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GEORGE W. YORK, Editor. 









39th YEAR, 



CHICAGO, ILL., MAY 25, 1899. 



No. 21. 



Brood-Frame for Comb and Extracted Honey. 



BY C. A. BUNCH. 



HAVING used the Siraplicity-Langstroth frame for 13 

 seasons. I think it is all right for the production of 

 comb honey, and I like the frame first-rate ; but for the 

 production of extracted honey I would like the frame about 

 two inches deeper. I tind the frame is too shallow, as Mr. 

 C. P. Dadant well saj's. 



My hive for extracting has 12 Langstroth frames in 

 the brood-chamber, and the supers are the same length and 

 width, and hold 10 frames 6 inches deep, which make an 

 ideal super, only that the queen is very apt to go up from 

 the shallow Lang-stroth frames below and laj' eggs in the 

 extracting-combs, which causes the bees to store all. or 

 nearly all. the honey there about the eggi and brood, which 

 does not suit me. as I want my bees to feed themselves for 

 winter, and place the hone^' in the brood-nest, enough at 

 least to winter on. 



I consider this a serious fault, but ver^- little is said 

 about it, and I think I will never change to a deeper frame 

 for the brood-chamber, as it would cost too much, but what 

 I have said may be the cause of the beginner in apiculture 

 investigating the matter, which might be to his advantage. 



FULL SHEETS OR ST.\KTERS IX SECTIONS— WHICH ? 



Full sheets of foundation in sections, or starters ^4 inch 

 deep — which shall we use? For myself I want to say it is a 

 well known fact that full sheets of foundation in sections 

 do not of themselves secure a crop of honey. Bear this in 

 mind. 



After experimenting along this line for years, I have 

 time and again filled sections one-half to three-fourths full 

 of foundation and placed them carefully on the hives only 

 to take them off a couple of months later to scrape them 

 and put foundation in them again. And why? Just be- 

 cause we had a poor season, and the bees borrowed said 

 foundation and carried it down below. But a good season 

 would cause drone-comb to be built in the sections, that 

 Editor Root says would be more " gobby " eating, which I 

 think is more imagination than real harm. Am I not 

 about right ? 



REPORT FOR THE SE.4SON OF 1898. 



I commenced the season with 87 colonies of bees in fair 

 condition, increast to 92, and took off 1,200 pounds of honey, 

 about two-thirds extracted and one-third comb, which is far 

 below the average of my apiary — 27 pounds. 



Marshall Co., lud. 



Height to Which Sweet Clover Grows. 



BY W. W. L.^THROP. 



THIS picture was taken to show how hig-h sweet clover 

 grows in my back y;ird. I am S feet 9 '4 inches tall, 

 and I hold a two-foot rule in my hand, which shows 

 that the clover at that end of the row is 9 feet hig-h. 



The plants in the fiireground are cleome pungens and 

 gladiolus ; at the right, blackberries and tomato vines ; in 

 the background, a plum and an apple tree ; and in the shade 

 of these are my five hives with bees, one of which can be 

 seen. Fairfield Co., Conn. 



Hauling- Bees to and from Out-Apiaries. 



BY C. DAVKNl'ORT. 



FOR the benefit of those who haul bees to and from out- 

 yards, I will describe the screens I use and the manner 

 of fastening them to the hives. No nails are used, yet 

 they are more firmly and quickly fastened over the top of a 



