. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 566 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Sept. 9, ofttimes when I go to examine a hive, I find some of the foundation had dropt down, and the bees were trying to use it in Its piled up shape. In a great many of the others the wires have sagged, and are loose from the foundation ; and I have a lot of crooked combs to be troubled with, or to render Into wax. If I get a hive of them built straight, and use them a year or two, when I go to examine the hive the dlvislon- boaid is so tightly propolized that I cannot get it out un'.il I remove some of the frames, and t
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 566 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Sept. 9, ofttimes when I go to examine a hive, I find some of the foundation had dropt down, and the bees were trying to use it in Its piled up shape. In a great many of the others the wires have sagged, and are loose from the foundation ; and I have a lot of crooked combs to be troubled with, or to render Into wax. If I get a hive of them built straight, and use them a year or two, when I go to examine the hive the dlvislon- boaid is so tightly propolized that I cannot get it out un'.il I remove some of the frames, and the end-bars are so badly stuck together that I have to carry something with me to pry them up, and they are so wide at the top that I cannot see to the bottom, to see if they are straight enough to come through the gap; so I have to risk it, and pull them up. If the combs are perfect,all is well, butif they are a littlecrooked or bulged, I am almost sure to jag a hole in the honey or board, as the case may be. With the old-style frames that I got in my first purchase, and the manner of wiring in the foundation, I had no such trouble. So I think I have learned that I want no more Hoffman frames in mine. Perhaps other bee-keepers can manage so that they have no foundation to fall down, and no crooked combs. Those who have to haul their bees to out-apiaries, or carry them in and out of cellars, may prefer them, because they are self-spacing and cannot slip about while hauling or handling the hives. Desoto Co., Miss. Thin Honey—Grading—The Market. BV JOHN H. MARTIN. There is the usual factor present this season—thin honey, and in a majority of cases there is but one cause for it, viz.: too great haste in extracting. Sage honey, when thoroughly ripened in the hive, has a thick and heavy body. A saucer full of it can be turned upside down, and it will be slow to leave the saucer. But this, or any other honey, when ex- tracted before the combs are sealed, will, as a rule, be nea
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