AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



795 



Queries ajid Replies. 



The Use of Hoiiey-Boarcis, 



QuEKY 771. — 1. Will be3S store as 

 much honey in sections, over a honey- 

 board 5X16 of an inch thick, with four 

 openings, each one intfh wide, crosswise 

 of frames, as if placed over the frames 

 without a honey-board ? If less, how 

 much ? 2. Will honey-boards prevent 

 the storage of pollen in sections ? — S. 



1. I think not. 2. No.— J. M. Ham-' 



BAUGH. 



1. No. 2. They will not wholly 

 prevent it. — J. P. H. Brown. 



1. I think so. 2. They do almost 

 entirely with me. — R. L. Tayloe. 



1. Yes. 2. All honey-boards tend to 

 prevent the storing of pollen in the 

 super. — James Heddon. 



1. The opening would be ample, and 

 bees will store just as much honey over 

 it as any other kind. — C. H. Dibbern. 



1. I think so. I could never see that 

 a honey-board lessened the surplus. 2. 

 No; but they tend to, I think. — A. J. 

 Cook. 



1. No; but it is hard to answer 

 definitely how much less. 2. No ; but 

 probably there will not be so much as if 

 the sections were directly above the 

 brood. — Eugene Secoe. 



1. This is one of those theoretical 

 questions to which an answer can 

 only be guessed at. I think, however, 

 they will gather less; but how much less 

 T cannot even guess. 2. Not in my 

 apiary. — J. E. Pond. 



1. There would be little if any differ- 

 ence, provided the bees could be induced 

 to start promptly. 2. Whatever removes 

 the sections from the brood will diminish 

 the amount of pollen stored in the 

 surplus apartment. — M. Mahin. 



1. It depends on the start the bees get 

 in the early part of the season. Once 

 started in the supers, they seem to store 

 honey as rapidly through openings such 

 as you mention as they do when no 

 obstruction at all is in the way. But I 

 would not use honey-boards on my hives 

 if they cost me nothing. If your hives 

 and cases are properly made, and prop- 



erly adjusted, you do not need a honey- 

 board. When taking honey with the 

 extractor, I use zinc queen-excluders to 

 keep the queen out of the surplus cases. 

 But I have thrown away all my honey- 

 boards. 2. Bees instinctively store 

 pollen near the brood. Out of 1,500 

 one-pound sections last year, not 10 of 

 them contained a few cells of pollen. 

 You may judge from this that honey- 

 boards are not necessary. — G. W. 

 Demaree. 



1. I do not like your kind of honey- 

 board, yet I do not think it will make 

 any difference. 2. A good wood-zinc 

 honey-board, that will prevent any 

 queen from going through, is a great 

 help in that direction. — H. D. Cutting. 



1. I doubt if there is any appreciable 

 difference. 2. I do not know; but I 

 think they have a tendency that way. 

 Still, I do not remember that I was ever 

 •troubled by pollen when using wide 

 frames, without honey-boards. — C. C. 

 Miller. 



1. What do you want stich a honey- 

 board as that for ? It is going back to 

 the days of our fathers. A queen- 

 excluding honey-board is far preferable 

 in every way, and does not diminish the 

 yield of honey one particle, that I can 

 see. — G. M. Doolittle. 



1. This is the old honey-board of 

 Father Langstroth. I do not think it 

 lessens the amount of honey stored in 

 supers where used. 2. Queen-excluders 

 do limit the storage of pollen in sections, 

 and when rightly managed entirely 

 prevent it. — G. L. Tinker, 



1. I do not know. 2. I have put on 

 sections without a honey-board, and 

 again used a break-joint one, and in 

 neither case have I been troubled with 

 pollen in them. I should infer that the 

 season and locality had more to do with 

 it than the honey-boards.— Mrs. L. 

 Harrison. 



1. They will not store as much if the 

 crop is short, as they sometimes hesitate 

 a long while before placing honey so 

 remote from the brood. As to saying 

 how much less, and saying truly, it is 

 more than we can do. 2. Yes, to a 

 certain extent, and for the same reason. 

 ^Dadant & Son. 



1. The difference would be very little, 

 if any. 2. Only partially ; but the 

 season and conditions have more to do 

 with it than the honey-boards. — The 

 Editor. 



