August, 191u. 



American l^ee Journal 



tract by duiuinies or otherwise. 



The beekeeijer, it a comb honey pro- 

 ducer, who has not at the end of the 

 clover flow a quantity of unfinished 

 sections is indeed fortunate. But if 

 he has he may have them quickly fin- 

 ished up if he will sort them out, 

 place them in supers, put two or three 

 at a time on these selected colonies 

 and feed good honey, all the bees will 

 take. It is so satisfactory to me. 

 that I don't care if I have ever so 

 many unfinished sections. I know that 

 by feeding I can change the unsala- 

 ble product into fancy honey, for un- 

 der these artificial conditions I find 

 the bees finish the sections perfectly, 

 sealing every cell. Such combs as 

 are only partially drawn out, or such 

 as contain little honey I do not return 

 to the bees at all. but allow the bees 

 to clean them out. But all combs 

 well drawn out and largely filled with 

 honey, though there may not be a 

 cell sealed, such are well suited for 

 the purpose. When assembling the 

 unfinished sections I always place 

 them in the super iu such a way as 

 to have the best filled sections next 

 to the outside, the lightest in the mid- 

 dle. If one face of a section is all 

 completed, I put this face next to the 

 outside, and w^ien assembling the un- 

 finished combs in my wide frames I 

 go so far as to have the best sealed 

 edges of the sections next to the ends 

 of the frames as will appear in the 

 illustration. 



Open air feeding is of course out 

 of question. We have to feed inside 

 of the hive ordinarily. The Miller 

 feeder is well adapted to feed on top 

 of the hive and is thus used almost al- 

 ways. I have used it in a hive body 

 back of the hive as well as in front 

 of the hive and with satisfactory re- 

 sult. The plan enabled me to get at 

 the supers easily and use the escape 



to free the finished supers from bees. 

 When using the Miller feeder in this 

 fashion a bridged passage from the 

 hive containing the bees to the hive 

 body containing the feeder had to be 

 provided as shown in the illustration. 

 Atmospheric feeders could be used in 

 this same manner either mason jars, 

 ten pound honey pails or even sixty 

 pound square honey cans. 



It a feeder can be arranged under 

 the hive, i. e. in the stand, In such a 

 way as to be easily filled, an arrange- 

 ment of the kind suits me best and 

 is the simplest. Feeders should be 

 filled after bees cease flying, and care 

 must be exercised that no feed is 

 spilled and that outside bees can never 

 get to the feeders. 



Naples, N. Y. 



Beekeeping at Iowa Agricul- 

 taral College 



BY FRANK C, PELLETT. 



Although it is starting on a very 

 modest scale, beekeeping is at last a 

 part of the regular work of the Iowa 

 Agricultural college at Ames. Al- 

 though many of us were hopeful of 

 larger facilities to begin with, the 

 work will now go on and will be de- 

 veloped to meet the needs of the bee- 

 keepers of the state. The Iowa col- 

 lege is one of the best and no part of 

 its work will long be permitted to lag 

 behind that of other states. 



DR. L H. PAMMEL. 



The beekeepers are very fortunate 

 in the men who have charge of the 

 work. Dr. L. H. Pammel head of 

 the department of botany has been 

 connected with the institution for 

 twenty-five years. He is beginning an 

 extended study of honey-producing 



plants, nectar secretion and other 

 subjects in connection with the rela- 

 tion of the honey bee to plants. This 

 work will require several years to 

 complete. Those who know Dr. Pam- 

 mel, or who have seen his monumental 



Dr. L. H. Pammel, 



Professor of Botany. Iowa College of 



Agriculture 



work on the "Weed Flora of Iowa," 

 or his "Manual of Poisonous Plants," 

 feel that this new work will be of far 

 reaching value, not only to the bee 

 men of Iowa, but probably to the bee- 

 keepers of the world at large. 



Dr. Pammel intends not only to 

 make a thorough study of the honey 

 plants of the state in order to pro- 



GRIilNER'S FEEDERS IN BODIES BACK OK THE COLONIES 



Dr. L. H. Pammei. on the Lawn of His 

 Home at Ames. Iowa 



