THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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For the American Bee Journal. 



Storing Honey iii Sections. 



C. H. DEANE. 



Some of my con-espoiulents are 

 comi)l:iining. that if 1 have a sood 

 thing, I ousht not to be afraid to 

 stiow it up. and as I certainly want 

 all the bee-keeper.s in the land to give 

 it a trial I will make the etfort. 



My system for top and side storing 

 is composed of eleven cases, 2 lioop 

 iron frames, 2 wooden clamps and li 

 wire loops; these make one set for a 

 \^ story hive, by adding 7 more 



2. You can loosen the whole 7 cases 

 in an instant, simply by shoving the 

 small loops of wire to the center and 

 lifting off the clamps. You can then 

 pick out any case or section withoiit 

 disturbing any other. 



3. You can use them with or with- 

 out separators. When used without 

 separat(ns, use perforated division 

 board in lower story. 



4. The cases can be alternated from 

 top to side. 



5. They can be sent to market just 

 as they come from the hive, simply by 

 placing heavy brown paper on top and 

 bottom and tacking strips across bot- 

 tom and top and into clamps. 



6. Wlien trussed up you can handle 

 the 7 ca-ses like a solid box. 



Deane-s iiection Case. 



cases and 2 clamps, it can be made 2 

 stories, and increase the capacity from 

 ■U to 72 lbs., and so on up as high as it 

 is desirable to tier. To handle these 

 cases yon are to place 7 cases side by 

 side and a clamp on each side ; these 

 clamps have 2 screws in each end ; 

 you now take the wire loop mentioned 

 above, and put it over these screws, 

 and this gives you 2 parallel wires 

 running from one clamp to the otlier 

 and about 2'^ inches apart ; place 2 

 small wire loops around these wires 

 drawing them nearly together rii the 

 center. I\ow truss the cases up by 

 shoving the small loops toward the 

 screws in clamps; and if properly 

 done the wires will ring like fiddle 

 strings. 



The iron frames are to suspend 2 of 

 these cases on each side of tlie brood 

 nest in the lower story, and are made 



Iron Broad-Frame for Sections. 



7. I3y arranging U inch strips all 

 around on top of brood frames and 

 resting the cases on these, you can 

 throw all the heat into the sections. 



8. The sections fit the cases so 

 snugly that there is neither end nor 

 side shake when trussed up, and in 

 consequence the bees will not stick 

 the sections with propolis. 



9. Any Langstroth or simplicity 

 hive, UJii inches wide, inside meas- 

 ure, will take 7 of these cases and 

 leave }4 inch to spare. 



It seems to me, Mr". Editor, that the 

 advantages enumerated above are 

 unnecessary ; for after the testimony 

 of the North American Bee-Keepers' 

 Society that " it combines all the 

 necessarv arrangements simple and 

 complete," (See Bee Jouunal, vol. 

 XVII, No. 42, page 333), that every bee 

 keener in America ought to give ♦'-'' 

 system a trial and test its merits. 



Mortonsville, Ky., Feb. 2. 1882. 



bees with brimstone. It is a great 

 mistake for bee-keepers to give en- 

 couragement or aid to any person 

 who has 11(1 taste for the business. If 

 such a one is started in the business 

 and subscribes for a bee paper, the 

 reading is all Dutch to him, unless he 

 posts himself from some standard 

 work, and this but very few of 

 this class will take the time or trou- 

 ble to do, and the bee paper is 

 soon thrown aside. Furthermore, a 

 farmer tliat has all he can attend to, 

 has no business to engage in bee- 

 keeping, for where there are many 

 irons in the fire some will burn, and it 

 is sure to be the bee-keeping that will 

 burn. There are many farmers' wives 

 that would make capital managers of 

 the neglected apiary, but household 

 cares, numerous children, no taste for 

 study, are barriers but tew seldom 

 surmount. 



AVe have a plan that works very 

 well with this class of bee men. If 

 they are within six or eight miles of 

 us, we first talk purchase to them. If 

 they sell at a reasonable price we buy 

 their entire apiary. If we cannot buy, 

 we then make them an offer to take 

 tliem on shares, and usually we can 

 make a bargain with them to our 

 mutual benefit. The farmer gets the 

 benefit of expert handling, and gets 

 more honey than he ever dreamed his 

 bees could gather, while the expert 

 bee-keeper will also reap a fair return 

 for his labor. 



Let us, therefore, encourage the 

 person who is really in earnest and 

 proposes to make it his business, and 

 discourage the man who wants to 

 keep bees just to get a little for hia 

 own use, by brimstoning his bees. 



Ilartfol-d, N. Y. 



this 



For the American Bee Journal. 



Some more Slovenly Bee-Keeling. 



For tne American Bee JournaL 



About Bee-Keeping in Colorado. 



womak's industuial ass'n. 



J. H. martin. 



Section, shoieiny Joints. 



to fit the cases. Any practical bee- 

 keeper ought to be able to make this 

 system, if he has a saw for dovetail- 

 ing ; but let him bear in mind, that it 

 is absolutely necessary that the bot- 

 tom bar come directly in the center 

 of the end pieces, otherwise, in tier- 

 ing up, the slots will not come directly 

 over one another, as they should, in 

 order that the bees may pass from one 

 to the otlier. The system can be ap- 

 plied to any hive with movable 

 combs. 



The advantages of this system are : 

 1. The cases have no top bar, and the 

 sections can bemanipulatetl witli per- 

 fect ease by the operator. 



On page 181 of the Bee Journal 

 the Rev. L. Johnson, gives us an ex- 

 treme case of slovenly bee-keeping. 

 And I venture to say, that nearly 

 every bee-keeper in the country can 

 point to just about such bee-keeping 

 in his own vicinity. 



Tlieir object in keeping bees Is to 

 get just a little honey for their own 

 use, and thereby save buying it, and 

 it is a precious little they use, for the 

 very first full box of white honey they 

 take off is trottecl off to the store and 

 traded off for cheap molasses, at 

 wliatever iirice the merchant may put 

 upon it. The "' honey for home con- 

 sumption " comes from those late 

 swarms that are brimstoned in the 

 fall. Such a class of bee-keepers ruin 

 the country markets, and bring dis- 

 credit upon the whole fraternity by 

 their slovenly management, and 

 finally their cruel taking off of the 



There are at least 2,000 colonies of 

 bees, mainly Italians, in the State. 

 Colorado is as well adapted to profita- 

 ble bee-keejiing as California, and the 

 honey we can produce is sweeter and 

 whiter than any other introduced in 

 the market. There is hardly a farm 

 or garden in the west where bees will 

 not prosper, and the mountain foot- 

 hills are peculiarly adapted to them. 



In the spring of 1870, Dr. King, of 

 Boulder, Col., sent to Indiana for one 

 colony of bees. They arrived in good 

 order. Being a novice in the art of 

 handling the little creatures, and hav- 

 ing the fear of their sting in liis mind, 

 he had a hired man attend to them 

 and get them comfortably fixed in 

 their new quarters before he visited 

 them. But, as all bee-keepers do, he 

 soon learned that the fear was an idle 

 one, and in a short time he, could 

 handle them as if they were house 

 files. 



Allowing his bees to cast only one 

 swarm from each hive, he doubled his 

 number, and had a fine crop of honey. 

 One colony filled -5 stories of the 

 American hive full of honey. 



Obtaining some imported Italian 

 queens, he has since bred from them 



