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poor one, and I found my old stock to 

 vary greatly from almost nothing to a 

 good ciiiantity of stores, while those hives 

 having their queens changed last year, to 

 thoroughbred queens, were very even; 

 all having very nearly the same amount 

 of honey. 



The experiment has most thoroughh' 

 convinced me of the great value of queens 

 that have been bred, for business, for 

 many gnieratiotis; in other words, of the 

 value of queens with a pedigree. Much 

 more might be said in this connection but 

 this is sufficient at present. 



MiDDLEBURY, Vt., Nov. 18, 1899. 



QUARE SECTIONS VERSUS 

 TALL SECTIONS. 

 BV E. D. OCHSNER. 



My views regarding these 

 two sizes of sections are the result of ex- 

 perience instead of observation. Since 

 I expressed them 

 recently in 

 Gleanings I have 

 received numer- 

 ous letters 

 from bee-keep- 

 ers all over the 

 country, thank- 

 ing me for the 

 stand I have tak- 

 en in regard to 

 the 4'/4 section. 

 It is not likely 

 that the time will ever come when we will 

 think alike about these things, but I can't 

 see the square sections attacked as they 

 have been and remain silent. When I said 

 what I did in Gleanings about the push- 

 ing of new things, I did not have the A. 

 I. Root Co. in mind in particular. I 

 mean that new thiiigs are pushed too 

 fast; and I had reference to any one who 

 pushes new things to the front, without 

 giving them a fair trial, at the same time 

 trying to run good things into the ground. 

 It is all right for a beginner to adopt 



such things as he deems best, but, for 

 me, with hundreds of supers and separa- 

 tors on hand, it would be folly to change; 

 especially, when herein Wisconsin, the 

 square section sells as well as any. Mr. 

 Hutchinson admits that he would not 

 change his fixtures simply because he 

 liked the looks of the tall sections better 

 than he did the square ones. 



The square sections are of the right 

 weight; they are satisfactory with the 

 greatest number of extensive bee-keepers; 

 as much honey can be produced in them 

 as in an}- sections; the honey is well at. 

 tached to theif sides; and for style and 

 good looks they are the equal of any. 



Prairie du Sac, Wis., Nov. 20, 1899. 



D) 



EARING QUEENS; HONEY 

 |-^ ^ FOR POISONED FLESH ; AN 

 ys^ ARTISTIC VIEW. BY J. A. 

 GOLDEN. 



I have learned that as 

 good queens can be reared from a colony 

 of bees that has cast a normal swarm 

 and been hived 

 back, as per the 

 Golden -method 

 as by an}' other 

 method; because 

 the parent hive 

 contains nearly 

 all nurse-bees, 

 and the queen- 

 cells are sure to 

 Ije crowded with 

 royal food. 

 I have learn- 

 ed that slacked lime dumped on the bot- 

 tom-board of a hive containing bees will 

 absorb all the dampness thrown off from 

 the cluster during cold weather, thus en- 

 abling the bees to winter better. 



I'have learned that the application of 

 honey will cure poisoned flesh. During 

 the hot weather I was severely poisoned 

 in the face by poison ivy and my face be- 



