1905 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



1249 



ports generally agree in stating that the 

 Caucasians are gentle.— Ed.] 



EXTRACTED HONEY BRINGS BEST PRICE LATE 

 IN FALL. 



I just finished extracting, using a new 15 

 Cowan, two-frame, for tlie first this year. 

 I had used a Novice for 15 years, and appar- 

 ently it was good for a longer time yet. 

 But I was surprised to see the improvement 

 made in the construction of the new over 

 the old. It is worth more than the difference 

 in cost. I am sorry to say that the editor's 

 advice in Gleanings, to sell honey early, is 

 no good for extracted-honey men. For sev- 

 eral years I have had my honey ready early, 

 but never could get an offer worth consider- 

 ing till late fall. Early prices are unsettled, 

 and it seems buyers are afraid. Last year, 

 while large dealers were offering me 5J to 6, 

 by advertising I sold my honey for 7 to 7^, 

 and no freight to pay. 



Forest, 0., Aug. 11. C. G. Luft. 



[You probably do not quite understand 

 what we meant by "early." New honey, 

 just off the hives, during the fore or latter 

 part of July, usually has a good demand. 

 During September there may be a lull, and 

 this lull may continue until cool weather sets 

 in. This is something, however, that varies 

 according to the locality. But we have yet 

 to find a case where it is advisable to wait 

 until after the holidays before marketing 

 of northern or eastern honey. So many bee- 

 keepers are penny wise and pound foolish 

 that they leave their marketing until a time 

 when they can " get around to it."— Ed.] 



A NEW END-BAR FOR A SELF-SPACING FRAME. 



I inclose a pattern of a new end-bar for 

 the Hoffman frame. Please tell me just 

 what you think of it. I have used them in 

 my apiary for the last three years, and they 

 have given the best of satisfaction. I have 

 never yet broken one of them, and they 

 space just as accurately at the bottom as at 

 the top, and no one can fail to nail them 



correctly. I made my end-bars J inch thick ; 

 thus the wire never sags and buckles the 

 foundation. C. E. Woodward. 



Matanzas, Cuba. 



[As you ask me to tell you just what I 

 think of your frame I will be frank enough 

 to say that I do not like it. I believe it is 

 always a mistake to have the spacing in the 

 hive- rabbet. The free lateral movement 

 back and forth, of frames, where the spac- 

 ers are on the frames themselves, is a fea- 



ture we can not afford to sacrifice. Your 

 frame would be far better, in my opinion, 

 if you would use the spacing- button (same 

 as you have at the bottom) at the top also. 

 Such a frame would not be a bad one to han- 

 dle. This t xact form of a frame was made 

 the subject of a patent a number of years 

 ago, but I believe the patent has run out. 



There is another objection to your notched 

 rabbet that occurs to me; and that is, in 

 moving bees your frames would be liable to 

 hop out of the notches, making very unequal 

 spacing at the top. When the spacers are 

 on the end- bars or top-bars the frames al- 

 ways have to be just so far apart. — Ed.] 



A WET-LAND HIVE-STAND. 



In answer to the question asked by Prof. 

 R. F. Smith, page 642, I would suggest the 

 plan shown in the accompanying drawing. 



When the flood approaches, send the negroes, 

 who, he says, are afraid of the bees, to the 

 windlass and wind up the hives to an eleva- 

 tion above the danger-line, and replace pin 

 H to hold the hives in an elevated position 

 until after the abatement; then let them 

 down again, and the bees go on as if nothing 

 had occurred. G. B. Herbert. 



Corydon, Iowa, July 28. 



[Your elevator hive-stand is all right, but 

 altogether too expensive for the purpose. 

 There is not enough profit in bee-keeping to 

 have cogwheels, pulleys, and ropes, and we 

 must reduce every thing down to the simplest 

 point possible. If the locality is liable to be 

 inundated, better by far make hive-stands 

 sufficiently large to carry fifteen or twenty 

 hives with a platform elevated above high- 

 water mark the year round. I found such 

 hive-stands in California, some of them six 

 or eight feet high. They were cheaply con- 

 structed out of fence- posts, with cross-bars 

 suitably braced. Each stand would hold 

 from 25 to 50 colonies, placed in two rows, 

 with an alleyway between for the apiarist to 

 use. Illustrations of this are found in the 

 back part of our A B C of Bee Culture. — Ed. ] 



QUESTIONS CONCERNING FEEDING BEES. 



Assuming that a hive of bees contained no 

 honey, how many pounds of granulated su- 

 gar would be necessary to feed an average- 

 sized colony to insure ample stores for out- 

 door wintering in New England? 



Does syrup made by dissolving one part 



