. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Ealered at the Post-OfBce at Chicago as Second-Class Mail-Matter. OEORQE W. YORK, Editor CHICAGO, ILL, FEB. 11,1904, Vol. XLIV—Na 6, c Editorial Comments Four-Piece Sections PrefeFPed by Some- The following paragraph appears in Gleanings in Bee-Culture of recent date: " It begins to apear that there are many friends of the four-piece section. It is argued that the extra time and cost of putting them together does not cut very much figure, because they can be put up by cheap help during the winter. The main argument in their f:ivor seems to be tha
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Ealered at the Post-OfBce at Chicago as Second-Class Mail-Matter. OEORQE W. YORK, Editor CHICAGO, ILL, FEB. 11,1904, Vol. XLIV—Na 6, c Editorial Comments Four-Piece Sections PrefeFPed by Some- The following paragraph appears in Gleanings in Bee-Culture of recent date: " It begins to apear that there are many friends of the four-piece section. It is argued that the extra time and cost of putting them together does not cut very much figure, because they can be put up by cheap help during the winter. The main argument in their f:ivor seems to be that they will stay where they are put—that is, when pushed into a square position they will not try to assume the diamond ; Of course, this does not ignore the main argument for superseding one-piece with four-piece sections, if such superseding takes place, and that is the increasing cost of one-piece sections because of the increasing scarcity of timber from which one-piece sections can be made. It is just possible that if four-piece sections are as easily obtained as one-piece, and at the same price, a large number may be found who prefer the four-piece. While it may be true that four- piece sections have been thrown out of the catalogs because of the smaller demand for them, it may also be true that a good many have been to a degree forced to adopt the one-piece because the four-piece were not quoted. Destroying Ants Around Hives. Mr. H. Potter, in the British Bee Journal, gives his method of getting rid of ants, as follows: " I mixed some bee-candy with arsenic, and put it under the hive, placing a piece of perforated zinc over the candy, and a small over all, to make sure that the bees could not get at it. The effect was sur- prising! On the first day the candy was black with ants; second day, only two or three to be seen; third day, ants all gone! I have had no more trouble with them this season. Ants eat their dead, and there- fore a wholesale poi
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