THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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times not until the fourth round, (I often 

 make four rounds if the season proves 

 good) we may find the original brood- 

 nest deserted by the queen, the brood left 

 there all capped over, and the bees filling 

 the combs with bee-bread just as fast as 

 the brood hatches. When 1 find this tak- 

 ing place 1 simply remove the lower story 

 and put it on top. which operation again 

 places the queen and the brood where 

 they belong. 



The omission of the queen-excluder 

 greatly lessens the tendancy to swarm. 

 which, to me, is quite important, since I. 

 in no case, make any provision for the 

 hiving of any cast swarms at any season 

 of the year. It also permits a somewhat 

 larger brood-nest, hence, a more populous 

 colony and a greater yield of honey. 



Bee-keepers not allowing the queen the 

 full range of the colony commonly have 

 an idea that the queen will so occupy the 

 surplus chambers as to become a nuisance, 

 but, in all my experience, 1 have not found 

 it so; especially since a small patch of 

 brood in a frame in no way interferes 

 with convenience in extracting. In fact, 

 during the heavier flows, at least in this 

 neighborhood, it pays to extract all combs 

 with any considerable amount of well- 

 ripened honey in them wherever they may 

 be found, since they will be just as full 

 the next time with the honey removed as 

 if we had left it. 



I use eight frames in my surplus stories 

 in a ten-frame hive. 



Preston. Minn.. March 50. 1907. 



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True Economy does not consider price 

 it considers results. 



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While a man is making S2.00 on some 

 side-issue, he is generally losing about 

 S5.00 in his main business. 



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The National Convention will be held 

 this year at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania — 

 time for holding meeting not yet set. 



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Bro. Muth, of Cincinnati, has brought 

 out a veil that he calls the Ideal, and it is 

 nearly, if not quite, as bss-proof as the 

 one shown in the frontispiece. More par- 

 ticulais and a picture next month. 



A Stern Angel, sword in hand, guards 

 the gates of the finer kinds of success, 

 and suffers no one to enter who has not 



waited and endured and worked and 

 overcome. — H. W. Mabie in Ladies' Home 

 Journal. 



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Courage and confidence are needed to 

 run the bee business this year, to keep on 

 putting money into feed for them; but if 

 no crop is received this year, bees will be 

 worth SI 0.00 a colony next year. 



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White Clover makes such a poor show- 

 ing here at Flint, that I have decided, at 

 this late date (June 15th,) to move the 

 most of the bees that I h?^ve here to 

 Northern Michigan, where th? wild rasp- 

 berry is coming on nicely. ' si'all have 

 no use here for the new honey ex'^ractor 

 that I bought last year and would be glad 

 to sell it. It is a Root, four-frame, 

 (Langstroth) with brake and automatic 

 reversing device. It cost S25.00 but I 

 would sell it for S20.00. 



