. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. (established 1888) OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE NATIONAL BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION AND ITS AFFILIATED ASSOCIATIONS E. D. TOVVXSEND, Managing Editor, Northstar, Mich. WESLEY FOSTER, Assistant Editor, Boulder, Colo. Entered as second-class matter, July 7, 1911, at the post office at Detroit, Micliigan, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Terms—$ a year to subscribers in the United States, Canada, Cuba, l^Iexico, Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, Philippine Islands, and Shanghai, China. To all other countries the rate is $ Dlseontiniiances—Unless a request is rece


. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. (established 1888) OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE NATIONAL BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION AND ITS AFFILIATED ASSOCIATIONS E. D. TOVVXSEND, Managing Editor, Northstar, Mich. WESLEY FOSTER, Assistant Editor, Boulder, Colo. Entered as second-class matter, July 7, 1911, at the post office at Detroit, Micliigan, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Terms—$ a year to subscribers in the United States, Canada, Cuba, l^Iexico, Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, Philippine Islands, and Shanghai, China. To all other countries the rate is $ Dlseontiniiances—Unless a request is received to the contrary, the subscription wJl be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. At the time a subscription expires a notice will be sent, and a subscriber wishing the subscription continued, who will renew later, should send a request to that effect. Advertising- rates on aiipliention. close 25th of eath month. MANAGING OFFICE, NORTHSTAR. MICHIGAN DETROIT OFFICE. 214 HAMMOND BLDC. VOL. XXVI. DETROIT, MICHIGAN, SEPTEMBER 1, 1913 No. 9 Bees in Colorado are still swarming durin;^" the latter part of August, causing the apiarists untold annoyances. Bee men in the west have trusted to luck and mild winters to bring their bees through in good shape. Sometimes they came through and sometimes they did not. Bees need protection in the west. There can be little argument about it except among those who have not had a full round of experience. Swarms and the Public. Swarming has been so excessive this year that the , nearly to a man, has had an intimate introduction to tlie swarming phase of bee-keeping. Swarms have alighted in the tops of automobiles, in abandoning flues of public buildings, frightening the office forces. I have seen swarms on fence posts, under ditch banks, and the houses in the country nearly all have swarms in them if the dwellers are to be believed. The newspapers report that a moving automo- bile encountered a circling swarm


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