AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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ANSWERED BY 



Marengo, III. 



In this department will be answered those 

 questions needing immediate attention, and 

 such as are not of sufficient special Interest to 

 require replies from the ^0 or more apiarists 

 who help to make " Queries and Replies " so 

 interesting on another page. In the main, It 

 will contain questions and answers upon mat- 

 ters that particularly Interest beginners.— Ed. 



Bearing- Brood on Sugar Syrup. 



An old bee-keeper here tells me that 

 bees cannot rear brood on sugar syrup, 

 but must have honey to feed on. Is this 

 true ? I have been unable to find any- 

 thing touching this point in the bee 

 books or papers. J. E. B. 



Answer.— I don't know that I can 

 give a categorical answer, only that in 

 hundreds of cases bees have wintered on 

 sugar syrup and commenced breeding in 

 the spring so far as yet heard from, just 

 the same as if they had honey. 



Foul Brood— Convention Report. 



1. Has there ever been any foul brood 

 in North Carolina and bordering States ? 



2. Was there a report published of 

 the Carolina Bee-Keepers' Association, 

 which was to meet at Charlotte, N. C 

 Ju'y 1^ ? J. C. M. 



Globe, N. C. 



Answers.— 1. I don't remember to 

 have seen mention of foul brood there, 

 but it may exist for all that. If any one 

 knows of any, perhaps he will report. 

 It's generally safer to have an open than 

 a secret foe. 



2. I have some doubt whether such 

 report was published, still there might 

 have been a very brief report that es- 

 caped my attention. There can hardly 

 be any satisfactory reason why North 

 and South Carolina should not have a 

 good convention and a good report. 



Correct Spacing of Frames. 



For correct spacing of frames in 8- 

 frame dovetailed hives, instead of using 

 % division-board why not space frames 

 dividing the % on either side between 

 the first comb and the side of the hive, 

 thereby giving more storage room for 

 honey, barring the inconvenience of in- 

 terchanging the two outside combs if 

 you should so wish ? c. B. H. 



Answer. — The inconvenience you 

 mention is sufficient objection. Aside 

 from that, if you use fixed distances, 

 you couldn't easily crowd frames enough 

 to one side to get out the first frame. If 

 you use loose hanging frames you can 

 make it go all right. Still there would 

 be left the trouble that you'd have a lot 

 of deep storage cells outside that the 

 bees would have to cut down whenever 

 they wanted to put brood in the outside 

 comb. 



Finishing Incomplete Sections. 



At the time of taking off surplus, find- 

 ing some sections not complete (espe- 

 cially at the bottom), in returning to 

 the hive for completion, why not reverse 

 the sections, placing the most work to 

 finish at the top ? Is it not correct that 

 they work the more readily at the top of 

 their work ? 



Answer.- Yes, bees seal up faster at 

 the top than at the bottom, and revers- 

 ing might hasten, providing there isn't 

 too much slant in the cells, as there is 

 sometimes when deep. But I find that 

 a re-arrangement of sections isn't gener- 

 ally a very satisfactory thing. 



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