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QUESTIONS.— 

 ( 1 ) What i s 

 the value « f 

 drawn c o iiili 

 cx|>ri'ssed in Icriiis 

 of extracted hon- 

 ey ! (2) In an ar- 

 ticK' in .Tuly CMenn- 

 inirs, Wesh'y Fos- 

 ter thou ;; h t the 

 quoenexelutler i u- 

 duced swariuin^r, and so he (rives liis queens the 

 run of every story. Please criticise this as applied 

 to the amateur beekeeper. (3) AVould you pre- 

 fer some modification of this, as, for example, one 

 and one-half or two stories for the qticen ; or 

 liftins: lirood and keepinij the queen down? (4) 

 A sideline beekeeper with 15 colonies keeps down 

 swarming by liftins three or four frames of brood 

 in May (when the colony has about five frames of 

 lirood). leaving one frame of brood and the queen 

 below the excluder, and cutting out the queen- 

 cells if started, the upper story becoming a super 

 after the brood is hatched. He says he lias not 

 had a swarm in three years. I plan to hy this 

 next season. Have you any suggestions? 



Ohio. Prank E. Burgess. 



Answers. — (1) We arc quite unable to 

 express the value of drawn comb in terms 

 of extracted honey. As you probably 



know, the amount of honey required to 

 produce a pound of wax has never been 

 definitely ascertained. It has been esti- 

 mated at from five to fifteen pounds. (2) 

 When one has as many colonies to manage 

 as has Wesley Foster it is necessary to use 

 short-cut methods that would not be ad 

 visable in the case of a small beekeejicr 

 It is impossible for one to allow the queen 

 to raise brood in any part of the hive she 

 chooses, and yet get as fine a grade of 

 honey as he w^ould get by the use of ex- 

 cluders. One who has but a few colonies 

 of bees will naturally take pride in pro- 

 ducing the very best grade of honey possi- 

 ble. To do this he will need queen-exclud- 

 ers in case he produces extracted honey. 

 In case he produces comb honey, excluders 

 are not as necessary, because the supers 

 contain foundation instead of comb. The 

 .queen will have no inducement to go above 

 when foundation is used. (3) The use of 

 two stories or one and one-half stories for 

 the queen, or raising brood and keeping 

 the queen below are found to be quite satis- 

 factory in many locations. We feel cer- 

 tain that in your locality you will not find 

 that it pays to let the queen have access 

 to two stories thruout the season. When- 

 ever we have tried this it has resulted in 

 a smaller crop of honey for those colonies. 

 The queen should be ]»ut down into the 

 lower stor}' at or just after tlie beginning 

 of the flow. (4) The plan you suggest, you 

 will probably like, jirovided the colony is 

 strong enough so that there is no danger of 

 the frames of brood in the lower story 

 chilling. 



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yupstions. — (1) In September issue, page 55^. 

 under "How to Feed Syrup," it orr\irs to me a 

 much bftter plan is this: Remove outer cdver 

 leaving inner rover on. Now remove the small 



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lilock fi-oni the inner 

 cover which covers 

 opening for bec- 

 iscape, placing in- 

 verted bucket con- 

 liiining syrup over 

 liolo thus made in 

 till' inner cover. (2) 

 I enclose a small 

 lii)\ lid, containing 

 two holes punched 

 each way. Wliicli is riglit .' Sliouhl the rough edge 

 of the hole )je on the inner or outer side of lid? 

 North Carolina. Q. C. Wall. 



Answers.— (1) In regard to feeding syru}) 

 we have used your plan of invertiiig a 

 pail of syrup over the hole in the inner 

 cover, and find that if one is careful it will 

 work all right. The only reason we did not 

 mention it in this dejKirtment is because 

 we have seen the ])lan in operation when 

 syrup was pouring down the outside of the 

 hive, having overflowed the inner cover. 

 At the time we saw this the robber bees 

 were hard at work and making quite a 

 commotion. For a careful person, however, 

 the plan is all right and we ourselves would 

 not hesitate to feed in this way. (2) We 

 always have the rough edges inside the lid. 

 If the bees do not take the syrup rapidly 

 enough, however, and a slight crust of syrup 

 granulates over the hole, the bees could 

 probably remove it more readily if the 

 rough side were next the bees. 



HONEY PRICE, SWEIOTXKSS, .\M> r.SK IN K |.;( 1 1'KS. 



Questions. — (!) Is it i)()ssil)k" to use honey in- 

 stead of sugar in making i)reserves, jellies, pud- 

 dings, cakes, cookies, pies, candy, ice cream, root 

 beer, etc.? (2) Have the different kinds of honeys 

 the same degree of sweetness? (3) Also, why 

 should light honey cost more than dark-colored 

 honey ? 



Massachusetts. H. T. McManaus. 



Answers. — Yes, honey may be used in- 

 stead of sugar in nuiny recipes, but it is 

 often necessary to vary the recipe when 

 using honey. For instance, when substitut- 

 ing honey for molasses, less soda will be 

 needed. Also, some recijies are improved 

 by using a pinch of baking powder if hon- 

 ey isjused. Then too, the fact that honey 

 is a liquid makes it necessary to use a 

 smaller amount of other liquids in recipes 

 where honey is substituted for sugar. For 

 each cupful of honey one-fifth cupful less 

 of milk or other liquid should be used, as a 

 cupful of honey contains about one - fifth 

 cupful of water. (2) It is quite impossible 

 for one to describe different kinds of honey 

 in regard to their sweetness. Certain 

 flavors appeal to some individuals as being 

 sweeter than others, where a chemical 

 analysis would show no difference in this 

 respect. Usually highly flavored honeys 

 are mistakenly believed to be sweeter than 

 those of more mild flavor. (3) Lighit 

 honey usually has a more delicate flavor 

 and is more pleasing in appearance. For 

 this reason it is in greater demand and 

 brings a higher price on the market. It is 

 a little more difficult to produce a light 



