THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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the Jamestown Exposition. Let me say, 

 confidentially, that 1 expect the'e will be 

 one very enjoyable little incident not down 

 on the programme. 



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Articles Wanted. 



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 that would be helpful to practical bee- 

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 and takes this method of letting it be 

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Superseding Queens. 



None of the arguments yet advanced 

 have convinced me of the profitableness 

 of superseding queens of a certain age, 

 regardless of their condition or perform- 

 ances. If a queen does not come up to 

 the desired standard, and the bees show 

 no disposition to supersede her, I would 

 take a hand at it myself, but I greatly 

 doubt the advisability of superseding a 

 queen simply on account of her age. It is 

 quite probably that an apiary with all 

 young queens might furnish more surplus 

 than one where the queens are of all ages, 

 but 1 am inclined to agree with my friends 

 Taylor and Townsend that the time re- 

 quired in rearing and introducing extra 

 queens each year might better be em- 

 ployed in carmg for more bees. If the 

 locality is overstocked, then start another 

 apiary. A few colonies may turn up 



queenless in the spring, or fail to come up 

 Lo Lhe prooer standard, but the hives and 

 combs are left, and, if we will simply keep 

 a few more bees, we will reap an equally 

 great harvest, without all of this extra 

 labor. 



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Beware How You Abandon Comb Honey 

 Production. 



The tendency of the times is towards 

 the establishing of out-apiaries and the 

 production of extracted honey. To a certain 

 extent this is going to lessen the produc- 

 tion of comb honey, and raise the price. 

 This commodity seems destined to be- 

 come more than ever a fancy article of 

 trade, with a correspondingly fancy price; 

 and men already living in a locality well 

 adapted to its production, and equipped 

 for the business, better think twice before 

 they abandon it. It ought not to be for- 

 gotten, however, that while the question 

 of price is important, it is not the only 

 consideration. There are natural condi- 

 tions, such as the character of the honey 

 and the flow, the kind of weather that 

 usually prevails, the distance and kinds 

 of markets, that all have a bearing. As 

 a rule, out-yards are more easily managed 

 for extracted honey, but they can be run 

 successfully for comb honey, and the man 

 who is an expert in its production, better 

 stick to it. 



Producing Both Comb and Extracted 

 Honey on the Same Hive. 



One drawback to the production of 

 comb honey is the disinclination of the 

 bees to begin work in the supers at the 

 opening of the harvest, and another is the 

 number of unfinished sections at the close 

 of the season. Both of these can be 

 overcome if the bee-keeper produces both 

 comb and extracted honey. Begin the 

 season with an extracting super on each 

 hive; when more room is needed, put a 

 super of sections filled with foundation 

 underneath the extracting super. Keep 

 adding comb honey supers next the brood 

 nest, and removing the finished honey at 



