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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



April 30, 1903. 



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A MINERAL SPRING AT YOUR DOOR. 



ished sections) on several of my hives. Tliese sections were filled with 

 black honey, and the bees cleaned them out nicely. I used no packing 

 over the frames, and the bees came through nicely. I wintered them 

 out-of-doors in a winter-case, the ones I use holding 8 hives. The 

 sides and ends are made of Ijoards cleated together, lined with tar- 

 paper, and can be taken down and put away for use again. There is 

 plenty of honey below. The temperature went as low as 20 degrees 

 below zero. Is there any harm in doing this way. F. R. Briggs. 



Answers. — 1. Follow the rule that applies to giving supers to 

 any swarm. If you give a super at once there is danger that the 

 queen will go up and lay in it; so wait a day or more until the queen 

 has begun laying in the brood-chamber, or else give the super at once 

 over a queen-excluder. 



2. Some prefer starters, and some say full sheets of foundation, 

 or still better drawn combs. In my own practice I have never used 

 shallow starters, for fear of drone-comb. But if you want to save on 

 foundation, you will be pretty free from drone-comb by giving at first 

 no more than four or five frames, having shallow starters in these, and 

 then after the bees have filled these with comb fill up the hive with 

 full sheets of foundation or drawn combs. The answer to your first 

 question gives the answer as to super and excluder. 



3. In the hundreds of combs that I have had built upon full sheets 

 of worker foundation, I don't think I have ever seen two inches square 

 changed into drone-cells. If from any cause small patches of drone- 

 comb are found, cut them out and fill up the holes with patches of 

 worker-comb. 



4. Your success is good proof that the plan is all right. ■ The only 

 objection I think is the fear that the sections would be injured for 

 future use. The same sections, however, might be used year after 

 year. 



Extracted Honey Production and Marketlns. 



1. I guess you will think I am troubling you often, but I can- 

 not help it, can you ? 



3. What would be best to put my extracted honey in, a barrel or a 

 galvanized-iron tank? 



3. It I put it in a barrel or tank should I not have a faucet near 

 the bottom to draw the honey off? 



4. Would a wooden faucet be as good as a metal one in a barrel? 



5. If I have a metal tank made should I have a metal cover made 

 for it, or would a piece of cloth do in place of it to keep cut the dust, 

 etc.? 



6. About SJa cents a pound is the most I can sell comb honey 

 for. Now, can I sell a one-quart Mason fruit-jar full of honey, jar 

 and all, for 40 cents, and make it pay? I can get the jars for 75 cents 

 a dozen. 



7. Is a one-quart fruit-jar a good package for extracted honey ? 



S. Must I put a rubber around the neck of the bottle, or would it 

 make the honey taste of the rubber? 



il. What kind of a label ought to be put on the jar? Do you think 

 one like No. 17, in A. I. Root Co's catalog of honey-labels, is a good 

 one? I do. Oregon. 



Answers. — 1. No, neither do I want to help it. So long as I have 

 on hand a stock of answers from which I can select, to fit such ques- 

 tions as are not already answered in the text-books, I'm glad to have 

 the (|uestions come. When I can't find any other appropriate answers 

 I still have a job lot of the " I don't know " brand. _ _ 



2. Hard to tell. Perhaps a paraffined barrel. But if the honey 

 doesn't stand in it a long time, there are advantages in the metal. 



3. The faucet is a great convenience— almost a necessity. 



4. You can have a poor one of either kind, but I suppose one of 

 the best metal faucets is better than the best wooden one. 



5. Use a circular cover of cotton sheeting, having a hem about 

 the edge and a rubber cord through the hem. 



6. With the conditions you name, you ought to make the extracted 

 pay a good deal better than the comb. 



7. Yes, one of the best ; but in some markets it is too large. I 

 may as well add that sometimes it is too small. 



8. The rubber will do no harm, and it's safer to use it. 



9. Yes, what you mention is good. It's all a matter of taste; find 

 out what your customers like best. 



Indication of Presence of Queen— Rape. 



My colony of bees which is upstairs in the barn was unpacked 

 March 30, and to all appearances ttiey are very much alive, but I could 

 not find a single sealed cell. I did not give them anything to eat that 

 day as I should have done, and the next day when I examined them I 

 found nearly three-quarters of them dead. I suppose they must have 

 been just on the verge of starvation when I first opened them. I filled 

 a couple of combs with thick sugar syrup, and a day or two ago when 

 I looked at them there were several cells sealed. I think they contain 

 honey. As far as I could see there was no brood or eggs. They have 

 carried in a little pollen and some syrup I put out for them. I have 

 looked at them several times and even among so few bees I have in no 

 case been able to see a queen. Would the sealed cells of honey and 

 the pollen carried in indicate the lack, or the presence, of a queen, in 

 your estimation? and if there were a queen should there not be eggs 

 and brood by this time? Many soft maples and elms are in bloom al- 

 ready. 



In answer to the question about rape, on page 234, I will say that- 

 there is a Farmer's Bulletin, free for the asking, on '• Rape as a Forage 

 Crop." There are two varieties of rape — the anaual, which is no good 

 for fodder and is grown simply for the seed from which a lubricating 

 oil is expressed; and the biennial, which is used chiefly for fodder and 

 does not bloom till the next year after planting. As the biennial vari- 

 ety does not live through the winter, and the" annual is not grown 

 here, I should judge that rape would not cut a very important figure 

 in the honey-pasturage of this section. I think if rape were sown 

 with alsike clover it would soon smother the clover out on account 

 of its more rapid growth. If I am not right I would gladly be cor- 

 rected. Minnesota. 



Answer. — The fact that you could not find a queen with only a 

 handful of bees in the hive is not positive proof that no queen was 

 present; neither is this casting any reproach on you as a queen-finder; 

 many a time I have failed to find a i|ueen in a hive with a mere hand- 

 ful of bees, and I don't know why. The sealed cells of pollen and 

 honey indicate nothing one way or the other as to the presence of the 

 ciueen ; but the absence of brood and eggs when the bees are carrying 

 in pollen and honey is pretty strong proof that there is no queen 

 there. _ 



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