. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Sample CoT>y sent on JXpiylioation. 36th Year. CHICAGO, ILL., APRIL 2, 1896. No. Insuring Sections of Honey Shipping Safely. BY B. TAYLOR. The following paragraph was published on page 135, having been written to Dr. Miller : I wish we could get the collective wisdom of our sages on this matter. But, then, to the confusion of the tyro, their opinions differ so on this, as on most other matters. For instance, B. Tay- lor, in his Toronto essay,says he Alls his sections with "moderately- heavy foundation," and boastfully remarks that he
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Sample CoT>y sent on JXpiylioation. 36th Year. CHICAGO, ILL., APRIL 2, 1896. No. Insuring Sections of Honey Shipping Safely. BY B. TAYLOR. The following paragraph was published on page 135, having been written to Dr. Miller : I wish we could get the collective wisdom of our sages on this matter. But, then, to the confusion of the tyro, their opinions differ so on this, as on most other matters. For instance, B. Tay- lor, in his Toronto essay,says he Alls his sections with "moderately- heavy foundation," and boastfully remarks that he has sent 3U0- pound lots TIKI miles with three railway transfers without a single section breaking down. Had the "moderately-heavy foundation " anything to do with insuring this safety ? Also, had the viscidily ofViehuiinj (as a result of BO days' storage in an iron-house with free air circulation) anything to do with it ? Does he use spiral springs for his crates, or corrugated paper, perhaps ? I wish he'd be less tantalizing, and a trifle more explicit. These big fellows just liint at things—in a rather supercilious sort of way—telling us young- sters just enough to make us long to know more. I wish you would " squeeze " B. T. a bit on this point. S. D. The loss from breakage in shipping comb honey is very great, and any light on the subject is important to the general bee-keeping fraternity. I will try to give my e.^perience in preparing and shipping, in as plain terms as possible. The first step is to have the combs built firmly to all four sides of the section, and to do this to a certainty, narrow sec- tions—not more than seven to the foot—are best. 1 use eight to the foot. I have used thousands of sections two inches wide, but I never could get the bees to fasten the combs so firmly to the wood as in the narrower sections. In the wide sections there would be a small part of the comb that would be fastened to the wood in the center of the side
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