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and 15 pounds is the most; so you can 

 see that it is cheaper than cards, and will 

 be remembered much longer. This year 

 my 1 5-year-old daughter will sit in the 

 center of the exhibit and make wax 

 flowers. Other bee-keepers tell me that 

 my exhibit at the fairs helps them to sell 

 their honey, and 1 know it helps me. Be- 

 sides, I have the pleasure of getting the 

 "ribbons" and a check at the end of the 

 fair. 



HOWE-MADE HIVES OF CHEAP LUMBER. 



The question often comes up in regard 

 to home-made versus factory-made hives. 

 If a man can't make his hives so that 

 every one is exactly alike, he better buy 

 them from the factory. I am often asked 

 if it is cheaper to make hives than to buy 

 them ready made. That depends upon 

 what is wanted; whether they are to be 

 made of lumber fit for making a palace 

 car, or a $ 1 0,000 house, or from a cheaper 

 grade of lumber. One bee-keeper showed 

 me some factory-made hives, and then 

 kicked on the price. There wasn't a knot 

 in them, and he could not have bought 

 such lumber for less than $60 a thousand. 

 There is no call for using such lumber in 



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bee hives. I buy a cheap grade of pine 

 in which the knots are sound. The knots 

 will last just as long as the other lumber 

 that is around them. I start in cutting 

 out the longest pieces first, dodging all of 

 the bad knots, then cutting out the next 

 longest pieces. Short pieces are cut out 

 as I go along if it comes just right. The 

 small pieces I work up into queen rearing 

 nuclei holding four frames six inches 

 square. 



When the stuff is all sawed out and 

 ready for use, 1 sort it out, making two 

 grades; and one day the dealer from 

 whom I bought the lum.ber called after 

 the stuff was sorted out and piled up, and 

 was surprised at the good quality of the 

 material after it had been cut up and 

 sorted. He said it was worth just as 

 much to me as though I had paid him 

 three times as much for the lumber. By 

 having a work shop, a good set of tools, 

 including a good foot power saw, buying 

 a second grade of lumber, and working it 

 up to the best advantage during the leis- 

 ure of winter, a man can get a fine lot of 

 hives and frames at a low price. 



Mayfield, N. Y., May 29, 1907. 



Is the Second Shaking- Necessary in 

 Treating Foul Brood. 



ALOIS J. KLEIN. 



^^HOUGH an amateur only, I am pleased 

 T^^ with the Review for its always fresh 

 atmosphere, so that 1 felt not unfrequent- 

 ly disposed to keep it as long as I kept as 

 few as two or three colonies. At present 

 I have forty-two hives. 



1 beg leave to take this occasion also to 

 state where I have not been pleased. 

 You v/ill kindly pardon my sincerity. In 

 short, it is your teaching of curing foul 

 brood (bacillus White.) Years ago I 



have, like many other beginners, 

 followed blindly the directions of those 

 apicultural coryphaei that I took fancy to. 

 In the foul brood trouble 1 embraced your 

 plan of treatment because 1st. as you say 

 in Advanced Bee Culture, 1902, page 44- 

 5, that it is the only plan of treatment 

 that can be "depended upon to effect a 

 radical cure;" and 2nd, because of its 

 simplicity. Not a little was I chagrined 

 when finding by subsequent experience 



