Vol. XIII. 



DEC. 1, 1885. 



No. 28. 



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NOTES FROM THE BANNER APIARY. 



UURYINO BEES. i 



]J. WIIITAKER, on page 75), asks about i 

 bulging- bees. If I had no cellar in which 

 to put bees, I think I should bury them. If | 

 • a cellar can he kept at a proper tempera- i 

 turc, I SCO no advantag-c in burying- bocs, 

 over cellar wintering; while the burying of bers 

 and the "wnburying" of them, (specially the 

 " slicking up " afterward, is not the most ag-reca- 

 ble kind of work imaginable. The plan mentioned 

 by Mr. W. is all right, only be certain that they arc 

 buried deep enough so that frost will not enter. 

 The few colonies that I put in a clamp last fall win- 

 tered the most perfectly cf any colonics that 1 had. 



QUEEN-E.\CLrDING HONEY-BOARDS. 



I first made the Heddon honey-board to be queen- 

 e.xcluding, in the way mentioned by Geo. F. Wil- 

 liams, pag-c 740; but the trouble was in adjusting 

 the slats and heepiug them adjusted; and it was 

 when talking the matter over with R. L. Taylor 

 that he suggested using a saw of exactly the right 

 thickness for cutting slots in a thin board, thus doing 

 away with the adjustment of slats; and, if the bees 

 would not fill up these slots in the board, I would 

 ask for nothing better. It is possible that this 

 trouble may yet be remedied; if it isn't, we shall 

 have to clean out the wax once a year, or else use 

 zinc. It is the 



HEDDON SHIPPING-CRATE, 



not the " Hutchinson," that I am selling in the flat 

 at 6 cts. ; and were it not that I can get the lumber 

 very cheaply I could not furnish them for that 



price. To the so who have written, asking for the 

 privilege of manufacturing, I would say, appis' to 

 Mr. Heddon. It is another one of the many good 

 things he has given us. It is amusing, sometimes, 

 to hear dealers, and even bee-keepers, ask, " How 

 many of those cr.s s do you put Into a crate?" The 

 idea! Put the neat, easily handled cases into a big 

 crate or bo.v, so that the railroad men can roll them 

 over and over, and " dump " them? No, uevcr! If 

 one is not enough for a load, a man can take two or 

 three, or even four, just according to his strength 

 or inclination. 



EXPERIMENTS IN WINTERING. 



We have been selling and trading off. and unit- 

 ing our bees, until we have only .30 colonics left. 

 Some of these have sugar stores and no pollen, or 

 bee-bread, in the combs; some have sugar stores 

 with a Utile bee-bread in the combs, others have 

 sugar stores with combs faii-ly loaded with bee- 

 bread. Some were undisturbed with their natural 

 stores, while others have both sugar and honey. 

 Those that we have sold had this same variety of 

 stores, and the hives were marked with the kind of 

 stores. We shall put nearly if not all of our bees 

 in the cellar under our house. 



8— w. z. Hutchinson, 77—30. 



Uogersville, d" Mich., Nov. 3,5, 188.5. 



Friend II., I am very glad indeed to liear 

 you say that a cellar cati be made to answer 

 as well as the clamps. Clamps are certainly 

 a deal of trouble, and the oeneral untidiness 

 about them is enough of itself to discourage 

 me from recommending any such system. 

 The six-cent shipping -crates are nothing 

 particularly new, except they are made to 

 hold a small number of sections, and are so 



