A Few Words of Introduction and Instruction 

 to my Friends in the Bee Keeping Profession 



This Roller Entrance Bottom Board, like all other patents that 

 are on the market, looks simple and easy ; and we stand before 

 them, wondering why we did not think of them before. 



The inventor was pompelled to think up something, for he 

 could be with his bees only on Fridays of each week, the re- 

 mainder of his time was taken up practicing Dentistry. 



After studying bee nature for twenty (20) years and meeting 

 with reverses such as bee-keepers all meet once in a while, i. e. — 

 bees swarming and clustering on the neighbor's trees, when no 

 one was around to hive them, possibly flying away to the woods 

 with some virgin queen that the bee-keeper had overlooked, or 

 old queen that he had failed to clip wings after mg.ting. 



Dead swarms of bees in the spring caused from shortage of 

 honey, lack of ventilation, moisture accumulating on the old 

 fashioned bottom board, there freezing into ice, imbodying the 

 old bees that will always accumulate under the frames during 

 winter, making a dirty, musty mass when it thawed up in the 

 spring; and another important point, during the height of the 

 honey flow, no way to ventilate, then the trouble began, swarm- 

 ing, the one thing that the amateur looks forward to with gleeful 

 excitement, "bees are swarming," and the professional bee- 

 keeper who looks in disgust saying, "If I only could stop my bees 

 from swarming and keep them at work in the supers I would be 

 money ahead. Some bee-keepers may say this does not trouble 

 them. It may not, but go to their bee yard some fine May or 

 June day, and don't be surprised to find them hiving a swarm 

 of bees. 



This has been the inventor's experience and I am willing to 

 confess, that swarming has given me some trouble in years gone 

 by, but during the summer of 1912 and 1913 I did not hive a 

 swarm in my out yard of seventy colonies. 



The looking for queen cells, and the fun of chasing a queen 

 around in a strong colony to catch and clip her wings, and also 

 the robbing problem in the spring and fall when honey is scarce, 

 led the inventor to construct this Roller Bottom Board device, 

 which controlls all the troubles mentioned here and many others. 



This Roller Entrance Hive Bottom makes bee-keeping more 

 profitable because it has so many advantages over the old method 

 of bee-keeping. It will keep your colony of bees in a ventilated 

 condition at all times of the year. It is impossible to suffocate a 

 colony that is wintered over this bottom b/6ard, snow, ice, and 

 sleet have no effect on it whatever, and in the hot summer days 

 your colonies will not hang out on the front of the hive, a roaring 



