Nov. 26, 1903. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



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in llie covers if there was a hole Ijig enough 

 fur tlic bees to get past the honey-board. 

 Tlicv even built comb outside under the porch, 

 iin 11 number of hives, and all the time I 

 tli(ici),'-ht I was giving Iheni plenty of super- 

 room. Wonder if I did. 



Another thing bothered me a good deal: 

 For the first time in my experience I used 

 separators between the sections, the " plain, 

 sawed" separators, and to mal<e them as 

 nearly like the " fences " as! could, I punched 

 4 holes in each piece, opposite the middle of 

 tlie s(^ction with a l(J-guage wad-cutter, for a 

 passage-way. Now as to the results: 



I found about. 'i percent of the sections fas- 

 tened to the separators more or less firmly, 

 and in several cases the combs were joined to- 

 gether right through the holes in the separa- 

 tors. Of course this made (luite a muss when 

 cut loose, and I had to sell these damaged 

 sections at quite a sacritice in price. The bal- 

 ance wore in fine shape, and averaged about 

 14 ounces to the section ; but this was no ad- 

 vantage to me, as I always sell by the pound. 

 Now I am wondering if it pays to use separa- 

 tors, any way, and if I made a mistake in 

 punching the boles in them. 



When I came to remove the sections from 

 the supers I was not a little surprised to find 

 the bees had gnawed a large part of the sep- 

 arators, both and top bottom, some of them 

 a good half inch in depth the whole tour 

 inches inside the section. I was never bitten 

 by the front end of a bee, but don't tell me a 

 bee has no teeth when they can gnaw a bass- 

 wood board like that. It appeared as though 

 the busy little bodies tried to remove those ob- 

 jectionable obstructions entirely out of their 

 way. 



I want to digress a little here and take up 

 more space. In -'Forty Years Among the 

 Bees," Dr. Miller complains of poor success 

 with alsike clover. Allow me to suggest that 

 he try sowing it without a nurse-crop. Select 

 the lowest ground he has— the richer it is the 

 better — plow and prepare a good seed-bed in 

 the fall, then in the spring (late March or 

 early in April) scatter the seed on a good 

 coating of snow, if possible, when it will re- 

 (|uire no other cultivation to make it germi- 

 nate. In the absence of snow, cultivate very 

 lightly after sowing the seed. In the sum- 

 mer, if the weeds get too high, mow with the 

 slckle-ljar raised above the clover-plants, 

 though if some are cut off it will do no harm. 

 If the season should prove a very dry one, I 

 would leave the weeds for a shade to the 

 young clover, and protection in the winter. 

 In the 12 years continuous experience with 

 alsike clover, I have never known it to fall 

 in producing nectar, while some years it has 

 been our only source of a honey crop. 



A. F. FooTE. 

 Mitchell Co., Iowa, Nov. 13. 



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