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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



An Upper Entrance, just above the 

 queen excluder, is used by Mr. W. A. 

 Chrysler, of Chatham, Ontario, in the pro- 

 duction of extracted hnoey. He makes 

 the excluder a little longer than the hive, 

 so that it projects and furnishes an alight- 

 mg board. He says that it relieves the 

 brood nest of the trafific that otherwise 

 must pass through it, and saves the bees 

 from passing through the queen excluder- 

 He also believes that its use has a ten- 

 dency to prevent swarming. So well-sat- 

 isfied is he with the arrangement that he 

 is going to use it entirely upon his colonies 

 worked for extracted honey. 



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Decoy Hives, put up in the woods to 

 catch stray swarms, are an indifferent 

 success in a wooden country, but in the 

 West, in Colorado and California, where 

 timber is scarce, there is no trouble in 

 catching swarms by putting out empty 

 hives. One of my California subscribers, 

 Mr. Roy K. Bishop, writes that if one 

 wishes to start an apiary there it is only 

 necessary to put out some empty hives or 

 '■ Dxes, and by the first of June he will be 

 well-started. When 1 was out in Cali- 

 fornia, and visited Mr. Mendleson, there 

 were three empty hives standing in his 

 wagon shed, or they were empty when 

 put there, but the bees were flying merrily 

 from two of them. In a pile of perhaps 

 25 hives standing outside, half a dozen 

 were occupied with swarms. When out 

 riding with Mr. Gill in Colorado, we 

 passed a house in the walls of which five 

 swarms had found a home — going in 

 through some crack or knot hole. 



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Michigan Has a New Inspector of Apiaries 



When I accepted the office of Inspector 

 of Apiaries for the State of Michigan, 1 

 did it with the feeling that some one else 

 would soon be found to relieve me, that 

 my holding of the office would be only 

 temporary, but many things seemed to 

 conspire to keep me at the work. The 

 time has come, however, when 1 simply 

 must give it up; in fact, I feel that it 



ought to have been done sooner. The 

 publishing of the Review is enough work 

 for any man, and, with the bees that I 

 now have under my care, it is simply im- 

 possible to have other duties and do jus- 

 tice to all. 



There is, however, one satisfaction in 

 laying down the office, and that is in see- 

 ing it pass to the Hon. R. L. Taylor, of 

 Lapeer. If any man in the state has had 

 successful experience with foul brood, it 

 is Mr. Taylor. He has an excellent knowl- 

 edge of human nature, any amount of 

 tact and persistence, and a calm and judi- 

 cial manner. It seems to me that he will 

 prove the ideal Inspector. 



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Shallow Extracting combs, for use in 

 the supers, are praised by Mr. W. A. 

 Chrysler, of Chatham, Ontario. His 

 combs are staple-spaced. There are no 

 staples in the frames, but staples, like 

 double pointed tacks, are driven into the 

 rabbet of the hive, each staple being of 

 such a width as to hold the adjoining 

 frames the correct distance apart. By 

 raising a frame slightly, so that the ends 

 are clear of the staples, the frame can be 

 pressed either way, the same as though 

 there were no staples present. By cer- 

 tain up and down movements, he says he 

 can shake nearly every bee out of a super. 

 The frames may loosen, but will rattle 

 down into their proper places again. He 

 says that he can take off twice as much 

 honey in a given -time by this method as 

 by handling a frame at a time, as must 

 be done with a deep frame. Very true, 

 but how about using bee escapes? 



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Sheltered Locations are of more im- 

 portance than they have been given credit 

 for in the past. Two experienced men, 

 Messrs. Townsend and Lathrop, give their 

 experience in this issue on this important 

 point. The last two years, here at Flint, 

 my bees have been in a very exposed 

 situation, but I am now making arrange- 

 ments to locate the apiary a few rods 

 back in a grove of several acres, with the 

 great body of the woods at the north and 



