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THE BEE-KEEPER'S REVIEW 



around, waiting their turn, that it would 

 be impossible to extract the honey unless 

 it was returned to the bees to be warmed 

 up. If one had artificial heat to apply in 

 the latter case, it would work fine. Some 

 of the slickest, cleanest, driest combs I 

 ever extracted were heated up artificially. 



PRODUCING AN ARTICLE THAT ENABLES THE 

 PRODUCER TO SET THE PRICE. 



It will not be necessary to tell the ex- 

 perienced extracted honey producer that 

 this honey, after being- left on the hive 

 clear through the season, then, having all 

 the latest-gathered and unsealed honey 

 taken away, and kept in a grade by itself, 

 that we would be likely to get a fine ar- 

 ticle; more, it would be the acme of per- 

 fection. Isn't the system very simple ? 

 Just add a few more upper stories, keep 

 giving the bees more comb room clear 

 through the season, then leave it as long 

 as there is no danger of getting dark, or 

 inferior, honey mixed with it. even if it is 

 the last of August, if you have no fall flow, 

 and I assure you, you will not regret it. 



You will have an article in a class by 

 itself. To find its value, you do not have 

 to look at a market quotation. You make 

 customers; there is a scramble for it. 

 Any one producing the ordinary article of 

 honey one finds on the market, is not only 

 losing much on his own crop, but is a 

 very great damage to the fraternity at 

 large. It is an undisputed fact, that 

 every pound of good honey that is put on 

 the market increases the demand for 

 honey, while every pound of inferior honey 

 decreases the demand. Can't you see 

 how the land lays? Have you been pro- 

 ducing just the ordinary honey in the 

 past? Has the price been unsatisfactory, 

 and the sales slow and far between ? If 

 so, there is a better way. The better way 

 is so simple that there is not a particle of 

 excuse, for not practicing it. Brother 

 bee-keeper, let us produce, just a little 

 better honey during 1907 than we did in 

 1906. 



Remus. Mich., Jan. S. 1907. 



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Bees, Brood and Supers Kept Together 

 By a Dudley Tube. 



E. F. ATWATER. 



¥E will now describe the "Dudley 

 Tube" method, which gave us such 

 fine results last year, with no dividing 

 (unless we want increase), no shaking, no 

 absconding, no sulking, no scattering to 

 nearby hives, and big results. In this, 

 not only do we go with Mr. Gill in keep- 

 ing "bees, queens and supers" together, 

 but we actually keep the brood and 

 emerging bees on the old stand also, so 

 as to secure the best results in the supers. 

 Yet we have no swarming, nor need we 

 wait until they are preparing to swarm 

 before treating the strong colonies, unless 

 we wish. Yet a weak colony, properly 



treated, may do super-work when other- 

 wise it would not. We wish also to be 

 able to apply the principle of "tube" re- 

 inforcement not only to "tube swarms" 

 but to colonies under various conditions, 

 treated by various methods. 



The cuts make clear the construction of 

 the necessary, but cheap and simple ap- 

 paratus. 



THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE TUBE. 



The entrance block is of two pieces, ^ 

 to % thick; the lower one having a tri- 

 angular piece cut out as shown. The 

 two pieces are nailed together and at the 



