. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. The 'Prairie State Incubator has lonK been recoi^nized .is the best incubator in the world. That is why the U. S. Department of Agricuhure uses it exclus- ively. That's why it won S42 first premiums over all other makes of machines. This year we have made a catalog to fit such a machine. 50tinted plate pages; 4 original paintings and over 7(X) half tone illustrations. Mailed free as long as they last. Write for catalogue No. 79. PRAIRIE STATE INCUBATOR CO., HOMER CITY, PA. /.*f tnr„}..,i:T avd Br.'^^T Fart'.r I Ihr IIWM. Please mention Bee JouruAi ?wt
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. The 'Prairie State Incubator has lonK been recoi^nized .is the best incubator in the world. That is why the U. S. Department of Agricuhure uses it exclus- ively. That's why it won S42 first premiums over all other makes of machines. This year we have made a catalog to fit such a machine. 50tinted plate pages; 4 original paintings and over 7(X) half tone illustrations. Mailed free as long as they last. Write for catalogue No. 79. PRAIRIE STATE INCUBATOR CO., HOMER CITY, PA. /.*f tnr„}..,i:T avd Br.'^^T Fart'.r I Ihr IIWM. Please mention Bee JouruAi ?wtiun ?wntiut;. in latitude 27 dejj. to 2,S60 millimetres in lati- tude 40 deg.; further south, to latitude b'i deg. 10 min. I Punta Arenas) the rainfall de- creases .550, of which one-fifth is snow. Mj- own experiences extend to regions from lati- tude 33 deg. to 39 and I flatter myself in thinking m}' own situation about the happy medium as to extremes of temperature, mois- ture, etc. After twelveyears' experience here I am prepared to say that the swarming fever referred to in the " Revue" is by this time so much eliminated with me, that I can worlv under quite as high pressure as at home. When I first commenced the bees would swarm in spite of extractor or unlimited work- ing room, and. of course, to work for sections was out of the question. Now I get -'-lb. sec- tions worked with greater certainty than the 1-lb. are at home. Of course, I use the "; standard frame. All the bees I meet with in apiaries here are the Italian race. With me, swarming begins about the latter part of November. Honey begins to come in as surplus in December, the heaviest months being .January and February. The statement that the produce of 500 col- onies amounted to 36,400 pound of honey goes to confirm what I have been trying to drive into the heads of some of the bee-keepers here —to-wit, the mistake made in laying down apiaries of over 100 colonies; the vogue
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