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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



July 7. 1904. 



comes up, tell him to take a coinb made aod 

 filled by the bees ready to seal, and try to seal 

 it with a hot iron, and see how he comes out. 

 It will melt the comb and fry the honey. One 

 thousand dollars has been offered for one sec- 

 tion made and filled and sealed over. You 

 might offer $10,000 for one sealed in that way. 

 That would forever silence that talk. 



I notice some ask Dr. Miller where he gets 

 his T supers, as they can't get any. I have 

 failed to see any such as I use. They were 

 originally gotten up by Elvin Armstrong, 

 some 20 years ago, but hi soon went out of 

 the business, and I could never get any more 

 until I sent a sample to a factory in Hudson, 

 Wis. The next year a firm in Minneapolis 

 bought them out, and when I sent for more 

 they had lost their model and I sent another. 

 Later I sent a model to Kretchmer Mfg. Co., 

 and I suppose they have it yet, but I have not 

 sent for any this year. There is one fault 

 with them in the late design which the origi- 

 nal did not have, and which I should call 

 their attention to if 1 should order again. 

 The originals had half a bee-space above and 

 below the sections, so that when you come to 

 tier up it leaves a whole bee-space between. 

 The late ones have a whole bee-space above 

 and below, and when tiereJf up it leaves a 

 double bee-space between, which the bees will 

 in most cases till with honey. The same 

 trouble occurs where there is a whole bee- 

 space between the frames and the top of the 

 hive. 



I cut down some of the supers before I put 

 them together. .J. C. Armstbonc,. 



Marshall Co., Iowa, June 25. 



Bees In Fine Shape. 



The bees are in fine shape. Thev can 

 through the winter all right. 



K. R. Pattison. 

 Otero Co., Colo., June 12. 



Getting a Nice Start. 



I have quite a start from 4 colonies, spring 

 count, having increased to 13, and on June 3 

 I took off 13 nicely capped sections from my 

 best colonies, and from this same hive I took 

 5 frames of brood. Last week I found in one 

 hive 5 nice queens, and I do not know how 

 many more there were. I caged 3 and intro- 

 duced them into nuclei, and also took out 3 

 queen-cells. This is the first time I ever saw 

 more than one queen in a hive, and they were 

 big ones. R. L. McCollet. 



Wood Co., Ohio, June 24 



Too Windy for the Bees. 



The weather conditions are against the bees 

 gathering honey, and have been up to this 

 time, so much so that new swarms that came 

 off had to be fed. There is lot of alsike and 

 white clover, and plenty of nectar since spring 

 set in, but the weather was so that the bees 

 could not get out to get it. We have had to 

 feed a lot since putting the colonies out. The 

 losses around here by dwindling were heavy 

 since puting them out. 



I have just visited the yard, and the bees are 

 like a water-logged ship in a gale— can not 

 keep their bearings. I wonder if it is not 

 blowing the feathers off the chickens out 

 West, where J. P. Blunk holds the fort, as I see 

 feathers flying in the air. You people of Chi- 

 cago that have a weather bureau, don't forget 

 Iowa; give it a little milder, please. 



W. Irvine, Sr. 



Webster Co., Iowa. June 25. 



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