. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 52 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL February worker on the other must be defec- tive in wall outline and the bees must be very desirous to have drone comb, when they overlook the shape of the base to produce such irregular combs. The only redeeming feature to this disagreeable performance is the very small proportion of such combs built, about 6 per thousand in the Crane experience. Yet, in the manu- facture of foundation we ought to be able to forestall this entirely. When it happens, the only way is to remelt such combs and replace them with perfect ones. At th
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 52 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL February worker on the other must be defec- tive in wall outline and the bees must be very desirous to have drone comb, when they overlook the shape of the base to produce such irregular combs. The only redeeming feature to this disagreeable performance is the very small proportion of such combs built, about 6 per thousand in the Crane experience. Yet, in the manu- facture of foundation we ought to be able to forestall this entirely. When it happens, the only way is to remelt such combs and replace them with perfect ones. At the Manchester home, that evening, I saw a sample of success with very large hives. Mr. Manches- ter uses 11-frame Langstroth hives, with supers holding 40 sections and he had a tremendous crop of clover honey, both alsike and white clover. In many sections of the East, alsike clover grows wild in the meadows and the pastures. At this place I also tasted pure dandelion honey for the first time. We often see the bees on dandelion blossoms, but with us they never harvest enough to make a surplus. I was skeptical on this subject. However, when Mr. Manchester put a section of dark yellow honey upon. £^te^,*l^i Monument Marking Spot Where Stood Old Fort. Edwards the table and I took a mouthful of it, I recognized without doubt the flavor of dandelion, not bitter, but strong, with a very positive scent of the bloom. That evening we visited Messrs Larrabee and Holmes, apiarists liv- ing some 12 miles away. The weath- er was delightful and a clear full moon gave us almost as fine a light as daylight. We drove clear down to Lake Champlain, at Larrabee's Point. The next day, I called on our old friend G. W. Fassett and afterwards on the Cranes with whom I stayed for lunch. We took a ride in one of their autos to an outapiary located at the foot of the Green Mountains, in the shade of the pines. Mr. Crane has a very nice method of inducing the bees to finish the outer sections of a crate,
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