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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Mar. 17, 1904. 



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years' experience. Last season I increased 

 from 4 to 10 colonies, and had some 200 

 pounds of ver.v fine boney, mostly extracted. 

 There was no honey-How in this locality after 

 Aug. 1. I had to feed ;.'00 pounds of sugar for 

 winter stores. My increase was made by 2 

 natural swarms and 4 nuclei formed in June. 

 Two of my old colonies, which I kept from 

 swarming, gave me as much honey as the 

 other 8. 



One of my young queens had ',i frames well 

 tilled with eggs when 8 days old. She kept 9 

 frames filled with eggs and brood until Sep- 

 tember ; no lirood reared in any hives after 

 Sept. 1. White clover and basswood made a 

 good honey-flow. 



I hope for a good season this year. 



Becker Co., Minn., Feb. 8. F. L. Day. 



Hard Winter— Bees Doing Nicely. 



We have had a hard winter here, snow on 

 the ground since Nov. 20. I winter my bees 

 on the summer stands and they have not had 

 a flight since that time. The most of the 

 time they have been completely covered with 

 snow. I looked at them one sunny day this 

 week, and they are doing nicely so far. 



C, H. Benson, 



Barry Co,, Mich., Feb. 13, 



Some KinlJS on Bulli Comb Honey. 



Being interested in reading the items 

 " From Many Fields " in the American Bee 

 .Journal, I thought perhaps a kink or two I 

 learned from an eccentric friend may assist 

 both veteran and novice another season, 

 should the honey harvest he so large that 

 enough sections could not be supplied by the 

 dealers in lime to store the honey, or the 

 prices for them be so high that cash could not 

 be spared for them, "Everything full," and 

 two or three hundred dollars worth of honey 

 lost for want of sections and supplies, is too 

 bad. Perhaps the losses in some places were 

 larger, and others smaller, where the great 

 honey-flow extended. 



Howe could not make his machine sew with 

 the eye in the head, so he placed it in the 

 point of his needle, and was successful. By 

 just a little reversion of the super furniture 

 as much more honey can lie produced as if 

 they are fitted with sections. My friend 

 sometimes gets — and he won't use smoke or 

 veil — then he gets stung. One time he would 

 not use sections in his supers, so he placed 

 starters on the section-holders and turned 

 them upside down, letting the ends rest on the 

 tin rabbets — and he got honey, bulk honey. 

 Kinkl. 



In preparing frames for bulk honey it is 

 .sometimes difficult to fasten the foundation 

 in the grooves; it won't roll fast, and the hot 

 wax melts it. My friend is an expert at fas- 

 tening the foundation in the grooves of the 

 shallow frames. He fills the grooves with flour- 

 paste, places the starters in, and lets them 

 stand so until set. Kink 2. 



In producing bulk honey, two sets of 

 frames are necessary, n la. Hyde; one set to be 

 cleaned off by the bees after the boney is 

 taken out, in order to place another lot of 

 starters in them ; and so repeat. 



When there is a great lot of swarming in 

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 with queen-excluders over them, and 2 or 3 

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 brood-chamber would not be quite filled with 

 comb; this could be united with a medium 

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 nies in the apiary filled a super. Besides, the 

 bees are all used for the honey harvest, and no 

 increase of colonies in the apiary. 



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