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AMERICAN BEE lOUPNAL 



June 12, 1902 



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heavy coat of asbestos-paper to retain the 

 heat loDfjer and make it cooler to handle; fit 

 a short, stubby, fine-pointed nozzle for the 

 spout, fill it about one-half full of beeswax, 

 and set it over the smolder until the wax is 

 melted. The rest of the job needs no expla- 

 nation, as any one intelligent enough to keep 

 bees at all can invent some handy way to 

 handle it in getting the foundation in. 



While I am at it I am going to tell you how 

 I cut my section foundation. I make 7 or S 

 starters of each sheet of wax (I use none but 

 the Extra Thin). Make a cutting boxsimilar 

 to a common miter-box, and cut the pieces 

 about as much trianj^ular as 7 or 8 starters to 

 the sheet will cut. I have not found it neces- 

 sary to use bottom starters. Should one pre- 

 fer them a narrow strip can be cut from the 

 sides of the sheets for such starters. Being 

 somewhat proportioned like naturally built 

 combs, BufHcient bees are not apt to cluster on 

 them to pull them loose at their greater pro- 

 portioned fastening surface than if cut 

 square; besides, if it is not set in the section 

 perfectly square it will not matter, as the 

 edges can not come in contact with the sides 

 of the section, which will cause a square one 

 to " buckle " if not exactly true. 



Try a few my way and report. May be you 

 have a better way; if so, out with it. 



Sioux Co., Iowa, May 20. F. W. Hall. 



A Copneob Bee-Feedep. 



I wanted an available something to feed my 

 bees early this spring with a view to encour- 

 aging brood-rearing to strengthen ray rather 

 weakened colonies. I thought over some of 

 the suggestions that I had seen advanced — the 

 wet cloth, the perforated can, the sponge, 

 etc., but somehow I stubbornly insisted there 

 might be a better way. 



Ah, I thought so. First I put on an empty 

 super over the brood-chamber, then I shelled 

 a dozen big ears of corn, brushed the fuzz off 

 the large cobs, tied them together eorduro.v 

 fashion that they might hold together, and, 

 having my thick sugar syrup ready I soaked 

 them in it and laidthesecobs over the frames. 

 Of course, every cavity where the grains grew 

 was filled with the syrup, much like the cells 

 in their wax, permitting the bees to sip out 

 the syrup (honey would have been better) at 

 their leisure without the fear of running over 

 the combs faster than the bees could take 

 care of it. In renewing the feeding after the 

 first time I simply poured the syrup carefully 

 over the cobs, without removing them, from 

 time to time until the bees could gather from 

 the blossoms. 



The utility of this method must be appar- 

 ent at first glance. The feeding is perfect, 

 the cobs reasonably available, and the cost 

 admittedly light. Result: Big colonies. 



This is a hint for our farmer boys. Try it, 

 and you will be pleased. 



In tying them, alternate the big ends with 

 the small ends of the cobs; they will then fit 

 better. Your Ukcle Frank. 



Hard Time for Bees. 



This has been a very hard time for the 

 bees. The winter was unusually severe, the 

 month of April having only a few days warm 

 enough for the bees to My. The first half of 

 May was very cold, aiul now apple-trees are 

 in bloom, and during the past three days 

 another cold wave has been here, and hardly 

 a bee able to leave the hive. Unless ne-xt 

 month is very favorable the crop of white 

 honey will be very small. A. W. S.MiTn. 



Sullivan Co., N. Y., .May 30. 



A Favorable Spring. 



I bought 2 colonies in box-hives during the 

 winter of lUOO, and transferred to S-frame 

 hives in .lune, and increased to 4 by trans- 

 ferring the brood three weeks later, all of 

 which made good cohjnies. My place is in 

 Limestone County, about is miles from home, 

 hence I am there but little of the time, which 

 I find does not suit to make a success of bee- 

 keeping, yet I have learned enough to believe 

 firmly that an experienced bee-keeper can do 

 well in that locality. There are a large num- 

 ber of sourwood trees there, and the honey 



