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tain are built without comb founda- 

 tion. Sag-ged combs are just as g-ood 

 in the extracting super, but no good in 

 the brood chamber. Horizontal wiring- 

 is all right for extracting combs. The 

 wires answer two purposes, viz: to 

 give strength to the comb, and keep tl e 

 foundation in the frame where it be- 

 longs. The very fact that horizontal 

 wires do not prevent sagging is fourd 

 in the bulging of the combs where the 

 wires are put in and drawn very tight. 

 It is usually recommended to put them 

 in loosely to prevent buckling. If put 

 in thus, then the foundation is expected 

 to sag and does sag. If the wires were 

 expected to hold the foundation up then 

 they ought to be put in tight and not 

 otherwise. The fact is the wires don't 

 do the business, now do they? 



A HONF.Y ROOM OUGHT TO BE FREE 

 FROM DUST. 



Your honey-house and workshop 

 scheme interests me I don't like the 

 idea of building "cheap." It does not 

 cost much more to build good and 

 will surely pay in the end. There is 

 one thing furthei- to be borne in mind. 

 Workshop and honey-house with ex- 

 tracting room do not go well together, 

 although many bee-keepers, self in- 

 cluded, do have it so Hives should be 

 made in a separate room from where 

 honey is extracted. The machinerj^ 

 used in the shop is properl3' located in 

 the workshop; the honey maj' be 

 brought to the same place for scraping 

 and crating, but the storing of the 

 honey and the extracting belongs to an 

 apartment as free from dust as possi- 

 ble. I have of late years admired the 

 honey house of my brother G. C. G., in 

 LaSalle, N. Y. ICverything in same 

 is scrupulously clean. Not a particle 

 of accumulated dust or chips, etc., any- 

 where. He should be an object lesson 

 to many of us. But the hives are made 

 up in another room, just so the supers 

 are fixed and shipping cases made up. 

 In fact, no work is done in the hone^' 

 house which produces dust. 



CO-OPERATION AND BEK-KEEPERS' 

 ASSOCIATIONS. 



You are hitting a very sensitive spot 

 with that word " 'co-operation. "" Yes, 

 we need to co-operate. What we need 

 is a co-operation of honey-producers 

 only. Supply manufacturers and deal- 

 ers, also editors of bee journals, should 

 be carefully excluded. Their interests 

 do not run parallel with ours. How 

 unreasonable, how unbusinesslike, to 

 organize a bee-keepers' association with 

 supply dealers and editors to dominate 

 their business. What can be expected? 

 Is it any wonder that contracts made 

 by the business manager, who may 

 have the interests of honey producers 

 at heart, are revoked almost as soon as 

 made. No, no! Brother Hutchinson, 

 the National Bee Keepers' Association 

 and the Honey Producers' League are 

 conducted on false principles, and do 

 not serve the interests of the honey 

 producing masses. The honey produc- 

 ers must cut loose from such bodies 

 and they will. We must learn to man- 

 age our own affairs. We will then be 

 able to accomplish wliat you intimate 

 in your editorial. 



The masses of the honey producers 

 are as yet blind, and are satisfied that 

 the business of the National is run in 

 the interests of a few, when the inter- 

 ests of theirs clash with those of ours; 

 but some begin to see and don't you 

 forget it. 



Naples, N. Y., Mar. 10. 



[I have always used four horizontal 

 wires drawn tight. I have never seen 

 any sense in putting in wires to prevent 

 sagging, and then leaving them loose 

 so that the foundations could sag. I 

 use medium brood foundation, both 

 the Root and Dittmer make, and, al- 

 though I have used 1,500 such frames 

 this season, and about half that num- 

 ber last year, there has been absolutely 

 no sagging. I ask for nothing better. 

 There must be some factor in mj' man- 

 agement that does not appear in that 

 ofBro. Greiner, or vice versa. 



