any- 

 one to equal by any other process 

 known to modern bee-keeping. If 

 any of our readers are in a "rut" 

 along the line of a system of pro- 

 duction of extracted honey, we 

 advise you to abandon it for the 

 up-to-date modern system. 



A Peculiar Clover Flow 



With hives overflowing with bees, 

 weather conditions were such dur- 

 ing .June that bees could not fly 

 only about a fourth of the time. 



A letter from Mr. James H. 

 Huskey of Ariel, Pla., in the man- 

 grove belt, writing at end of June, 

 states, "Bees are doing nothing, 

 do not believe they will do any- 

 thing this year." We might add 

 that it is too soon to make defin- 

 ite report of either the Mangrove 

 or Cabbage palmetto, as yet, by 

 the next issue of the "Review" 

 we can speak definitely. The man- 

 grove which lasts from five to six 

 weeks is very sensitive to weather 

 conditions. The scrub palmetto 

 which is over and gone, yielded 

 very poorly this year, probably ow- 

 ing to the dry, hot weather end of 

 May. — E. G. B. 



