1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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A North Dakota Report. 



The season of lSO."i was not as good for 

 honey as the year before. We had very 

 little if any basswood bloom, our white 

 clover killed out considerable a year ago 

 this winter, and we did not have as good a 

 tall flow of honey as then. I went into 

 winter quarters a year ago last fall with 5 

 colonies, came through with 4, bought 2 

 more last spring, and went into winter 

 quarters this winter (in the cellar) with 23 

 colonies. I run for increase of stock in- 

 stead of honey, and took off something over 

 150 pounds of extracted honey, and two 

 supers of comb honey. I bad several colo- 

 nies rather light for winter, but all are 

 alive yet. and if they go through whole, I 

 shall think that I have pretty nearly solved 

 the wintering problem, and will probably 

 give another statement sometime. 



Fargo, N. Dak.. Feb. 6. J. B. Judd. 



The "Dovetailed" Corner Again. 



I desire to make a correction of some er- 

 rors made by the manufacturers of apiar- 

 ian supplies in calling part of their goods 

 by the wrong name, in the method they 

 use in putting them together. Expert fore- 

 men and skilled mechanics u.se four princi- 

 pal methods in putting two pieces of 

 dressed lumber together to form a corner 

 at right angles, viz. ; 1st. Rabbeted corner; 

 2nd. Mitered corner ; :ird. Interwoven-Tenon 

 corner; and 4th. Dovetailed corner. Meth- 

 ods 1st. 2nd and 3rd depend entirely upon 

 the nails to hold the corner together, while 

 method No. 4 will hold itself together by 

 the use of a little glue, or a few small nails 

 to hold the dovetail in place. The strongest 

 and best of the four different plans is the 

 dovetailed corner, and part of the manu- 

 facturers of hives and sections put much 

 stress on the word "dovetail." and call 

 their hives and sections "dovetailed" hives 

 and dovetailed sections, whereas, the way 

 they are now putting them together there 

 is no dovetail about them. 



I now suggest that the manufacturers of 

 hives and sections drop the word "dove- 

 tail," and use in its place "interwoven- 

 tenon " hives, and iuterwoven-tenon sec- 

 tions, or block-cornered hives and block- 

 cornered sections. By doing so it will save 

 being smiled at by men that understand 

 the different methods and names used in 

 putting two pieces of dressed plank to- 

 gether to form a corner at right angles. 



Clintooville, Ohio. T. H. Coi5. 



[This is a matter that has been mentioned 

 many times in print and elsewhere, but as 

 all have come to use the word "dovetail" 

 in connection with hives and sections, and 

 thoroughly understand it. it would seem 

 hardly necessary to make the effort to 

 change to what would undoubtedly be a 

 little more correct. There are many mis- 

 nomers in the world, but they have come 

 to be so well understood that to endeavor 

 to correct them would be almost a hopeless 

 task.— Editors.] 



From "Mountain View Apiary," 



Mh. EniTOR; — 1 am not qualified to give 

 instruction in bee-lore, and if I were, the 

 galaxy of writers whose articles fill your 

 columns would certainly make it unneces- 

 sary for me to do so. But I sometimes see 

 under the heading, "General Items," let- 

 ters that while they contain no instruction, 

 are very interesting — they in a sense gather 

 the family of " tiee-people " nearer to- 

 gether, and as bees flourish best in the 

 cluster, when it is cold, so perhaps may the 

 bee-masters. 



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Turkeys for Market and Profit 25c 



Capons and Caponizing 30c 



Rural Life 25o 



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Hive I Use, by Lloolittle 5c 



Foul Brood, by Dr. Howarti 25o 



Foul Brood, by Kohuke 25c 



Foul Brood, by Cheshire 10c 



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Hand-Bookof Health, by Dr. Foote 25c 



Maple Sugar and the Sugar Bush 35o 



Potato Culture, by Terry 40o 



Carp Culture, by Boot Is, Finney 40c 



Strawberry Culture, by Terrv & Root 40c 



Blenen Kultur. by Newman [German] 40c 



Winter Problem in Bee-Keeping LPierce]. 50c 

 Bee-Keepers' Directory, by Henry Alley. 50c 

 Advanced Bee-Culture, by Hutchinson... 50c 

 5 Honey as Food and Medicine 25c 



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