June 8, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



363 



Root's Column 



PORTER 



BE.E.=ESGflPES 



FOR THE HIVE 

 AND HONEY=HOUSE 



HAVE NO EQUAL. 



Save Time, 



Save Hard Work, 



Save Stings, 



Save capping's to the honev. 



No practical bee-keeper 

 can afford to 



g-et along without them. 



Lasi a uteiime. 



Their great superioritv over 

 everything else of the kind 

 has driven all competitors 

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your 50 or 60 colonies, and using the " nice, 

 straight, empty worker-combs "' in their 

 places. 



J. M. Hambaugb — Breed up your bees be- 

 fore the harvest. Populous colonies will 

 produce the honey. 



Dr. C. C. Miller — They could be used for 

 increase, for extracting, or to give extra 

 room before and after the harvest. 



Rev. M. Mabin — I would substitute some 

 of them for any crooked or defective combs 

 in the .50 or 00 colonies. The rest I would 

 melt into wax. 



Chas. Dadant & Son — Use a part of them 

 to exchange for whatever drone-comb 

 might be in your colonies, and hive swarms 

 on the balance. 



Dr. J. P. H Brown — I would use them to 

 the best possible advantage in the " little 

 increase. '^ and to replace bad comb in the 

 other colonies. 



R. C. Aikin— For extracting. If no in- 

 crease, what else can you do with them ? 

 If you can use it that way, have them filled 

 for use in feeding. 



Jas. A. Stone— I should make up my 

 mind to go into e.xtracted honey, and use 

 them above queen-excluders: or else 1 

 would make them into beeswax. 



J. E. Pond — Sell them for the best offer 

 you can get. I ast^ume, however, that your 

 colonies are all amply provided with combs, 

 and that these are extra and not needed. 



Emerson T. Abbott — Let the bees swarm, 

 and hive the swarms on the old stand on 

 the combs, and give the swarm plenty of 

 surplus room at ouce. Move the old hive 

 away. 



O. O. Poppleton— Unless there are strong 

 reasons why you should not increase your 

 production of extracted honey, you might 

 do that. Such combs would be of much 

 value used that way. 



Prof. A. J. Cook— Melt up the poorest 

 ones — those with drone-cells and not 

 straight — which would not be required. But 

 why not increase ' If one is keeping bees 

 why not utilize all the combs ? 



C. H. Dibbern — That would depend a 

 good deal upon the season. If the prospect 

 for surplus was good, I should do all that I 

 could to keep back swarming, but should 

 use up those combs to some extent for hiv- 

 ing swarms. 



A. F. Brown — If I do not want increase I 

 should use the combs over a few colonies 

 and run them for extracted honey. It is 

 presumed you have already replaced all 

 drone combs in your colonies, and have 

 these combs left over. 



C. Davenport— First, if there were any 

 ill-shapeu or drone-combs in the hives oc- 

 cupied I would replace them with some of 

 those straight worker-combs. Here, in an 

 ordinary season, what increase could hardly 

 be avoided from that number of colonies 

 would use up the rest, or all of them. 



O. W. Demaree — I should use them to 

 catch the fall flow of honey, because at that 

 time of year, in my locality (Kentucky), 

 bees do not succeed at comb-building. But 

 if I lived in a locality where there was no 

 fall bee-pasture. I would render into wax 

 the inferior combs, keeping the best for any 

 emergency. 



D. W. Heise— If little increase is desired. 

 and mostly comb honey is to be produced, 

 and if the 50 or G(i colonies are already sup- 

 plied with as good combs as the empty ones 

 are. I would sell my surplus combs. Fail- 

 ing to secure a price equivalent to the 

 value of the wax that said combs contain. I 

 would melt them up, and use or sell the 

 wax. 



Mrs A. J. Barber — I should hive my 

 swarms upon them, putting four to six into 

 the new hive at the sides ; fill up the middle 

 with new frames with one inch starters 

 Put the hive that oast the swarm to one 

 side, and when others swarm pile them on 

 it five or six high. This will make a line 

 colony before winter, and does not increase 

 much. 



R. L. Taylor— 1 should use them first for 

 the extracted honey so far as needed, then 



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