THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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one-story chart' hive more than they 

 do ? I am a bee-keeper of but a few 

 years' experience, but have used all the 

 different makes of hives which take 

 the L. frames, and will give you my 

 reasons for preferring the one-story 

 chaff hive. First of all they are the 

 cheapest. They winter bees just as 

 safely as any. One man , if necessary, 

 can handle one alone, and the best 

 point of all is, when you wish to han- 

 dle your bees you are on a level with 

 your brood frames. Above all things, 

 I do not like to stick my head down 

 into a two-story hive on a -hot day and 

 run the risk of being stung. I find 

 that a person's breath blown on bees 

 will anger them as quickly or quicker 

 than almost anything else. 



I almost believe that the one-story 

 chart* hive, or almost any other double 

 wall hive, is better without chaff than 

 it is with it. 1 have some in use with- 

 out packing, and if there is any bene- 

 fit in using them that way I will report 

 through the Bee-Keeper. 



I told you before that I was just a 

 beginner in the bee business. I have 

 adopted the one-story chaff hive and 

 L. frame. I do not think with what 

 few bees I wish to keep I shall change, 

 but in my short experience I believe 

 the L. frame the poorest frame to win- 

 ter bees on there is in use, unless the 

 hives are set on end, H. D. Barker. 



Fowler, <)., Oct. 10, 1891. 



The W. T. Falconer Man'f'o Co., 



Gentlemen : Please send me some cat- 

 alogues and order sheets. Your Thin 

 Hive and Outside Winter Case is the 

 "boss." They are the cheapest and 

 best I have yet seen. Your goods are 

 always first-class and give entire satis- 

 faction. Yours truly , 



R. W. HlGINBOTHAM. 



Morris X Roads, Pa., Oct. 2, 1891. 



^biuJR^i 

 EXTRrvCTO| 



UNFINISHED SECTIONS. — WHAT TO DO 

 WITH THEM, 



What is best in all cases to do with 

 unfinished sections is a problem not 

 easily solved. During the early and 

 main part of the harvest we have 

 been in the habit of taking them out 

 of the super as soon as they are re- 

 moved from the hive — that is, the 

 supers that are taken off to-day are 

 taken to the honey-room, and to-mor- 

 row each super is emptied, the un- 

 finished sections put into a fresh super y 

 and given back to the bees as 

 soon as bossible. Taking out the un- 

 finished sections is not as much work 

 as you might imagine. The supers- 

 are inverted, and by means of a push- 

 board the sections are all removed at 

 once, or, rather the sections are all 

 held down by the push-board, and the 

 super lifted off. Generlly only the 

 corner sections, at this part of the 

 season are unfinished, and these can 

 be picked off without disturbing the T 

 tins. After the unfinished sections 

 are all taken, the super is inverted 

 over the sections, push* d down in 

 place, and the unfinished sections are 

 back in the super all right. To avoid 

 such a catastrophe as the sections 

 tumbling out while the super is be- 

 ing inverted, it is necessary to have 

 a board under the super to be invert- 

 ed with it, If desirable, the vacan- 

 cies can be filled with finished sections, 

 a whole super of such being occasion- 

 ally emptied for that purpose. 



So far we could probably do better. 



