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Honey for V-aU Ikmu'v in westcMn Xt'w 

 Automobile York tliis .v(.':ir is i-oiisidorjihlv 

 Radiators. mixed with lioiieydew, and i)t' 

 course of low ([uality. We are 

 disposing of most of ours as an auti-freeze 

 for automobile radiators. Honey mixed half 

 and lialf with water makes a solution which 

 we liave never yet known to freeze and 

 will readily eireulate in any cooling system. 

 The boiling temperature of lioney being 24.'i 

 degrees and that of water 212 degrees, it 

 makes a solution with an approximate boil- 

 ing temperature of 228 degrees, or 1(5 de- 

 grees higher than water alone, and as the 

 honey does not evaporate, all that is needed 

 is to add more water from time to time as 

 needed. We are selling this low-grade honey 

 for this purpose at lOe per pound; and, as 

 an ordinary Ford radiator requires about 

 15 lbs., it costs $1.50 for a Ford, and more 

 or less, as the case may be, for other cars. 

 The men using it here say it is cheaper than 

 wood alcoliol, taking into consideration the 

 loss of alcoliol by evaporation. Besides this 

 they are at all times sure with honey, while 

 with alcohol they never know if they have 

 enough of it, owing to the evaporation. 

 Honey will not in any way injure either 

 metal or rubber. In fact, it is a rust pre- 

 ventive and after being heated it holds its 

 heat longer than water and makes starting 

 easier in cold weather when the car is left 

 standing for a few hours. James H. Sprout 

 of Lockport, X. Y., was, I think, the first 

 man to use it for this purpose. He has 

 used it continually for at least six winters; 

 and, if beekeepers everywhere \vi\\ adver- 

 tise its merits for this purpose, the demand 

 for it will take care of all and more of the 

 cheap grades of honey produced in this 

 country. H. M. Myers. 



Ransomville, N. Y. 



Wiring Much is being said of late aV)out 

 Jumbo the Jumbo frame, and many will 

 Frames. l)e put in use the coming year. 1 

 I notice some firms are sending 

 these frames out with end-bars pierced for 

 only four wires, the same as the regular 

 Langstroth. A great many good beekeepers 

 have considered that four wires are 

 scarcely enough for the regular frame, and 

 that many sagged combs are the result 

 even with careful and painstaking beekeep- 

 ers. It seems to me, knowing these tilings, 

 that it is folly even to think of getting any- 

 thing but sagged combs with four wires in 

 a Jumbo depth frame, unless some support 

 is given the foundation other than the four 

 horizontal wires, and I would hate to chance 

 it then. 



The past two years 1 have been using 

 the "one thousand dollar trick" described in 



(ilcanings some time ayo and aui exceeding 

 ly well pleased as well as repaid for using 

 it. 1 have tried it out under the most try- 

 ing conditions, by hiving swarms on the 

 foundation with a brood-comb between, also 

 by giving all foundation excepting the out- 

 side combs. In examining these conil)s not 

 a single sagged comb have 1 found, and they 

 are as nearly perfect as it is possible to get 

 them — something T was never (piite sure of 

 when the four liorizontal wires weic useil 

 alone. It is certainly worth trying by any 

 beekeeper who is working for perfect combs, 

 and really it is xevy little more bother. A 

 sagged Jumbo comb is very little better, 

 if any, than a perfect Langstroth comb; 

 and if the results are obtained tliat we 

 want and expect from making the change 

 of hives and frames, it will be necessary to 

 take more precaution with the wiring of 

 Jumbo frames than the Langstroth. The 

 diagonal wiring holds the frame perfectly 

 square if the frame is placed in a square 

 form before tightening the diagonal wires — 

 another good feature. I use a small wire 

 staple driven in the groove of the top-bar. 

 I have never had one pull out, and the wire 

 slides easily thru the staple Avhen tightened. 

 Center Junction, la. W. S. Pangburn. 



$168 from Two- On page 4:'.. .laiuiary is- 

 Pound Package sue, is a record of a two 

 the First Season, pound ])ackage of bees 

 that jn-oduced more than 

 $50.00 worth of honey the first season. This 

 is indeed a good record; but I am in receipt 

 of a letter from C. B. Hamilton of Michigan 

 that a two-pound package shipped him last 

 spring profluced 577 finished sections of 

 honev (24 cases), that sold for $7.00 per 

 case,' or $168.00. 



I believe this to be the greatest amount 

 of comb honey ever produced by a two- 

 pound package in the same season that it 

 was shipped. If anyone has done better, we 

 should like to hear from him. 



Montgomery, Ala. J. M. Cutts. 



How to Secure We have 20 colonies of bees. 

 Surplus in as much for pleasure as 



Poor Seasons. profit. We have bought 

 queens of our leading 

 breeders until we have bees that we are 

 proud of. Our 1021 honey flow was the poor- 

 est for several years. We sold about 700 

 pounds at 20c a pound. I know of only three 

 that got any surplus. Our hives were boil- 

 ing over with bees just at the right time, 

 which gave us our surplus. I know of one 

 beekeeper having 28 stands who had to buy 

 honev for his own use. 



