January, i 



American Hee Journal 



flowers if it happens during ury weather. 

 Otherwise, it is entirely ruined until new 

 flowers bloom. The honey from this plant is 

 almost as light in color as clover. 



There is a blue flower of the same family 

 here, but so far as I can see the bees gather 

 no honey from it but do gather some pollen. 



The comb in fall sections is much more heav- 

 ily or strongly built, the walls of the cells 

 being thicker. The comb also has more of a 

 brown or yellow look than comb made earlier 

 in tfae season. 



I believe this will be a help to some bee- 

 keepers. At least it was to me. The fence 

 being too short to fill the space in the super 

 they jar apart the sections. I use the plain 

 section 4j.:ix4j4xiJ^, but do not use the thin- 

 end section-holder. I use a section-holder with 

 ends thicker so that they lack only J.^inch of 

 filling all the end spac-; and make the ends 

 of the fence the same width of the end-pieces 

 on the section-holder. I do not have to use 

 a piece at the end of the fence and section- 

 holder. This is a big help where, in the hands 

 of careless people, the pieces at the ends are 

 left out. as that lets the sections spring and 

 warp out of shape, ana up against the top, to 

 be fastened there by the bees, so when the 

 top is taken off it pulls the top off of the sec- 

 tions. 



Another great drawback is that half the bee- 

 keepers do not use a sufficient amount of 

 foundation, some none at all. And still an- 

 other is the home-made hive. Very few of 

 them have frames of standard size, then the 

 bee-space is not enough, or is too much, and 

 this causes brace-combs and discouragement to 

 the bee-keeper. W. A. Swe.\ringen. 



Epworth, Ky., Dec. 25. 



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