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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



June 



With Replies from our best Authorities on Bees. 



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 or questions should be written upon a separate slip of paper, 

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Question No. 58. In ivorkiiig for comh honey, 

 have you ever found it neceaitary or advUahle to tier up 

 more than three xectioUK hinh/ 



No. 



No. 



No. 



Never more than two. 



Very seldom, if ever. 



E. France. 



o. o. poppleton. 



Dadant & Son. 



Mrts. L. Harbison. 



L. C. Root. 



Sometimes, but not often. James A. Green. 



Yes, but only very rarely. H. K. Boardman. 



Yes, tier up till the seascjn closes. 



Geo. Grimm. 



T tbink it neither necessary nor advisable to tier 



pp more than two sections high. Chas. F. Muth. 



Three are the most I have used on the 8-f rame 

 Langstroth hive, or l3-frame Gallup. A. J. Cook. 



More than three tiers of sections would presup- 

 pose a yield of honey that is not often had in my 

 locality. E. E. Hasty. 



Three is the limit with us, but the size of the 

 clamp will have to determine. Three of ours make 

 a hundred pounds. P. H. Elwood. 



No; but if I were located where honey could be 

 shaken from the trees, as is said it can be in Onta- 

 rio, I might find it advisable. Dr. A. B. Mason. 



I have tiered 7 high, and had a big lot of unfinish- 

 ed sections. I think it is not often well to tier more 

 than three high. C. C. MiLiiEB. 



Yes, especially when honey is coming in very 

 fast; but as a general rule, 3 tiers are sufficient, as, 

 by the time the second tier is partly filled, the first 

 one is in condition to take off, etc. 



Paul L. Viallon. 



I do not tier up sections at all, and think that 

 there is a better way; for instance, the top and side 

 storing combined plan, or that of working the sec- 

 tions on the lateral plan T have spoken of lately. 

 G. M. Doolittle. 



That depends upon the kind of a brood-chamber 

 you have under the sections or supers. It is some- 

 times quite advantageous to tier up 4 supers high, 

 for a short time, but the result of such tiering will 

 not be satisfactory unless the brood-chamber below 

 is contracted. James Heddon. 



Question No. yt9.—<'an cleaner ><ectums1>e i<ecnred 

 {that is, less soileil with prapnlis) in crates or T .'Pipers 

 which afford no c<iffri)i{i iinmnd tin' sectioiis, Jnit are 

 priwided witii d hn-siKur <diore and t>cloH\ tJiau in 

 wide-frttmi's ar otlicr s^nplns iirrdimenients ivliicli cor- 

 er Unxurfacex of t}ir xrvliimx cntin:' '.'. In yinir i.rpe- 

 rience, what section-crate ijives yon the cleanest sec- 

 tion honey? 



1. I think not. 3. The Heddon case. 



Mrs. L. Harrison. 

 1. Not with us. 3. Wide-frame crates. 



P. H. Elwood. 

 1. Not much difference. 3. Shuck's or Foster's. 



Dadant & Son. 



1. No. 3. The Doolittle single-tier wide frame. 

 Paul L. Viallon. 



1. No. 3. Armstrong's side - opening T - section 

 crate. Dr. A. B. Mason, 



Outside surface should, as far as practicable, be 

 non-accessible to the bees. Geo. Grimm. 



1. I think not, if the latter are made as they 

 should be. 3. One tier high, wide frames. 



G. M. Doolittle. 



They have with me. That they always would 

 with all, and with all apparatus, I can not say. 



A. J. Cook. 



1. Yes, decidedly, so far as my experience goes. 

 3. The T super; but I have not tried all the others. 



C. C. Miller. 



[ would rather let more extensive raisers of comb 

 honey answer this and the two succeeding ques- 

 tions. O. O. Poppleton. 



No. The wide-frame supers open out the cleaner 

 sections, but their cost is greater than the T super, 

 or old style of Heddon case. James Heddon. 



As we raise but little comb honey, I don't wish to 

 give an opinion. I shall be interested in the an- 

 swers given by comb-honey men. E. France. 



I think not. But doctors will disagree. By the 

 use of wide frames I have been able to secure 

 cleaner sections than with cases. 



H. R. Boardman. 



Propolis seems to be largely a matter of location. 

 The amount brought in here is very large. I do 

 not expect any thing to remain clean long, unless 

 covered. E. E. Hasty. 



3. Any crate where the bees have access only to 

 the passage and the inside of the section. T prefer 

 to have as much as possible of the section exclud- 

 ed, even from the light. L. C. Root. 



1. Yes. Bees are not much inclined to propolize 

 smooth surfaces. They put propolis into crevices, 

 and there are more crevices in wide frames of sec- 

 tions than in crates. 3. The old Heddon case. I 

 have not had a chance to fairly test the newer 

 styles. James A. Green. 



1. Under otherwise the same circumstances, as 

 clean sections can be secured in open crates as 

 when there is a covering around the sections. 

 When the arrangement is wrong, the edges of sec- 

 tions will be soiled if the bees can get at no other 

 part. 3. Those crates where the bottoms of sections 

 are no more than | inch nor less than ^ inch above 

 the top-bar of frames. Chas. F. Muth. 



Question No. &\.—Is it possible, with the present 

 instincts <tf the liees to dejmsit propnUs. to construct a 

 section-trdte so that the filled sectians studl )e<juire no 

 scrapinu before being placed upon the market'/ Ix 

 then snch a surplus arrangement now in eristeiwe? If 

 so, }c}ud is it? 



No. 



I think not. 



I think not. 



I don't know. 



See question .59. 



See answer to 59. 



1. 1 don't know. 3. I don't know of any. 



Dr. A. B. Mason. 

 I think not. If there are any such in use I have 

 never seen them. H. R. Boardman. 



L. C. Root. 



Mrs. L. Harrison. 



James A. Green. 



E. France. 



Dadant & Son. 



O. O. Poppleton. 



