. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April 26, 1900. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 259 out, a cheap grade of sugar can be used ; and if you have any inferior honey it can be profitably disposed of in tliis way. Now allow a word of suggestion : If you have nuvir workt for extracted honey, would it not be well to devoU- one-half or less of your apiary for that purpose, working the rest for comb honey as formerly ? If you have made a success in producing comb honey, it does not certainly prove that you will be equally successful with extracted honey, altho the prospects may point that way. And shou
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April 26, 1900. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 259 out, a cheap grade of sugar can be used ; and if you have any inferior honey it can be profitably disposed of in tliis way. Now allow a word of suggestion : If you have nuvir workt for extracted honey, would it not be well to devoU- one-half or less of your apiary for that purpose, working the rest for comb honey as formerly ? If you have made a success in producing comb honey, it does not certainly prove that you will be equally successful with extracted honey, altho the prospects may point that way. And should ycm be successful there is a possibility that you may not like this part of bee-keeping as well as the other, therefore it might be the part of discretion to go a little slow until sure that the new enterprise will be just the thing desired. Many a man has rusht into some new thing, devoting his whole time to it, when, at the end of a year or two he has left it at much loss, because he did not stick to his old business, and enter the new gradually until he became satisfied that the new was more to his profit and liking than the old. Onondaga Co., N. Y. Winter Temperature of a Bee-Cave in Manitoba —Making Straw Skeps or Hives. BY J. GATLEY. I OFTEN wonder why bee-writers maintain that it is necessary to keep a bee-cellar at 40 to 45 degrees. Mine never gets above 30 degrees from the middle of Novem- ber to the middle of March or later. This winter is the warmest for about 10 years, and the temperature has been from 20 to 28 degrees, one day up to 30, and the bees all doing well. Last winter it was from 14 to 28 degrees, and every colony (28 of them) came thru all right, with no dys- entery. Last year some one askt how to make a straw skep or hive, so I enclose .instructions with illustration. Manitoba, Canada, Feb. 26. [The straw skep or hive matter referred to by Mr. Gatley is as follows, having been taken from some book on bee-keepin g.—Editor . ] THE IMPROVED STRAW HIV
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