1903 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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crimson clover. Some even go far enoug-h 

 to sow buckwheat and catnip. That be- 

 longs to the business, and makes the man 

 all the more a professional. 



It has been intimated that the reason why 

 the bees in Medina did not put brood into 

 the L. frames clear to the top-bar was the 

 elongation of the cells next to the top-bar. 

 What I want to know is, does the foundation 

 j-ou use in horizontall}' wired frames sag- 

 an3% so that the cells are elong-ated? If it 

 does there must be something- wrong with 

 the wiring. I have often seen combs, built 

 on narrow starters, sag enough along the 

 upper part of the frame so that drone brood 

 was raised therein. 



Were 30U aware, Mr. Root, that these 

 Texans make a big- blow about their pro- 

 ducing chunk comb honej'? If you don't si- 

 lence them the predictions are you won't 

 sell many sections in the near future. You 

 know I begin to be very favorably impress- 

 ed with the idea, and have already decid- 

 ed to Hood mj' town with the article next 

 fall. I have formerly sold all m.y unfinish- 

 ed honey as chunk hone^- in tin pans and 

 buckets, at a reduced price, and alwa3's 

 found willing buj^ers. It might be expected 

 that the regular Texas st3le of chunk hon- 

 e3', with extracted hone3' poured over it, 

 will take readilv' also; just think how many 

 basswood-trees might be saved for better 

 J use, producing nectar, if the3' were not 

 needed for section-making. 



Absorbents, says Gleanings, do not give 

 as good results in Medina as sealed covers. 



The same seems to be true with our bees 

 near Niagara Falls. Locality makes all 

 the difference. In Ontario Co., absorbents 

 give me best results every time. 

 Naples, N. Y. F. Greiner. 



[This year our bees ran their brood more 

 up to the top-bars than I ever saw them do 

 before. The peculiarit3- of the season seems 

 to be responsible largely for this. It is not 

 true that the cells next to the top-bars are 

 elongated because of the stretching of the 

 foundation. When there is stretching there 

 is carelessness in wiring. Of course, if 

 the foundation is too thin it will stretch on 

 good wiring. 



The scarcity of lumber for making sec- 

 tions ma3' force the bee-keepers into chunk 

 honey more and more as time goes on. But 

 chunk honey must be sold locally among 

 neighbors and friends, or near-by markets. 

 It would hardly "pass muster" in distant 

 markets until those markets have been edu- 

 cated to receive hone3' of that kind. Con- 

 sumers have been fooled a good many times 

 into bu3'ing chunk hone3', getting instead 

 broken pieces of comb and pure glucose. 

 When they get a dose of this kind tiey will 

 not bu3' again. Chunk hone3'^ is open to the 

 objection, like extracted, that it can be 

 adulterated or glucosed, while comb honey 

 in sections is alwa3-s pure bee honey. Of 

 course glucose can be fed back to fill out 

 comb hone3'; but it is a slow, expensive job, 

 and will not pay in the end, and the prac- 

 tice;will never be carried out. — Ed.] 



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