AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



93 



Short of Stopes—SouF Honey. 



My bees are short of winter stores — 

 shortest they have been in 18 years — 

 and are trying' to rob. The short crop 

 was caused by too much rain during- 

 the past season — two weeks in April, 

 all of June, until July 3d, and nearlj' 

 all of October. 



I purchast a lot of willow and pop- 

 lar extracted honey at a sale, and 

 found that it had been extracted before 

 it was ripe, and it is slightly sour and 

 g-ranulated. Can you tell me to what 

 degree to heat it in order to reduce it 

 to a liquid state ? John M. Ryan. 



Marshall Co., Ala., Jan. 8. 



(Try 160 or 170 degrees. But don't 

 let it stand at that for any length of 

 time, as there would be danger of 

 changing the color of the honey by al- 

 most burning it. — EiiiTOK. ] 



Getting Outside Sections Filled— 

 Robber-Bees— Lealiy Covers. 



I can not report a very good crop for 

 1900 owing to the drouth. The white 

 clover crop was cut short in June, so 

 the bees could work on it only three 

 weeks. I secured 1250 pounds of fancy 

 clover section-honey, which I think 

 was pretty good from 43 hives in three 

 weeks. Owing to the honey-tlow being 

 cut off so short the bees did not swarm. 



I have tried the plan spoken of by 

 Mr. Thompson in the Bee Journal, to 

 get outside sections filled as well as the 

 center ones. For the last six years I 

 have practiced putting empty bait-sec- 

 tions to the outside of the super, and 

 I find that it works tine. 



When One is bothered with robber- 

 bees about the hives coal-oil is a good 

 thing to use. Wet a cloth with coal- 

 oil and rub it along any crack or crev- 

 ice the bees are trying to enter — for in- 

 stance, under the lid — and every rob- 

 ber will leave. I contract the entrance 

 to anj- hive that robbers are bothering, 

 and place a rag wet with oil where the 

 robbers will smell, or better still, touch 

 it, and they don't stay a second after 

 smelling the oil. I never leave the rag 

 very long after the robbers have gone. 



I see quite a little in the bee-papers 

 about leaky covers. I have hives in 

 the home apiary that have been in 

 constant use in the weather for 18 

 years, and not a single leaky lid in the 

 apiary. Whenever a lid checks, take a 

 good quality of shingles, paint them 

 well, then shingle the cover ; and all 



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l,s74 I had 7 colonies and father had 23, 

 and in the spring I had none and he 

 had 7. I bought a couple of colonies 

 and in the fall of 1878 I had nine col- 

 onies and father had 3ti, but by the 

 next spring- I had none again, and 

 father had only three. 



I have an old log gum in which my 

 grandfather brought a colony of bees 

 to this farm in 1821. 



In regard to yellow wax, a good plan 

 for those who use wax-extractors is to 

 let the melted wax run from the ex- 

 tractor into a pan of hot water. This 

 will give the wax a chance to cool 

 slowly, and the impurities will settle 

 to the bottom of the pan. 



I began taking the Bee Journal in 

 Januarj', 1883, and have nearly every 

 number since that time, and I like it. 

 J. S. B.\KB. 



Trumbull Co., Ohio, Jan, 15. 



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