. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 458 AMERICAN BEE J0U5NAL July 20, Tin Cans versus Barrels.—Editor Hill, in the American Bee-Keeper. -while conceding- that others may use tin cans in preference to barrels, thinks it not amiss to say that he " has used a number of carloads of tin cans as a honey- packag-e. and has found the percentage of loss thru leakage greater than -svhere barrels are ; Duff's Feeder is figured in "Alfalfa, Grasshoppers, Bees: their Relationship," and is very simple of construc- tion. Take a t-ivo-inch soft white-pine plank large eno
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 458 AMERICAN BEE J0U5NAL July 20, Tin Cans versus Barrels.—Editor Hill, in the American Bee-Keeper. -while conceding- that others may use tin cans in preference to barrels, thinks it not amiss to say that he " has used a number of carloads of tin cans as a honey- packag-e. and has found the percentage of loss thru leakage greater than -svhere barrels are ; Duff's Feeder is figured in "Alfalfa, Grasshoppers, Bees: their Relationship," and is very simple of construc- tion. Take a t-ivo-inch soft white-pine plank large enough to cover the hive, bore it full of holes -svith a two-inch or smaller bit, letting the holes come not quite thru, except near the center -where one or two may come clear thru to make passage for the bees. An upper story or a super is set , thus protecting against outsiders. Bees Consume Hore if Stores are Poor A Stray Straw in Gleanings in Bee-Culture says : '• Do bees con- sume more stores -when they have ho'ney-de-w ? Some of mine starved with -what I supposed were sufficient stores. [A few years ago, I believe, it was agreed that the bees would consume less good stores than of poor. Has there been anything to change that opinion ? I do not remem- ber.—Ed.]" Duff's T Super, as described in the bulletin of Kansas University, differs from the ordinary T super in the con- struction of its T tin. Instead of this being a piece of tin folded in the shape of a T, a straight piece of tin is nailed on a strip of wood. The wood is fs-inch thick, ^j-inch deep, and a little shorter than the inside width of the super. The tin is one-inch wide and '4-inch shorter than the wood, be- ing nailed on the narrow edge of the wood. Thus the sec- tions are held ;Js-inch apart by the wood, making less tempr tation for the bees to glue than when^a narrow crack is left. Tfie U. S. Pure=Food Investigation is stirring things up lively at Chicago. Senators Mason and Harris and Prof. W
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