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(Florida) space equal to a two-story 

 Simplicity 8-frame hive. At the opening 

 of the flow reduce the space to the 

 capacity of 8 frames, and give sections. 

 When the sections are removed, return 

 the comb space that was removed. 



Mrs. J. N. Heater— 1. During the 

 harvest time there is always a race be- 

 tween the bees and the queen to get pos- 

 session of the cells, and I do not think 

 the queen ever secures more than is 

 ■eeded to keep up the strength of the 

 colony. 2. I do not restrict. 



J. M. Hambaugh — 1. If your honey 

 harvest lasts all summer, yes. Other- 

 wise, restrictions systematically admin- 

 istered might be advisable. Study your 

 conditions and surroundings, and read 

 " Dadant's Langstroth Revised," or " A 

 B C of Bee-Culture," or both. 



J. E. Pond — 1 and 2. Experience is 

 the only guide in this matter. Seasons 

 vary — in fact, everything varies in bee- 

 keeping, so that it is impossible to lay 

 down any general rule. Mrs. Tupper 

 said years ago, "Bees do nothing in- 

 variably," and no one ever made a truer 

 statement. 



G. W. Demaree— 1. No. One set of 8 

 or 10 Langstroth frames, or their equiv- 

 alent in comb space. Is about right if 

 you want your bees to come out of the 

 harvest in good condition. Too large 

 comb space for the queen will dim nish 

 the honey crop, and too limited a space 

 for the queen will damage the colony. 



Qei;)eral ItGrr)s* 



Results of Last Season. 



Last season I had two tons of extracted 

 honey from 7.5 colonies, and have all sold 

 in the home market at 9 cents per pound, 

 to dealers, they selling at I'J'., toconsumers. 



Tell our good Florida friend. Mr. A. F. 

 Brown, not to be too hard on us "Tar 

 Heels " on the comb-honey business. We 

 are not so favored as he, with big yields to 

 justify us in working for comb honey. We 

 indorse, though, much of his talk in that 

 initial article. We had the pleasure of a 

 handshake at our bee congress at Atlanta, 

 Ga. A. L. Be.\ch. 



Mecklenburg Co.. N. C. Feb. 2. 



A Canadian Report for 1896. 



I had U colonies in the spring of 1806. 

 increast to 3.5 by natural swarming, altho I 

 had 30 swarms from the 11 colonies: they 

 would come out two or three at one time 

 from one colony and cluster together. From 

 one colony I got 5 swarms and 100 pounds 

 of extracted honey; from another, 6 

 swarms and 50 pounds of honey. From all, 

 I took 1..5UU pounds of extracted, and 75 of 

 comb honey, and put away 24 colonies in 

 good condition. I winter them outside, 

 packt with chaff. Edward Koll. 



Ontario. Canada, Feb. 2. 



Hunting and Trapping — Close Call. 



I have just returned from my annual 

 hunting trip. There were three of us with 

 a camp outfit and seven good hounds. We 

 left Nov. 11, ISOG, and went up White river 

 about 100 miles, where there was lots of 

 game. Our catch and kill were, as nearly 

 as I have a record: 17 deers and 3 bears. I 

 did all the trapping, and caught 27S rac- 

 coons. 117 opossums, 64 minks. S otters. 7 

 beavers, and I can't tell how many ducks 

 and wild geese, but a good wagon load, I 

 should judge. 



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