Jan. 26, 1905. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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I had great losses, therefore I will explain 

 how I winter them on their summer stands. 



In the fall when cooler weather comes — af- 

 ter the first frost — I select a day which is not 

 windy, for bees do not like to have their hives 

 opened on a cool and windy day. I lift the 

 cover slightly, and blow in sufficient smoke 

 to make the bees leave the top-bars. Then I 

 place over the top-bars a wire screen large 

 enough to cover them well. After doing this 

 I place an empty box on top of the hive filled 

 with excelsior (very fine shavings) about 6 

 inches deep, or enough to shut off the cold 

 air. The boxes I use for this purpoie are the 

 same as those I use for hiving bees, and are 

 about 9 inches high. The best cover to use 

 on the box is board strips nailed together, 

 leaving between each strip about '4-inch 

 space, through which dampness which ie 

 caused by the sweat of the bees, may escape. 

 Then the roof is placed over all. The box is 

 placed on the hive and fastened on 4 sides 

 with small staples. To drive them in with a 

 hammer is not advisable. They can be pressed 

 in when the holes are pierced with an awl. 

 The joints between the top-bars and the hive 

 can be daubed with a little mortar if neces- 

 sary. 



A hive prepared in this manner needs only 

 a small entrance; if the temperature goes be- 

 low zero, 1J-2X''m will be about the size. Un- 

 der certain conditions more space is advisable. 

 This will ventilate the hive well, and dispel 

 all moisture, and in the spring the bees will 

 be found in a healthy condition with no 

 moldy combs, which I found so often before 

 using this method. When bees are prepared 

 for winter in this way the excelsior in the 

 box must remain dry, and if it gets wet from 

 exhalations it indicates that the flight-hole 

 should be enlarged. 



Bro. Alphonse Vbith. 



Spencer Co., Ind. 



Getting Unflnished Sections Filled. 



When I have unfinished sections at the 

 close of the honey season I put then on good, 

 strong colonies and feed extracted honey, 

 and they fill them up. It pays to feed honey 

 rather than sugar. Dr. J. Archer. 



Santa Barbara Co., Calif., Dec. 11. 



LaboFingr Under Dlffleulties. 



I put 8 co'onies of bees into winter quar- 

 ters in 1903, but they all died before spring. I 

 then bought a colony, but it was very weak. 

 by August it had built up pretty strong and 

 swarmed. I fed it about a pint of syrup a 

 <Jay until fall. One large swarm came to me, 

 and I bought a few colonies. I also had 

 another old colony in the spring which was 

 strong, but did not swarm until August. I 

 fed it and kept it at work all the time. When 

 the first super was about half full I put 

 another one under it, and so on, and in the 

 fall I had nearly 100 sections filled. 



I now have ~ colonies in good condition for 

 winter. A. S. Beilbb. 



Lancaster Co., Pa., Dec. 16. 



DeLuxe Comb Honey. 



On page 19 of Gleanings in Bee Culture for 

 this year, Mr. Titoil has given us something 

 of more than usual importance. I, for one, 

 believe there is altogether too much labor and 

 expense attached to the production of comb 

 honey in small sections. Improvement in 

 methods ought to be in the direction of sim- 

 plicity and economy, but the tendency has 

 been too much the other way. 



Mr. Titoft makes a very strong point when 

 he says that much more honey will be pro- 

 duced in a given time by the use of shallow 

 frames than with sections. I know that the 

 work of producing fancy honey in sections 

 is fascinating. It is nice work when one 

 have only a few colonies, but only a few of 

 the larger bee-keepers in the country will 

 bother with sections at all. 



I can see one point that was not mentioned 

 directly in the article referred to. The boxes 

 could be used over and over again for honey. 

 Sections are never used the second time, and 

 very few shipping-cases are saved for a second 

 shipment. I say, let us maks a fair trial of 



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