Mar. 5, 1904. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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honey, pivinf; it a watery appearance, or they 

 incorporate some yellow-colored matter into 

 the capping, especially toward the close of 

 the season, I believe these things cannot be 

 prevented. As they do not affect the i/ii<ilily 

 of honey, why should we sell it at a lower 

 price than the " snow white? " Appearances 

 count for somethin;^, but if the '[unUtij is 

 there, people are not liliely to quibble about 

 a slight stain on comb or wood, especially if 

 we sell direct to customers and are worlting 

 up a trade. 



Quite frec|uently we are told to remove the 

 sections as soon as capped. This may be all 

 right when the honey is not coming in very 

 fast; but during a rapid How is the huney 

 sulliciently ripened? I doubt it. 



Further, it is advised to remove supers be- 

 fore the sections are all capped, and then fill a 

 super with unfinished sections and return to 

 a strong colony to he finished. But when I 

 do this 1 seldom can get a good job done, 

 though some colonies do somewhat better than 

 others. I usually contract the super, putting 

 in only one or two rows of sections, putting 

 strips of board in the vacant spaces; but even 

 then the combs are not finished so nicely as if 

 left undisturbed on their own hive. Who has 

 had a similar experience? 



I would suggest to those who contemplate 

 sowing sweet clover in vacant and waste 

 places that thej try alsike instead. It yields 

 a better honey and is not likely to be regarded 

 as a weed and be cut down before it blossoms, 

 as sweet clover often is. The roadsides here, 

 in many places, were one mass of alsike 

 last summer. It came from loads of hay on 

 the way to market. Wherever the soil is 

 suited sow alsike. D. McCartht. 



Allen Co., Ind., .Jan. 10. 



A Copreetion— Cold Winter. 



Toward the close of the article on observa- 

 tory hives, on page 5y, I made a peculiar error. 

 I said 20 degrees above freezing instead of 

 above zmi. We have not seen it 'Zti above 

 freezing since early in November. In fact, 

 the bees have had no general flight for about 

 12 weeks, and they are beginning to suffer. 

 This winter is of unusual severity. I ob- 

 served 2t! and 24 degrees below zero early in 

 this month. Still, the bees are wintering 

 splendidly, and if we have a warm day soon, 

 all will be well. Yesterday was still and warm 

 in the sunshine, 42 degrees in the shade. I 

 spread pieces of carpet and sacks in front of 

 the hives, and scattered straw and leaves on 

 the snow, and so succeeded in getting a par- 

 tial flight from a few of the colonies. 



Allen Latham. 



New London Co., Conn., Jan. 31. 



Miller Frames— Basswoods. 



On page 42, " Illinois " asks Dr. Miller 

 where he can get the Miller brood-frames. 

 Don't all supply dealers advertise thiek-top- 

 bar staple-spaced brood-frames' Are they not 

 practically Miller frames i The only differ- 

 ence is that Miller uses a nail instead of a 

 staple. It is the kind I use, and I should ad- 

 vise everybody to use in New England, or 

 where there is as much pine growth as there 

 is here. Two years a^'o I advised a young 

 man in Lowell to get the staple-spaced frame. 

 When I went to see him the next summer, in 

 July, I found he had Hoffman frames. I 

 asked him why he got them. He said he 

 asked for the staple but they sent the Hoff- 

 man. Well, when he tried to get them out he 

 had a job, and the bees had been in the 

 hives probably' not os*er two months. 



Again, on page 42, under the heading, 

 " Basswood Lumber for Hives," are there not 

 two species of basswood in the western forests 

 — the American and the European ? At my 

 old homestead, on the banks of the Merri- 

 mac, there was liasswood (or sometimes called 

 linden), and until 4 years ago I had never 

 seen any basswood anywhere else, but when 

 I moved to Woburn, early in the spring of 

 1900, they told me there were linden or bass- 

 wood trees at the Baldwin place. Well, in a 

 few days, as I was passing that place, I was 

 on the lookout for the basswood trees ; nearly 

 opposite the house there were G trees looking 

 very much like pasture hickory. This was 

 before ^he leaves had started. When they 



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