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THE BEEKEEPER'S REVIEW 



Plum City. Wis., Aug. 1st, 1914 

 Tlie Beekeepers' Review: — Glad 

 to see the yellow cover appear 

 again. Hope it will continue. 



This has been a rather poor year 

 here. Cold and rainy, then it turn- 

 ed hot and dry. We had plenty of 

 bees ready for work, but they just 

 about held their own until July. 

 Will get between 30 and 40 pounds 

 of extracted honey per colony, 

 spring count. 



Yours very truly, 



F. C. SMITH. 



Classified Department 



Notices will be inserted in this de- 

 partment at ten cents per line. Min- 

 imum charge will be fifty cents. 

 Copy should be sent early and may 

 be "for anything the beekeeper has, 

 for sale or wants to buy. Be sure 

 and say you want your advertise- 

 ment in "this department. 



HONEY AND WAX 



HONEY LABELS — Lowest price. 

 PEARL CARD CO., Clintonvil}e. Conn. 



White Clover honey for sale. Al- 

 bert Tien, Falmouth, Mich 



COMB HONEY wanted at all times 

 Also Potatoes, Onions, Beans, Cab- 

 bage and Fruits. W. W. Marmaduke, 

 Washington, Ind. tf 



BEESWAX WANTED— Will pay 32c 

 and Freight or 33c Trade. Send for 

 prices on Bee supplies. W. D. SOPER, 

 Jackson, Mich. 



FOR SALE — Extracted clover honey 

 thoroughly ripened and of fine quality. 

 Put up in new cans two in one case. 

 JOS. HANKE, Pt. Washington, Wise. 



FOR SALE) — Orange honey, 1914 crop. 

 Packed in 60-lb. cans, 2 in a case, net 

 weight. Price 9c per lb. Sample free. 

 JAMES McKBE, 559 Grand ave.. River- 

 side, Calif. 



WANTED— Extracted honey, car 



lots or less. Alfalfa or Alfalfa and 

 Sweet Clover mixed. Could use some 

 from other sources. W. HICKOX. For- 

 syth, Mont. 



COMB HONEY WANTED— Send your 

 samples, prices, quantities and how put 

 up and packed. We will my 32c per 

 pound for nice, clean, blight yellow 

 Beeswax. Chas. Israel Bros. Co., 486 

 Canal St., New York. Established in 

 1875. 



A Season with Bees in the South 



G. Frank Pease, Marshall, Mich. 

 President La. B. K. A. 



Although my bees in Louisiana 

 were left heavy in stores in Sep- 

 tember 1913, some having from 

 forty to fifty pounds, I found on 

 my arrival there from Michigan the 

 first of January that the warm 

 winter had caused heavy brood rear- 

 ing and used nearly all the honey 

 throughout the apiary. I arrived 

 just in time to save them. About 

 two hundred were still in old heavy 

 pine hives so their weight deceived 

 me and one apiary lost about fif- 

 teen swarms. 



The yard where we first camped 

 I began transferring and feeding. I 

 began transferring in January and 

 by the latter part of February a. 

 big share of them were transfrrrpd 

 in ten frame Hoffman hives. Al- 

 though there were some light frosts 

 at night and a few light freezing 

 spells, with little or no brood or 

 pollen and no drones, I did not lose 

 but one queen and lost only one 

 swarm (after feed'ng) from rob- 

 bing in an out apiary. The fifteen 

 swarms that starved, died before I 

 could get to them in an out 

 apiary. 



I built a screen tent to transfer 

 in and had to handle the swarms 

 very oujckly as robbers were on 

 the job every chance they g^t. 



Tlie snring was backward but 

 opened nn with btitton willow and 

 r.nttan and starvation was at an 

 end. 



Swarms built up under mai^^nu^a- 

 t'on to an averfge r>f fourteen H'^ff- 

 man frames of brood and one swarm 

 bad twenty-four frames of brood 

 and another frame partly full. 



My c^mb honey was built over 

 two ten frame hives and one swarm 

 finished a 32 sec. super over three 

 ten frame hives. July is supposed 

 to be the best honey month in my 

 location but this year they went 

 back in stores duiing July cutting 

 my crop short 57 lbs. per colony 

 spring count and 200 swarms in- 

 crease. 



My conclusion of keeping bees in 

 the south is this: 



Put comb honey supers above 

 double 10 frame brood nest on ac- 

 count of the need of so much 

 brood room and to stop swarming. 



