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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Oct 22, 



is a pretty good thing after all. I have 

 sold some seed to one, and two others 

 are talking of sowing some. It will 

 grow on our poorest land, and make a 

 crop, and choke out all weeds we have in 

 this country, including sand-burrs and 

 cookie-burrs. If it were of no other use 

 it would pay well as a fertilizer. But it 

 is a splendid hay crop, and, in my opin- 

 ion, there is nothing better for honey. I 

 have about 10 acres seeded down for 

 next year. I put several acres in the 

 corn at the last cultivating, and have a 

 nice stand. You see, by putting it in the 

 corn we have the crop the next season. 

 If sown in the fall it will come up early 

 the next spring, and make a good growth 

 that season, but not seed. I always sow 

 the seed with the hull on. — Joseph Shaw, 

 of Kansas, in Gleanings. 



Bees Did but Little. 



Bees are not doing much this season. 

 I shall not get honey enough to pay for 

 the trouble. I live in hopes of a belter 

 season next year. Perhaus the bees will 

 work better under a new administration ; 

 certainly they can do but little worse. 

 John H. Whitwore. 



Minard, Mich.', Sept. 28. 



Beginning' with. Bees. 



I bought a colony of Italian bees three 

 days ago, after visiting four or five api- 

 aries at different places. I got them 

 from a farmer 20 miles out of town, 

 and paid him >o 00 for the whole thing 

 — hive, bees, and about 50 pounds of 

 honey. We closed them in the morning, 

 and brought them to town over rough 

 grounds in a spring wagon. We were 

 about eight, miles from town when the 

 entrance came open, and the bees were 

 flying around mad. We unhitched, took 

 out the hive, smoked them with hay 

 which we had in the wagon, and shut 

 them up again, only losing a few bees. 

 Then we started again, and reached 

 home all right. Fbfd Wieman. 



Lawrence, Kans., Sept. 22. 



Two Starters in One Section. 



The question is continually asked, 

 " Does it pay to put two pieces of foun- 

 dation in each section?"' Yes, sir, it 

 does. I would not use sections with 

 only one piece, even if they were fur- 

 nished free; for I want and will have 

 my section honey built solid to the sec- 

 tions on all four sides, and can have 

 them so by usine sections eight to the 

 foot, and a " Handy" slotted and cleated 

 separator between each two sections, 

 with two pieces of foundation fastened 

 firmly exactly in the center of each. The 

 reason I want this is because such sec- 

 tions of white honey will look "just 

 splendid," and I can ship them a thou- 

 sand miles without a broken comb, if 

 properly crated. I put a half-inch piece 

 of rather heavy foundation in the bot- 

 tom, and the top piece wide enough to 

 come within X inch of this, and all to 

 be H inch from the sides of the sections. 

 I kiiow the order is generally given to 

 fill the sections chuck full of fouiidaticm; 

 but I tell yiiu, after much experieni'e, 

 that foundation should not touch the 

 sides of either brood-frames or sections 

 until the bees have drawn It partially 

 out; for if the foundation touches the 

 wood, the bees will immediately slick it 

 fast, whether it is in the right or wrong 

 place. — B. Taylor, in Gleanings. 



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