April 27, 1905. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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what, bat never gained much strength. The effects left by that tor- 

 rlble disease were such that he could not recover, and he gradually 

 grew weaker until death ended his sufferings, Feb. 6, 1905. 



•' He was an earnest Christian, and was entirely willing to go, but 

 would have preferred to get well for my sake. His love for the bnes 

 and the welfare of the bee-keepers is well known. He loved the 

 work he had chosen with unselfish devotion." 



The Farm Journal has in its May issue, in a very prominent 

 place, an excellent article written by Mr. Wm. A. Selser, one of the 

 members of The Honey-Producers' League, on "The Honey-Bee and 

 the Truth About Honey." Mr. Selser sets forth some real facts about 

 honey and its nectar origin. 



Also, in the same issue, appears this paragraph, in the department 

 called "Heart Problems," conducted by "Aunt Harriet," who, in the 

 April Farm Journal, wrote the statement about honey that we copied 

 on page 2SI1 : 



I have had a number of letters in reference to an item which 

 appeared last month, advising me that my statement in regard to 

 adulterated honey was overdrawn, and is liable to injure the bee-in- 

 dustry. The attention of the Editor of the Farm Journal has also 

 been called to the matter, and he wishes me to say that bee-keepers 

 need not tear but that the Farm Journal will set the matter right if a 

 mistake has been made. 



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Producing Section Honey With and Without 

 Separators 



BY WM. M. WHITNEY 



On pages 20 and 21 there appear some expert opinions 

 respecting the production of section honey. To the question 

 "Can marketable sections of honey be satisfactorily produced 

 without separators?" a large number of emphatic "Noes" were 

 the response. Other, and more guarded replies, admitted 

 the possibility of its being done. 



It is seldom that we find two bee-keepers surrounded 

 by the same conditions and having exactly the same difficul- 

 ties to meet and overcome, and this fact, it seems to me, 

 may be one of the prime causes of the diversity of opinion 

 among bee-keepers on nearly every branch of the business. 

 My bee-keeping has been carried on, on comparatively a small 

 scale — 25 to .50 colonies being the limit — and having plenty 

 of time to devote to details, I have given more attention 

 to experimenting in a general way than I otherwise might 

 have done had there been a larger number of colonies to 

 look after ; yet I believe I could have managed as many 

 as 100 colonies just as well. 



It is not the farm of the largest number of acres that 

 is farmed the best; nor is it the largest apiaries that show 

 the best results in every respect. 



Having made a trial of wood separators, and having been 

 troubled so much with brace-comb, which invariably, with me, 

 spoiled the section, that only in exceptional cases has it seemed 

 advisable to use them. Were unfinished sections, or those 

 from which the honey had been thrown out ; or, sections 

 xy% to 2 inches wide to be used, on even my style of hive, 

 separators should be used. It is unnecessary to explain, even 

 to an ordinary bee-keeper, why they should be used in the 

 first two cases mentioned, but perhaps it's well to give a 

 reason why they should be used in the last. All sections 

 1^ to 2 inches wide, if well filled, without the use of sepa- 

 rators, weigh more than a pound. If separators are used, 

 there results two bee-way spaces between, the combs instead 

 of one; consequently, lessens the thickness and weight of the 

 sections just that much, bringing them within the weight 

 required by nearly all dealers ; but with 7-to-the-foot sec- 

 tions, if properly manipulated, the same results are attained 

 without separators. 



Allow me to explain my practice, and pardon miniite 

 details in doing so, for, often, mistakes are made, and_ dis- 

 appointments and disasters follow, because of lack of at- 

 tention to seemingly unimportant details in nxanagement. 



My hives are 2-story, double-walled to the top of first 

 story, with thin outside shell for second story. Section cases 

 mav be tiered up three high under the cover, having a dead- 

 air space around the entire outside of the cases. The out- 

 side sections are kept, practically, at the same temperature 

 as those in the center of the case. In early spring, the hive- 

 stands are leveled as accurately as possible, and on all hives 

 where the colonies are strong enough to bear the treatment, 

 supers of brood frames of comb, or foundation, are put. 

 Just about fruit-bloom time, or a little later, depending upon 

 the weather and honey-flow, the colonies are examined; su- 

 pers on all such as are strong in numbers are removed; bees 

 shaken from the frames in front of the hive, and supers 

 taken, if containing brood, to such colonies as may be com- 

 paratively weak — such may be found in nearly all apiaries 

 having a number of colonies;— if none such are found, new 

 colonies may be formed in the usual way. 



Cases containing 7-to-the-foot, 2-bee-way iVi, sections 

 with full sheets of extra-thin foundation are put on all hives 

 strong in bees ; sometimes two cases, if the colony is very 

 strong, are put on at once, and within two hours— sometimes, 

 in much less time— the cases will be filled with bees from 

 side to side, with not a vacant section to be found. With the 

 dead-air space around the casus, the outside sections are 

 worked as freely as others, and the combs are carried down 

 parallel, with a single bee-way space between them, and as 

 true as the best worker-comb one ever saw. Not infrequently 



