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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



type ap]iear. Thous'h I have ven' liltle use 

 for the fence separators as such, I have a 

 high appreciation of their value as follow- 

 ers. A blanket of bees over the outside 

 rows of sections guarantees completed sec- 

 tions where so many fail to get good re- 

 sults. I have more than once, since I 

 adopted this system, seen sections complet- 

 ed and sealed in the outside rows before 



those in the center were completed. I would 

 most earnestly recommend all producers of 

 comb honey to use fences between the sec- 

 tions and the super w^alls. I use by pref- 

 erence fences one side of which have half 

 a bee-space and the other about % inch. 

 Those in the illustration are some made 

 over regulars. 

 Norwichtown, Ct. 



WHAT AILED THE BEES ? 



i3Y J. W. ADMIRE 



Tlie illustration shows a full set of frames 

 taken from an eight-frame hive belonging 

 to a friend of mine. Now nearly 70 years 

 old, he has kept bees nearly all his life. 

 His colonies have ranged in number from 

 one to probably twenty-five. 



One day early last spring he stopped me 



on the street and said that nine colonies out 

 of twelve had died out, and he thought they 

 must have " winter-killed," as they were 

 wintered out of doois, but that on examin- 

 ation he found that all nine hives contained 

 quite a bit of honey. We went to the barn 

 where ho had stacked the hives up witli 



I never baw a '^otse case of American foul lirood. 



