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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



3. I would not alter my preferred 

 ■width of sections, if I choose to glass 

 them. If the glass goes within the 

 wide pieces (resting on the narrow), 

 separators should be used while stor- 

 ing, and I would use \% in. scant, sec- 

 tions. If I glassed on the outside of 

 the wide pieces of the sections (using 

 paste-board cap, top and bottom, a la 

 Moore) no separators would be needed, 

 and I now think I would use 13>^ in. 

 sections, thougli those would be rather 

 thin, for so much glass. I much pre- 

 fer 1 lb. sections without separators, 

 and without glass. 



4. Answered above. 



5. In some markets none. In others, 

 more is paid for those unglassed. 



Regarding the future practice of pro- 

 ducers, ask yourself which you would 

 buy. You are wiser than the con- 

 sumer. Something of what you know, 

 he has yet to learn. 



" For truth shall conquer at the last, 

 Afl round and round we run ; 

 And the right shall ever come uppermost, 

 And justice shall be done." 



sider cheapest and best. This crate 

 has a capacity well equal to 2 lbs. of 

 bees. We use it for 1 lb. also. For 

 100 lbs. we should prefer the use of 50 

 of them, to any thing larger. 



Preparing Bees for Shipment. 



Will Mr. J. Heddon in the " What 

 and How " column, please give ex- 

 plicit directions for preparing bees for 

 shipment, when sold by the pound, in 

 lots varying from 5 to 100 pounds ? 

 How to inake the shipping cages, how 

 much room to give them, kind of feed, 

 etc. C. Weeks. 



Clifton, Tenn. 



For a cage for shipping bees by the, 

 pound, I use my shipping crate. The 

 same which was described three or 

 four weeks ago, in this paper, by W. 

 Z. Hutchinson. The crate is 12}4 in. 

 long, 8% wide, and 4% high, with 2x9 

 glass at the ends. Instead of the glass, 

 we put in wire cloth. For a cover we 

 use the same, and for the whole, we 

 use one continuous strip. We use a 

 proper sized wood pocket, on each in- 

 ner side of the crate, in the one we 

 put wet rags, containing all the water 

 they will hold and not drip. In the 

 other, what is known, as the Viallon 

 or Good candy. We open one end of 

 the case, insert a large tin funnel " a 

 la Root," and shake the bees from the 

 combs into this funnel, when they 

 slip into the cage to stay. Now tack 

 fast the end, and set the crate down 

 flat. I forgot to mention a wood bail 

 which we make of thin flat barrel 

 hoops, which is tacked permanently 

 to the sides of the crate, which serves 

 as a handle, and prevents the top be- 

 ing covered. A more lengthy account 

 of all the detail, would take too much 

 room here. I have tried to give an 

 outline of the principle I use and con- 



Metal Rabbets for Frames to Rest On. 



Will Mr. Heddon kindly give, 

 through " What and How " his objec- 

 tion to metal rabbets for frames to 

 rest on, provided the frames are metal 

 cornered 'f 



1. When all-wood frames are used, 

 I can readily understand from my 

 own short experience, why metal 

 rabbets are worse than useless, as the 

 bees will glue the top bars to them, 

 rendering it necessary to pry them 

 loose sideways, and uiiless very care- 

 fully done, irritating the bees ; but 

 would not all trouble be avoided by 

 tlie use of metal corners, (tops at 

 least) and would not the advantage of 

 being so readily moved, more than 

 counter-balance the additional cost y 



2. Would there be any advantage or 

 disadvantage in adding salicylic acid 

 to the syrup, when feeding, aa a pre- 

 ventive of foul brood ? '%k-- { ' 



3. At the proper time, will he please 

 give the details of his method of win- 

 tering bees without pollen V 



J. W. Rasik. 

 Jenkingtowu, fa. 



I. For three years I used 25 hives 

 with metal' rabbets, and metal cor- 

 nered frames. In 1871 I first used 

 metal rabbets with all wood top-bars, 

 and have used them ever since in ex- 

 tracting supers. At the date men- 

 tioned, I used them in brood cham- 

 bers. In eitder place, I prefer all 

 wood top-bars with metal rabbets, to 

 the use of metal corners ^\ath metal 

 rabbets. My objections to metal cor- 

 ners are, they are disagreeable to 

 handle. Whenaheavycombis gripped 

 sufficiently firm to shake off the bees, 

 they bend in the fingers, and some- 

 times their cutting tendency hurts 

 the fingers. If you read my late arti- 

 cle on readily movable hives, you will 

 see how one working under our sys- 

 tem, would be annoyed by metal cor- 

 nered frames sliding about. In our 

 brood chambers we waut neither 

 metal corners nor metal rabbets. In 

 extracting supers we want metal rab- 

 bets, but no metal corners any where. 

 A wood top-bar resting upon a tin 

 rabbet does away with more than J| 

 of the ordinary gluing-fast of the 

 frames. The bees cannot glue the top 

 bars to them but very little, and this 

 little we desire; and in the brood-cham- 

 ber we desire still more gluing, in fact 

 all that we find between our wood top- 

 bars and wood rabbets. 



With the almost immovable chaff 

 hive, metal rabbets are more consist- 

 ent ; we fold no tin in constructing 



metal rabbets. We rabbet down % 

 below the desired point, and then tack 

 a }4 strip of tin flatly to the inside of 

 the end piece of the hive, % being 

 above, and % below the rabbet shoul- 

 der. 



2. I wouldn't advise drugging the 

 food given to bees with as powerful 

 au antiseptic as salicylic acid merely 

 as a preventive of foul brood, unless 

 it had been in my apiary. The best 

 and surest preventive is in using 

 great caution in the purchase of bees, 

 queens, etc. 



3. The proper time to give details 

 of the method of wintering bees with- 

 out pollen will be when we know to a 

 certainty that it is the cause of dysen- 

 tery. At present we only believe it 

 so, and hope to know soon. 



1^ The 5th annual Convention of 

 the Xortheastern Ohio and North- 

 western Pennsylvania Bee -Keepers' 

 Association, will be held at Jefferson, 

 Ohio, Jan. 16 and 17, 1884. All are 

 cordially invited. 



C. H. Coon, Sec. 



New Lyme, O., Nov. 26, 1883. 



1^ The Ohio bee-keepers will hold 

 their annual convention in the parlors 

 of the Farmers' Hotel, at Columbus, 

 0.,Jan. 14,15 and 16,1884. All in- 

 terested in bee-culture are invited. 

 The following subjects will be dis- 

 cussed ; " How to winter bees suc- 

 cessfully." " Are the new races of 

 bees a success V" " Wiat can we do 

 to prevent adulteration of honey ?" 

 " How to create a home market for 

 honey." " Plow many colonies can be 

 kept in one locality?' "Can we do 

 without separators ?" " Which are 

 best, deep or shallow frames '?" "What 

 shall we do with second swarms ?" 

 " How many brood frames are neces- 

 sary in a hive y" "Which is the most 

 salable section, one-half, one or two 

 pomids '?" " Is it advisable for all 

 bee-keepers to adopt a standard size 

 of frame y" " What is the most de- 

 sirable width of sections ?" 



The above questions will be dis- 

 cussed by eminent men, such as Rev. 

 L. L. Langstroth, Dr. Besse, S. D. 

 Riegel, C. F. Muth, A. I. Root.'of Me- 

 dina, and others, and in addition to 

 the above. Prof. Lizeuby, of the Ohio 

 University, will deliver a lectiu:e on 

 " Honey-producing plants :" also Mrs. 

 Jeimie Gulp will read an essay. 



C. M. KiNGSBUKY, Sec. 



Ribbon Badges, for bee-keepers, on 

 which are printed a large bee in gold, 

 we send for 10 cts. each, or $8 per 100. 



^" It must be understood that, 

 should an advertiser desire to cancel 

 an unexpired contract, he can do so 

 only by paying regular rates for the 

 number of insertions his advertise- 

 ment has bad. 



