. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 186 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. March 2i,. Iff arks-Hoffman Metal-Spaced Frames—A plate of metal let into a saw-kerf in the end-bar as a space—having been commended In Gleanings, F. Boomhower, after having tried them, says they are death-traps, not to be compared with staples as spacers. Golden Italians are generally supposed to be of compara- tively recent origin, yet in a letter written by Baron Berlepsch in 1854, and lately publisht in Gerstung's Bienenzucht, he says: "I have a queen which looks exactly as if chiseled out of ducat gold. Her prog
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 186 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. March 2i,. Iff arks-Hoffman Metal-Spaced Frames—A plate of metal let into a saw-kerf in the end-bar as a space—having been commended In Gleanings, F. Boomhower, after having tried them, says they are death-traps, not to be compared with staples as spacers. Golden Italians are generally supposed to be of compara- tively recent origin, yet in a letter written by Baron Berlepsch in 1854, and lately publisht in Gerstung's Bienenzucht, he says: "I have a queen which looks exactly as if chiseled out of ducat gold. Her progeny excel all ; The See-Saw Section-Cleaner has been in editor Root's head for some time, and now he has got it so far out of the whirl and bustle of that busy location as to get it on paper. Works a little like an old-fashioned turning-lathe, having a foot-treadle, and a coil-spring above, so it can be whirled back and forth. "Covers are Apt to Shrink," "says the Australian Bee- Bulletin "thus becoming narrower than the top of the hive, their efficacy in resisting heat and damp is to that extent im- paired. Covers should be made at least an inch wider than the top of the ; But why not shrink that inch before the covers are made ? Management of Swarms.—Here's the plan of Thos. W. Odle, as related in Gleanings, by which he says he gets good crops of honey: When a colony swarms he kills the queen, reserving extra-good ones In nuclei, then at the proper time removes all queen-cells but one, and in about 20 days has a young laying queen that he thinks worth two old ones. Tall Sections of Light Weight Sold Best.—Thos. V. B. Neece sold sections running 15 to 1(3 ounces each at 16 cents a pound, 15 to 16 cents a section. A competitor sold at the same price, per pound, plain and tall sections 114 or lag-Inch thick, but this made them 10 and 12 cents each. The tall, thin sections went off rapidly and the others dragged. Now Neece wants t
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