1897. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



411 



Questiojp-Box^ 



lu the multitude of counsellors there is 

 safety.— Prov. 11-14. 



Best Width for Sections. 



Qiiory 5*.— What Is the best width for 

 ■i'4.«4'i sections?— Iowa. 



J. A. Stone — I'yi. 



A. F. Brown— 1%. 



W. G. Larrabee— 1%. 



E France— I like 1%. 



Mrs. L. Harrison — 1%. 



Chas. Dadant A Son— 1%. 



R. L. Taylor— 7 to the foot. 



H. D. Cutting— I prefer 1%. 



Rev. M. Mahin — Two Inches. 



Dr. C. C. Miller— Perhaps \%. 



Dr. A. B. Mason — I don't know. 



G. W. Deinaree — I prefer the 1%. 



G. M. Doolittle — I do not use them. 



J. M. Hambaugh— 1% or 1%, I be- 

 lieve. 



P. H. El wood — X% if glast, and about 

 IK if unglast. 



Prof. A. J. Cook — Not any particular. 

 1 ■")/ 7 is perhaps the best. 



Emerson T. Abbott — The kind which 

 suits yon and your market is the best 

 for you ; they might not be best for me. 



C. H. Dibbera— That is quite a serious 

 problem with most bee-keepers. I use 

 \% wide, with wood separators, and 

 like them well. 



Dr. J. P. H. Brown — If nice, even 

 combs are desired, then have the sec- 

 tions from Di to 1 % ; 1% may be the 

 best for the majority. 



Eugene Secor — If separator-^ are used 

 (which I advise) sections used not be 

 narrower than 7 to the foot ; 1 % and 

 Us make nice sections. 



J. A. Green — 7 to the foot suit my 

 supers. This is a fraction less than 1?^, 

 which is about the right width to use 

 with separators. If separators are not 

 used, I would prefer IJ^. 



J. E. Pond — I don't know. It will de- 

 pend upon the hive in use. I prefer 

 IX, but perhaps \% will be just as 

 good ; but IK gives nearly or about iO 

 ounces of honey to the section. 



4(iieen<< antt <(iieen-Kearins:. — 



If you want to know how to have queens 

 fertilized in upper stories while the old 

 queen is stUl laying below; how you may 

 safely iittro'lw.-e any queen, at any time of 

 the year when bees can fly ; aU about the 

 different races of bees; all about shipping 

 queens, queen-cages, candy for queen- 

 cages, etc. ; all about forming nuclei, mul- 

 tiplying or uniting bees, or weak colonies, 

 etc. ; or. in fact, everything about the 

 queen-business which you may want to 

 know — send for Doolittle's • Scientific 

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 Here are some good offers of this book: 



Bound in cloth, postpaid, $1.00 ; or clubbed 

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 (or only $1.7.t ; or given free as a premium 

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THROATi 



AND LUNQ DISEASES, 



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GEOKGE W. YORK & CO., 118 Michigan Street, CHICAGO. ILL. 



Page & Lyon Mfg. Co. 



New London, 



"Wisconsin, 



Operates two sawmills that cut, annually, eight million feet of lumber, thus 

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Bee-Kec-pers' Supplies. 



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I have clipped 19 queens, and must say the 

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 best invention ever made, and will be wel- 

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 could not do without one now. 



Dr. Geo. Lacke, Newburgh, Ind. 



