Jan. 19. 19(5 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



43 



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Bees in Good Condition. 



I have now 3U colonies of bees all packed 

 well for winter, with plenty of honey. We 

 sell all our honey around town at 18 cents 

 per section, or two sections tor 25 cents, un- 

 less they weigh less than a pound, when we 

 sell them at 8, 10 or 13 cents, according to 

 their weight. Or we use them for our own 

 table, or sometimes give them away. 



Allegany Co., N. Y. U. Hodges. 



Moving Bees— Cleaning Sections— 



BIacl( Brood- Honey-Cases— 



Brood-Frames. 



I moved 35 colonie.s about 300 yards by 

 closing the entrances. I plunked them on an 

 old wheelbarrow, jarred them over the gravel- 

 stones, placed them in position, opened the 

 entrances at once and got out of the way. I 

 don't think a hundred bees came back out of 

 the lot. 



I tried wire-cloth for cleaning sections. It 

 made the wood rough and left the propolis 

 on. A heavy paper well oiled, and fastened 

 around the edges of a hive-cover with strips 

 of wood, is good enough here. The same 

 thing with old newspapers underneath, tacked 

 around the body of a hive, is a good winter 

 protection. Let the warm air bring the bees 

 out, not hot sun on the hive. 



Black brood appeared in both States along 

 the Delaware River during the summer. And 

 I think the Alley cure is a master stroke, and 

 a fame winner, judging from the e.^cperience 

 I had with it. I tried fresh Italian blood, 

 but it was no help that I could discover. 

 Some of these became the worst cases in the 

 lot. 



I don't think queens have anything at all 

 to do with disease. I took queens out of 

 diseased colonies and placed tliem at once in 

 healthy colonies, and no disease followed. I 

 think the claims made for the Italians in 

 many respects are greatly overrated, except 

 that of gentleness in handling. 



For 2 years I have made honey-cases o-row 

 5 in a row, and notice others in the market 

 this year. They make a fine appearance, and 

 are handy to crate up in even hundreds. 



The " Hunsberger A. C. Frame," as it is 

 called, mimics the catalogs, and is simply the 



SBEO CORN 



"Mtre drop" planters are no good unless the 

 I leed l9 of even size and perleit Mmpe. 1 breed 

 corn witb perfect and uniform kernels and I 

 grade all my shelled eeed with a epeciully con- 

 structed mill that throws out every uneven, 

 round or thick kernel better tlian you could 



?08sibly do it by hand. Every kernel must be 

 lal Use every other — even, flat. ju?t right. 

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The Rietsche Press 



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