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1. I prefer to have extracting frames 



34/7 from center to center (7 in ll^g 

 iiches). Top-bar l}i wide, H' thick. — 

 J. A. Green. 



1. Wide enough and thick enough to 

 prevent sagging. 2. Possibly a little 

 further apart than brood-frames, but 

 not much. — Eugene Secor. 



1. Mine are one inch wide, and half 

 an inch thick, and they seem to be 

 about right. 2. Full l}i inches. A 

 little more will do. — M. Maiiin. 



I would use all extracting combs the 

 same as brood-combs, as it is too fre- 

 quent we get bulged combs and an ugly 

 affair when we begin to space too wide. 

 — Mrs. Jennie Atchley. 



The best width is such as to leave a 

 full quarter of an inch between them 

 when spaced. The thickness should be 

 such as to prevent their sagging. Long 

 frames should be a good half inch.— P. 

 H. Elwood. 



See answer to No. 917. (What kind 

 of a " top-bar" theory are you trying to 

 spin, Mr. Ohio ? Is there another " rev- 

 olutionary principle " about to be sprung 

 upon the " unsuspecting public ?") — W. 

 M. Barnum. 



1. % inch wide and }4 inch thick, 

 frames spaced just bee-space apart. 2. 

 I use a 10-frame Langstroth hive, with 

 a J^-inch dummy in one side, spacing 

 the frames evenly in the space thus left. 

 —J. E. Pond. 



1. Those I use and like best are % of 

 an inch wide, and % thick. 2. I use 

 them an inch and %. That allows the 

 comb to be built out a little beyond the 

 frames, which makes them easier to un- 

 cap. — A. B. Mason. 



1. I do not see how this could be 

 known (if there is any diflference) unless 

 it was tested by all sized top-bars in the 

 same apiary, with all the circumstances 

 exactly the same, the possibility of 

 which I doubt. 2. IJ^. — J as. A. Stone. 



I make them % of an inch wide, and 

 >^ inch thick. Too wide a top-bar is in 

 the way of the uncapping-knife. For 

 extracting combs there is no need of 

 having the top-bars any heavier than is 

 necessary to keep them from sagging. — 

 G. W. Demaree. 



1. I would not use a frame 6 inches 

 deep for extracting. It is no more 

 trouble to handle a larger frame than 

 these small ones, and I cannot under- 

 stand why any one would use such 

 frames for extracting. 2. They should 

 be spaced so there will be J^ inch be- 

 tween the top-bars. — Emerson T. Ab- 

 bott. 



[For years, bee-keepers have felt tbat they 

 owed the Kev. L. L. Laugstroth— the Father 

 of American bee-culture— a debt that they 

 can never very well pay, for his invention of 

 the Movable-Frame Hive which so completely 

 revolutionized bee-lieepinK- throughout all the 

 world. In order that his few remaining- years 

 may be made as happy and as comfortable as 

 possible, we feel that we should undertake a 

 plan by which those bee-keepers who consider 

 it a privilege as well as a dutj-, might have an 

 opportunitj' to contribute something toward 

 a fund that should be gathered and forwarded 

 to Father Langstroth as a slight token of their 

 appreciation, and regard fell for him by bee- 

 keepers every where. No amount above 11.00 

 is expected from any person at one time— but 

 any sum, however large or small, we will of 

 course receive and turn over to Father L. 

 All receipts will be acknowledged here.— Ed.] 



Lrist of Contributors. 



Previously Reported $89 95 



Geo. M. Fuller, Oakfleld, N. Y 1 00 



John T. Brown, Sumas, Wash 50 



Total $91 45 



CONVENTION DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



1894. 

 Apr. 23.— Venango Co., at Franklin, Pa. 



C. S. Plzer, Sec., Franklin, Pa. 



May 3.— Connecticut, at Hartford, Conn. 

 Mrs. W. E. Riley, Sec, Waterbury, Conn. 



In order to have this table complete, 

 Secretaries are requested to forward full 

 particulars of the time and the place of 

 each future meeting. — The Editor. 



ITorth American Bee-Seepers' Association 



Pres.— Emerson T. Abbott St. Joseph, Mo. 



Vice-Pres.— O. L. Hershiser .... Buffalo. N. Y. 

 Secretary— Frank Benton. Washington, D. C. 

 Treasurer— George W. York... Chicago, Ills. 



National Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President— Hon. R. L. Taylor . .Lapeer, Mich. 

 Gen'l Manager— T. G. Newman. Chicago, 111. 

 147 South Western Avenue. 



**Foiil fSrood ; Its Natural History 

 and Rational Treatment," is the title of an 

 interesting booklet by Dr. Wm. R. Howard, 

 of Texas. It also contains a review of the 

 work of others on the same subject. It is 

 being issued at the office of the Bee Jour- 

 nal. Price, postpaid, 25 cents; or clubbed 

 with the Bee Journai. for one year— both 

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