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Yard No. 1. 



G5 Colonies. 



2 Colonies gave each 28 pounds 



2 " " " m 



12 " " " «4 '• 



14 " " '• 112 



21 " " •• 140 



10 " " " 1G8 " 



3 " " " 19« " 

 1 " " •' 224 



Average 127 lbs. (Increased to 80 colonies. ) 



Yard No. 2. (JO Colonies. 



28 Colonies gave each 212 pounds 



23 ** " " 140 



9 " •' " 168 



4 " '' " 224 



1 " ♦' " 252 " 



Average 140 lbs. (Increased to 70 colonies. ) 



Took some extracted from increase in 

 both apiaries. Average for the three yaids, 

 loO pounds, spring count. The total crop 

 was twelve tons and brought us $2,700 last 

 fall at wholesale. 



Now, don't say this success was because of 

 location or an extra honey flow. It was not. 

 The flow lasted about fifty days. The bees 

 never made a living up to the opening of the 

 flow; neither did they after the close of it. 

 All the surplus and their living for the suc- 

 ceeding ten months, was put in during that 

 time. If it had been the result of an extra 

 honey flow, why did not other apiaries in the 

 same fields show it? The very best yields 

 from other apiaries were only about one- half 

 the above. Summed up, here is what ^ gave 

 us success. Winter and spriny protection, 

 getting rousing colonies by spreading brood, 

 evening up and feeding when necessary, al- 

 lowing no colony to swarm, removing the 

 queens during the honey-flow and by doing 

 everything at the right time. 



Remember that "work well done is twice 

 done. ' ' Observe in the report, that 2 colonies 

 gave each 28 pounds. One of these swarmed 

 and skipped (we must have missed queen in 

 clipping) and the other superceded its queen 

 just when the queen ought to have been do- 

 ing her best. Had all swarmed; how it would 

 have lessened the yield. There was lots of 

 work about this, but the increase in yield 

 more than paid for all the work done secur- 

 ing the whole crop. 



Don't slight your work. AVhen you get a 

 strong colony don't divide or allow it to 

 swarm. Those bees tliat would be kept at 

 home in the new hive should be sent to the 

 fields to gather honey and the expense of a 

 new hive saved. Doulile gain, do you see? 

 Take away queens during the flow, you can't 

 hold them unless you do. 



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FLINT, MICHIGAN, MAY 10. 1891. 



Beeswax is going up, but VVm. W. Cary 

 writes that he shall not raise the price of 

 his foundation during the next thirty days. 

 Three cents a pound is worth looking after. 



This issue of the Review is a little late 

 because I have been devoting so much time 

 to that forthcoming book, " Advanced Bee- 

 Culture" which will be out before I begin 

 work on the June Review. The June Review 

 probably will also be late, but, after the book 

 is out, I can then " catch up." 



A COPY of the last edition of Prof. Cook's 

 Guide is added to my library. The price of 

 this book is now only $1.00. Those tvho 

 bought this book a few years ago have but 

 little idea of what may be found in the last 

 edition. It contains the latest in science and 

 practice, and is really the choicest book for 

 American bee-keepers. 



Wm. F. Clarke is the projector of a Bee- 

 Keepers' College, at Guelph, Ontario. An 

 apiary of several difi'erent varieties of bees 

 will be kept, and modern appliances and 

 methods will be in use. The Institution 

 will be conducted very much after the plan 

 of a Commercial or Business College. Those 

 interested will please address Mr. Clarke for 

 further particulars. The Review hopes the 

 new scheme will be a success. 



martin's prolific buckwheat. 

 Wm. Martin, of Cass City, Mich., in 1888, 

 noticed one plant of buckwheat in his field 

 of Japanese buckwheat, that was taller and 

 heavier loaded witli grain than tlie other 

 plants. He saved the seed from this, and 

 sowed it by itself ever since. This sport 

 has retained its original good qualities ; and 

 its fortunate owner now has enough of the 

 seed so that he can otter some for sale. 



