Mar. 9, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



155 



Rooi's Goiumn 



Tllisisa a; a; a; 



Queer World, we cannot be made 

 to see all thing's alike. Some like one 

 thing-, and some another. There is a 

 class, no doubt, who hesitate to try 

 Plain Sections because of the extra ex- 

 pense of the fixtures. There is another 

 class who would not have them any- 

 how. Well, we are prepared to suit 

 everybody. We have just broug-ht out 

 a slat separator to take the place of the 

 ordinary tin or solid-wood separator. 



-J^l 



They are simply four slats bound to- 

 gether at the ends by folded tins. They 

 can be used in any super taking the 

 old-style sections ; and their cost is 

 hardly any more than wood separators. 

 We can supply them for 80 cents per 

 100, either for T supers or for section- 

 holders. For odd-sized supers, of course 

 we shall have to make additional 

 charge. They can be supplied with 

 our regular S super — that is, the supers 

 with old-style sections and section- 

 holders, or with our regular T supers. 



Mr. J. E. Crane produced several 

 thousand pounds of honey with sepa- 

 rators of this kind, and he is of the 

 opinion that the freer communication 

 afforded gave him fuller and better 

 boxes : but the boxes were hardly as 

 complete and nice as those from fences. 



Keep Your Eye on 

 this Column, ^C^C^C 



as we may be able to save you dollars. 



Tnefl.l.RooiGoiupanu 



MEDINA, OHIO. 





Prospects Good for Honey. 



According to present indications South- 

 ern Indiana, and especially Vanderburgh 

 county, will have a good honey-yield for 

 the season of isiill. We have had the largest 

 rainfall for quite a number of years. A 

 heavy snow falling just immediately before 

 the recent cold wave, when the mercury 

 reacht 1.5 degrees below, saved the most 

 of our young honey-plants from freezing 

 out. I examined and found the roots of the 

 dry weather honey-vine to have withstood 

 the cold weather nicely, thus insuring a 

 bountiful supply of rarest nectar from this 

 source, should the summer be hot enough. 

 However, clover does not look so well, altho 

 it is somewhat early in the season. Large 

 losses of bees are reported all around. 



J. C. Wali.enmeykr. 



Vanderburgh Co , Ind., Feb. 23. 



Bees Had Good Flight. 



Bees had a good flight Feb. 31. My 34 col- 

 onies all seem to be in fair condition. I 

 have thus far lost none. 



John Stroebel, Jr. 



Saginaw Co., Mich., Feb. 27. 



Don't Depend on Neighbors. 



I have four colonies of bees. I bought one 

 colony in 18%. and that year they did not 

 get a pound of honey; they would have 

 starved if we bad not fed them. The year 

 ISflT we got about 100 pounds, mostly from 

 sweet clover, but some heart's ease. The 

 year 1S9S we got 37.5 pounds. My husband 

 was discouraged, he could not work with 

 the bees, as his work kept him so busy that 

 be had no time to spare. We sent for our 

 neighbor every time there was anything to 

 be done with the bees, so last year 1 told 

 my husband to send for a veil and smoker, 

 and I woidd help take care of them myself. 

 This thing of depending on someone else is 

 all nonsense. 



We just paokt our bees and left them on 

 the summer stands. It is very cold at pres- 

 ent—five degrees below zero. 



RENA LiFORGE. 



Cowley Co., Kans., Feb. 0. 



Bees Working Hard. 



I have 11.5 colonies of bees in good shape, 

 and the prospect are for a good year. We 

 are having fine weather. Pussy willows are 

 in bloom, and bees are working hard. 



Kings Co., Cal., Jan. 8. B. P. Shirk. 



Doolittle's Funnel for Malting Nuclei 



What is the size of the bee-funnel recom- 

 mended by Mr. Doolittle to shake bees into, 

 when making nuclei ? What I want are 

 top and bottom dimensions. 



J. N. Ladenburger. 



[We referred the above question to Mr. 

 Doolittle, who answers as follows: — Ed.] 



Answer.— I think that the funnels used 

 by the A. I. Root Co.. and others, in put- 

 ting up bees by the pound, were an oblong 

 at the top, the sides being perpen- 

 dicular till commg near the bottom, when 

 a gradual slant was made till the outlet 

 to the funnel was reacht, which outlet 

 should be not less than 2i., inches in diam- 

 eter, in any funnel made for this purpose. 

 If smaller than this, the bees will clog in 

 this narrow part, when a full frame of 

 them are shaken in at once, a thing which 

 we nearly always want to do. 



But I bad my funnel made the same as an 

 ordinary funnel is made, the top of which 

 was 10 inches in diameter, the sides gradu- 

 ally sloping, at about the angle used in the 



^^H ■ ■ ^ Tucrl f.fw L-ust>imcre lo ttst my aeede 

 ^^ WM HJ m^^ I will mail tny haD.i&nmi; catuloff 

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To crt f 



I will mail my haDdsnme catuloffue 

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'ET MORE EGGS 



Feed the he us un (Creen 



will lay ilouhle the egfrs 

 ripht in the niiiidh- of the winter. 



DANDY ^?S?H^ 



mLnhllj''- I'^r ] 



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