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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Oct. 23, 1902. 



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PROF. A. J. COOK. 



This standard work on practical bee-keeping has just 

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these partlj' rtlleil sections, run the same 

 through the sun wax-extractor so as to sepa- 

 rate the honey from the wax. and burn the sec- 

 tions, that we have the privilege of using new 

 sections lillecl with foundation when working 

 for section honey. Will it be too strong lan- 

 guage if I say: "Away with such nonsense S "^ 

 I should hardly have gotten a single section 

 tilled up to this time 1 August 5) had it not 

 been for these partly-filled sections or baits, 

 leftover from last year. As it is, it looks as 

 it I should be able soon to take off from 400 

 to .^00 pounds of the same before buckwheat 

 commences to yield nectar. 



Then drawn combs have a value in helping 

 to control swarming, as many of the colonies 

 having such combs did not swarm at all, in 

 this year of excessive swarming during July, 

 when the bees secured just enough honey to 

 keep up a large amount of brood, but not 

 enough to do much storing or to start them 

 to drawing out foundation. 



Wax=Presses. 



There are a great many inquiries as to 

 which is most convenient, rapid and thor- 

 ough—pressure under hot water, pressure in 

 steam, or pressure on wax that has been 

 heated in another vessel. With hot water 

 one can get the same amount of wax as with 

 steam, other things being equal; but it takes 

 longer, and is more complicated. It has been 

 suggested that the hot water will do better 

 worl! than steam because of the fact that, 

 since wax floats on water, the minute that a 

 particle of wax is pressed out from the cheese- 

 cloth it will rise to the surface out of the way 

 — acting on the principle of "taking in the 

 slack." Those who suggested this, however, 

 had not tried both plans, and admitted that 

 the idea was a simple theory. If they would 

 try they would find, as we have done, that the 

 wax will drop down from the slumgum when 

 steam is used, just as readily as it will lioat 

 up in the hot water. 



We have not had success with the third 

 method, although some may have had. It is 

 very diflicult to keep the wax from burning 

 when heated in another place unless it is 

 heated in hot water. It this is done, part of 

 the wax will melt out and come to the sur- 

 face, just enough of it to cause trouble, and 

 yet too much to throw away entirely. After 

 "burning one's fingers in getting the hot wax 

 transferred from the heatiug-pan to the press, 

 a great deal of heat will be lost; and when 

 the wax conies in contact with the cold press 

 it is so chilled that not all of it can come out; 

 and what does come, often sticks to the 

 cheese-cloth, and refuses to run. — An Editor- 

 ial in Gleanings in Bee-Culture. 



Management for Comb Honey. 



" How One Man Managed 500 Colonies for 

 Comb Honey in Out-Apiaries" is the title of 

 a paper by W. Z. Hutchinson, reported in the 

 Canadian Bee Journal as read at the Ontario 

 convention. Chas. Koeppen was the man in 

 question, his management being as follows: 



In the spring the bees are looked over, 

 stores equalized, and all extra combs removed, 

 the bees being crowded up on as few combs a* 

 possible. When the packing is removed, each 

 altern.ate hive is moved ahead a little way. and 

 the other hives moved back a little, and then 

 in a few days the distances are increased until 

 the hives are sufficiently scattered. As soou 

 as the bees are crowded for room the combs 

 are spread, and empty combs are put in the 

 center. This is usually done for the first time 

 just before the harvest from white clover. A 

 week or ten days later the colonies are again 

 gone over, and the combs of sealed brood in 

 the center shifted to the outside; the outside 

 combs, that are largely filled with honey, be- 

 ing moved to the center of the brood-nest. At 

 the opening of the basswood flow the brood- 

 nests are again overhauled, and this shifting 

 process gone through with; but, in many in- 

 stances, in fact in most instances, that is, if 

 the colony is stroDgenough, two combs of bees 

 and brood are taken away and used in start- 

 ing a nucleus, their places in the centre of the 

 brood-nest being filled with empty combs. 

 Each nucleus is furnished with a queen-cell. 



