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big enongli to hold the inner one, and I revolve 

 tlie whoU^ It worked very well. I could take 

 out a gallon of honey with it in about ten min- 

 utes. But for a large number of hives the 

 stationary outside case is best. Making and 

 material cost about three dollars. 



I winter my bees in clamps. The worst 

 trouble, when I take them out in the spring, is 

 that they rob each other, and the robbers kill 

 the queens. I had ten killed in that way last 

 spring. For a clamp I put about four inches of 

 dry leaves on top of the frames. They wintered 

 best, nnd kept their hives the cleanest, and 

 could best stand the changes of the weaiher, af- 

 ter I took them out in spring. 



When the basswood blossoms were af the 

 best, one hive gjive me fifteen pounds of honey 

 in one day — I only emptied tlie comlis twice, 

 for after the basswood blossoms end, the honey 

 season for surplus is about over with us. No 

 honey in buckwheat. What the bees gather now 

 Avill not keep them going. By the middle of 

 November, the hives are one-half lighter than 

 they were on the 1st of August. — S. McL. 



Hamilton, Ills., Sept; 9. — Bees did very 

 well here, this summer. Some of my stands 

 have gathered not less than one hundred and 

 forty pounds of box honey, each, from the 5th of 

 August to the 8th of September, although hav- 

 ing had eight cold and rainy days meantime. 

 — C. Dadant. 



CniLLicoTHK, Mo., Sept. 12. — Ever since the 

 wet weather ceased, about July 30th, the sea- 

 son has been all the bees could wish for. They 

 have swarmed the most ever known here, and 

 kept it up until the 7th of this month, all the 

 usual preventives to the contrary notwithstand- 

 ing 



The honey season is now as good as it has 

 been at any time, and bees are dropping by 

 thousands before their hives, completely tired 

 out. 



The white clover is still in plentiful bloom ; 

 and buckwheat, smartweed, "yellow blossom" 

 or Spanish nettle, yield honey in abundance. 



If the weather should continue favorable as 

 late as it did two years ago, the bees will work 

 a month longer and get in a plentiful harvest. 

 1 put two natural swarms together, and they 

 filled their hive and gave me sixteen pounds of 

 honey in three weeks. Who beats this ? — J. 

 W. Greene. 



Geddes, N. Y., Sept. 14. — Bees have done 

 very poorly in this country, having made 

 scarcely anj^ box honey. I had six stocks in 

 the spring ; iucieased one-third. Have not got 

 any box honey, and shall have to double up 

 some stocks and feed to winter them. — H. 

 O. S. 



Dayton, Ohio, Sept. 14. — My bees have 

 done very well, although this has been a poor 

 season here, both for swarms and honey. I 

 have wintered bees in almost all the ways re- 

 commended by your correspondents from time 

 to time, but can only recommend " out door 

 with protection " of "matting" or "straw," 

 as safest and least trouble of any mode yet tried 



by me. I think your paper is more valuable 

 every month. — E. D. P. 



Rich Valley, Minn., Sept. 14— The sea- 

 son, though rather Avet, has on the whole been 

 quite favorable for the bees. Mine have done 

 well, yielding an average of about fifty pounds 

 of surplus honey per liive. 



I am glad the Bee Journal is receiving the 

 support of all intelligent bee-keepers. Every 

 lover of bees should take it ; and though I have 

 not obtained any new subscribers for it yet, I 

 shall not fail to speak in its favor whenever the 

 occasion offers. — L. M. L. 



New Rutland, Ills., Sept. 14.— Bees are 

 doing splendidly in this section of country, this 

 season. 



Could not do without the Bee Journal for 

 four times its cost. — W. G. B. 



[For the American Bee Journal.] 



Honey-Emptying Machine. 



In the February number of the Bee Journal 

 I noticed a description of a honey-emptying 

 machine, but it was so inaccurately described 

 that when I attempted to make one by the direc- 

 tions I found that it would be necessary to bore 

 an inch hole through a three quarter inch stick ; 

 and divers other things just as impracticable. 

 So I gave it up, and made a machine on a plan 

 of my own. I hand you a description of it be- 

 low, and if any person will uaake one like it, he 

 may depend upon having one that will do its 

 work to perfection, and be smaller, neater, 

 stronger, cheaper, and in every way better, 

 than the one referred to. Mine cost me alto- 

 gether about three dollars. 



Thomas C. Hill. 



Sydney, C. B. 



Bill op Stock for Honey-Emptying 

 Machine, 



Bottom Board, | | inch hole in ( 10| x 10.i x ^ 



Midddle Cleat, j centre. ( 10:^ x 1* x * 



2 Cleats Qi x l| x | 



4 Posts 19^ X l| X 4 



4 Side Cross-bars 10^ x 1| x | 



4 End Cross-bars 11 x 1^ x § 



2 Braces, halved together, hole in 



about centre, pointed ends 12^ x 1^ x § 



4 Strips 163 X i X I 



2 Pieces Wire Gauze 18 x 10^ 



1 Shaft, Round Iron Rod, 30 x | 



1 Piece hard wood across top of 



can with a | inch hole in the 



centre, for the shaft to revolve, 18^ x 2^ x 1 



The lower end of the shaft is pointed and 

 rests in an indentation in a piece of iron solder- 

 ed to the botton of the can. The shaft has a 

 hole through it, two inches from the bottom of 

 the can, through which is put a piece of stout 

 wire 1| inches long to sustain the frames. This 

 wire is let up into a groove in the cleat so as to 



