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November, 1915. 



American l^ee Journal 



on top of supers, bought 2400 'pounds of 

 granulated white sugar, made syrup in my 

 bee-house by the 25 gallons at a time, and let 

 it cool. Gave the bees a quart morning and 

 evening until the sugar was used up; that 

 is. the 2400 pounds at J4 7'i per hundred. War 

 came on and sugar got too high for me to 

 tackle, and this amount of sugar cleaned up 

 all supers 1 had on the hives. Well. I had 

 left three unfinished sections. I had 1200 

 pounds of section honey in i-pound sec- 

 t ions." 



One is a little at a loss to know whether 

 the writer of the foregoing, an Ohio bee- 

 keeper whose name it may be a kindness to 

 withhold, is crazy, as suggested by "Ten- 

 nessee." or merely ignorant. The fact that 

 numbers came out so even, exactly one 

 pound of honey for every two pounds of 

 sugar, gives a hint that the whole thing 

 might be a romantic dream. But the editor 

 of a reputable publication should hardly 

 give credit to such an affair by putting it in 

 print. 



Apparently the proceeding was a profit- 

 able affair at $4.7ii per hundred, but ceased 

 to be profitable at a little higher price. It is 

 pretty clear then that the profit was not so 

 very great at the $4,711. Certainly no amount 

 of profit would induce an honest man with a 

 reasonable amount of intelligence to do 

 such a low-down thing as to sell sugar syrup 

 for honey, even if he could escape the 

 clutches of the law. Let us hope that Ohio 

 authorities may dissuade this brother from 

 this course and that the editor of the 

 Southern Ruralist may be more discriminat- 

 ing hereafter as to the matter he publishes. 



ANOTHER VIEW OF THE O'DONNELL APIARY 



Unfinished Sections— Golden Bees 



I. I have a lot of boxes of honey with bees 

 this year's swarms, which I want to feed 



back to some of the hives. My hives are the 

 Woodman make. After the bees are killed 

 in the box could I take the cover off from 

 the hive and supers and place the box on 

 top of the supers by making it tight all 

 around ? Would the bees carry the honey 

 down and put it in the supers, and if so 

 could the box be left on the hive day and 

 night, or would outside bees find it and get 

 to robbing? Would F. Greiner's way given 



in the Bee Journal be the best ? He speaks 

 of a bridge passage from one to the other 

 with a box in front or behind the hive. If I 

 should do it that way would it be necessary 

 to take the box away every day ? 



2. Please tell me what kind of bees you 

 like best for honey gathering. 3-banded or 

 golden Italians ? 



3. The bees that have done the best for 

 me this summer are the ones that I gave a 



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M. J. OUONNELL AI'lAKY IN NORTHERN LATnUDKS, LOCATED NEAR HARLEYBURY. ONT. 

 White clover, willow herb, raspberries and dandelions are the principal honey sources 



