. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Apiary of Jacob Wagner, E. Aman.\, Iowa. November and 8 days in December. On December 6 and 7 we had zero weather. On December 29 I renewed the winter- packing over the bees in 25 hives. That is to say, I gave them new, heavy quilts, and had the chaff packing out in the sun, although there was but very little dampness to be noticed. I have now my exact number of colonies wintering that I had when spring opened; i, e., 30 colo- nies to be run for extracted, and 4 colo- nies for comb honey, in the coming sea- son of 1909. Grand Island, Nebr. sour-apple&
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Apiary of Jacob Wagner, E. Aman.\, Iowa. November and 8 days in December. On December 6 and 7 we had zero weather. On December 29 I renewed the winter- packing over the bees in 25 hives. That is to say, I gave them new, heavy quilts, and had the chaff packing out in the sun, although there was but very little dampness to be noticed. I have now my exact number of colonies wintering that I had when spring opened; i, e., 30 colo- nies to be run for extracted, and 4 colo- nies for comb honey, in the coming sea- son of 1909. Grand Island, Nebr. sour-apple" tree, 8 to 10 feet above the ground. They were hybrids and very gentle, and did not bother me in the least while climbing to my seat where the limbs formed a fork just about 4 feet from the cluster, with my face as close as 2 feet to them, and my hand still closer. Through failure to find a better place, and for some other reason, they selected this rather odd place for their permanent home. They had built 6 combs, 10 inches wide, and 14 to 16 were very thick with leaves, thus form- ing a covering or natural roof, that must have looked inviting to them. Well, I thought it an uncommon sight, anyway, so I decided right there to have it pho- tographed, hoping it might find a corner in the American Bee Journal in the in- terest of its readers. East Amana, Iowa, Nov. 3. "Thick Extracting Combs" BV E. D. TOWNSEND. On page 181 of the American Bee Journal for June, 1908, under the above heading, is an extract from the British Bee Journal, referring to the spacing of extracting combs iJ4 inches from center to center, Mr. Richard M. Lamb say- ing "he bought 100 wide frames, and for a few seasons compared the work done in them with that done in the ordinary frame with the i5^-inch spac- ing, and found the former sadly disap- ; While there is usually a wrong as well as a right way of doing things, I cannot see from the quotation above referred to, where M
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