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Vol. XXV. 



MAY i5, 1097, 



No. 10 



Sections fresh from the factory don't ueed 

 any welling before making. 



One pound of Root's thin foundation, cut to 

 fill sections /itii (3% x3X), will fill from 93 to 

 112 sections. 



Gali-up reports in American Bee Jmirnal 

 that his bees worked on buckwheat six miles 

 away, and didn't seem much exhausted with 

 the journey. 



EoTTOM .STARTERS have been objected to by 

 some; but I am reassured by the strong in- 

 dorsement R. C. Aikin gives them, p 320, and 

 feel just a little proud that I was the " start- 

 er " of the plan— at least I think I was. [Yes, I 

 think you were the starter.— Ed.] 



Pious men are reminded that, if the Lord 

 hears the grace they say at meals, he also hears 

 the comments they make to their wives after- 

 v.ixr(i.—AtrMson Olohe. [That is so— pass the 

 paragraph around. Perhaps its general circu- 

 lation will lift the plane, of Christian living in 

 the heart of many a man. — Ed.] 



If sections must have joints wet before 

 making, use boiling water. Use a funnel with 

 a wooden plug that nearly stops it, and have 

 the plug whittled down to a point. Then the 

 fine stream of hot water running from the point 

 will run down through the whole box, using 

 little water and welting only the joint. 



Bro. Aikin, on p. 319 you think the difference 

 in appearance of sections with the dovetailed 

 corner is "not enough to be seriously consider- 

 ed." Your morals must be looked after. When 

 the dovetailed cornt r is up it has an unpleasant 

 one-sided appearance, and, besides, you can't 

 clean the glue from the dovetails as you can 

 from a plain corner. [What do you say to this, 

 Bro. A.?— Ed.] 



Mr. Editor, on page 338 you say you'll cut 

 off }4 inch from each end of your lop-bars. I 



did that thing, and now wish I had cut oflF only 

 T%, for I ihink you'll find the projections of 

 Hofifman top -bars are }-J instead of %. [If you 

 will turn to the editorial in question you will 

 find that I said abo^lt 14 inch. For the Dove- 

 tailed hive, f^ is a little more exact than " about 

 Jl' inch," and perhaps I should have so staled. 

 -Ed.] 



Apis dorsata. The plan of testing their 

 domestication on their own ground, as pro- 

 posed on p. 839, is just what I have advocated 

 But I think it's a serious mistake to say, "If 

 they could not be domesticated they might be 

 of advantage in the fertilization of certain flora 

 by letting them run wild in the South." What 

 flora needs fertilization? Wouldn't wild dor- 

 sata consume honey that without them would 

 go into hives? [Very likely you are right.— 

 Ed.] 



Extra-thin foundation has not suited me 

 as well as thin, for two reasons: It sags more, 

 and the bees gnaw it when a lull comes in stor- 

 ing. Now, if drawn foundation doesn't sag, 

 and the bees don't gnaw it, and it can be had 

 as thin as extra-thin foundation, I think I want 

 it. [You do not even now state, doctor, wheth- 

 er the extra-thin foundation that did not suit 

 you as well as the thin was the new or old pro- 

 cess. The new process thin is now as thin as. 

 the old extra thin.— Ed.] 



T. F. Bingham may be right, p. 325, about 

 sections being filled with honey, "half of which 

 has been brought up from the previous year's 

 gathering, to make room for brood," and I 

 think he's in accord with the popular idea; but 

 I'm a little skeptical about it. Before the 

 honey-flow begins, don't the bees empty the 

 cells of honey full faster than they fill them 

 with brood? and when the flow begins don't 

 they carry the neiv product upstairs? Did you 

 ever find buckwheat honey in sections before 

 clover harvest ? 



" An OB.JECTiON to the bent nails" for end- 

 spacing of frames, you say, Mr. Editor, on page 

 335, " is the difiiculty of driving them into po- 

 sition." I take straight nails, drive them in 



