1905. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



213 



THE 



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Do not confine yourself to one bee 

 paper, nor to one paper in any spe- 

 cialty for that matter, but take two 

 or more that you may get a broader 

 and better idea of the subject. Inci- 

 dentally it will pay. 



The editor of the Rural says: 

 'There seems to be two sides to the 

 baby nuclei question." More than that 

 Suh! Good side, bad side, inside, out- 

 side, and whose side do you take as 

 the originator, Suh? 



Last spring the Agricultural De- 

 partment sent to various bee-keepers 

 packets of seeds of honey producing 

 plants. Have any of the recipients 



succeeded in making any grow? Our 

 own experience and that of several 

 others was failure to make any seed 

 germinate. 



Our Kansas City correspondents, 

 Messrs. C. C. Clemmons & Co., write, 

 under date September 11, that they are 

 unable to get in a supply of honey to 

 meet the demand, at $3.00 to $3.25 per 

 case for fancy white comb. 



Are you troubled with the competi- 

 tion of some negligent, slip-shod 

 neighboring bee-keeper? If you are 

 smart enough to stay in business you 

 will be able either to make him a decent 

 competitor or to induce him to sell to 

 you his bees or his honey. 



Mr. Thos. Chantry, who has been 

 harvesting sage honey in the moun- 

 tains of Southern California this sea- 

 son, is back at Sioux Cuy, la., with a 

 carload of his product, to take care of 

 his old customers in that vicinity. Mr. 

 Chantry is one 01 the Iiustling bee- 

 keepers who do things. 



The Rural Bee-Keeper speaks right 

 out plain about a few of the many 

 faults of the Danzenbaker hive. That 

 is unkind, Bro. Putnam. You should 

 refrain from spoiling a good thing. 

 What if the frames do "turn turtle" 

 when separated from one another, what 

 if they are glued to the hive securely 

 enough to make a saint angry, even 

 though it is the champion bee-killer 

 you should keep from meddling. 



Mr. A. Laing says in the August Re- 

 view: ''I say lo-frame hives, because 

 they give stronger colonies, are less 

 likely to swarm, and last, but not least, 

 they seldom require feeding, and this 

 is very important in an out-apiary." The 

 air trembles with the shouts of "here- 

 sy." Evidently, Mr. Laing has not 

 learned the commercial possibilities of 

 sugar syrup honey, or, being a Ca- 

 nadian, he scorns the tricks of his 

 Yankee neighbors. 



"We have no winter problem; 40 to 

 50 or more pounds of honey left in a 

 hive at the close of the extracting sea- 

 son, will put the bees through the win- 

 ter with plenty of young bees and 

 strong in numbers. Colonies left with 

 only IS to 20 pounds of honey do not 

 breed up so strong for the winter, and 

 come through in a weakened condi- 

 tion." So says Mr. M. H. Mendelson 



