Dec. 10, 1903. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



797 



a selt-measuring molasses-tcate — that is far 

 ahead of the common honey-^rate — and have it 

 soldered very solid to the can ; have the bot- 

 tom slant about 1' j inches from back to front. 

 Malce a solid box' 10 inches hit;h for the can 

 to rest on, with cleats on top to keep the can 

 from slipping. Bolt the box fast to a low 

 spring wagon, just behind the seat, and tie 

 the can solid from each side. Then you are 

 ready. 



I think I have the best wire-imbedder that is 

 sold, or that 1 have heard of, so far. I have 

 used it 5 years, but 1 will tell you about that 

 some other time. W.A.Moore. 



Delaware Co., Ohio, Nov. 17. 



Best Hive for Women— "Baching." 



On page T'JS, the question is asked: Which 

 is the best hive for women, the S or the 10 

 frame"? I believe this is altogether a question 

 of locality, and whether we wish to work for 

 comb or extracted honey. In this locality the 

 10-frame hive becomes a nuisance when 

 worked for comb honey, because the bees 

 store so much honey below in the frames that 

 the queen is almost crowded out. I use the 

 .S-franie size entirely, and in the fall I extract 

 2 frames of honey from the sides of the brood- 

 chamber, leaving the bees on C combs for 

 winter. I have practiced this for several 

 years, and I find that 6 combs are amply suf- 

 ticient for their winter stores, and then I have 

 2 empty combs to give the queen in the spring, 

 when otherwise they would be tilled with 

 candied honey and be comparatively worth- 

 less. 



I believe in most localities, that with the 

 above management, bees would starve before 

 spring on combs, but here the bees consume 

 very little honey during the winter months, 

 owing to the very even temperature— just a 

 little too cold to start brood-rearing. 



I have a plan of management which I have 

 practiced for years, which is in my estimation 

 far ahead of brushed or " shook " swarms for 

 preventing increase and keeping all the force 

 together at work in the sections, but I will 

 have to defer this for another article. 



I am surprised at C. H. Koentz for asking 

 the Editor to help him out of his troubles. It 

 he can't get a wife it's his own fault. He 

 lives in a locality where the ladies out-number 

 the men, 8 to 1, and he can tind plenty of 

 them that are " willin'." It he were baching 

 out here in the West, he would have just 

 cause for complaint. W'hat few girls we have 

 here are so independent that there is no doing 

 anything with them. Now. if the Editor is 

 going to take a hand, please don't forget us 

 Westerners. I have been " baching " for y 

 years. 



I have 300 colonies of bees. 



W. C. Gathriqht. 



Donna Ana Co., New Mexico, Nov. 10. 



Bee-Moth and a Bee-Hat. 



Two years ago I brought 3 colonies of bees; 

 one of the colonies swarmed 4 times last sea- 

 son, but did not swarm at all this summer, 

 and only stored honey enough to last them 

 through the winter. From the colony that 

 did not swarm I took 50 or 60 pounds of 

 good honey, and they died before spring with 

 plenty of stores in their hives. I fed the late 

 swarms, as the season was not good in our 

 locality. I got 3 colonies out of 7 through. I 

 divided and made 2 colonies, and the same 

 colony that I took the two from swarmed 

 later on, and I caught on, so I still have 7 for 

 winter again. I have made good bee-houses 

 to put the hives in, and leave them there win- 

 ter and summer. 



Some time ago I noticed in the Bee .Journal 

 that one of the bee-keepers wanted to know 

 what made the moth. It is the butterflies; 

 they alight down on the bees when lying 

 out before swarming and deposit their eggs 

 on the bees, so when the bees go in the hive 

 to eat, the eggs will fall off of them in the 

 hive, and are hatched out by the warmth, 

 and so the moth is there. I kept all the but- 

 terflies killed off this summer, and am not 

 bothered any more. 



I will tell you what kind of a bee-hat I have. 

 Take green screen-wire, one yard in length ; 

 cut some off the side, so it will be only two 



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