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THE AUSTRALIAN BEEKEEPERS’ JOURNAL. 
often will be asked, how to make cheap hives, 
&c. Now I propose to show how it can be 
done, though I have always found that people 
having hives, &c., for sale generally sneer and 
try to stifle any attempts of the kind, though it 
is the only way to thoroughly popularise bee- 
keeping in a rational way, and after peojjle 
have a start in a cheap way and are satisfied, 
they will want better appliances — so actually 
creating new customers. 
For a foundation, after a lot of experience, 
1 have settled on the kerosene case, as I have 
found it everywhere in the colonies, and always 
the same size, from Port Melbourne to Thurs- 
day Island, and have adopted it without 
alterations, for generally, if you ask a man to 
cut a case he spoils it. It makes a hive almost 
Langstroth size on Abbot’s principle, which is 
simplicity itself, no rabbets or grooves to bother 
an amateur, and he does not have to put his 
fingers amongst the bees to lift a comb, which 
I have always found a beginner nervous of 
doing. But, better than all explanations, I will 
make one complete with cover frames ready 
waxed and gauge and frame block for making 
frames square and always one size, and present 
to your Society if you will agree to exhibit it, 
and make arrangements to keep it somewhere 
to refer enquirers to. 
I have also perfected an extractor that can 
be made for 2s out of two kerosene tins, and 
bave extracted hundreds of ponnds of honey 
with same, a pattern one of which I will also 
make and present if you can make it public, as 
I am sure it will be extensively copied to 
the certain advancement of the industry. If 
The sugar and water is^boiled to the consistence 
of candy, and the other substances reduced to 
powder are added by gently stirring. After 
the whole has been boiling a few minutes 
longer it is poured out into frames, one side of 
which has been covered with either waxed or 
parchment paper. When cold these frames 
may be hung in the hive alongside the cluster. 
H. Nave au. 
Hamilton, Ctli June, 1887. 
PREVENTING FIXING TOP OF FRAMES 
TO SUPERS. 
No. 45. — To prevent the bees fixing top and 
and bottom frames together we find that a 
piece of Hessian, or stout bran bag. laid on the 
top of bottom frames, leaving only the two 
outside frames uncovered, is a certain pre- 
ventative of this. It breaks the touch of the 
two working parties, which is the solution 
required ; also, we have never found a queea 
in a super fitted with it, as the two outside 
combs usually contain honey and pollen only 
on their outside faces, the queen very rarely 
goes on them, and so does not find her way 
upstairs. The bees bite the Hessian a lot, but 
it lasts a season, is cheap, and usually on 
hand ; in fact, we always use it as a first quilt 
to give them notice to go down. 
Watts Bkos., Box Hill. 
lEjtracts from fforeujn 3ournals. 
this meets your views please drop a line accept- 
ing same, and advise when and where to deliver 
same, and 1 will start right off to make and 
deliver same, and remain ycrars respectfully, 
W. Watts, of Watts Bros. 
[Mr. Watts’ kind offer has been accepted , and 
be has forwarded a hive complete which will 
be exhibited at the next association meeting, 
when it will be arranged to keep it in some 
place where it can be inspected by any wish- 
ing' to do so. — Ed.] 
No. 44. — As one of the greatest drawbacks to 
successful beekeeping is Foul brood let me 
inform you about what I have been reading in 
Gravenhdrst’s illustrated Bienemeitung . After 
the disease has been conquered it is of the 
utmost importance to supply the weak colony 
with strengthening food. Such a food has been 
invented by Henning, and is called Henning's 
Feed Cake. It is made as follows : — 
Sugar... 
Water... 
Starch meal . . . 
White of egg 
Phosphate of lime 
Carbonate of lime 
Salicylic acid... 
1814 grammes 
300 
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COMB HONEY. 
[The following essays were written for the 
American A picultvriet, from which journal 
they have been extracted. Our Australian 
readers must bear in mind that the summer 
months in N. America are winter months 
here, and that the months of May, June, 
July, August. &c., correspond to the months 
of October, November, December, January, 
Ac., in Australia. — Ed. ] 
Methods as practised and advised for the 
production of the largest number of pounds 
in any season at the lowest cost of labor and 
time and in the best marketable style. 
METHOD NUMBER ONE. 
By G. M. Doolittle. 
In order to produce good results by way of 
getting plenty of well filled sections of comb 
honey, the first requisite is plenty of bees 
when the honey harvest arrives ; for, what- 
ever else we may have, success cannot be ob- 
tained without plenty of bees. Then one of the 
greatest objects looking towards ail abundance 
of bees is a good queen, for without such a 
queen it would be impossible to get the re- 
quired force of bees at the time it was posi- 
tively necessary that we have them if 
