mass, but will be at work out in the fields and inside of the hive, 

 instead of exhausting their strength fanning their wings and life 

 awa}' in an efifort to keep the colony cool and the combs from 

 melting down. 



It allows stimulati^'e feeding in a honey dearth, robbing can 

 be instantly stopped by turning roller, as shown, in Cut No. i. 



Read most an}' Bee Journal or talk to any good bee keeper, and 

 he will tell a'ou what trouble he has had with the bees when once 

 robbing is started. Closing and plugging up entrances, moving 

 colonies to new locations away from the old stand, all of this is 

 done a\va}- whh. Just turn the roller to the Robber Entrance 

 and }'our trouble is over. 



It positively controls swarms getting away. It insures the 

 mating of the queen with the right kind of drone bee, this alone 

 makes it a leading light in bee-keeping, because the bee-keeper 

 certainly has a choice in his colonies that he prefers over others 

 to breed from, the same as poultry and stock men, who select 

 their best stock as breeders. It enables the bee-keeper to separ- 

 ate the undesirable and useless drones, thereby getting rid of 

 them and saving thousands of pounds of honey, instead of feeding 

 and keeping the drones until after the honey flow. To screen 

 them out you will find a large item when you stop to realize the 

 amount of room and honey the drones consume. 



It allows for ample ^•entilation at the height of the honey flow. 

 Bee-keepers are just awakening to the fact that ventilation is 

 one of the main factors to help the bees store a large crop of 

 hone}'. AA'ith the Roller Entrance Bottom Board under your 

 hives there is no lifting, no blocking, no work, only turn the 

 rollers — ■ a child can operate it. 



The bottom can be instantly closed for moving bees in and out 

 of cellar or from one yard to another, no nailing entrances, 

 hammer and screen wire, these are things of the past for this 

 purpose. 



This Bottom Board was patented June 17, 1913 and June 23, 

 1914, with other patents pending. 



The inventor found it so satisfactory, that he was willing to 

 spend a few hundred dollars in patents and a few hundred more 

 in advertising. 



Several large apiaries are now entirely equipped with this 

 device, also the inventor's yard, where the Roller Entrance is 

 doing away with manual labor. Why fret and worry about the 

 out yard during swarming time, when it is so easy to have each 

 hive watched automatically? — Just stop and consider the word, 

 what it means. It will positively do just what it means — auto- 

 matically. 



Don't worry, but use the 20th Century invention and take life 

 easy. 



Views of the Roller Entrance Bottom Board, showing the 

 Roller turned to the robber entrance; three or four bees can guard 

 the opening now. Cut No. i. 



