. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, Jan. 4, 1900. the rest of the season for extracted honey, or for winter stores if enough is not obtained for extracting. By thus using a small brood-chamber at swarming-time, I find that I can use in it combs fully drawn, or the brood- combs which I have in stock, by giving abundant bottom ventilation, and that no pollen will be placed in the section- boxes, altho the supers are removed from the old hive and placed on the new one before the swarm is run in. Of course, a queen-excluding honey-board should be used, and its advantag
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, Jan. 4, 1900. the rest of the season for extracted honey, or for winter stores if enough is not obtained for extracting. By thus using a small brood-chamber at swarming-time, I find that I can use in it combs fully drawn, or the brood- combs which I have in stock, by giving abundant bottom ventilation, and that no pollen will be placed in the section- boxes, altho the supers are removed from the old hive and placed on the new one before the swarm is run in. Of course, a queen-excluding honey-board should be used, and its advantages are so many that I am not yet ready to dis- card it. To contract the brood-chamber with division-boards or dummies would not suit me at all, for a number of reasons. I have taken this subject from the comb-honey stand- point, for I believe the test of succeessful bee-keeping is in the production of beautiful comb honey. I have never seen a hive without faults, and the user must select for himself ; but, for results, I believe there is tione better than some form of the divisible brood-chamber hive. W. C. Lyman. Then a multitude of questions were answered by Dr. C. C. Miller and others present. This part of our meeting is always interesting, and many new ideas go floating around for assimilation. The convention was much entertained by Dr. Miller and Pres. George W. York with music. Dr. Miller presided at the piano, and Mr. York sang the new bee-keepers' song, entitled, "The Hum of the Bees in the Apple-Tree ; I'Concluded next week.). CONDUCTED BY liK. C O. MILLER, A/aremg-o, III. [The Questions may be mailed to the Bee Journal office, or to Dr. Miller direct, when he will answer them here. Please do not ask the Doctor to send answers by mail.— Leaving Honey in the Hives Outdoors in Winter. Do frames with honey get spoiled by leaving them in the winter-time in the hives, with the bees in the first and second stories ? Or is it better to take the honey
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