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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Oct. 1, 



above statement, or enough of it to con- 

 tradict any damage the statement might 

 do us as manufacturers, should be pub- 

 lished. The worst feature we have to 

 overcome, in introducing cedar hives, is 

 the fear that the scent will affect the 

 honey, but we agree to pay the highest 

 cash price for all honey produced in our 

 hives, that is affected by the wood. We 

 have shipped hives all over Washington 

 and Oregon, and have never had a com- 

 plaint. P. & B. 

 Lewis Co., Wash. 



Bees Didn't Do Well. 



My bees have not done much this 

 summer. They are doing some better 

 now. We have had hardly any rain 

 since February. It looks like rain now. 

 If the honey-flow isn't better soon, we 

 will have to feed. A. R. Yandell. 



Sullivan, Ark., Sept. 12. 



Uore Bees thau Honey. 



My bees have not done very well this 

 year. I have taken only 1,100 pounds 

 of honey from 46 colonies, though I 

 may get 200 or .300 pounds more yet. 

 I just doubled them up, with swarms, 

 hiving 46. Every hive is full to over- 

 flowing, and all full of brood, but not 

 much honey in the brood-chamber. 

 There is plenty of bloom of all sorts. 

 Thomas Ash. 



E. Toledo, Ohio, Sept. 17. 



"Golden" Comb Honey System. 



Mr. Herman Ahlers. of Ahlers, Oreg., 

 asks this question about my method of 

 producing comb honey, recently illus- 

 trated in the American Bee Journal : 



" What will become of the bee-bread ? 

 Won't the bees store it in the sections, 

 close to the queen ? or will they pack it 

 up in the brood-nest ?" H. A. 



This is a question I expected from 

 some of our noted bee-keepers, from the 

 fact that I feared it would result as you 

 state it, but such is not the case. I have 

 never found any pollen in any section as 

 yet, and I do not believe that bees will 

 deposit pollen when there are no eggs or 

 larvae, as I have never had a queen lay 

 an egg in her caged confinement (of five 

 days) with this methoo ; consequently, 

 the bees must pack their pollen where 

 there is a better prospect for the con- 

 sumers (in the brood-nest). I hope Mr. 

 Ahlers will try one colony at least, and 

 report his experiment, as a practical test 

 is the only true course to pursue for 

 facts. .J. A. Golden. 



Reinersville, Ohio. 



Producing Extracted Honey. 



Of the various ways of producing ex- 

 tracted honey, the following seems to 

 me to be the most successful : 



In order to stimulate brood-rearing, I 

 feed my bees early in the spring. When 

 they have filled the combs (8 frames) 

 with brood, I place four combs of brood 

 in the upper story, and fill the remain- 

 ing space with empty combs of last 

 year's extraction. Thus I have 16 combs 

 in all, viz., four combs with brood and 

 four empty combs below, and the same 

 above, A prolific queen will soon fill the 

 empty combs with eggs. This causes a 

 continual increase of bees, until about 

 three weeks previous to the honey har- 



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