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Vol. XXXIV. 



JAN. 15, J 906. 



No 2 



C. J. Johnson, don't use a Miller feeder in 

 winter. Use combs of honey or candy; and 

 if you must use syrup, a Doolittle is better 

 than a Miller in winter. Page 36. 



E Matty, p. 36, you can keep chaff hives 

 in the same cellar with other hives, but you'd 

 better follow the editor's advice with this 

 modification: Put part of the chaffs out and 

 part in. [I accept your amended advice. 

 -Ed.] 



E. W. Alexander says, p. 27, "We don't 

 like any shade among our hives." Please 

 tell us why. [When I visited Mr. Alexan- 

 der he said he had noticed for many years 

 that the shaded bees did not do quite as well 

 as those out in the open; and next season 

 he expected to cut out even the few trees 

 remaining in his yard.— Ed.] 



C. A. Hatch, what a rascal you are, to 

 dangle before one's eyes the prospect of 

 knowing something positive about over- 

 stocking, only to end up by saying, p 21, "I 

 am forced to admit I know but little about 

 the matter." Well, the disappointment is 

 somewhat relieved by the thought that 

 you're about as ignorant as I am. 



Speaking of kinds of frames to suit all, 

 the editor says, page 15, " It is the old, old 

 story, that you can not make one shoe fit 

 every foot." Yet I've known an editor to 

 insist I should wear an extracting- shoe on 

 my comb-honey foot— in other words, that I 

 should use a frame suited for extracting, 

 when I don't care a rap what extracting 

 men use. [Yes, I believe I did give you 

 some such advice. For myself, at least, I 

 would have a frame that would be suitable 

 for either extracted or comb honey. — Ed. ] 



The index seems to the editor a matter of 

 some value, p. 15. I indorse all he says. I 

 felt as pleased to get the index as if it had 

 been an additional number. But I want to 

 speak a good word for another thing. The 

 index is not available till the close of the 

 volume. If I want, Dec. 5, to look for an 

 item that appeared earlier in the year, there 

 is nothing for it but to leaf through the pre- 

 ceding hundreds of pages if it were not for 

 the table of contents that appears in each 

 number. In a late number of the British 

 Bee Journal it was said that that paper and 

 Gleanings were the only bee journals giv- 

 ing such tables. Thanks for the index, and 

 thanks for the tables. [The bee-keeper or 

 correspondent who does not find an index to 

 his journal useful enough to bind it careful- 

 ly v.'ith the rest of his journals will be los- 

 ing a great deal of the value of the discus- 

 sions, both past and future. I suspect this, 

 though: That if every reader of Gleanings 

 had spent the hours and hours of hard labor 

 that Stenog and I have on that list, they 

 would appreciate its value, perhaps, more 

 than they do.— Ed.] 



J. W. Ormsby, your section-protector, p. 

 23, may work all right with you; but if used 

 here the bees would crowd propolis in the 

 crack between sections and protector, wedg- 

 ing it in so tight as to raise the protector, 

 and then the glue would be crowded in just 

 as far as their tongues would reach, unless 

 there is some additional weight to hold the 

 protector down. You say, ' ' In using this we 

 can leave the sections on any length of time, 

 and they can't be soiled." I'm afraid some 

 beginner may understand from this that no 

 harm will come to sections left on after the 

 flow, if only they have the protector. The 

 chief harm done to sections left on after the 

 harvest is over is not from bee-glue on the 

 wood, but on the comb or foundation, and 

 this no protector can help. [Your point is 

 well taken; indeed, I intended to mention 

 that very thing, but overlooked it. That is 

 one reason why wide frames are not as good 

 as T supers or topless wide frames— that is, 

 section-holders. Unless the covering strip, 

 or protector, fits down perfectly smooth and 



