AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



457 



Kacli IVIan Builds Himself. 



Pygmies are pygmies still, though perched on 

 Alps; 



And pyramids are pyramids in vales; 



Each man makes his own stature, builds him- 

 self: 



Virtue alone outbuilds the pyramids. 



Her monuments shaU last when Egypt's fall. 



—Young. 



dueries ajid Replies. 



Coyering for Broofl-Fraies, 



QuEBY 787. — One colony of my bees 

 worked their, way up through the cloth 

 and perished, and last Summer some bees 

 tore holes in the cloth and got up with 

 the same result. 1. What was the 

 cause ? 2. Was it different cloth from 

 what should have been used ? — Minn. 



I believe your second question answers 

 the first. — J. M. Hambaugh. 



Use something on top of the cloth, so 

 that the bees cannot get above, should 

 they work through. — G. M. Doolittle. 



Duck is the best. I generally use 

 heavy Indian head muslin, and when 

 they tear holes in it, put on new. — Mrs. 

 L. Harrison. 



Cloth of any kind — burlap, rubber, or 

 what not — I consider a " delusion and a 

 snare." A board is good enough for me. 

 — Eugene Secor. 



Cloth is not desirable to cover brood- 

 frames. I use a thin board, cleated at 

 the edges, and a bee-space from the 

 frames. — G. L. Tinker. 



1. I do not know. 2. Cloth, like duck 

 or oil-cloth, could not have been eaten 

 through, and so there would have been 

 no such experience. — A. J. Cook. 



Why use cloth at all ? A board with 

 suitable bee-spaces, and a hole in the 

 center for a bee-escape, is much better 

 for all purposes then cloth. — C. H. 



DiBBERN. 



I never could discover any benfit from 

 using cloth about a bee-hive, either in 

 Summer or Winter. Its use will finally 

 become absolute, and should be so now. 

 — James Heddon. 



If I understand the question, I cannot 

 see why your bees would leave the combs 

 and stores in the brood-chamber and go 

 to the second story, unless the combs 



were foul, and the stores, if they had 

 any, were unhealthy. — J. P. H. Brown. 



1. Bees will make holes when they 

 can. The cause is something like gen- 

 eral "cussedness." 2. Likely the cloth 

 may have been all right, but a board is 

 better. — C. C. Miller. 



1. Bees will get through any cloth in 

 time. I would not use any cloth except 

 when there is packing above to protect 

 the bees in wintering out-of-doors, or in 

 Spring. — R. L. Taylor. 



1. Bees will usually work through any 

 woven substance that they find in their 

 hives. They will continue to pull off 

 the loose fibers until the whole is gone. 

 2. It is better, as I think, not to use any 

 cloth. — M. Mahin. 



1. With so little data given, one (or 

 at least I) can only guess, and one guess 

 is as good as another, so I guess I will 

 not guess on this. 2. As you do not say 

 what kind of cloth was used, I will not 

 attempt to guess on this either. — J. E. 

 Pond. 



1. I do not know ; but if I had bees 

 that did not know enough to get out of 

 a hole they made and went in through, 

 I should want them to die. 2. Probably 

 not ; but different bees might be better, 

 and then again they "mightn't." — A. B. 

 Mason. 



If you had surplus cases on your hives 

 what were you doing with an empty 

 space above the bee-quilt? And if you 

 had no surplus cases on the hives in the 

 Summer, why not? 1. Your careless- 

 ness or mismanagement, or both. 2. 

 No. Bees will cut holes in any sort of 

 cloth that I have used. I venture to 

 guess that a solid board is the best after 

 all. — G. W. Demaree. 



1. Something must have been wrong, 

 or the bees would not leave the breeding 

 apartment to go above and perish when 

 there was nothing to call them up there. 

 Either the stores were bad or the air 

 was foul. 2. Bees do not eat or gnaiv 

 through cloth. They sometimes find 

 threads and pull them out, and thus 

 make holes. The day for cloth over 

 frames is fast passing away. A good 

 board will prevent the bees from going 

 above, and be a better covering every 

 way. — The Editor. 



California Honey is now second 

 choice beside the Colorado product, 

 says a Colorado paper. 



