1902 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



649 



wedg'es or their equivalents and my divid- 

 ers." Last year my son and I took thou- 

 sands of sections. Mine in Aylmer averag-- 

 ed over 100 sections to the colony, and, with 

 but very few exceptions, the outside sections 

 were beautifullj^ finished. In many cases 

 the choicest sections were right next the 

 dividers. Brother York's editorials are 

 generally of the very best — well chosen, 

 well written, and right up to date; but this 

 one is sadly astray. I quite agree that the 

 sections should come off soon after the white- 

 honey flow ceases. Here where the honey- 

 flow is short and sharp generally, I leave 

 all the sections on until the close of white 

 honey. I almost forgot to mention the dan- 

 g'er of candying as one of the objections to 

 extracting- thin honey, and then feeding it 

 back to produce comb honey. 



Aylmer W., Ont., Can., July 10. 



[Your peculiar season was not essential- 

 ly diff"erent from ours, and we are still hav- 

 ing to a great extent that same "freaky 

 weather." There is this difterence, how- 

 ever, that our honey ripens readily, as we 

 have very warm days in between those of 

 rain. 



With regard to our method of producing 

 comb honey and getting all the sections in 



the super filled, I would state that I have 

 been trying that plan, or a modification of 

 it, rather, and I believe your ideas are all 

 right. A perforated divider or a fence, 

 which in principle is the same thing, plac- 

 ed on each outside row, makes a wall of 

 bees, or, we might say, a double wall of 

 bees, so that the heat on the outside of the 

 sections is often as great as in the center of 

 the super. Bees do not do very good comb- 

 building and storing in sections unless the 

 supers are filled ///// of bees. They must 

 be there to preserve the animal heat, even 

 if they do not build combs. If there are 

 fielders in proportion to the young bees that 

 build comb and keep up the animal heat, 

 there is bound to be comb honey, if there is 

 a plentiful supply of nectar. — Ed.] 



A UNIQUE APIARY. 



BY C. A. HARTLEY. 



Probably the most unique apiary in this 

 country is that of Seldon E. Bailey, who 

 resides about a mile and a half back of 

 Pomeroy, O., in a very fertile valley. He 

 is a successful truck-farmer, but keeps a 

 few colonies of bees, principally to furnish 

 his own table with honey. Just in the rear 







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THE OVERHANGING-ROCK APIARY. 



