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IRE AM EMC AN BEE-KEEPER. 



ing salvation through ventilation, 

 have had a bit of practical knowledge 

 in wintering either with or without 

 ventilation. Such counselors are a 

 curse to those who disregard the 

 teaching of the inspired, — "prove all 

 things." 



Some years ago the Great West pro- 

 duced a Messiah — "sub-earth." I rid- 

 icule the sub-earth craze, which 

 equalled the excitement of the Iudi- 

 ans over their Messiah, and fooling 

 with sub earth fixings was equally as 

 ridiculous in point of fact as the 

 ghost dances. 



Rkhjord, X. Y. 



Moving Bees to Secure a Fall 

 Flow of Honey. 



BY A. X. DRAPER. 



In this locality experience proves 

 that, almost all the locations that 

 are most favorable for a Mow oi white 

 clover honey are almost worthless for 

 a crop of Fall honey and vice versa. 



Our Fall flow begins here about the 

 15th to the 20th of August. The best 

 Fall flow is on the low. marshy bottom 

 lands, and the best white clover now 

 is on the hills back from the river. 

 There is no reason why the apiarist 

 should not secure the advantage of 

 both the hills and the low lands, for 

 it is a fact, beyond doubt, that a col- 

 ony of bees, properly attended to, is in 

 better condition for the white clover 

 crop by having been moved to where 

 it could secure a heavy Fall crop of 

 honey the previous Fall. 



The hives should be so constructed 

 that the movable frames are readily 

 made immovable or fixed. The bot- 

 tom board must be so secured that no 

 bee can escape. The hive should be 

 chock-full of both bees and brood. If 



your hives are not strong and full of 

 bees it will not pay to move them in 

 order to obtain a full crop. 



This season I began to move about 

 the 20th of August. I shall begin in 

 July next seasou. 



I have tried a good many different 

 ways of giving the necessary ventila- 

 tion , but I never have tried anything 

 in the shape of a ventilator that 

 answers the purpose so well as the one 

 invented by Mr. J. M. Hambaugh, of 

 Spring, Ills., and in addition to this, 

 it is very cheap and simple. It is 

 simply a rim without top or bottom, 

 exactly the size of the brood chamber, 

 with a depth of from two to three 

 inches. In the center of each of the 

 four pieces a slot is cut from 8 to 10 

 inches long and one inch wide; over 

 these slots wire cloth is tacked on the 

 inside of the rim. 



All of Mr. Hambaugh's hives and 

 ventilators are made with a "ship-lap" 

 at the joints of the brood chamber 

 and supers or ventilators, or, in other 

 words, the joints are so rabbeted as to 

 fit. The bees, as soon as they begin 

 to be jostled about, unable to leave 

 the hive, ascend to the roof and clus- 

 ter therein. This ventilator then gives 

 a nice draft of fresh air above the 

 brood frames right under the cluster, 

 just where we want it, as the bees 

 almost to a bee desert the brood. 



Now I expect to move several hun- 

 dred hives this next summer. I shall 

 use three teams. '1 he wagons will 

 have hay racks on, with the side rails 

 8 inches wide and 16 feet long. I will 

 use four cross pieces on top of the 

 rail-, then lay my floor on the cross 

 pieces. Now the wagon is backed 

 right into the apiary by hand. Two 

 men set the bees on the wagon, while 



