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ferring a tight board-cover with no 

 quilt, summer or winter. 



2. Probably your sections are about as 

 popular in size as aay. Of course you 

 cannot sell for a pound anything less 

 than 16 ounces. Some sell each section 

 for a pound, heavy or light, plainly dis- 

 honest, if the purchaser is allowed to 

 believe that the light-weight sections are 

 full weight. Others sell all at so much 

 per section -(vithout regard to weight, 

 and still others take the better way of 

 selling each one for just what it is, by 

 weighing it. There is nothing wrong in 

 selling a section that weighs only 13 

 ounces, providing you sell it for 13 

 ounces. Don't extract the under- 

 weights, but sell them for what they are. 

 Some will prefer them. 



Transferring- Comb to Another Hive. 



I have 50 hives with old-fashioned 

 brood-frames, some of them have combs 

 pretty crooked. I should like to trans- 

 fer them into self-spacing Hoffman 

 frames. Would you kindly let me know 

 how I am to do it, and if I should have 

 foundation starters or not ? 



Andrew Girard. 



Linwood, Mich. 



Answer. — Lay the frames down flat, 

 and cut out the combs with a knife kept 

 heated. Lay the new frame over the 

 combs, and cut to fit, making the combs 

 crowd a little. Wedge in pieces of comb 

 where the fit is not tight. There are 

 various ways of fastening, if the combs 

 do not stay in of themselves. Some like 

 to lay strings under the combs before the 

 frame is crowded on, and tie, then the 

 bees will gnaw out the strings them- 

 selves. Some like sticks of tin instead 

 of strings. Some pierce holes through 

 the wood, and thrust through common 

 hairpins, letting the two parts of the 

 hairpin go on each side of the septum. 



Capons and Caponi^ing:, by 



Edward Warren Sawyer, M. D., Fanny 

 Field, and others. It shows in clear 

 language and illustrations all about 

 caponizing fowls ; and thus how to 

 make the most money in poultry-raising. 

 Every poultry-keeper should have it. 

 Price, postpaid, 30 cents ; or clubbed 

 with Bee Journal one year, for $1.10. 



A Binder for holding a year's num- 

 bers of the Bee Journal we mail for 

 only 50 cents; or clubbed with th« 

 Journal for $1.40. 



DR. O. L.. TIIVKER. 



The subject of the following sketch 

 has for years been among those who 

 have furnished answers to questions in 

 our department of " Queries and Re- 

 plies," from week to week. Formerly 

 he also contributed an occasional article 

 for the columns of the Bee Journal. 

 and we hope soon to again be permitted 

 to present to our readers something from 

 his ready and experienced pen. 



We are now issuing a new and revised 

 edition of his excellent little book, "Bee- 

 Keeping for Profit," which will be ready 

 to mail about April 20th. It will be 

 sent from this office, postpaid, for 25 

 cents ; or clubbed with the Bee Joxjr- 

 nal, for .$1.15. 



Further introduction of the Doctor 

 being unnecessary from us, we now pre- 

 sent to you something about his useful 

 life and its helpful work : 



Dr. G. L. Tinker was born on June 

 19, 1843, at Kingsville, O. His ances- 

 tors were all Connecticut Yankee or 

 Puritan stock. Thomas Tinker, who 

 came to this country in the " May- 

 flower," and soon after died with wife 

 and child, is believed to have been a 

 brother or near relative of John Tinker, 

 the Doctor's earliest known ancestor, 

 who came from England soon after and 

 settled in Connecticut. He was a man 

 of distinction, and all the Tinkers in 

 this country are thought to be descended 

 from him. 



At the age of 15 the subject of this 

 sketch attended the Eclectic Institute at 

 Hiram, Ohio. He was under the in- 

 struction of James A. Garfield, and 

 others, for two years ; when the Civil 

 War broke out, he was one of tne first 

 to leave the Institute and enlist for 3 

 months, and then for 3 years. His 

 health failed, and with it his army ser- 



