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Not to go too hasty I first made some dum- 

 mies and reduced the size of the brood 

 chamber with these, using about one-third 

 of the hives I had in use in the experiment. 

 When fall came I found that the hives thus 

 treated gave fully one-fourth more surplus 

 honey than did those still having the 12 

 frames, while nearly every hive had fully 

 honey enough for winter. The next year I 

 used dummies in three-fouiths of the hives I 

 had built, while the new ones built held but 

 nine frames. In striking an average that 

 fall I found that the few hives having twelve 

 frames gave only about two-thirds as much 

 surplus honey as did those having but nine, 

 so I hesitated no longer in deciding that nine 

 Gallup frames gave plenty of room for the 

 best results when working for comb honey. 

 As intimated above I arrived at this concln- 

 sion nearly twenty years ago and have seen 

 no reason for reversing the same during all 

 these years, in which time I have experi- 

 mented with hives holding all the way from 

 seven to sixteen of these frames. When I 

 first began with the small hives my main 

 fear was that the bees would generally lack 

 for stores for winter, but in this I have 

 been happily disappointed, for if my mem- 

 ory serves me right, three falls have been all 

 that the bees have been short of stores dur- 

 ing that time. 



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FL/fllT, MICHIGAN. JULY 10. 1894. 



Persistent people begin their success 

 where others end in failure. 



Expenses are sometimes profitable — sav- 

 ing is sometimes extravagance. 



Combs that I do not expect to use this sea- 

 son have kept nicely hung an inch apart in 

 a dark cool cellar. They have not been fu- 

 migated, and I see no need of it. 



The American Bee journal has added a 

 medical department. 



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4(!4 Sections were filled with foundation 

 in one hour by Chas. Koeppen of this place, 

 he using the Woodcock fastener. 



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W. C. Frazier says in Gleanings that a 

 cross between imported and golden stock is 

 undesirable; that the result is not so good as 

 either variety. It is what breeders term "too 

 violent " a cross. 



Carniolans have done fairly well with me 

 this season in gathering honey. One colony 

 in particular has done as well as any in the 

 yard, and the combs are very neat and white 

 like those built by the black bees. 



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A WET Sponoe is handy both for cleaning 

 sticky fingers and wiping daubs of honey 

 from implements; po writes Arthur C. Miller. 

 If you don't have a tool box in which to carry 

 it, try an oil cloth pocket (oiled muslin) 

 made and worn like the nail pockets car- 

 penters use. 



Separators vs. no Separators receive 

 attention in Gleanings at the hands of Dr. 

 Miller and R. L. Taylor. I have used very 

 few separators, and in my locality and with 

 my management I see but little use for them. 

 Where the flow is short and abundant there 

 is less need of them than where it is slight 

 and long drawn out, or subject to frequent 

 interruptions. 



Dadant's plan of preventing increase by 

 hiving a swarm for 48 hours in a box or hive 

 placed by the side of the parent colony and 

 then returning the swarm to the hive from 

 whence it came, did not prove a success 

 with Mr. C. H. Murray of Elkhart, Ind. Ten 

 days afterwards the colony swarmed again. 

 I am not sure as to the length of time that 

 Mr. Dadant expects a colony thus treated to 

 refrain from swarming; whether it is a week 

 or ten days or for the whole season. 



The North American Bee-keepers ' Asso- 

 ciation will hold its next annual meeting 

 October IG, 17 and 18, in St. Joseph, Mis- 

 souri. Its efficient Secretary Mr. Frank 

 Benton is sending out some most excellent 

 printed matter in the shape of circulars 

 calling attention to the advantages of 



