March 13, 19C2 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



173 



thin iiiontli, iitiil tliu stU)W-imiilvK were ti-ii fuel 

 iioop lurfore tliis beyaii, thri-f luMii^c lutiiiy iti- 

 slances wlieni Ihc slcltrii tfiicks wori^ hijjher 

 tliiiri llui I'cncd on niMier Biili' (]f llic nmilvviiy 

 and oHht phict'.s wlicr-c tlm banks have hccii 

 fili<)V<*l»'(l tliri)ULrIi. wliciHi it WHS iniin)Hsililn 

 for a piTKoii slaiidin;^ in the i\vU\ uiljucLMit to 

 the lli^rllwa.v lo see any portion of uiiliof luaiii 

 or driver as lliey puBseil tlirou;;li lliese deep, 

 shoveled places. 



VVinl.iTeanic so early, so we are lookinj? for 

 an early sprin},"-, but wo have fears for the 

 safety of our bees, on account of their loni; 

 ■conlinement and the severity of lln^ winter. 



Cl,AKI!N(E Wit, KINS. 



Cortland Co., N. V., Feb. 111. 



May Have a Fair Season. 



The unexiJected ^ood rains have come, and 

 it is rainini,' now. It is late but we may have 

 a fair season after all. M. H. .Mkndi.hson. 



Ventura Co., Calif., Feb. ■..'.">. 



Thinks Bees Will Winter. 



My bees have not had a ebanee to lly since 

 last, December, but, I think they will ooiue 

 through all riffht as they had plenty of t'ouJ 

 honey to winter on. J. I. Ci-akk. 



Addison Co., Vt., Feb. 25. 



Honey Sold Well. 



M'e had between 6(K) and 7110 pounds of first- 

 class honey last season, which I sold mostly 

 in the home market at '2b cents per pound for 

 both comb and extracted, and could have sold 

 ■double that if I had had it. 



L. E. Ammidown. 



Worcester Co., Mass., Feb. 24. 



A Good Suggestion. 



Talk is of no value without action. If 

 everybody waits for the crowd there will not 

 be any crowd. Mr. Ferguson (page 140) 

 starts out with a dollar for 1902. Here is my 

 dollar for 1903, toward the type-setting ma- 

 chine. 



Now, come on boys; make a crowd; pay up 

 all arrearages, and a year in advance it possi- 

 ble ; and here we are. A. F. Foote. 



Mitchell Co., Iowa., March 3. 



[Wouldn't it be a fine thing if every sub- 

 ;scriber who is in arrears on his Bee Journal 

 subscription would pay everything to the end 

 ■of 1902 >. Why not?— Editor.] 



Gill's Weather-Proof Hive-Cover. 



Easterners can not easily understand the 

 effects of a Colorado sun in warping, twisting, 

 and checking hive-covers. One man says a 



■Colorado sun "will pull out nails and hide 

 them." That may be exaggerated. M. A. 



•Gill has devised a cover that he thinks will 

 defy the worst that a Colorado sun can do. 

 He says in the Bee-Keepers' Review: 



I use the standard, S-fraine hive, and in get- 

 ting out the material for the cover, I first get 

 ■out a rim, the sides of which are Ix2-'^x2'i 

 inches long. Along one side of the side- 

 pieces I cut a rabbet ^i^x^i inches. Across the 

 ■ends of the strips I dado in '^x'^ of an inch, 

 to allow the end-pieces of the rim, which are 

 1x23^x14 inches long, to set in, and I nail 

 both ways, as you will notice by referring to 

 the cut of the cover. 



On top of the rim I nail two boards that are 

 simply ship-lapped together (very coiuniou 

 lumber can be used). In nailing the cover 

 ^together I use thirty T-penny, cement-dipped, 



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The freights from Cincinnati are the 

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Prompt service is what I practice. Sat- 

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Catalog mailed free — send for same. 



The Standard Honey-Jars, Langstroth 

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You will save money by buying from me. 



Orders taken for Oueens — Golden Italians, 

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 For prices 1 refer you to my catalog', 



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AM> 1 £MI.I>KKN. 



iret an Inouhator that they can run; 



one that will do good work from the 



>lartaiid last tor years. The Sure 



Hutch is made of California red 



wooil,withl2oz.cold rolled coppertank, 



Hydro Safety Laiiin, Climax fealety boiler and 



Corrugated Waferreeiilator. Semi for our big 



freecatalog-. Itpivesartiial phpti[rraiih';ot huD- 



liiiiR mniiey with the Suri' Ilalch Incubator. Our 



. troodiT is th= btst. >i"iilni^\v. 



Sure Hatcb lacubator Cn., Clay Center, Neb., or Columbus, 0. 



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fetate price, kind and quantity. 



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Ilat-licail niiild. I then (t'vc llic cover a heavy 

 coat of jiuiijt, usirii; outbldu white made from 

 o.Mdc of zirii- and lead, and then rli;lit on to 

 this t'rcen paint I lay a piece of ihin, un- 

 hleachi'd rinifilin, cut two IncheH larger all 

 around iIjhii the top of the cover. Standini; 

 at the end of the cover, I cut a Iwo-lnch cahh 

 into tlie lir.ih, two Inche). from the conicr, 

 Tiii» allow- the aldextriiii, to laparound under 

 ihc endfs. I now (five the whole '-iiver another 

 heavy coal of tlic Bariic paini rii.'ht on top of 

 the cloll., and make the laps at ihccornern In 

 (,'recn paint, holh underneath, in the middle, 

 and outside; and I would advise to (five it an- 

 other coat of paint after it is dry, Hucb a 

 cover will uot warp, twi.'it nor check, and It 

 can l)eex|iOhed to all of the elements of this 

 oi^ any climate; and, in my opinion, if (fiven 

 a I'oa*, of paint, such as I have named, once io 

 three to live years, its owner will have a (food 

 water-proof cover as long as he cares lo keep 

 bees. 



When this cover is placed on the hive, it 

 rests upon the siilex only, the ends shutting 

 down over. There is about '.j-inch play all 

 around, and it is at the ends where is secured 

 the circulation through the air<'haintjer, 

 which 1 consider one of its most important 

 features. 



As an inside covering I use two or three 

 thicknesses of burlap, both summer and win- 

 ter; and when I crowd the cover on, the bur- 

 lap, being cut ^o inch larger than the hive, is 

 drawn taut so that the bees have a space 

 above the frames; ami the cover is held 

 securely without any stooping over 700 times 

 each week to pick up a ten-pound stone. 



Old Bees More Poisonous Than Younor 

 Ones. * 



When 1 have forced a very young bee to 

 sting me, 1 have been surprised at the mild- 

 ness of the sting. So I am not surprised that 

 Dr. Langer reports the amount of poison car- 

 ried by a nurse-bee to be .00015 of a gram, 

 whilethat of a field-ijee was twice as much, 

 ranging from .00025 to .000.35— [Sometimes 

 the sting of a worker right from the fields is 

 so painful that I feel like groaning — yes. and 

 I do groan — with pain. I am quite prepared 

 to believe that the fielders have twice the 

 amount of poison in their poison-sacs that the 

 home-l3ees have.— Ed.]— Stray Straw in Glean- 

 ings in Bee-Culture. 



Shipping Comb and Extracted Honey 

 in Barrels. 



Henceforth I want all honey in packages of 

 10 pounds and under in barrels. There is no 

 packing case that can compare to it, anyway 

 you take it. A barrel will hold about 250 

 pounds when in .5-lb. or 10-lb. pails, which is 

 more than 4 crates of six 10-pound pails 

 each, I prefer empty sugar-barrels, -nhich 

 it purchased when not much in demand (I 

 suppose anytime except during apple harvest) 

 they can be had for about 10 cents each. They 

 are preferable to either the regular apple-bar- 

 rel or salt-barrels. 



We can readily see that when compared as 

 to cost the barrel is away ahead of crates : be- 

 sides, it takes less time to pack and close one 

 barrel than it does our four crates, but the 

 difference here is not to marked, but apart 

 from the cheapness it is much easier to handle 

 a barrel than any other large package that has. 

 or even can be, devised! I would rather 

 handle one Irarrel of 200 pounds or 250 pounds 

 than half that amount in crates, especially 

 when in one crate. 



Then, again, it is handled much more care- 

 fully in barrels. It is for this reason I fre- 

 quently ship comb honey in them. I referred 

 to the contents getting soiled when in crates: 

 there is no trouble of this sort with the bar- 

 rels, so that I know of no reason whv they 

 should not be used in preference, unless the 

 quantity is not large enough. Even then, if 

 you fill the barrel half full it will compare 

 favorably with crates, unless it may be 

 slightly heavier, but they are a gain in this 

 respect when compared to four crates. 



As to honey in the comb I prefer shipping 

 in barrels when the quantity is not large and 

 the distance very far. Some four vears ago 

 I shipped to IS different places in the West. 

 one lot going to Edmonton, 200 miles north 



