. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 249 "duW^ Narrow-Top Sections. — My bees came through the winter all right. They li:ive been quite busy gatliering pollen and honey for two weeks. I5ees are in a better condition now than they were the first of May last year. The prospect for a good lioney crop is encouraging and white clover is com- ing in abiHidence. I see in A. II. Newman's price list two kinds of sec- tions or honey boxes—one with open top, like the bottom, are they better, and why are they so V Would you recommend tin corners for frames V Please ans
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 249 "duW^ Narrow-Top Sections. — My bees came through the winter all right. They li:ive been quite busy gatliering pollen and honey for two weeks. I5ees are in a better condition now than they were the first of May last year. The prospect for a good lioney crop is encouraging and white clover is com- ing in abiHidence. I see in A. II. Newman's price list two kinds of sec- tions or honey boxes—one with open top, like the bottom, are they better, and why are they so V Would you recommend tin corners for frames V Please answer in the next 15ee Jour- nal. D. S. Kalley. Mansfield, Ind. [In tiering up sections on th hives, as many prefer to do, it is necessary to have insets in the tops of the boxes, as well as at the bottoms, to allow the bees to pass up. When placed on tlie hive, the upper tier or set should be covered with a blanket or cloth of some kind, to prevent the bees escap- ing from the tops of the boxes. We do not admire metal corners for frames, and more especially where metal rabbets are used.— Laurel Honey Poisonous.—Bees ap- pear to have wintered well this year, if protected on the summer stands. Last season was a very poor one in this locality for any kind of honey. Little or no honey in clover and bass- wood, and but a short supply of sur- plus from buckwheat and fall flowers. The failure was caused mostly by the drouth. Ttiere is a large tract of un- cultivated land on this Island, called the Plains, on viiiich grows extensively the broad-leafed laurel, known here by kill-calf, the same as kill-lamb, or stagger-bush of other places, which blooms about the same time as white clover. In dry seasons the honey gathered in the vicinity of tliis tract IS very apt to be poisonous. Some bee-keepers take no surplus till buck- wheat is in bloom, as the early-gath- ered is the only kind affected. In 1880, white clover yielded abundantly for a time, and then a severe drouth commen
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