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talk about how long it took to fill 

 a hive body with wired frames and 

 full sheets of foundation. To find 

 out I timed myself on seven hives. 

 I first nailed all the frames for 

 the seven and only timed myself on 

 three of them. I found that I took 

 10 minutes for one hive full or 8 

 fr. I then wired the frames timing- 

 each group of eight, with the fol- 

 lowing result: 7% min. 6 min., 8 

 min., 7 min., 7% min., 7 min., 6 1/^ 

 min. or an average of 7 min. per 

 hWe. Then I put full sheets in and 

 imbedded the wire with u spur 

 wire embedder, time 8 min., 9 min., 

 8 min., 9 min., 9 min., 8 min., 7 

 min., or an average of 8 2-7 min. 

 per hive. This makes a total aver- 

 age of 25 2-7 min. for filling one 

 hive. 



I then took five hives and timed 

 filling the five, I was 126 min., 45 

 min. nailing, 39 min. wiring, 4 2 min. 

 putting in foundation, or an average 

 of 25 1-5 min. 



I do not write this because I 

 think I am the fastest at this work, 

 but thought if others did it in less 

 time I might find out their method 

 of doing the work. 



Some Expressions on Bees 



The guards of a hive fly around 

 in the air from 10 to 20 feet from 

 the hive. 



I had two hives of bees and my 

 neighbor had quite a few hives, 

 his bees came and carried my bees 

 and lioney all away. I know for I 

 saw them come out of the hive 

 with bees and fly away. 



A bee kicked me and left his leg 

 in me. 



We fling all our honey, we don't 

 raise comb honey 



When anything is dead it is foul, 

 so of course a dead bee is foul 

 (foul brood). 



If you mash a bee you will cause 

 foul brood. 



When I get around to it I am go- 

 ing to get a couple of bees so as 

 to have honey for the family. 



Mr. Supply Dealer, I want a dol- 

 lar's worth of pound honey cells. 



Foulbrood is caused from fruit 

 spray. 



This is to show what queer ideas 

 some people have on bees. 



Try the Review classified column. 



EDITORIAL CORNER 



The Yuletide season will be with 

 you before another number of the 

 Review. We take this opportunity 

 to wish the readers of the Review 

 a very enjoyable season and hope 

 to meet you all (through the Re- 

 view) the first of January, when 

 our new volume begins Will you 

 ALLi be with us! 



A very complete index for vol- 

 ume XXVII will be found on page 

 45 6. This will help the reader won- 

 d erf nil J' when looking up the valu- 

 able articles appearing in the Re- 

 view during the year 1914. 



Denver is the center of the larg- 

 est bee business, from the producer 

 standpoint in the world. It is pre- 

 dicted that this meeting will con- 

 sist of more extensive beekeepers 

 than any other National meeting 

 thus far. You will surely be several 



years behind your more fortunate 

 brothers who attend, by not attend- 

 ing this great meeting. 



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Four Hundred Seventy-Eight Pages 

 in the Review for 1914 



The Review contains 478 pages 

 for the year 1914. Who says they 

 did not get their dollar's worth dur- 

 ing 1914? Nearly five pages for a 

 cent. Surely reading matter is cheap 

 nowadays. 



At one convention, those present 

 were told that in feeding back 

 honey to get part-full sections of 

 comb honey completed, if they 

 would uncap the sealed portion, the 

 entire section would then be filled 

 out even and nice and malie a fancy 

 article, instead of a poorly finished 

 product, as usual. Lots of such 



