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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Jan. 28, 1904. 



hive-entrance that could be closed to suit con- 

 ditions. Now I have adopted a plan of my 

 own. I take a 2 inch crate-staple, drive it up 

 and down the edge of the sides of the body of 

 the hive, commencing at the side of the en- 

 trance and extend up 2 inches. Suppose you 

 have an entrance of one inch, now take a thin 

 strip of board ^{ inch and 1 inch wide, slip it 

 through the staples from the side, the same as 

 a bar, and drive the staple up against the 1- 

 inch strip so that it binds slightly. You can 

 raise the slat at will and have any size en- 

 trance from 1 inch to close up, which for 

 moving bees a short distance is very handy, 

 and I could not think of dropping this feature 

 after once using it. 



The old American Bee Journal is getting to 

 be one of the most able bee-papers extant, 

 always containing something new and enter- 

 taining. W. H. Beverlin. 



Delta Co., Colo., Dec. 15. 



Chunk Honey Sells Best. 



I have been keeping bees part of the time, 

 and a part of the time the bees have been 

 keeping me, for over 30 years. This has been 

 one of the best seasons we ever had in this 

 country. Chunk honey sells here better than 

 section honey. I have tried nearly all sizes of 

 hives, and the S-frame is the best for this 

 locality, as a larger size afiords but little sur- 

 plus. M. R. Ltle. 



Bates Co., Mo., Dec. 32. 



PepfoFated Separatops— Trowel fop 

 Tpimmlng Top-Bars. 



I notice in the American Bee Journal that 

 A. F. Foote has been trying separators with 

 holes in them. I have tried them and like the 

 plan, only I do not make the holes as large as 

 a 16-guage wad-cutter. About ■*„ inch is the 

 size I used, some with one hole for each sec- 

 tion and some with 5 holes to the section. I 

 had no trouble with the bees building the 

 combs to the separators ; all were nice and 

 straight. 



Did any one ever try a plastering-trowel to 

 cut the combs off the tops of the brood-frames ! 

 Just try one and see how it works. 



H. W. Keith. 



Greene Co., Mo., Dec. H. 



Winteping Bees on Sugar Candy. 



On page 924, some bee-keeper from Iowa 

 doubts the advisability of feeding candy, 

 made of sugar and water, to bees in cold 

 weather, and wants to know whether from 

 personal experience such candy can be made 

 to do as some say it will. Let me answer this 

 question from actual experience. 



Four years ago, late in the fall, in Cass Co., 

 Mo., I discovered several colonies of bees in 

 almost destitute condition, not having over 

 5 pounds of honey each, and the weather was 

 too cold to feed syrup; I begau to think I had 

 acted very unwisely in not observing closer, 

 but concluded to make the best I could out of 

 a bad job. 



Having several copies of the Busy Bee on 

 band, I began to search very diligently for a 

 remedy, and found the candy remedy. I at 

 once procured the sugar, and very carefully 

 went to work for results. I used a small 2- 

 burner gasoline stove to do the cooking, as 

 I could regulate the heat to suit me. I made 

 cakes of candy for each colony, weighing 

 from .S to 10 pounds. When the candy was 

 cooled and caUed it looked like rock candy, 

 very hard and clear, as though a bee could 

 never do anything with it. But I went ahead, 

 as directed, and right over the cluster I laid 3 

 llat pine sticks, ji Jnch wide and 7 inches 

 long, crosswise of the brood-frames, and upon 

 those pine sticks I laid the cake of candy, and 

 placed an empty super on the hive. I 

 then filled the super with burlap, tucking 

 down close to the edges, so no cold could enter 

 from the sides or ends of the hive, put a little 

 weight on the cloth, so it would settle down 

 close, put on the cover, and let them go. 



Every one so treated wintered finely, with- 

 out loss, some of the candy remaining until 

 fruit-bloom the next spring; others use every 

 panicle of the sugar given them. 



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