1895. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Questtot?'Box> 



lu the multitude of counsellors there is 

 safety. — Prov. 11-14, 



For llic Prevention of Bnrr- 

 Conibii. 



Query 999. —To prevent Imrr-combs, is 

 anything as good as the Heddon slat honey- 

 board ? If so, what ?— Ohio. 



J. M. Hambaiigh — A ;-4-iiioh bee-space. 



Rev. M. Mahin — I have found nothing 

 ■else so good. 



Chas. Dadaut & Son — ^Vido top-bars 

 or thick ones. 



J. A. Green — I know of nothing as 

 satisfactory in all respects. 



Mrs. L. Harrison — It is satisfactory ; 

 I never tried any other way. 



H. D. Cutting— Yes. The Dr. Tinker 

 honey-board, and several others. 



E. Prance— I don't know. I don't 

 trouble myself about burr-corabs. 



Prof. A. .1. Cook — I never saw any- 

 thing, but the spaces must be exact. 



G. M. Doolittle — Wide top-bars to 

 frames will do away with burr-combs. 



P. H. Elwood — Yes ; better a proper 

 bee-space, and plenty of surplus room. 



Mrs. J. N. Heater — I have used the 

 zinc queen-excluders with good results. 



Jas. A. Stone — I think any way the 

 top-bars are made thicker is just as good. 



W. G. Larrabee — I think correct spac- 

 ing is as good as anything for burr- 

 combs. 



R. L. Taylor — Nothing that f know 

 of, if burr-combs attached to sections 

 are meant. 



C. H. Dibbern — Yes, I have found the 

 top-bars just as good, and far less bother 

 in handling. 



W. R. Graham — Burr-combs give me 

 but little trouble. A proper bee-space 

 given everywhere in the hive is the best 

 remedy I know. 



B. Taylor — My slotted top-bars are, 

 and remain the freest from burr-combs 

 of anything I have tried. The skeleton 

 boney-board works well in connection, 

 but is not a necessity. 



Dr. C. C. Miller— Of late years, for 

 some reason the Heddon honey-board 

 does not succeed with me as it did at 

 first. Thick top-bars and proper spacing 

 seem to do better so far as I've tried 

 them. 



Allen Pringle — I gave up the use of 

 honey-boards nearly 20 years ago, and 

 have no intention of returning to them 

 to prevent burr-combs, or for any other 

 purpose. I use quilts, and am not 

 troubled much with burr-combs. 



Eugene Secor — Yes, thick top-bars, 

 properly spaced. The Heddon slatted 

 honey-board is a good device, and about 

 indispensable with the ordinary thin-top 

 frames. But it is possible to make such 

 a frame that it will not be needed. 



J. E. Pond — I do not know that the 

 "Heddon slat honey-board" is of any 

 special value in preventing burr-combs. 

 Many plans have been devised for this 

 purpose, none of which give perfect sat- 

 isfaction. Close spacing of frames, 

 that is, spacing them bee-space apart, or 



so near as to allow the bees to just work 

 between them, is, in my opinion, the 

 best means yet devised for the purpose. 



Rev. E. T. Abbott — Yes ; a proper bee- 

 space between the frames and between 

 the frames and the supers. A slatted 

 honey-board is a needless expense in the 

 production of honey, unless it is queen- 

 excluding, and then it is needed only for 

 extracted honey. 



Dr. J. P. H. Brown — I have no experi- 

 ence with the Heddon slat honey-board. 

 There is more fuss made about burr- 

 combs than there is any occasion for. 

 Bees will always make them more or 

 less with any sort of contrivance, but 

 less with thick top-bars. 



G. W. Demaree — Heddon has no slat 

 honey-board any more than the rest of 

 us have, who have used the slat honey- 

 board in the long years ago. He is en- 

 titled to the "break-joint" feature of 

 the slat honey-board, however, for what 

 it is worth. Yes — decidedly yes — the 

 all-metal queen-excluder is the best 

 remedy against space combs. 



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