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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



turn the frame. The posts are let into the sides 

 of the bottom board, flush, side and end. At 

 each of the two opposite corners of the bottom 

 board is made a mortice | inch deep, 1^ inch 

 long, and | inch wide, to receive the projections 

 on the ends of the comb frame. Tlie can is 

 21|- inches deep and 15^ inches in diameter ; 

 and the ends of the End Cross-bars (top and 

 bottom) are rounded off, to make the frame fit 

 into the can. 



[For theAmericanBee Jouiual.] 



The Italian Fling. 



[For the American Bee Journal.] 



My Bee-Feeder Costs Twelve and a Half 

 Cents. 



Here is a description of it, which, if you place 

 in the hands of a tinsmith, he will soon 



you one. 



Take a piece of tin ten inches squai c and 

 make a square pan one and a half inches deep, 

 after it is wired. Punch a hole through the 

 bottom with an inch and a half hollow punch. 

 Make a tube to fit, one inch long, and turn a 

 burr on the bottom end ; slip it into the pan 

 from the bottom and solder it tight. Now 

 cover one-third of the pan with a piece of tin. 

 It may be cut the size of the pan, then lay it on 

 the top and solder it on. Through this tin there 

 should be a small hole punched to receive a 

 funnel. Cover the remainder. of the pan with a 

 piece of glass, held in its place by little hooks of 

 tin in such a manner that it may slide on or off; j 

 and your feeder is done. 



To USE IT. Slide off the glass, and put in 

 some small pieces of comb, to keep the bees 

 from being drowned in the feed. Then slide 

 on the glass ; remove the honey box and place 

 your feeder directly over the hole in the honey 

 board. Now insert a funnel and fill up your 

 feeder ; remove the funnel, and put a cork in 

 the hole. The bees will rush up through the 

 tube into the feeder, but cannot escape. Rob- 

 bers cannot reach the feed, without passing 

 through the entire hive. The glass enables you 

 to see when the feeder is emptj^ and by remov- 

 ing the cork the bees may be fed without dis- 

 turbing them in the least. Try it. 



J. H. Thomas. 



Brooklin, Ontario, Aug. SO, 1869. 



[For the American Bee Journal] 



To Prevent Swarming. 



Mr. F. Daniels complains that his bees swarm 

 too much, and do not give him honey enough. 

 Perhaps that is his own fault. Let him remove 

 the queens from his colonies at the opening of 

 the full honey season, and destroy any queen 

 cells that may have been started ; examine his 

 liives a Aveek later, and again destroy the queen 

 cells ; and ten days after that introduce a young 

 fertile queen. He will then not be troubled 

 with swarms, and his bees will store honey, if 

 there is any to be found. 



J. Little. 



POESTENKILL. N. Y. 



We often hear of the " Highland Fling," and 

 sometimes we read of the Italian fling. Mr. S. 

 W. writes thus: — "It rained most of the time 

 until July 20th, and my bees did not store much 

 honey up to that time. Black bees have done 

 as well as the Italians have. I see no dift'er- 

 ence." See Bee Journal, vol. 5, page 65. 



Mr. W. has an apiary of not less than tw^o 

 hundred hives of black bees, and it seems, from 

 his own confession, that they did not store much 

 honey prior to July 20. 



James M. Marvin has an apiary of three hun- 

 dred hives of choice Italian bees, only six miles 

 from Mr. W.'s, and in not so good a location ; 

 and before the 20th of July he had more than a 

 ton of machine honey put up in large crocks, 

 and his hives were sull so rich in honey that 

 the queen could only now and then find a few 

 empty cells to use for eggs. This shows wheth- 

 er the black bees have done as well as the Ital- 

 ians. 



Mr. TV. says he can see no difference be- 

 tween the working of the two varieties of bees. 

 The reason is obvious ; as plain as the nose on 

 your face — much the same as the blind man's 

 for not seeing the eclipse. Mr. W. has no Ital- 

 ian bees in his apiary, nor ever has had any, 

 and I doubt very mucli whether he has seen a 

 lull hive of them during the past season. Fur- 

 ther comment is unnecessary. 



M. M. Balbridge. 



St. Charles, Ills., Sept. 14, 1869. 



[For the American Bee Journal. 1 



The Challenge Accepted. 



In the Bee Journal for September last (vol- 

 ume 5, number 3,) a very broad challenge is 

 given by Mr. G. P. Kellogg, of Waukegan, Illi- 

 nois, to inventors, &c , of bee hives. 



I am an inventor, manufacturer, and user of 

 a hive, and will accept the challenge of Mr. 

 Kellogg, with the following conditions, viz : 

 Provided the hive he exhibits is his own inven- 

 tion previous to this date ; that the exhibition 

 be made in the State of Wisconsin, within fif- 

 teen months from date, at the State or some 

 County Fair, or at any Bee-keepers' Conven- 

 tion in the North-western States. The sum put 

 up for premium, to suit himself, not exceeding 

 his limit of fifty dollars ; provided this is not 

 considered belting. If Mr. Kellogg accepts my 

 proposition, he may name the ijlace, &c. 



A. H. Hart. 



Applbton, Wis., Sept. 1869. 



It is one of the laws of the hive, that bees 

 which have no mature queen, seldom build any 

 cells except such as are designed merely for stor- 

 ing honey, and are too large for the rearing of 

 workers. — Langstroth. 



