. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Nov. 14, 1901. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 727 YOU can get more from the swarm and the parent colony; but where we have an apiary of 80 to 100 colonies, and all the bees we need to gather the surplus honey of the field, I prefer not to have any increase to amount to anything, because the old colony will gather the honey, and it makes us less work in handling hives and extra fixtures, and it saves us considerable work. W. Lr. Coggshall—From what Mr. Betsinger said about feeding, you might infer that I feed sugar to stimu- late. I never fed a pound of sugar in
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Nov. 14, 1901. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 727 YOU can get more from the swarm and the parent colony; but where we have an apiary of 80 to 100 colonies, and all the bees we need to gather the surplus honey of the field, I prefer not to have any increase to amount to anything, because the old colony will gather the honey, and it makes us less work in handling hives and extra fixtures, and it saves us considerable work. W. Lr. Coggshall—From what Mr. Betsinger said about feeding, you might infer that I feed sugar to stimu- late. I never fed a pound of sugar in mv life to stimulate. WAX-SECRETION. " Is wax secretion voluntary or in- ; Mr. Benton—Largely voluntary. Mr. Betsinger—I'd like to know why. Mr. Benton—Simply this: If we give a colony its combs there is not a great secretion of wax, even though they are gathering honey rapidly. If, on the other hand, we give a colony starters or hive it in an empty hive, it has its combs to build, and it will use quanti- ties of honey that otherwise would be stored, in the secretion of wax to build those combs. Therefore, I regard it as voluntar)', since in the one instance they have used no wax to amount to anything, and in the other they have used a good deal when there was the need of it. Mr. Betsinger—You plant a little grain in the ground and it comes up and grows. Is that voluntary or in- voluntary? You can hold it back or you can force it. So it is with bees. They secrete wax and they cannot help it so long as they gather honey, but you can increase that by feeding. But they are compelled to secrete wax so long as they live and gather honey. fContiuued next week.) l.^:t>^^C^:t.^:LJiL^iC^^.^^' Contributed Articles. How to Obviate Unfinished Sections in tlie Fall Tliem. BY G. M. DOOLITTLE. A correspondent writes thus: "Nearly everj fall I hare half or more of my sections in the unfinished or uncapped state; and especially has this been the ca
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