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comprehend the deliyht that attends the 

 lifting off of case after case of sections with 

 their bottom bars as "slick and clean" as 

 though they had been simply sitting upon a 

 table. Latterly, honey boards have been 

 made to answer another purpose, that of 

 keeping the queen out of the supers, by 

 slipping strips of perforated metal into saw 

 kerfs cut in the edges of the slats. 



So much in favor of honey boards; now 

 let us look upon the other side. Honey 

 boards cost something, and must be removed 

 and replaced when the brood-nest is opened. 

 A few have reported that no brace combs 

 would be built above the brood-nest if the 

 top bars were wider or deeper, or both 

 wider and deeper. When attending the In- 

 ternational convention at Brantford, we 

 had a long talk with .T. B. Hall, of Wood- 

 stock, Ont., upon this subject. He began 

 using square top bars, not to prevent the 

 building of brace comb"fe above them, but 

 for another purpose which we will not now 

 take the space to describe, and was sur- 

 prised to find that the bees did leave the top 

 bars clean and free from brace combs. It 

 will be seen that the openings between the 

 top bars are exactly "bee space" and about 

 one inch deep, and the space above the top 

 bars, between them and the sections, is also 

 bee-space, and Mr. Hall assured us that the 



bees positively did leave these spaces free 

 from comb. At the last Northwestern con- 

 vention at Chicago, and in a recent number 

 of Gleanings, Dr. C. C. Miller has said that 

 he had trouble by the bees building brace 

 combs above the Heddon honey boards. 

 We have thought about this considerable, 

 and we have been wondering if the excellent 

 honey crop that the doctor has enjoyed the 

 past season may not have had something to 

 do with the trouble. When honey comes in 

 with a rush, bees will sometimes, especially 

 if crowded a little, store honey in every 

 nook and corner — even between the frames 

 and the hives. Again, there were some at 

 the Chicago convention who had tried square 

 top bars, and found that while their use 

 diminished tlie number of brace combs, the 

 diminuation was not sufficient to allow the 

 honey board to be discarded. Then again, 

 if the use of square top bars ivould allow us 

 to dispense with honey-boards, so far as 

 brace combs are concerned, how about 

 queen excluders? Would it not still be 

 necessary to use them, when they irere used, 

 in the honey-board form? 



For several months we have seen this sub- 

 ject coming to the surface, and we believe 

 the time is now ripe for us to take it up as a 

 special topic, so we have decided to devote 

 the .January Review to its discussion. 



GenetT^al Inde:>^ to Volanne II. 



IKTIDBX: TO SUBJECTS. 



Advance. The 25 



Advertising 46,115 



Almanac, Honey 185 



Amende Honnrdble 25 



Artificial Comb 2G. 38, 62, 168, 169 



Basswoods. Save the 25 



Bee-iin Mails 185 



Bees alone, or "Mixed," if the Latter, What 



With? 1(^7 



Bees, Which are the Best? 26, 42, 47 



Bpe .Journals, are There too Many? 43 



" Bee Hive," the 40 



Bee Keepins no Bonanza 18 



Bee Keeping: a Real Business 10 



Bee Keeping More like Manufacturing than 



Farming 182 



Bee-keeping less Risky by selling Bees and 



Queens 200 



"Bees Alone" Good Enough 189 



Black Bees 61 



Bottom Boards 3 



Brood Chamber, Size of 57 



Broom Making and Bee keeping Combined. . . .502 

 Butter in the Winter, let Bee-keepers keep 



"Jerseys" and make 203 



Carniolans 34, 35, 36, 62, 201 



Carno-Italians Ahead of Everything 31 



Cages. (Jombined Shipping and Introducing. . .134 

 Conventions and .Associations, '54, 161. 162, i8l, 



188. 174. 18.5, 197 



Conventions Brighten, Strengthen and Rest 



US'" 181 



Controlling Increase 73. 74, 7.'i. 76. 77, 78. 80 



Combine With Bee-keeping, What v\ ill best?.. 206 



Complicated Fixtures 19 



" Contraction " 2, 4, 9, 41, 53, 54, 55, .57, ^», 59, 65 



66, 113 



Confidence in Leaders, Undue, 17 



t'rosses among Bees 34,35,36 



Cyprians 17 



Diarrhoea 7 



Discussions at Conventions Preferable to Es- 

 says 1 84 



Digested Nectar. Honey Partially ..134,170 



Don't "Mix" Bee keeping 202 



Dovetailed Hive 62 



Doolittle on Queen Rearing 83 



Do Bees Make >r Gather Honey ? 170 



Editorial Errors 18 



ExtrHctor is Here to Stay, the 62 



Exchange. The Honey Producers 64 



Experiments, too Ijimited 19 



