July 31, 1902. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



491 



the super wan full cut the honey ciul and 

 BiinecKe out liy hunil, then sit ilown iiml c^ut 

 and huioke till tlie super was full atruiii ; but 

 most of tlmiii fount! to theii' sorrow that that 

 was a losiii)^ j^auu^; and now llirrv ai'e only a 

 few who havt^ stayed with it and j^'ol fxtrac- 

 toi-s, etc. I know of two who run :.'(H) (•oh)nies 

 and understaud the business (iuit(^ well ; al- 

 Ihoiitjh one caniuit impress uj)on them the 

 necessity of i,a'ttinK^ (^ood (gueons — any queen 

 is (lood enou^ch for tliem. — H. H. 8MYTU, in 

 the Ameriian Hee- Keeper. 



Fastening Foundation In Sections. 



For this purpose it is a payinj? investtnent 

 to have a sjood machine such as the Daisy 

 foundation fastener; but some with a very 

 small number of sections may care to know 

 the plan ^iven by G. F. Herman, in the Amer- 

 ican Bec-Keeper: 



Kor this ]iurpt>se we use a t)oard with four 

 t)locks nailed on it. ^^ of an inch thick by li^^ 

 inches square. This size is for the standard 

 section which holdsabout one pound of honey. 

 When we pick up four sections at one time 

 and place them over the four blocks. The 

 sections beinjj: on ilieir eil;r<'. I'lv in the one- 

 inch starters, or full sln-cis, ju-t as preferred. 

 The blocks brin;; the -'iin. is ju^i midway in 

 the sections. 



We next dip the piece of tin into theheated 

 wax and touch the starter and sections at the 

 unitinj; point. Ijoldinf; the starter in place 

 with the left hand, withdrawing the piece of 

 till instantly, as it only requires a touch and 

 the work is done. If full sheets are used we 

 dip twice, touching the top and one side and 

 leaving one side and the bottom loose for ex- 

 pansion. 



The size of the piece of tin used in the oper- 

 ation is 3t5S by 5 inches with a perfectly 

 straight edge. The receptacle to hold the 

 heated wax is a small sardine-box 2-'.j by 4 

 inches, kept about one-third full of wax and 

 placed over a small hand lamp with a tin 

 chimney, having the top nipped in a little 

 and then bent out to form a crown which will 

 give vent to the burning lamp when the pan 

 of wax is placed on top. 



Comb Honey and Excluders. 



Some say that in producing section honey 

 excluders are unnecessary ; others say that 

 without them the queen is sure to lay in the 

 sections. M. F. Reeve having said in the 

 American Bee-Keeper that excluders were in- 

 dispensable, Dr. .Miller replies in that journal: 



For a long time it puzzled me to understand 

 how there could be the difference, but I think 

 I have solved the mystery. Nowadavs there 

 is little or no drone-comb left in the brood- 

 chamber, and the bees make desperate ettorts 

 to secure drone-brood. More than once, when 

 using 10-t'rame hives, I have known the queen 

 to go outside the brood-nest and lay eggs in a 

 patch of drone-comb, leaving one or two 

 combs without any brood between this patch 

 of drone-brood and the worker-brood of the 

 brood-nest. You will notice that Mr. Keeve 

 especially mentions that in his supers he 

 found " the nicest lot of capped drone-cells.'' 

 I am not certain whether this was in working 

 for comb or extracted honey, and it doesn't 

 matter ; he says at the outset that excluders 

 are necessary for either. If 1 am not greatly 

 mistaken the queen goes into the super to lay 

 because the workers have there prepared 

 •drone-cells for her. 



If they go up into his supers to rear drone- 

 brood, why don't they do the same thing for 

 me > Simply because there are no drone-cells 

 in mine to bait the queen up. I use top and 

 bottom starters of worker foundation, tilling 

 the sections entirely full. If I should use 

 small starters I would consider excluders in- 

 dispensable. 



I would not think of working for extracted 

 honey without excluders, for even if only 

 worker-comb should be in the supers there 

 would be at least part of the time empty comb 

 there, and whenever the queen should be a 

 little crowded for room she might find her 

 way up. When working for comb honey, I 



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