THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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oiie-eifrlitli as much of the cheapest 

 Porte Rico molasses that can he sot. 

 and cook tor atxnit 10 minutes longer, 

 stirrinj; contiinially to prevent burn- 

 injr. if tcH) thick t"o spread easily (as 

 will probably be the case), thin with 

 warm or hot water, mixing well before 

 nsina;. If lumpy, squeeze through a 

 cheese clotli or a stout, loose-woven 

 linen towel. Do not use a molasses 

 that is adulterated. I get mine at a 

 grocery that has a large Irish trade. 



This paste, if well made of good 

 materials, will fasten i)aper or cloth 

 tirmly to metal, eartlienwiye or other 

 packages, and labels put on with it 

 will bear rough usage without mar- 

 ring. 1 have lately had occasion to 

 think that perhaps" a good quality of 

 sugar might take the place of the mo- 

 lasses, but do not know. If it woidd 

 answer, the advantage in using it 

 would be the less difficulty in getting 

 it. 



Owasco, N. Y. 



Haldimand, Ontario, Association. 



A meeting of this associiition w.as 

 held at Jarvis, on Monday, Feb. 11, 

 pursuant to adjournment. Minutes 

 of the previous meeting read and ap- 

 proved. The membership fee was 

 made 25 cents. 



The question of the best method of 

 wintering bees was then taken up. 

 Mr. Kindree winters his bees on the 

 summer stands, in chaff hives, with 

 plenty of stores. He puts a division- 

 board in the front part of the hive, 

 and tills the space with chafT, and has 

 success. 



The President winters his bees in a 

 clamp, with a foot of chaff all around 

 them, and a place of exit through the 

 chaff. This is the first winter he had 

 tried it, and does not know how they 

 will succeed. 



Mr. Armstrong winters his bees in 

 a shed or clamp, with 10 inches of 

 chaff on the south side, and a foot on 

 the north side, and IS inches of saw- 

 dust on top. They are doing well, 

 and he thinks they will come through 

 all right. 



Mr. Kitchen urged the importance 

 of having plenty of young brood late 

 in the fall, with plenty of stores, and 

 he would almost guarantee them to 

 come through all right. 



The Secretary and Mr. Buckley 

 gave their experience on cellar win- 

 tering, and thought it a very good 

 plan. 



How to prevent spring dwindling ? 

 The President thought the great cause 

 of spring dwindling was allowing the 

 bee to fly out too early in the spring, 

 and becoming chilled ; they were un- 

 able to return. One great preventa- 

 tive was to devise some means of 

 keeping the bees in the hive until the 

 weather is warm enough for them to 



iiy. 



Mr. Kitchen kept his bees closed up 

 as long as possible, and after allowing 

 them a flight, he kept them closed up 

 for another month, or until the weath- 

 er was warm, and fed them until they 

 commenced to swarm. 



The President gave some interest- 

 ing reminiscences of early bee hives, 



and recommended the Jones hive as 

 being easy to handle, and simple in 

 its operations. 



Mr. Vanderburgli spoke in favor of 

 the tenement hive as being an easy 

 hive to handle, and an excellent one 

 in which to winter. 



Mr. Kitchen spoke in favor of a 

 hive of his own make, and thought 

 it was ahead of any in use. 



The Secretary ' mentioned a tew 

 points which he considered essential, 

 and thought the .fones liive about filled 

 the bill. 



The account of E. C. Campbell, for 

 printing, $4.2-5, was ordered to be 

 paid. 



The next meeting will be held at 

 Ilagersville, on the 30th of May, at 

 10 a. m. 



Subjects for next meeting: "Best 

 race of bees ;"'■ Best way of putting 

 up extracted honey ;" " A report of 

 losses during the winter and spring." 



A vote of thanks was given to Mr. 

 Kitchen for his attendance at the 

 meeting, and for the information 

 given in his remarks on the subjects 

 under discussion. 



E. C. Campbell, Sec. 



For the American Bee JouraaL 



Below vs. Above, for Section Honey. 



ALLEN ruINGLE. 



I notice that Dr. G. L. Tinker 

 thinks it "impossible to get nicely 

 capped, clean, white and beautiful 

 combs either ati the sides of or between 

 brood combs." Some other bee-keep- 

 ers are of the same opinion, contend- 

 ing that the upper stories are the 

 places par excellence for producing good 

 section box honey. 



I beg to say most respectfully that 

 these gentlemen are mistaken. I have 

 produced as beautiful section box 

 honey in the lower story or brood- 

 chamber as can be produced above. 

 This is the way I do it : When the 

 surplus honey season is in, having got 

 the colonies intended for section 

 honey well developed and sti'ong, oc- 

 cupying from 8 to 12 brood frames. I 

 take from a given colony (that has, 

 say 10 frames) 3 frames away, leaving 

 all or nearly all of the bees behind. 

 There will be now remaining in the 

 hive 7 of the best brood frames with 

 an abundance of bees. I then dispose 

 these 7 frames in the front part of the 

 hive — those having most brood in the 

 fore front, and those having least (one 

 perhaps with drone comb and honey) 

 furthest back from the entrance. 



The reader will bear in mind that 

 the frames of this hive— the Jones 

 hive — hang parallel with the entrance. 

 I now hang 2 or 8 frames of sections 

 containing 9 each immediately behind 

 the brood frames, thus filling up the 

 hive. The section frame used has 3 

 strips of tin something over 3 inches 

 wide tacked on one side of it directly 

 over the three rows or tiers of section 

 boxes which are aj2x434 inches in size 

 — the longest measure (4J4) crossing 

 the tin strips at right angles. This 

 leaves a narrow entrance into the 

 section boxes at the top and bottom 

 of each row. 



In putting in the frames of sections, 

 this tinned side must of course be put 

 faciiKj the nearest l)roo<l frame, and 

 the next frame put with its tinned 

 side facing the open sid(^ of the lirst 

 one, and so on, placing divison-board 

 behind all if needed to Hll up. Some- 

 times the perforated zinc division- 

 board is useful between the brood 

 frames and the section frames, but I 

 have never yet had occasion to use it, 

 though the " perforated metal as pre- 

 pared by D. A. Jones is very useful 

 for various purposes. I have never 

 been troubled with the queen in the 

 section boxes, nor with pollen. But 

 the brood fr: mes must be kept clear 

 for the quec n. Keep the extractor 

 going upon them whenever necessary. 

 jVnd if the honey flow is abundant, 

 you will have the satisfaction of tak- 

 ing out a full case of well-capped, 

 beautiful honey every two or three 

 days. The section frame nearest the 

 brood frames will be filled and fin- 

 ished first. Upon removing it shift 

 the nearest one to it (which is per- 

 haps half full) up in its place, and put 

 in an empty one behind all. Upon 

 opening a hive to take out the full 

 section frame, should you find two or 

 three sections not fully capped over, 

 it is, I think, bad policy to put it back 

 again to wait for a full finish. Take 

 out two or three unfinished ones and 

 put them in your empty frame. 



From my experience I am very 

 strongly in favor of the lower story for 

 section box honey, especially in a hive 

 like the Jones hive, where the frames 

 hang across the hive, and you can put 

 your section boxes in the rear instead 

 of at the sides. In such a hive I can 

 get far more section-box honey below 

 than above, and of a quality as good 

 as any. 



When, therefore, I notice the in- 

 credulity of some leading bee-keepers 

 on this point, I feel amused as well as 

 surprised. Of course it requires at- 

 tention and skillful manipulation, but 

 with those elements it can be made a 

 grand success. 



I am not condemning other methods 

 of getting section box honey; fori 

 practice other methods myself in 

 other styles of hive, but this is my 

 most successful one. I am only re- 

 futing the notion that it is impossible 

 to get first-class section honey in the 

 brood-chamber. 



Selby, Ont., Feb. 5, 1884. 



For tbe American Bee Journal* 



Bees Flying in Winter. 



S. B. ATWATER. 



Should bees be restrained from fly- 

 ing while the ground is covered with 

 snow V 



This is a question in the wintering 

 problem, which, at the present time, 

 is of interest to me. My experience, 

 so far, has been confined to wintering 

 bees on the summer stands. During 

 the winter of 1880 and 1881,1 had a 

 dozen colonies that were confined to 

 their hives from the middle of No- 

 vember to the 2d day of March, and 

 during the most of this time the hives 

 were so covered with drifts of snow 



