. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1896. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 201 wax, or, if nice and clean, are used again the next season. In using these sections. Miss C. puts a row at each of the sides of the super, and one row in the middle, and fills out with new sections, using separators between each row. She thinks it pays to use them in this way. Miss Candler puts the supers on when the raspberries be- gin to bloom—being about two weeks before clover begins to bloom—and gives the bees plenty of time to get ready for storing the honey, if there is any. But the] last few years have been
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1896. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 201 wax, or, if nice and clean, are used again the next season. In using these sections. Miss C. puts a row at each of the sides of the super, and one row in the middle, and fills out with new sections, using separators between each row. She thinks it pays to use them in this way. Miss Candler puts the supers on when the raspberries be- gin to bloom—being about two weeks before clover begins to bloom—and gives the bees plenty of time to get ready for storing the honey, if there is any. But the] last few years have been so dry, that the clover is nearly all gone, and her harvest has been mostly from basswood and fall flowers. She winters her bees on the summer stands, in a box or frame with a hole cut in, to come even with the entrance of the hive. To the top edge is tacked a piece of canvas or mus- lin. This is set over the hive and filled in with sawdust. It is something like a sack, which is pinned shut over the top of the hive with pins. Her bees winter better when prepared in this way, than in any other way she has tried. Miss Candler attended some of the sessions of the late Illinois convention, where we had the pleasure of meeting her. We hope to hear occasionally from her by way of something from her experience in the bee-yard. We wish all women bee- keepers to feel free to "have their say " in the Bee Journal. This is one of their " rights " we shall take pleasure in seeing that they get. *-»-^ The Next North American Meeting—where will it be held ?? Again we want to suggest the experiment of following the G. A. R. encampment this year. As the Grand Army meets in St. Paul in September, and that city will be pretty well crowded then, we think that Minneapolis would be the proper place. All could get round-trip tickets to St. Paul, and then a small street car fare would take them to Minneapolis in a few minutes more. It seems to us this plan is worth trying, a
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