AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY W. F. CLARKE, CHICAGO, ILL. 

 AT TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. 



Vol. VIII. 



FEBKUARY, l^^iS. 



No. 8. 



Novice. 



Dear Bee Journal. — We have so many things 

 to say, and so dislike to fill your pages with useless 

 matter, that we hope you will excuse brevity. 



Page 122. Thank you, B. J. B., the fact you 

 have narrated certainly goes to show that bees may 

 be more inclined to work in boxen in the Bay State 

 hive than in the Langstroth. Had you used the 

 extractor, you would have had a surplus from your 

 other two hives as well. And if your stock were 

 of equal strength, you should have obtained an 

 equal amount from each. 



Mr. Gallup first gave us this idea and some 

 experience since has strengthened us therein. 



In managing for box honey, you were dependent 

 upon luck and chance, or the caprices of the 

 bees ; with the extractor you always have honey 

 when you have bees. Are we not right, Mr. 

 Gallup ? 



Same page. Dronings is making some mistake 

 in regard to the teakettle feeder. As we use them, 

 the liquid is kept in by atmospheric pressure, and 

 they never leak, even when filled with pure water, 

 if the frames are nearly level. We should always 

 remove honey board to feed rapidly. 



Mr. Alley, will you tell us what our friend 

 should have done more to induce the bees to work 

 in the boxes, as you prepared them for him, when 

 they wouldn't. 



Mr. Alley certainly means to invite those who 

 failed with his hive to send in their report, as well 

 as the successful ones, we feel sure he meant so to 

 word his invitation. 



Mr. Alley, our " favorite hive" always gives us a 

 surplus every season. If weak we make them 

 strong, a la " Gallup," and then when supplied with 

 empty combs the "extractor" always gives us a 

 surplus. Last summer, for the first time, we were 

 enabled to give each colony the combs of the last 

 one extracted, so that our colonies were soon all of 

 nearly equal strength, besides shaking the bees 

 directly on a full set of combs, from which the 

 honey had been extracted, enabled them to com- 

 mence work with scarcely one minute interruption. 

 All new colonies, so soon as they had Hying bees, 

 were to take care of so much brood, were worked 

 the same way. 



If any one objects to this plan as being too much 

 labor, we reply that we can surely put 100 lbs. in 



a barrel ready to ship in less time than any one 

 can remove 100 lbs. in boxes. 



Will Miss Katie Grim be so kind as to tell us 

 what kind of an extractor she used, and whether 

 she thinks it possible for her to have taken care of 

 such a quantity of box honey in the time mentioned ? 

 The word " large " should have been " long" up 

 and down, as applied to Mr. Alley's frames. 



Mr. Alley's remark, at top of page, "I have just 

 the best frame for the honey extractor that can be 

 got up," settles the question for ever. 



(Will Mr. Adair talk to him about making such 

 assertions as he did to us. Ain't it wicked for 

 patent right men, too?) 



Page 130. Please, Mr. Adair and Mr. Gallup, 

 don't say any more that we do not move combs to 

 give queen room, for we have done it invariably 

 for several years, and, as all our readers know, 

 have urgently advised so doing. 



The Quinby stock was worked so, as well as you 

 or Mr. Gallup could have done it, we think, and we 

 forgot to mention, that we also extracted the honey 

 from it once to give the queen room, when they 

 were all full and would not go in the boxes. 

 Mr. Quinby just now writes us : 

 " You will please me by giving facts whether for 

 or against me." 



Will not friends Alley and Adair try and be as 

 liberal. Mr. Adair, it is the first page or cover of 

 "Progressive," that we object to. If we set our- 

 selves up as an "oracle" we beg pardon, and will 

 " git down " this minute. AVe have no rights for 

 sale on " hive " or " teakettle," and if it is of any 

 value to them, we hereby make everybody a pre- 

 sent of an "individual right" to canvass ; and we 

 advise and give the fullest directions in this jour- 

 nal for every beekeeper to make his own "hives," 

 "teakettles" and "quilts" at home, and after 

 '' three pages " "descriptive," if they still do not 

 understand, we will, if desired, send samples, as 

 we make them "to work from," and if Mr. Adair 

 will ask his "carpenter," "tinner" and " wife " 

 how much Novice makes on the articles at the 

 prices mentioned, we think he will see how little 

 motive besides accommodation, we have for adver- 

 tising our wares in these columns. 



When Novice asks you $5.00 or $10.00 for a 

 piece of paper giving the privilege to make, or use 

 after you have made, or bought even at a fair price, 

 any implements in bee-culture, show him this. 



