Oct. 17. 1901. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



669 



of cloth in the upper story, over the brood- 

 nest, and pour the chaff into the cloth . lie says 

 that he can tuck the packing down more 

 snugly at the corners than with the cushions. 

 In the spring he can grasp the cloth by the 

 corners, lift it out, and dump its contents into 

 a box. The cloths can be packcil away in a 

 small space for the summer, and are easily 

 protected from the ravages of mice. 



A Portico, four or five inches deep, having 

 a wire-cloth front, and large enough to cover 

 the whole front of the hive, is the best thing 

 possible with which to fasten in bees when 

 moving them or shipping them. Nothing 

 worries bees more, or sooner puts them into 

 a ferment, than to find the entrance closed. 

 While such a portico does not allow the bees 

 to fly, it does not close the entrance, and 

 allows the bees to cluster in it. off the combs. 

 When hives are arranged in this way they can 

 be stacked up without shutting oft' the venti- 

 lation. Jacob Alpaugh. of Ontario, has such 

 porticoes as these for use in moving bees, ami 

 one of them can be fastened to the front of 

 the hive in about live seconds by means of a 

 hook made of wire. He had two colonies 

 swarm once when being moved, and the por- 

 ticoes were filled so full of excited bees that 

 the latter disgorged the honey in their sacs 

 and perished as a result. 



Drawn Combs in sections can be very 

 profitably secured near the close of the bass- 

 wood by leaving on one super of partly 

 finished sections, raising it up and putting' 

 beneath it a case of sections filled with foun- 

 dation. By keeping close watch this case 

 can be removed as soon as the combs are 

 partly drawn, and before much honey has 

 been stored in them, or the sections are 

 scarcely soiled with propolis. If the flow 

 continues longer, another case of sections can 

 be put in the place of the one removed, and 

 another set of drawn combs secured. Such 

 supers of half-drawn combs are very valuable 

 for use the next spring. 



Hives in Groups of four is the arrange- 

 ment in the apiary of J. B. Hall, of Ontario. 

 The groups are named from the letters of the 

 alphabet; thus there is group A, group B, 

 and so on. The two north hives in group A 

 face north, the two south ones face south. In 

 group B the two west ones face west, the two 

 east ones face east. In group C the hives 

 face north and south the same as in group A. 

 By this arrangement no two hives standing 

 near each other have the same relative posi- 

 tion, and there is little danger of a returning 

 swarm getting into the wrong hive. When 

 the bees are placed in the cellar in the tall, 

 each hive is marked with a pencil on the 

 front in such a way as to indicate its posi- 

 tion; thus: "G — SW" means that it is the 

 southwest hive in group G. In order that the 

 position of group G may not Ije forgotten, a 

 big letter G is printed on a piece of section- 

 box, and tacked to a tree just north of the 

 group. Other groups are marked in a similar 

 manner. 



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 nearly everybod\ 

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 honey at all can't 

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 Honey J^ ^ 



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.^^ I've just sampled the honey you sent, and ifs prime. Thank you. I feel that I'm 



•^ something of a heretic, to sell several thousand pounds of honey of ray own production 



:^^ and then buy honey of you for my own use. But however loyal one ought to be to the 



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^^ft drink, where one prefers the more wholesome honey to sugar, the very e-xcellent quality 



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