THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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By adding one shallow super at a time 

 jften have colonies working- in three su- 

 ^■vs while other colonies seem to be doing 

 ' ,eir best in one deep super. My shallow 

 supers are just half the depth of my deep 

 ones. 



I will admit there are twice as m.any 

 frames to handle in extracting, but I 

 would as soon uncap two shallow combs 



as one deep one. One sweep of the kr\ife 

 on each side does it, and my four-frame 

 extractor holds eight shallow frames. 



There is another argument in favor of 

 these supers, one which will grow stronger 

 as the years go by. Narrow lumber is 

 much more plentiful and cheaper than 

 wide lumber. 



Palermo, Ont.. Feh. ,:., 1907. 



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Bee-keeping Across the Waters is 

 Seldom a Specialty. 



J N. TINSLEY. 



r;EE-KEEPlNG in the British Isles, 

 J ' which includes Englaic". Scotland, 

 Ireland and Wales is carried on under far 

 different conditions than it is in Arne'-ica. 

 owing to the climatic conditions, i believe 

 there is not a single bee-keeper who de- 

 pends entirely upon his bees for a liveli- 

 hood, but many combine market ga 'din- 

 ing, poultry keepino". etc., with it. As 

 an illustration shown." ihe fickleness of 

 tho climate, take th« p-.st season. I am 

 the recognized lecturer and expert in the 

 Courity of Stafford for the Staffordshire 

 Bee-keepers' Association, and in my trips 

 to inspect hives and give advice 1 have 

 seen many apiaries totally devastated on 

 account of insufficient honey to keep them 

 going in the months of June and July, 

 wh.ich are generally considered our best 

 months for the gathering of the nectdr. 



I should first of all explain that England 

 is divided into 52 Counties, or divisions, 

 and in ai.most each of these divisions there 

 is an Association which is composed of a 

 number of bee-keepers. The average 

 membership of the various Societies I 

 should roughly estimate at SCO. but this 

 will cot adequately represent the bee- 

 keepers, as many will not join, although 

 it is to their iiiietreot to do so. The ad- 



vantages are many, but the chi-^f one is to 

 employ an expert to visit and inspect their 

 hives free of cost, and, in Ihe winter 

 months, to take a lantern and lecture in 

 the outlying districts, and thus cause the 

 spread of bee-keeping all through the 

 County. The fee for membership is very 

 little. Now, where we are very much in 

 front of America, is in the way of holding 

 exhibitions of honey, bees and beesv/ax. 

 A.lmost every County town has its Annu- 

 al Flower Show, and we endeavor to 

 persuade the various committees to also 

 hold a competition for honey, etc. Need- 

 less to say. this is soon attended to, and 

 the small show continues to grow each 

 year. Our Association then offers for 

 competition silver and bronze medals, and 

 thus greater interest is displayed. Then 

 1 attend the show and with the bee tent, 

 which is composed of mosquito netting to 

 keep all the bees inside, i give a demon- 

 stration on handling live bee'-, explaining 

 their habits, how to commence the busi- 

 ness, the value of honey as a food, etc. 

 This is generally watched by a very large 

 crowd, and many people take up the bu:i- 

 ness. The Exhibition also induces mianv 

 to try honey For the first time, and people 

 Hie also able io see the genuine article, 



