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for use in the production of comb honey, 

 but it is equally as good to use when 

 producing extracted honey. The shal- 

 low frames are peculiarly adapted to the 

 tiering-up plan, which is nearly as val- 

 uable in producing extracted honey as in 

 comb honey production. Supers filled 

 with shallow combs may be tiered-up 

 and left on the hives for the honey to 

 ripen, when they can be cleared of bees 

 as easily as a case of sections, handled 

 as easily, and when in the honey-house 

 it is only necessary to invert the super, 

 loosen the screws, slip off the case, and 

 there stand the combs all ready for ex- 

 tracting. 



I have no interest in the patent on the 

 Heddon hive, nor in its manufacture or 

 sale; and I am writing this simply in 

 defense of what I believe is an excellent 

 hive, but not thoroughly understood. 



Flint, Mich. 



A Nebraska Report for the Sea- 

 son of 1§93. 



Written Jor the American Bee Journal 



BY WM. STOLLEY. 



My report for the summer of 1893 is 

 as follows : 



The season has not been favorable for 

 bees and the production of honey in cen- 

 tral Nebraska. The spring was cold 

 and backward up till June, and it re- 

 quired strict attention and considerable 

 additional stores to keep bees in good 

 condition, and have them in proper trim 

 for the honey-flow, when it should have 

 come. 



But owing to the excessive drouth in 

 the summer, the honey-flow was cut 

 short, and if it had not been for sweet 

 clover, and about 30 acres of alfalfa, 

 my honey crop would have been a com- 

 plete failure. 



After selling several colonies, I had 

 30 colonies left in June, all of them in 

 good condition. Twenty-five colonies 

 were arranged to produce extracted, 

 and 5 for comb honey. It was not until 

 the 15th day of June before any per- 

 ceptible surplus was stored by any one 

 colony. 



The 25 colonies, arranged for extract- 

 ing (on the American frame), gave me 

 800 pounds of surplus honey, of which 

 I have set aside for apiary feeding 300 

 pounds in 100 combs. The 5 colonies, 

 arranged for the production of comb 

 honey (in the Heddon hive), gave me 80 

 one-pound sections well capped, and a 

 small lot of unfinished sections besides. 



All my bees are packed in double- 

 walled chaff-hives for wintering now, 

 except 5 colonies, which are in gingle- 

 walled Heddon hives, and packed in a 

 vault with forest leaves. 



Each colony is provided with about 28 

 pounds of winter stores, on 7 frames, 

 and, as stated above, about 300 pounds 

 of honey in ICO combs is kept in reserve 

 for spring feeding. 



I had but one swarm during the past 

 season, and my bees quit breeding one 

 month earlier than usual in former 

 years. 



We have had but few fall flowers in 

 consequence of the want of copious 

 rains at the proper time, and therefore 

 hardly any dark-colored honey this 

 season. 



Grand Island, Nebr., Nov. 7, 1893. 



Bees Packed for Winter — Ready 

 for Jack Frost, Etc. 



Written Jor the American Bee Journal 

 BY REV. W. p. FAYLOR. 



Today (Oct. 25th) I finished packing 

 my bees for the season. All are to 

 weather it out-of-doors the coming win- 

 ter. Each colony is inside of double 

 walls, with chafl-packing between the 

 walls. On the sides and beneath they 

 are all packed with clover chaff. On 

 the top of each hive is three inches of 

 oat-chaff, and over this about five inches 

 of dry forest leaves has been placed. 



I had to feed considerable this fall to 

 get the bees strong and heavy. We had 

 no honey-flow this fall — something on 

 the line of experience I had never met 

 before. I have used nothing but pure 

 extracted honey, from linden and white 

 clover, for winter stores the present 

 season. I never have had any success 

 wintering bees in a very cold climate on 

 sugar stores ; and I've tried again and 

 again. For me, the bees are always 

 slow to cap sugar-fed stores. I've given 

 it to them thick, I've given it to them 

 thin — yes, and I've given it to them the 

 other way, but in spite of all, they are 

 apt to leave a comb here and there with 

 unsealed stores, which always proves 

 detrimental in severely cold weather. 



I have one chaff-hive that contains 

 eleven colonies of bees. This big hive, 

 with as many openings, all to the east, 

 is a curiosity to the vicinity. 



THOSE VERY YELLOW BEES. 



Much has been said in praise of the 

 five-banded bees, and a good deal to the 



