. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1898. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 185 manufacturing: Bee-Supplies.—As illustrating the difficulty of getting supplies made at home, G. C. Greiner tells in Gleanings about going to a planing-mill where they readily agreed to plane lumber exactly to any required thick- ness. But the first board was too thick or too thin, some- times 1/16 out of the way. Then change of planer, fol- lowed by one edge of the board thicker than the other, or the middle thicker than the edges. The same thing occurred at other mills. What they had always considered exact work w
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1898. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 185 manufacturing: Bee-Supplies.—As illustrating the difficulty of getting supplies made at home, G. C. Greiner tells in Gleanings about going to a planing-mill where they readily agreed to plane lumber exactly to any required thick- ness. But the first board was too thick or too thin, some- times 1/16 out of the way. Then change of planer, fol- lowed by one edge of the board thicker than the other, or the middle thicker than the edges. The same thing occurred at other mills. What they had always considered exact work wouldn't be considered so in bee-supplies. He found the only satisfactory way was to get supplies from those who made it a special business, and were provided for the exacting require- ments of matters pertaining to bee-hives. Home-made work hardly pays. <»? Asking: Questions is all right. We want read- ers to feel free to ask for information, but we will have to draw the line for awhile on asijing and answering over and over the same questions, week after week. We think the trouble is that beginners are not careful enough to read every question and every answer fouud In Dr. Miller's department of the Bee Journal each week. Hence it is that they keep on asking about " transferring," " what to do with unflnisht sec- tions," etc.—questions that Dr. Miller has answered " forty- 'leven " times (more or less) the past three months. We think, in order to save space, and also to get caught up, we will have to ask Dr. Miller to simply give the previous page numbers where can be found replies to repeated questions. ••-»-* Alfalfa for Hay.—Mr. E. S. Lovesy, who lives in the great alfalfa region of Utah, refers thus to Prof. Cook's statement about alfalfa, as found on page 97 : I agree with Prof. Cook when he says that our lucern secretes honey liberally In dry weather ; but when he says that it is better for hay to cut it just before it
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