. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 41 from actual experience, that there is not a frame that I know of that is equal to the Hoffman for being block- ed in with honey, and I think that the wide end of the top bar has something to do with the cause of it. The bees will build out the comb through that notch between the two frames, and then up goes the comb and filled with honey. Perhaps a good many will say, " AVell ! I never had that happen," and why not? There are two reasons: First, you were not crowding your bees to finish the last section at the
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 41 from actual experience, that there is not a frame that I know of that is equal to the Hoffman for being block- ed in with honey, and I think that the wide end of the top bar has something to do with the cause of it. The bees will build out the comb through that notch between the two frames, and then up goes the comb and filled with honey. Perhaps a good many will say, " AVell ! I never had that happen," and why not? There are two reasons: First, you were not crowding your bees to finish the last section at the closing of the harvest. Second, you very likely had not got hives full of bees that had not swarmed. Raise your queens after the honey flow. With us it is between the sumach and fall flowers, from Aug. 5 to Sept. 10 or 15, and you will have but little tendency to swarming the next season, if you start them right, and, contrary to what some of our au- thorities say, these non-swarming col- onies, well manipulated, will pay bet- ter than those that swarm and you have capital in two hives. Yours, &c., H. L. Jeffrey. Woodbury, Conn., Feb. 15. Friend Jeffrey : We are glad to hear both sides of the Hoffman frame question, and especially any sugges- tions of improvements. However, in our own experience of several years with regular Hoffman frames, we have never had the trouble you speak of. We would like to hear from others on this subject. The Bee-keepers'gathering in Flacht, Germany, Oct. 19 and 20,1890, proved to be a most interesting one. Repre- sentatives were present from all parts of Europe to listen to Pastor Wey- gandt's new doctrine of artificial heat in winter repositories. He claimed that dysentery is chiefly caused through chills, unhealthy food, old dysentery spots in repositories, under-filling of the boxes with honey, and too early brood starting. The theory of artificial heat in bee houses and cellars does not seem to take very strong hold on the Teutonic mind. Y
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