To ventilate with the Schamu Bottom Board it is done just as 

 easy as it looks, absolutely no lifting and jolting the hive by 

 prying same loose from the bottom board. Just reverse the 

 square and ventilate to suit — much or little — same as shown in 

 Cuts 3 and 5 ; rear of bottom board closed when no ventilation is 

 desired, same as shown in Cut No. 6. During the mating of virgin 

 queens and when feeding bees to stimulate them, the rear is 

 closed after placing feed underneath colony. The bees will take 

 up the feed when the thermometer registers 10° below zero. 

 Make the syrup fairly warm, so it will give off a little heat and 

 the bees will rapidly go down to get it, otherwise they would 

 starve. This method of feeding is so simple and the control of 

 the bees at all times of the year so easy, thus doing away with all 

 the numerous articles that a bee-keeper would have to buy to use 

 occasionally, and store when not in use. 



Cut No. 6— Rear closed when mating virgin queens during time when 

 feeder is used and for winter. 



It will pay all bee-keepers to have the Roller Entrance Board, 

 if they did not use it except during feeding time it would pay for 

 itself in one season. Stop and think for a moment : If you had 

 50 or 100 colonies that needed some extra feed to carry them over 

 a honey shortage, or that you preferred to give 10 pounds more 

 for winter, should you feed out in the open, the strong and healthy 

 bees would get the most and continue to feed to a point of 

 gluttony. Take into consideration the cost of buying the feed, 

 mixing it, fussing around to get the feed in shape for the bees, 

 then the trouble begins, how to get it into the hives that need it 

 and where you want it to go. Then consider the Schamu way of 

 doing it. 



Open the rear of your Bottom Board, use any kind of dish or 

 pan, fill it, place under your bees, and close, all done in two 

 minutes. — which would you consider the modern way of feeding 

 with least cost? or the old fussy way? 



For the city fellow that loves bees and nature. — Why should 

 he have an argument with the neighbors during the summer 

 months and make them feel bad, by having his bees swarm and 

 cluster on the neighbors trees, the tree belongs to one and the 

 bees to another if the latter sees them alight, if not, there is a 

 question of law whose bees they are. 



