AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



149 



If all are not filled when taken out, 

 that portion of them are placed on top, 

 In the one-tier wide frames which are 

 used there, and left to be finished. This 

 makes some work, but as such are only 

 used on very large colonies, but little of 

 this changing of sections is required, as 

 they are generally completed at the end 

 of 24 days, or before, so that it is no 

 more work to handle wide frames of> 

 sections than it would be dummies. 



Some one may ask, How about tiering 

 up? I do not like tiering-up, and never 

 did, though using it in the past to con- 

 siderable extent, for by this plan I am 

 liable to have too many partly-finished 

 sections, especially if the season be a 

 little poorer than we expected. How- 

 ever, the wide frames, as I use them, 

 can very easily be made to tier up. A 

 brief description of what I prefer is as 

 follows : 



Make wide frames to accommodate 

 the number of sections you desire, con- 

 sistent with the top of the hive and size 

 of section. I use four sections in a 

 frame. Next, make two boards of the 

 same length and height of the wide 

 frames, cleating them to prevent warp- 

 ing. Drive a nail into each end of one 

 of these boards, letting it project one- 

 fourth inch, and a large, flat-headed tack 

 into each end of the other, driving it in 

 so that by winding a string around once 

 or twice it will hold the string as in a 

 vise. 



Now procure some coil wire springs, 

 about three-sixteenths of an inch in 

 diameter, and tie a short string by mak- 

 ing a slip-knot, or otherwise, to the 

 spring and to the nail driven in the first 

 little board, and then tie the longer 

 string to the other end of the spring. I 

 use one 20 inches long. Put the wide 

 frames on the hive, two, three, five, 

 seven or ten, as you wish, set one of the 

 little boards up on each side, draw the 

 springs at each end until a strong ten- 

 sion is made, and wind strings around 

 between head of tack and board to 

 fasten, when you have an arrangement 

 that you can enlarge or contract, invert 

 or tier up, as you please, and one which 

 I consider superior to anything yet 

 brought before the public in the shape 

 of a surplus arrangement for comb 

 honey. For practical work I use it as 

 follows : 



When the honey season opens, 1 put 

 from two to five wide frames on each 

 colony, according to size, being careful 

 not to give too much room at first, so as 

 to discourage the bees on the start. In 

 a week or more, add two more wide 

 frames, one on each side, and so on until 



the full capacity of the hive is reached, 

 according to the room on the top, always 

 putting them on the outside. As I use 

 chaff hives largely, this gives room of 

 about 60 pounds capacity, which Is all 

 that is required by the largest colonies, 

 while many colonies do not require 

 more than from 30 to 50 pounds 

 capacity, when worked on this "lateral" 

 plan, as some term it. 



As soon as the first sections are com- 

 pleted, they are taken off, the remaining 

 wide frames crowded to the center, and 

 empty sections put on the outside as 

 before. As the season draws toward a 

 close, calculations are made so as to get 

 all as nearly completed as possible, and 

 to accomplish this, no empty sections 

 are put on to take the place of the full 

 ones taken off, so that at the end of the 

 season the number is about the same as 

 it was at the beginning, nearly all of 

 which are generally finished. Should 

 any remain unfinished, the honey is ex- 

 tracted from the combs, the sections 

 given to the bees to lick dry of honey, 

 when they are stored away as "bait 

 sections " for the next year. The few 

 that are not filled, I consider of great 

 value when used in this way, for by so 

 doing the bees are started to work in the 

 sections much earlier in the season than 

 they otherwise would be. 



Borodino, N. Y. 



>■ » 



Canadians Bloiv Up the Sugar- 

 Honey magazine. 



Writteji for the American Bee Jourtial 

 BY WM. M'EVOY. 



At the annual meeting of the Ontario 

 Bee-Keepers' Association, held in Walk- 

 erton, a committee was appointed, com- 

 posed of Messrs. S. T. Pettit, of Bel- 

 mont, James Frith, of Princeton, and J. 

 K. Darling, of Almont, to go to Ottawa 

 and get an Act passed against the manu- 

 facture, importation or sale of "sugar 

 comb honey." 



Mr. Pettit, the chairman of the com- 

 mittee, has the Bill prepared, making it 

 a very serious business for any person to 

 make, buy or sell sugar comb honey. 

 The fines are to be $400, which I be- 

 lieve are none too much when we con- 

 sider how easy it would be to ruin the 

 real honey producers' business by such 

 work. If the feeding of sugar for the 

 production of comb honey got started, it 

 would end in putting the feeders on the 

 crates of sections, and then feeding the 

 very cheapest grades of sugars. 



