. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. '^\^t p^^ "^tq^txs' '^t\iu\ Established in 1888 by the late W. Z. Hutchinson. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE NATIONAL BEEKEEPERS' ASSOCIATION AND ITS AFFILIATED ASSOCIATIONS E. D. TOWNSEND, Managing Editor, Northstar. Mich. ASSOCIAT J!: EDITORS WESLEY FOSTER, Boulder, Colo. PROP. EDWIN G. BALDWIN, Deland, Fla. Entered as second-class matter, December 9, 1913, at the postoffice at Northstar, Michigan, under the Act of March 3, 1879. TERMS—$ a year to subscribers in the United States, Canada, Cuba, Mexico Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, Philippine Island
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. '^\^t p^^ "^tq^txs' '^t\iu\ Established in 1888 by the late W. Z. Hutchinson. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE NATIONAL BEEKEEPERS' ASSOCIATION AND ITS AFFILIATED ASSOCIATIONS E. D. TOWNSEND, Managing Editor, Northstar. Mich. ASSOCIAT J!: EDITORS WESLEY FOSTER, Boulder, Colo. PROP. EDWIN G. BALDWIN, Deland, Fla. Entered as second-class matter, December 9, 1913, at the postoffice at Northstar, Michigan, under the Act of March 3, 1879. TERMS—$ a year to subscribers in the United States, Canada, Cuba, Mexico Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, Philippine Islands, and Shanghai, China. To all other countries the rate is $ DISCONTINUANCES—Unless a request is received to the contrary, the subscription will he Hi-rontinui d at the expiration of the time paid for. At the time a subscription expires a notice will be sent, and a subscriber wish- ing the subscription continued who will renew later, should send a request tOi that effect. Advertising rates on application. Forms close 20th of each month. VOL. XXVII NORTHSTAR, MICHIGAN, MAY 1. 1914 No. 5 A Retrospect By ADRIAN GETAZ, KnoxviUe, Tenn. The year 1913 is come and gone never to return. My best wishes for 1914 to the Review and its editor and readers. Let us look baclc and see what we can learn from the year just gone and make good use of it. Prevention of Swarming On page 222, Miss Mathilda Candler gives a method for the ])revention of swarming. Substant- ially the method is this: Close the entrance with a board having a cone bee escape permitting the bees to come out but not to go back. Nail on the top of the brood nest a piece of wire cloth. The ob- ject is to empty the brood nest of bees as much as possible. Put over the wire cloth a hive body with some empty comb and brood anc finally the supers on top of this. Pour days later put the whole back to its normal condition. No swarm- ing will occur. ITiere is no doubt that this meth- od will prevent swarming for that season ex
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