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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



WHITE SWEET CLOVER SEED— We 

 are getting in "touch" with several 

 members who will harvest a consider- 

 able White Sweet Clover Seed this fail. 

 Last season we could not get half 

 enough of the unhulled white to supply 

 our members. We would suggest tliat 

 those wanting seed place their order 

 eaj-ly this fall, as we anticipate anoth- 

 er season of heavy demand. You may 

 send in $15 per hundred pounds for the 

 unhulled white variety, and if the price 

 is more or less this can be adjusted at 

 the time of shipment. Address The 

 Beelieepers' Review, Northstar. Mich. 



W. H. Laws 



Will be ready to take care of your 

 Queen orders whether larg-e or small, 

 the coming season. Twenty-five years 

 of careful breeding brings Law's Queens 

 above the usual standard; better let us 

 book your orders now. 



Tested Queens in March; untested 

 after April 1st. About 50 first-class 

 breeding queens ready at any date. 



PniCES: Tested, $1.25; 5 for $5.00; 

 Breeders, each $5.00. Address 



W. H. Laws, Beeville, Texas 



In answering advertisements In 

 the REVIEW, kindly say. I saw 

 your advertisement in the BEE- 

 KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



Try My Famous Queens 



From Improved Stock 



The best that money can buy; not in- 

 clined to swarm and as for. honey 

 gatherers they have few equals. 



3-Band Golden, 5-Band & Carniolan 



bred in separate yards, ready March 20. 

 Untested, one, $1; six, $5; 12, $9; 25, 

 $17.50; 50, $34; 100, $65. Tested, one 

 $1.50; six, $8; 12, $15. Breeders of 

 eitlier strain, $5. Nuclei with untested 

 queen, one-lrame, $2.50; six one-frame, 

 $15.00; two-frame, $3.50; six two-frame, 

 $20.40; nuclei with tested queen, one- 

 frame $3.00; si.x one-frame, $17.40; two- 

 frame, $4; six two-frame, $23.40. Our 

 Queens and Drones are all reared from 

 the best select queens, which should 

 be so with drones as well as queens. 

 No disease of any kind in this country. 

 Safe arrival, satisfaction, and prompt 

 service guaranteed. 



D. E. BROTHERS, Attalla, Ala. 



swarming. You will notice we are 

 only using and recommending an 8 

 frame hive here doubled. Your trou- 

 ble in having your bees swarm was 

 undoubtedly caused by placing the 

 queen excluders between your hives. 

 You see by so doing you were only 

 giving your queens the capacity of 

 one hive to deposit eggs in so to 

 relieve you and your queens of their 

 difficulty you will have to take out 

 the excluders and lay them away 

 where they will not annoy you. We 

 have very little us© for excluders 

 unless we put them on top of our 

 strong colonies to hatch queens 

 above them. So now listen: The evi- 

 dence is that you have a most 

 splendid location for honey gather- 

 ing, and to prevent natural swarm- 

 ing and hold your bees together 

 through the honey flow you would 

 have to give your queens the full 

 capacity of the two 10 frame bodies 

 and also early in the season put on 

 comb honey supers in plenty. We 

 often put on enough for 100 or if 

 a plentiful run is expected enough 

 for 150 at once, but as you see this 

 makes a very tall hive, and to pro- 

 tect it from severe winds and 

 storms which all places are subject 

 to. You should build a shelter for 

 them a description of which you 

 will find in my articles in the Re- 

 view, but maybe you do not take 

 the Review. If not I would suggest 

 that you send at once $1.50 to E. D. 

 Townsend, Northstar, Michigan and 

 you will be made a member of the 

 National Beekeepers, and get the 

 Review. Also tell him to send you 

 the back numbers to January if he 

 con. These will give you a pretty 

 good understanding of this method. 

 And in the August 1914 number, my 

 article on the cause of swarming 

 and swarm control will show you 

 plainly where you were making the 

 mistake in putting the excluders 

 between your two bodies, but I see 

 this letter was written before you 

 would get the August number, if 

 you are now taking the Review. 



You mention that they have 

 plenty of room, but you see it is 

 giving the queen access to plenty 

 of room at all times that prevents 

 swarming and by having this large 

 body and plenty of cases on, the 

 bees will carry the honey up into 

 these cases just where you want 

 them to carry it and leave the room 

 in the brood nest for the queen, so 



