1888 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



487 



No. If such an arrangement is in existence, I 

 have not heard of it. Geo. Ghimm. 



By use of the Heddon slatted honey-board I have 

 had many sectionB come off as clean as when put 

 on. A. J. Cook. 



The Doolittle single-tier wide frame comes nearer 

 to it than any other yet invented. A similar one is 

 used in Heddon's new sectional hive. 



Paul L. Viallon. 



With paper boxes or their equivalent, some pro- 

 ducers and dealers do not think it necessary to 

 clean sections. I have never used any. 



P. H. Elwood. 



" There is nothing- perfect under the sun," is a 

 rule which applies to our surplus arrangements. 

 The best of them will be soiled at times. 



Cras. F. Muth. 



During the basswond yield, yes. During tbe 

 buckwheat yield, or that from fall flowers, I guess 

 we shall always have propolis on our sections. 



G. M. Doolittle. 



No, unless the case is put on and taken off, filled 

 during a period when the bees are so busy honey 

 gathering that they can't stop to chink in propolis. 

 Wide frames are the best protection to the sections. 



James Heddon. 



There are times (and perhaps I ought to add 

 places) when, if sections are promptly taken off, 

 little or no scraping will be needed. At other times 

 the bees will decorate with propolis every accessi- 

 ble part, no matter what the arrangement. 



C. C. Miller. 



In a clean location, with a strain of bees naturally 

 disposed to be clean, with sections not put on till 

 the crop is coming in, with the good fortune to 

 have no idle spells of a week or so in the midst of 

 the harvest, and with supers taken off the minute 

 the crop is over, the thing might be done. I don't 

 think the style of super would matter much. If 

 the honey is to go to market, super and all, it would 

 be important that the fixtures take to pieces very 

 easily by the hands of clerks who "know not 

 mutchee." E. E. Hasty. 



It seems to nie, friends, in the answers to 

 the above three questions, we have some- 

 thing not only very seasonable but also val- 

 uable. The matter of getting honey from 

 the hives, clean enough for market, without 

 any cleaning or scraping up, is a problem 

 that perplexed me sorely as much as twelve 

 or fifteen years ago. Some of the friends 

 may remember that we had arrangements 

 of tin to fit all over the woodwork, with the 

 view of keeping the bees and also the light, 

 as L. C. Root suggests, entirely away, out 

 it was never a success. The fine mechani- 

 cal work necessary to get a fit every time, 

 we found next to impossible ; and without 

 this the bees would wedge in the propolis. 

 At the same time, during the height of the 

 season we had occasionally a section filled 

 and capped over that was so nearly what we 

 sought for that 1 sometimes thought we had 

 better give up the idea of trying to incase the 

 woodwork of the section. Friend Heddon's 

 improvements in this line, in connection 

 with the slatted honey-board, have made it 

 seem quite likely that we liad better not try 

 to fence the bees off. At the convention in 

 Utica, N. Y., there was considerable discus- 

 sion as regards a paper box so made as to 



cover all unsiglitliness, thus rendering it 

 unnecessary to go over the operation of 

 scraping and cleaning the woodwork. I 

 should not like to say that it is impossible to 

 make an arrangement to keej) the woodwork 

 unsullied, l)ut I do say that all the arrange- 

 ments that have ever come to my notice 

 have been either too much machinery or 

 wholly inadequate for the purpose designed. 

 I think it will pay our comb-honey men to 

 read over the answers to the three above 

 questions a good many times. Where sec- 

 tions are tiered up three high or more, they 

 will be quite sure to be soiled more than 

 where we do not practice so much tiering, 

 and the result is also likely to be a large 

 number of sections only partly filled when 

 the season is over. 



]\[0¥Ef5 M^ QaERIEg. 



SWARMING ON 



SUNDAY, AND CAN 



VENTED? 



IT BE PRE- 



IPJ AN bees be prevented from swarming at cer- 

 ly tain times, as, for irstance, on the Sabbath 

 i|l day? If swarming oftener than desired, can 

 ^^ they be prevented? H. H. Stone. 



Sugar Grove, W. Va., May II, 1888. 

 [Bees have and will swarm on the Sabbath in 

 spite of the religious belief of their owners to the 

 contrary. Some have thought they select Sunday 

 as a day of swarming, but 1 am inclined to think 

 there is nothing in it, except that it " happens so." 

 Frank Cheshire suggests that the universal quiet 

 prevailing on this day may have something to do 

 with it, for he says bees prefer quiet times.] 



AT what time of DAY ARE THE DRONES MOSTLY 

 OUT OF THE HIVE? 



In speaking of drone-guards, in Gleanings, you 

 say, " Apply them after the drones are all out of 

 the hives." Please tell us at what time of day the 

 drones are all out of the hives. C. L. Cook. 



Glen Rock, Neb., June 4, 1888. 



[Perhaps, friend C, we should not have said, 

 " When the drones are all out of the hive." What 

 we intended to convey was, to put the trap at the 

 entrance when the mnjority of the drones were out 

 flying, and this is about 3 o'clock, on warm days.] 



SUPPOSING THEY SHOULDN'T DO WELL, WHAT 

 THEN? 



I have had 4 swarms of bees this spring. Two 

 went in one hive; they seem to be doing very well 

 at present; but suppose they do not do well, then 

 what must I do with them? Jas. O. Barnes. 



Hickman, Ky., April 30, 1888. 



[If your bees are in good condition at the present 

 time, we should not be much concerned about them 

 as long as they are doing well. In the event that 

 they should not, we could hardly advise you unless 

 we knew in what particularthey were notcomingup 

 to your expectation. If they run short of stores, 

 feed them. If they have no eggs or queen, give 

 them a queen. If they require more room, give it 

 to them. See A B C of Bee Culture.] 



THE papers FRIEND TERRY WRITES FOR. 



In running over Gleanings for Apr. 15, 1 notice 

 you tell a subscriber who asks what paper Mr. Ter- 

 ry writes for, that he used to write regularly for the 

 Ohio Farmei- and Country Gentleman, but of late 

 " only now and then." I find, by the index of C. G., 

 18 articles from Mr. Terry in 1887, and 9 this year 

 go far. W. H. Coleman. 



Albany, N. Y., May 34, 1888. 



