1895. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



417 



and were well stocked with white honey. 

 One thin5< I think I have learned is, never 

 to attempt to winter bees on honey-dew. 

 May its visits be few and far between. 



On page 378, J. S. Scott says: " A good 

 way to equalize the strength of colonies of 

 bees in spring is to change the hives 

 around." I tried it. Result: Lost both of 

 the weaker colonies experimented with. In 

 both cases the queens of the weaker colo- 

 nies were killed, or died very suddenly 

 through fright, Joy. or some other cause. 

 One was a recently introduced Italian ; the 

 other a native black queen. It proved too 

 short a kink for those queens. 



Bees wintered badly as a whole last win- 

 ter, in this locality, but the outlook is fair 

 for what are left. 



" Better late than never," I hope will ap- 

 ply to rectifying mistakes. Some time ago 

 E . Tarr, of "Haystack Mountain Apiary," 

 was credited with a crop of 7,500 pounds of 

 honey. It should have read " 1,500 pounds." 

 O. B. Griffin. 



Caribou, Maine, Junel. 



A Report. 



Last spring I started with one colony, 

 and this spring I had three good ones. I 

 obtained 1415 pounds of honey last season. 

 Israel Gross. 



New Lexington, Pa., June 10. 



May be a Dragon-Fly. 



A new bee-killer — an insect which flies, 

 of greenish color, with a silver stripe on 

 the back in the form of a diamond. I saw 

 it kill about 30 bees, and kill them instantly. 

 What is it ? Horace Buker. 



Rossie, N. Y. 



[The description is too meager. It may 

 be a dragon-fly. — A. J. CoOK.] 



Prevention of Brace-Combs. 



After reading J. M. Moore's letter on 

 page, 37.T, I feel pretty sure that the spac- 

 ing-tacks have nothing to do with the mat- 

 ter of brace-combs. If he will cut away the 

 shoulders of his Hoffman frames, and then 

 use tacks that will keep the top-bars Just 

 as far apart as they were before. I think he 

 will find there will be no change as to re- 

 sults. There is a difference that he men- 

 tions, however, that I am beginning to 

 think may have some bearing on the case. 

 His Hoffman frames are spaced 1''^' from 

 center to center— probably a little more on 

 account of bee-glue — while his other frames 

 are spaced IJ4'. On page 376, H. F. Johan- 

 ning says : "I find that by spacing close, I 

 prevent (or at least I think I do) braces be- 

 tween the combs." Not a great while ago 

 I found a novice who had wintered a colony 

 in fine condition with 'J frames in a space 

 of less than 13 inches. He said the bees 

 built brace-combs it he used only 8 combs. 

 While such close spacing may prevent 

 brace-combs. I doubt if it is the best thing, 

 and the same end can be reached with 

 spacing 1''k or more. All that's needed is 

 to have a small space between top-bars — 

 not more than '4 inch. So the thing needed 

 Is to tack on strips on the top-bars at the 

 sides, so as to make them \\ wide; only it 

 will be better to have the strips wider than 

 the -is thickness of the top-bar, for a top- 

 bar '-'^ thick is not so good as one thicker. 

 Some think \ is thick enough, but for my- 

 self I prefer %. Gleaner. 



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