1900 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



89 



about it. The fresh milk is simply 

 brought to the boiling point and sweet- 

 <Mied with sugar (not honey). At tirst it 

 must be made quite sweet, until the 

 bees have learned to take it, then the 

 amount of sugar may be reduced. Dr. 

 Dzierzon feeds towards night, in the 

 open air ; this makes less work than 

 when feeding each colony separately. 

 I have never practiced this wholesale 

 feeding, but have fed a few colonies 

 separately in little entrance feeders. 

 Bees can be raised cheaply thus; but 

 the apiarist ought to use good judgjn<Mit 

 not to overfeed. 



Gravenhorst, of Germany, wrote me 

 several years ago that the trouble begins 

 when colonies store the sweetened milk 

 in the combs for future use ; for it will 

 soon sour and decompose. In a late 

 article Dr. Dzierzon says that it is not 

 strictly necessary to use the milk abso- 

 lutely fresh ; it may be left standing a 

 short time — eight to twelve hours — and 

 have the cream removed. 



Naples, N.Y., March ;il. 1900. 



ARE "SNOW-WHITE" SECTIONS 

 DESIRABLE? 

 R. C. Aikiu. in the Pnxjressicc Bee- 

 keeper, concludes an explanation of liis 

 reasons for preferring the T super to 

 others, as follows : 



I consider the complete protection of the outside 

 of the section to keep off propolis, such as will be 

 placed upon the face of the wood to stain it, as one 

 of the vei-y foolish, expensive things that bee- 

 keepers are asked to do. I consider this one of 

 the very class of things Boolittle has been kicking 

 against right along, and why he should advocate 

 this very white section "fad," I do not understand. 



I use the T super because of its very simplicity, 

 and because I have never yet found a pattern-slat 

 or section wide frame of four sections in length 

 but that it would sag or allow in some way of the 

 chinking in around the edges of as much or more 

 ))ropolis than in the use of the T. 



In ii'sponding U\ the above Mr. I)oo- 

 litile. in his own g<iod-natured. inimit- 

 able way. indulges moderately in 

 sarcasm, by quoting "a writer" in the 

 P/Y«/;-c.s.s-Jue Bee-keeper and ••sJKUving 



up" the fallacy of said writer's doc- 

 trine. Here are Mr. Doolittle's 

 comments : 



TWO TO TIIUEE CENTS PEU POUND MOKH FOIl 

 CLEAN SECTIONS. 



That is what a writer said in The Ameuicvn 

 Bee-keeper during 1899, and he believed that the 

 sections should be "snow white," and so protected 

 that no propolis could come in contact with the 

 "face" of the wood, or else the face sides of the 

 wood should all be run over a sandpaper machine. 



W. F. MARKS. 



See pp. 81-82. 



where propolis was allowed to come in contact 

 with the wood, as in the T supers; and yet, here 

 we find Aikin going right square against a saving 

 of from two to three cents a pound more for honey 

 simply because he has become accustomed to the 

 T super. Well, all I have to say regarding the 

 matter of surplus arrangements is this: I have 

 faithfully tried nearly every kind that has been 

 put before the public, and all of them, except 

 properly made wide frames are piled up in 'the 

 "exhibition" heap, as none of them had any ad- 

 vantage, all things considered, over the wide 

 frames, while many had positive disadvantages; 

 and thi-s I would say, no matter whether ;i few 

 sections are put on at a time, or whether enough 

 for the whole season go on at once. Properly 

 inade wide frames holding either two, three, four 



