June 1, 1905 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



395 



(Experiences 



Bees Doing Well 



My bees did poorly last season, but have 

 done well so far this year. They began 

 swarming in fruit-bloom. White clover is 

 very thick on the ground. S. G. Kiloore. 



Madison Co., Ohio. 



Selling Light-Welght Sections 



The question of light-weight sections has 

 many sides. Some grocers about here much 

 prefer to buy comb honey in the case by 

 weight. Where the sections hold but 13 or 

 14 ounces they of course sell these same sec- 

 tions by the section. In this State to-day 

 grocers buy No. 1 white clover comb honey, 

 delivered, at 17 cents per pound by the oa.sr, 

 and sell by the .section at IS cents. The most 

 of their profit comes from the 3 ounces short 

 weight of each section sold. Last fall they 

 bought the same honey at the same price, and 

 sold it for 20 cents or 21 cents per section, 

 thus mailing a very good thing of it for them- 

 selves. Herbert W. Denio. 



Hampden Co., Mass., May 8. 



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A Beginner's Outlook 



I have just started in bee-lteeping, and have 

 35 colonies. I have the native bees crossed 

 with Italians. I have one colony that is extra 

 good. They resemble the blacks, except that 

 they are longer and are shaped more like a 

 queen. What kind of bees are they, and 

 what are their value? There are hybrids in 

 the same hive. They work better than any 

 bees I have seen, coming in heavily loaded 

 and they don't seem to want to swarm, but 

 are busy storing honey. I have given them 

 an entrance 'ixl3 inches, but they crowd that 

 space in going in and out. They are in an 

 old-fashioned box-hive. Christmas week it 

 weighed 106 pounds, the hive itself weighing 

 perhapsi25 or 30 pounds. I have placed this 

 old hive on top of a new one, and let them 

 pass through the new one to go up into the 

 old one. I think I can get them in a new hive 

 in this way without much trouble. 



I have just sold some comb honey to a lady 

 whose home is in Birmingham, Ala. She said 

 she could not buy honey there, as what was 

 sold for it did not taste like honey, and the 

 comb seemed to be a good substitute for chew- 

 ing-gum, so she had to taste of my honey be- 

 fore buying It. She intends to ship some to 

 her children at Birmingham. She said she 

 was glad of the opportunity to purchase comb 

 honeylmade by tlie little bees. 



D, R. Phillips. 



JacksoniCo., Ga., May 16. 



Dovetailed Hive— Making One's Own 

 Supplies 



In reference to the talk between "A Reader" 

 and Dr. Miller, page 32il, I believe Dr. Miller 

 should have said the " Langstroth hive " in- 

 stead of the " dovetailed hive." He says that 

 custom makes the name " dovetailed hive " 

 apply only to hives containing frames l"°aX- 

 yJs, and that any other understanding of the 

 word " dovetailed hive " would throw out of 

 gear the catalogs and bee-literature in gen- 

 eral. According to this we have no " Lang- 

 stroth hive," the nearest approach to it being 

 a dovetailed hive having the Langstroth di- 

 mensions. If the catalogs and bee-literature 

 are at fault, they should right themselves. 

 The name "Langstroth hive" rightfully 

 belongs to the common single-walled hives 

 containing frames 17"''^x9^>,, whether the cor- 

 ners are dovetailed, halved, or otherwise. It 

 should be the pride of every bee-keeper to 

 perpetuate the memory of Father Langstroth. 

 How can we do this better than to have a 

 hive bearing his name? 



For my part I want a real "Langstroth 

 hive" — a dovetailed or any other tailed hive 



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