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December next, time 

 determined, due notice 

 given. All bee-keeper 

 requested to send in 

 have them enrolled as 

 name and address on a 

 Secretary at Chanute. 



L 

 . Chanute, Neosho Co. 



and place to be 

 of which will be 

 s in this State are 

 their names, and 

 members. Send 

 postal card to the 



Wayman, 

 Kans. 



Sec. 



Dampening Sections Before Bending*. 



Sometime ago I saw the statement in 

 the Bee Journal. that one-piece sections 

 put together with a press were much 

 stronger than if put up by hand. I ob- 

 tained a press, and found the statement 

 to be correct; and they can be put up so 

 much faster, too. I have a device of my 

 own to dampen the grooves before bend- 

 ing the sections, and it is superior to 

 anything I have seen or read about, yet 

 if any one has a better way, I would be 

 pleased to hear it. I take a board as 

 wide as the section is long, when in the 

 fiat, raise one end of the board so as to 

 incline it to about 25 degrees, nail a 

 cleat on one edge for the sections to rest 

 against, and at the lower end of the 

 board drive two nails, for the edge of 

 the first section to rest against ; then lay 

 the board full of sections, groove-side 

 up, take a rag or sponge full of water 

 and squeeze it over the grooves at the 

 upper end of the board, and wet them all 

 at once, then shove them into a pile 

 with one motion, and they are ready to 

 bend. In the first paragraph of my arti- 

 cle on page 121, it should read ^?ie 

 colonies, instead of 5 colonies. Also, 

 in the fifth paragraph it should read 20 

 instead of 16. E. C. Eaglesfield. 



■ Berlin, Wis., Feb. 11, 1891. 



[In the original " copy " of the article 

 referred to, the figures were so indistinct 

 as to make it a mere matter of conjec- 

 ture, what they were intended for. — Ed.] 



No Surplus Honey. 



I have lOOJcolonies 'of bees. I had 

 about that number last Spring, but did 

 not have a swarm during the past sea- 

 son. I sold one or two colonies, lost one 

 or two by robbing, and made up about 

 the same number by nuclei, so have 

 about what I started with last Spring, 

 but got no surplus honey whatever, ex- 

 cept, possibly, enough for my own family 

 use. I fed the lightest colonies nearly 

 up to my standard of 50 pounds of stores 

 per colony for Winter. I have weighed 

 my bees each Fall for the past eight 



years, and have never lost a colony by 

 starvation that weighed 50 pounds in the 

 Fall. I expect to lose a few this year in 

 that way, for the average was a little 

 below 50 pounds. O. R. Goodno. 



Carson City, Mich., Jan. 11, 1891. 



To Connecticut Bee-Keepers. 



I think that there are about 50 who 

 keep bees in the four Western counties 

 of this State, and some are in favor of 

 organizing a Bee-Keepers' Association. 

 Will all such please to write to Edward 

 S. Andrus, Box 157, Torrington, Conn. ; 

 or Edwin E. Smith, Watertown, Conn., 

 as soon as possible. E. S. Andrus. 



Torrington, Conn. 



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