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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



COMB HOXEV WANTED— Send your 

 samples, prices, (juantities and how put 

 up and packed. We will nay 32c per 

 pound for nice, clean, brig-ht yellow 

 Beeswax. Chas. Israel Bros. Co., 486 

 Canal St., Xew York. Established in 

 1875. 



FOR SALE— 3000 lbs. extra fine clov- 

 er and basswood blend of extracted 

 honey, ripened on the hives and stored 

 in new 60 lb. net tin cans. This hon- 

 ey is at my home in Bay City, Mich. 

 Write tor iree sample and price sta- 

 ting amount you can use. Address O. 

 H. Schmidt, 914 Court St., Reading-, 

 Pa. 



RASPBERRY HONEY— Left on the 

 hives until it was all sealed, and thor- 

 ougrhly ripened, it is thick, rich and 

 delicious. Put up for sale in new 60 

 lb. tin cans. Price $6.00 per can. Sam- 

 ple by mail for 10c, which may be de- 

 ducted from an order for honey. EL- 

 MER HUTCHINSON, Lake City, Mich., 

 R. F. D. No. 2. 



BEES AND QUEENS 



FOR SALE— Ninety-four colonies of 

 bees in nine frame hives. Also about 

 200 supers and other equipment for 

 working- them. Address A. S. CROTZEJi 

 Lena, 111. 



FOR SALE— 15 colonies bees. Also 

 15 new 8 frame hives and a quantitv 

 of foundation. Clyde Cobb, Belleville, 

 Ark. 



THREE-BANDED ITALIAN queens, 

 bred for business; untested, 75 cts. 

 each; 6 for $4.25. Satisfaction guaran- 

 teed. CHARLES ZWEILY, Lemont, 111. 



It is your rig-ht when buying queens 

 to demand a pedigree. We send one 

 ■with each order for queens. Border 



City Apiaries, 223, N. B. St. Ft. Smith, 

 Ark. 



WE WILL be in the field with good 

 Italian Queens in June at $1 eacn, 6 

 for $5. Also 2 pr. Nuclei in June at 

 $2.50 each without queen. Where queen 

 is wanted add one dollar. T>. J. 

 BLOCKER. Pearl City. 111. 



REDUCED PRICES for Sept. and 

 October. Untested queens of my 3- 

 banded Italian stock. One for 70 cts., 

 6 for $3.90, 12 or more at 60 cts apiece. 

 No disease and no better queens at 

 any price. Full colonies and several 

 apiaries cheap. H. D. MURRY. Mathis, 

 Texas. 



SPECIAL RATES for September. 

 Untested queens of my 3 banded Ital- 

 ian stock at the following prices: 1 

 for 70c, 6 for ?3.90, 12 or more at 60c 

 apiece. No disease and no better 

 queens at any price. Full colonies and 

 a number of apiaries fur sale. H. D. 

 MURRY. Mathis, Texas. 



by, Idaho, is a successful follower of 

 this method, placing above the thin 

 super cover a tray containing saw- 

 dust or plane-shavings, then the 

 hjve cover and over all a telescope 

 reaching to within two inches of 

 the bottom of the hive. He uses 

 bee escape boards with bee escapes 

 removed. 



Tliese two methods as .stated., 

 are directly opposite, yet each 

 seems to produce good results. The 

 first permits the moisture arising 

 from the cluster to pass slowly out 

 into the packing, where it is ab- 

 sorbed instead of condensing and 

 freezing on the cold lid and sides 

 of the hive, melting with the warm 

 days and wetting bees and liive.- 



The second conserves all the 

 heat of the cluster and prevents the 

 deposition of the moisture by so 

 protecting thin super and sides of 

 hives that they do not get cold 

 enough to condense the moisture. 

 Its adherents argue that the en- 

 trance, without any upward escape, 

 affords sufficient ventilation. 



Both methods accomplish the 

 great desideratum — keeping the 

 hive and bees dry. 



It would seem, however, that in 

 the hermetically sealed hive, the 

 air would eventually become so sat- 

 urated by the constantly arising 

 moisture from tlie bees, that a 

 trifling fall in the temperature 

 would reduce the air in the hive 

 below the dew point and cause the 

 moisture to be deposited. The small 

 opening the super cover as made 

 by Mr. C'oblentz in removing es- 

 capes would provide for this — a sort 

 of compromise bet-ween the two 

 methods. 



Readers of "Gleanings" are fa- 

 miliar with Mr. Hollerman's meth- 

 od of packing four colonies together 

 in one winter case, which has 

 proved so successful that he has 

 discarded his expensive cellar. 



Cellar wintering, where cellars 

 are properly constructed and venti- 

 lated, so that the temperature may 

 be regulated to remain warm 

 enough in the cold winter weather 

 and cool enough in the warmer days 

 of spring until fairly well settled 

 weather, seems to give perfect re- 

 sults. 



In the writer's own cellar, first 

 used this winter, the hives are 

 tiered up five feet high, half of 



