. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 166 Feb. 28, 1907 -4^5^^^-^ American ^^e Journal object, of self-spacing frames were to provide against the trouble of fastening when bees are to be moved. If that were so, the great number of bee-keepers who are using self- spacing frames would probably agree with Mr. Hutchinson. But the moving part is lit- tle taken into coneideration, and some who probably could not be induced to use loose- hanging frames never move their bees at all. Instead of thinking with Mr. Hutchinson that the " extra fixings only make the frames less easy of manipulatio
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 166 Feb. 28, 1907 -4^5^^^-^ American ^^e Journal object, of self-spacing frames were to provide against the trouble of fastening when bees are to be moved. If that were so, the great number of bee-keepers who are using self- spacing frames would probably agree with Mr. Hutchinson. But the moving part is lit- tle taken into coneideration, and some who probably could not be induced to use loose- hanging frames never move their bees at all. Instead of thinking with Mr. Hutchinson that the " extra fixings only make the frames less easy of manipulation," their very object in using them is to secure ease of manipula- tion. Very likely they would say, " All right, Mr. Hutchinson, if you can space your frames just as rapidly and correctly by finger and eye, then don't have any spacers in the way; but we can put frames in place more rapidly with spacers, and be ever so much more sure that they are always just ;. flews - Items Honey as a Food.—We are glad to see that some of our readers are acting on the suggestion made in these columns, that they write something on the value of honey as a food for their local newspapers. Mr. W. S. Williams, of Pennsylvania, has written and had published a good article, about 10 inches long, which appeared in a recent issue of one of his county papers. We hope others will do likewise. It will all help when the time comes again for selling honey. Mr. D. H. Coggshail, of New York State, who was one of the car-load of bee- keepers that made the trip to the National convention at San Antonio, Tex., last Novem- ber, has been in Florida since then, and on Jan. 25th he wrote us as follows, from Stuart: Fribnd York :—It is warm and very dry down here. The bees are gathering some honey, and they are whitening the combs. It is more work to take care of the bees here, as the worms and ants are continually on the watch for a chance to spoil the combs and eat the honey, while my comb
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