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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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ered any perceptible difference in regard to the 

 bees fastening the comb to the separator of the 

 tall section more than to the iU section. I am 

 like Mr. Doolittle— I think they are more sym- 

 metrical in appearance; and I have found that, 

 where the two sections have been brought into 

 competition with each other, the tall section 

 sells first. In our market here I do not know 

 that they bring any more; but I know that the 

 tall section is the more easily disposed of ; and 

 the fact that more of them will stand over a 

 given space is a point in their favor. 

 Delhi, 111., Jan. 23. H. D. Edwards. 



MR. DAJSZENBAKEE N THE TALL .SECTION. 



My attention" has been called to Mr. Salis- 

 bury's objection to ta 1 sections on page 17 in 

 Gleanings. The veteran Doolittle, who is al- 

 ways right, has more than answered him in 

 the next column. lake exceptions to his idea 

 that it is the bees that twist his foundation out 

 of line. I had a like trouble with some l^-in. 

 sections that would not stay square. They 

 would spring or draw out of square, and bind 

 the foundation and cause it to wind out of line. 

 I overcame that entirely by seeing that the 

 sections were folded true, and kept so by 

 wedging them in the super before and after the 

 foundation was put in. I also set the founda- 

 tion so that, if the section was out of plumb, it 

 would not press against the foundation when 

 the section was squared up. 



Washington, D. C. F. Danzenbaker. 



TALL sections NO ADVANTAGE OVER THE 

 SQtTARE. 



Referring to tall sections I will say that for 

 ten years I used a section 5}4 high and 3}^xl%', 

 which holds about the same as the 4^4x1%; but 

 they cost me from .50 cts. to .f 1.00 more per 1000, 

 and had to be made to order. I was sometimes 

 troubled to get them in time, so I am now using 

 the 43^ section. I don't think my honey in the 

 tall sections sold for a larger price than honey 

 in square sections; at any rate, I never got a 

 large price for it, and commission men who 

 have sold it never told me it sold quicker. I 

 was not troubled much by having foundation 

 fastened to separators if hives were kept level. 

 W. J. Austin. 



Chittenango, N. Y., Jan. 12, 1897. 



IN FAVOR OF THE TALL SECTION; A PRAC- 

 TICAL SCHEME FOR USING THEM IN THE 

 REGULAR DOVETAILED SUPER. 



I see in a footnote you want opinions as to 

 what kind of sections bee-keepers wouldrather 

 use. I for one would rather use a tall section 

 that would weigh just 1 lb. as nearly as possi- 

 ble, and I have thought of a way in which the 

 tall section might be used on the eight-frame 

 hive; but I have not tried it, and it might not 

 work as well as I think. My arrangement is 

 something like this: Instead of there being a 

 rim on top of the super, have the rim on the 



bottom (not nailed fast); then to this rim nail 

 the bottom- bars of the section-holders, the bot- 

 tom-bars to be an inch longer than they are 

 now; a groove cut out of the rim on the bottom 

 side to admit the bottom-bars, and have them 

 nailed fast to rim; then use two followers and 

 wedges the size the section ought to, be. I 

 haven't figured out, but it ought to be so as to 

 give more elbow-room in the super. The two 

 wedges ought to be square pieces at least % of 

 an inch square. This would give a chance to 

 take a section out as soon as finished before it 

 is travel -stained. Wm. Kernan. 



Ringdale, Pa., Jan. 7. 



[Your scheme is perfectly practicable, and 

 we can adapt supers in that way if so desired. 

 Later on we may show a cut of the plan. As 

 the standard tall sections are 4x5 inches they 

 can be used crosswise of the regular 8 frame 

 super (which is 123s i"- wide) without any 

 waste space to fill >ip. Of course, the hive 

 should be perfectlv level in that case. 



It would seem, from the letters above, that 

 there is no very great danger from combs stick- 

 ing to the separators. I doubt not that there 

 will be many who will want to try a few of 

 these tall sections on their dovetailed hives, 

 and yet feel that they can not afford to buy 

 new supers. To accommodate all such we have 

 arranged to supply a rim deep enough and 

 large enough, when put on the bottom of a reg- 

 ular 8-frame section-super, to_take in 4x.') sec- 

 tions with supporting-slats.— 11.D.] 



PRODUCTION OF COMB HONEY. 



By Ach-ian Octaz. 



This article is written exclusively from a 

 comb -honey producer's standpoint; and if some 

 of the assertions made seem exclusive, it must 

 be remembered that they apply only to the 

 conditions peculiar to comb-honey producing. 

 If there were no swarming, the management 

 would be the simplest thing in the world. 

 Just put on enough sections at the right time, 

 and take them away when they are full. That 

 would be all. But with the swarming, the 

 difficulty begins; so, after all, the comb honey- 

 producing question resolves itself practically 

 into a swarming-management question. 



NORTHERN MANAGEMENT. 



What I mean by this is the management 

 adopted and advised by all or nearly all our 

 leading writers,and suited to what I may call the 

 Northern States, including Canada, the Eastern 

 States, and the Central Northern States, such as 

 Ohio, Illinois, etc. The characteristics of the 

 honey-flow of that region are: A moderate flow 

 from the winter until the main honey- flow, just 

 enough to get the colonies in good shape; then 

 follows a heavy flow of only a few weeks' dura- 

 tion, the swarming taking place just at the 

 beginning of it. 



Two methods of management have been suc- 

 cessfully practiced under these circumstances. 

 The first consists in hiving the swarm on the 



