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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



November 



ey, once heated, retained the same for 

 a great length of time, the tempera- 

 ture in this room would be from 85° 

 to 90° at six o'clock next morning, 

 •when it was as low as 40° to 60° out- 

 side. By this means the honey was 

 being ripened each day, and that in 

 the unsealed cells growing thicker and 

 thicker, when by September 10th, or 

 after being in the room from four to 

 six weeks, the sections could be tipped 

 over, or handled as carelessly as I 

 pleased without any honey running 

 from the few unsealed cells, which the 

 bees often leave around the edges of 

 the section boxes. By having the 

 doors and windows open on hot, windy 

 days, so as to cause the air to circulate 

 freely through the pile, I found that 

 it took less time to thoroughly ripen 

 the honey than it did where all was 

 kept closed. In doing this, of course 

 it is necessary to have screens up so 

 to keep the flies and bees out of the 

 honey room. If I wish to keep honey 

 so late in the fall that the sun fails to 

 keep the room sufficiently warm, or 

 from cool, cloudy weather, the tem- 

 perature of the room falls below 80° 

 for any length of time, I place an oil 

 stove in it, and by regulating the 

 flame to suit the circumstances,, a tem- 

 perature of about 90° of heat is always 

 maintained. In this way honey can 

 always be kept in perfect condition 

 for any length of time, and when sent 

 to market it will stand much abuse 

 before it will begin to ooze out from 

 the cells or sour. AVhat we want to 

 strive for most, is not to see how large 

 a quantity of honey we can produce, 

 no matter in what shape it reaches the 

 consumer, but to see how good a qual- 

 ity we can secure looking v,'ell at all 

 times to the enticing shape in which 



it is put upon the market. This will 

 help us much in establishing a staple 

 market for our production, and earn 

 for ourselves a reputation which will 

 sell our goods at an advance in price 

 over a poorer article. 

 Borodino, N. Y. 



(From Gleanings.) 



QUEENS SLOW TO WORK IN AN 

 ADDED STOfiY. 



BY DR. C. C. MILLER. 



Some of uiy experiences as to 

 queens working in more than one 

 story seem rather contradictory. 

 When I have tried to force them to 

 work in a story added above or be- 

 low% they have seemed very stubborn- 

 ly against it. I formerly had an im- 

 pression that a queen in full laying, 

 if changed into a different story or 

 apartment, would be obliged to lay at 

 least for a short time, and that, rather 

 than let the eggs go to waste, she 

 would lay them in any kind of cells 

 to which she had access, providing 

 they were not too deep. 



In some cases I raised the story 

 containing the brood-nest, put the 

 queen into an empty story below, and 

 put an excluder between. I have no 

 exact memoranda of the results, but I 

 think there was no case in which she 

 continued laying right along, and I 

 think there was always at least a day 

 or two of sulking. 



Last year I tried to get brood in 

 some half-stories by adding them 

 above or below with an excluder be- 

 tween. They contained both founda- 

 tion and old comb The result was 

 much less satisfactory than anything 

 ever tried with stories ot tuU depth. 

 I hardly think the depth of the clerics 

 had anvthing to do with it, but the 



