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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



June 



a. The empty ones should he put over, and should 

 be put on before the lower ones are ready to seal, 

 except at the very close of the season, when great 

 care should be taken not to add sections until the 

 others are sufficiently filled to insure their being- 

 sealed, even if the season should suddenly close. 

 I used to put the empty ones under the others, but 

 found that I often got left with a great many un- 

 finished sections on my hands— an evil which I now 

 almost entirely avoid. Geo. Grimm. 



As a rule, the partially filled one should be raised 

 up and the empty one placed in under. There are 

 several reasons for this. Prominent among them is 

 the fact that Ihe bees are not as apt to soil 

 some of the combs before all of them are finished. 

 I advise as above. Remember, that in this feature 

 of our business every thing is against us in the 

 fact that, as the room decreases, the colony in- 

 creases. It is like two men going toward each oth- 

 er. They meet almost before they know it. 



James Heddon. 



It has been so much my habit to put the 

 case of empty sections under the full one, 

 that I have hardly tried any other plan, al- 

 though it is true I have often had just the 

 result mentioned by several above; i.e., a 

 great lot of sections with a little start, and 

 may be a little honey in a good many of 

 them. 



Question 132.— I have a number of combs every 

 spring ( from dead colonies) that T wish to keep clear of 

 moths and worms till they ran be used at swarming 

 time. What is the best wan to manage them .' 



Put them into a tight room, and brimstone them 

 occasionally. P. H. Elwood. 



I have always saved mine by inserting them in 

 strong colonies. O. O. Poppleton. 



Put them into a perfectly close box, early in 

 spring. A. J. Cook. 



Leave them where they will freeze during the 

 winter, and you will have no difficulty in keeping 

 them until swarming time. H. K. Boaiidman. 



Here it is one of the hardest things to do. The 

 best way is to put them on top of strong colonies. 

 This refers to this part of the country, where our 

 bees need no winter protection. P. L. Viadlon. 



If hung in a cool airy place, leaving two or more 

 inches between each comb, you should have no 

 trouble from this source up to swarming time. If 

 you do, put them in a tight box or room, and sul- 

 phur them. G. M. Doolittle. 



Hang them up in a shed or other out-building, 

 with at least two inches space between the frames; 

 or put them in a hive, in a like shape; raise the 

 cover so as to admit the light; catch one or two 

 spiders and place in each hive. 



Mus. L. Harrison. 



The best way with me has been to hang them at 

 least an inch apart, in a dry cool place. If the 

 place is damp, the combs will mold. T have kept 

 them in a dry warm place (the barn chamber) in the 

 same way. A. B. Mason. 



Hang them in a closed room, and burn a little 

 sulphur under them at least twice, at intervals of 

 15 days. Ours are placed in cold rooms during win- 



ter, and we have bad, for years, several thousands 

 of them used for extracting. Dadant & Son. 



Clean them up by scraping off all dirt and propo- 

 lis from the frames, and cut out all bad patches 

 from the comb. I put them into empty hives ready 

 for hiving, and find there is no danger from moths 

 if used during the first season. If they have to be 

 kept over for another season they should be put on 

 strong colonies, to be thoroughly cleaned. 



Geo. Grimm. 



I keep them in a dry cool place. They should not 

 be piled so that one comb rests against another. If 

 well spread out, the moth is much less likely to dis- 

 turb them. Such as contain pollen or portions of 

 brood should be kept by themselves and examined 

 more frequently, as they are more liable to be at- 

 tacked by the moth. They may be fumigated with 

 sulphur if worms appear. L. C. Root. 



I can do it best by piling them on top of other col- 

 onies, especially the stronger ones. If taken off 

 here in the winter, and piled up in supers outdoors, 

 leaving the combs three-fourths of an inch apart, 

 they suffer but little damage from moth before T 

 need them the next season. Placing them in a 

 moth-proof room, and smoking thoroughly with 

 sulphur, is effectual but more costly. R. Wilkin. 



We have a plastered room 10 feet square, in which 

 we put all such combs; look at them as often as 

 once a week, after warm weather commences; and 

 if we see any signs of worms we go down cellar and 

 burn one pound of sulphur in a little stove that we 

 have there for that purpose. The fumes go up 

 into the room above through a four-inch pipe. If 

 the room is closed tight, every living thing in the 

 room is killed; then if the room is kept closed tight 

 we have no further trouble. We used to smoke 

 combs in a large box, before we built our smoke- 

 room. E. France. 



if you can discover the dead colony soon enough, 

 provided they die early enough, expose the combs 

 to a temperature of 16 below freezing, which will be 

 16 above zero; that will kill every moth-germ. Then 

 all you have to do is to shut the combs away from 

 the miller. On the other hand, if the germs are not 

 destroyed, my plan is to keep the combs in a cool, 

 airy room, hanging them on rabbeted strips nailed to 

 the ceiling, being careful not to let them touch 

 each other. Leave them an inch apart. You will 

 find in this condition the moths will make you no 

 perceptible trouble. James Heddon. 



I hang my combs in boxes, no closer together 

 than they hang in the hives, exposed to the cold of 

 winter, which kills the eggs and larvse of the wax- 

 moth. Care must be taken to keep mice out, as 

 they will ruin the combs in their endeavor to get at 

 the bee-bread. If the wax-moth gets in the combs 

 before I can put them on hives, I set those boxes of 

 combs close, one upon the other, about 10 high on a 

 tight board, and burn about one-fourth pound of 

 sulphur placed in some vessel (an old pie-plate) in 

 an upper empty box, and cover it up. Sulphur 

 fume being heavier than air, settles down slowly 

 but surely, and kills every moth in the combs. 



C. F. Muth. 



Nail strips of wood to the ceiling or rafters of 

 your honey-house, so that the combs will hang on 

 them just as they do in the hives. Hang them up, 

 as far apart as convenient, exposed fully to light 



