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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Oct. 30, 1902, 



LaOQS WIl on... 

 TI16H01611B66 



Revised by Dadant — 1900 Edition. 



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Bee-Keeping in Connecticut. 



I feel it my duty to use my pen in behalf of 

 others as they have done for me. So I will 

 start otT with thei)rodiiulionof section honey. 

 I am an advocate of calling the three forms of 

 honey produced in the apiary thus; Section 

 honey, in sections; comb honey, in the combs, 

 or as you would cut it out of an extracting 

 frame; and extracted honey, in the liquid 

 form. I believe in calling section honey 

 ■• section honey," but I do not like the term 

 sometimes uspd for comb honey — "chunk 

 honey." 



From Sept. 15 to Oct. 20 is the time to be- 

 gin to prepare if you would get good results 

 the following season. You should see that 

 your bees have plenty of good honey and pol- 

 len. Put a division-board on each side of the 

 ljrood-coml)s, then stuff old bags or anything 

 of that sort on the outside of each division- 

 board between the side of the hive. Now put 

 the super on, but do not put a chafi cushion 

 in them, or anything over the frames until 

 the bees have fastened the super firmly to the 

 brood-chamber. When they have glued all 

 air-tight put four shon sticks over the frames 

 about 'j inch by li inches long, and place the 

 sticks so they will be 4 inches apart; then put 

 two thicknesFes of burlap over them, then the 

 cushion stuffed with chalT — that which blows 

 farthest away from the fanning mill. Xow 

 place on the cover, then stand Ijoards slanting 

 up against the entrance from the ground. 

 With the protection and a good quantity of 

 honey, we will have a good force of young 

 bees and brood in the spring, which we can 

 not procure without plenty of good honey 

 and protection. 



We will say it is the first of March; gently 

 tip the hive up and look through them from 

 the bottom, spreading the frames if necessary 

 to see to the middle, and if you see no brood 

 notice the quantity of bees, pollen and honey, 

 and if plenty of the three do not be alarmed, 

 but clean the bottom-board and wait a week 

 or ten days, and examine again, noticing the 

 three things mentioned above, and if no 

 brood let the hive down, providing the results 

 are the same as at the first examination, 

 namely, honey, pollen and bees. 



I would examine them again about the first 

 of April, and if no brood, but plenty of honey 

 and pollen, I should then give them a frame 

 of l:irood from each of three dill'erent colonies, 

 giving three from the poor one that has some 

 honey in place of the brood taken. Now. 

 after you have satisfied yourself that all colo- 

 nies have a good, laying queen (w.-ich you 

 can very easily determine if you have followed 

 these instructions, as each and every one that 

 is worthy of the name c|ueen will be making 

 great strides toward preparing the colonies 

 for the production of section honey, or any 

 other kind), and those that have no queen 

 you have provided for so they can rear one. I 

 say, f/'i «i'? huthir tin III, if you do not want 

 your labor thrown away, as in the spring, 

 when the weather is ctiilly, by opening the 

 hive you may destroy thousands of eggs, 

 larvae, and brood, I will tell you why, as 

 probably the beginner would wish to know 

 how so much damage would be done in so 

 short a time. Take an incubator, and put it 

 where it is cold (but not windy) ; turn up the 

 lamp and see how higli the temperature goes, 

 which will be about 9s degrees; no matter if 

 it goes to 105, as long as you have on every 

 bit of heat you can pul on (we will call it 98, 

 which is near right). Now, if you open the 

 door only as long as it takes to open a hive 

 and take out two or three frames, note the 

 temperature, which will be several degrees 

 lower, shut the door, and you will find that it 

 will take several hours to register 98 degrees 

 again ; and if it is near sundown your 

 machine may not register 98 ijefore the next 

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