Sept. S, 1904. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



615 



ten shallow frames can be taken off. By smoking the bees 

 down, taking off the case and then jouncing it up and down 

 a few times it is ready to take into the honey-house from 

 which the few remaining bees are left to escape through 

 the honey-house escapes at the windows. This is by far the 

 best way to run for extracted honey. Then when extract- 

 ing it is easier to uncap the smaller ones, as they are more 

 even and admit of one slice doing the whole side. And in 

 extracting they are handled in pairs and replaced in the 

 supers very rapidly. 



They have many advantages over the deep frames, and 

 a person does not know it until he has given them a thor- 

 ough .trial, and has convinced himself. 



F. L. Aten gave his experience with the full-depth 

 Langstroth hive and frame, never having used any other. 

 He uses nine frames in a 10-frame body, and eight in the 

 supers. He uses full-depth frames for the production of 

 comb honey, and only starters, as he can not use thin foun- 

 dation as it will tear down. He can not use thick founda- 

 tion in full sheets as it will cause too much gob in the comb 

 honey. However, he is an advocate of the deep frame, and 

 thinks it the best and superior to the shallow frame hives. 



Louis H. SchoU gave the convention some valuable 

 facts concerning the divisible brood-chamber hive. He used 

 the black-board, and showed the workings of this hive and 

 management by illustration of facts. He has been more 

 successful with this kind of hive than any other. When he 

 started with it he tried only 20 of them, using no other 

 than the regular shallow or Ideal super as put out by the 

 supply dealers. In this a cheap hive is obtained, as it is of 

 standard manufacture. They are nothing but the S/s inch 

 shallow extracting supers now on the market, and by using 

 a series of them a good divisible brood-chamber hive can be 

 obtained. 



" As stated before, only a few were used at first with the 

 intention of using them as supers on the regular Lang 

 stroth hives already in use, if found to be unsatisfactory. 

 Instead of doing this, however, they proved so good, and 

 the advantages were so much greater, that more were put 

 into use, and as time goes on they will replace, the deeper 

 frame hives altogether in these yards. 



" There is one thing to be remembered in discussing the 

 merits or the advantages or disadvantages of such a hive. 

 If you are going to use such a hive as you would manipulate 

 a deep frame hive, then, and right there, you will lose sight 

 of the real benefits to be derived from the use of a shallow 

 hive. Unless you adopt the right kind of management that 

 goes with the use of such a hive, you will never know any- 

 thing about the merits of the shallow hive. 



"It takes quite a different mode of handling bees in these 

 hives from what it does in deep frame hives. Cases, and 

 not frames, are handled in many of the manipulations in 

 the apiary. This lessens the work materially, and it is such 

 things that help in making money and profits for the bee- 

 keeper. That is one of the main things that we are after. 

 If we can make two dollars where we otherwise would make 

 only one, it is to our benefit to investigate the matter and 

 trj- to make as many of those two dollars as possible. 



" Now for a few points on the management of this hive. 

 Mr. Stachelhausen has already said much that I have prac- 

 ticed with my hive, and therefore I know that what he has 

 said is all truth. 



" Those fellows that hang onto their deep frames do not 

 know what a good thing is, and they do not know that the 

 divisible brood-chamber hive is a good thing until they have 

 actually tried it. They are free to decry the things said in 

 favor of the shallow hive, and yet they have never had one 

 of these in use really to disprove these things by actual 

 facts. Only those who have had actual experience can say 



whether one thing is better than another. If they have not 

 tried them they are only theorizing. There is quite a deal 

 of difference between theory and the real thing, sometimes. 



"That the shallow hive is advantageous in many ways, 

 those of experience have found out. Others who have tried 

 them found them not so, perhaps for the reason that they 

 did not use them rightly. We know of cases where this 

 was so. 



"Most of the bee-keepers are using shallow supers for 

 comb honey. And many are using them exclusively for 

 extracted honey, too. For tiering up and for many other 

 reasons a shallow super is better. Foundation of a lighter 

 weight can be used in them, for one good reason. Such 

 foundation must be used for fancy comb honey. 



" Then, when a shallower super is put on, the bees are 

 not placed so far from the brood-nest, and that causes them 

 to begin work in the supers earlier. Then the amount of 

 room can be gauged better with the shallow super accord- 

 ing to the honey-flow. Bees will fill a shallow super at 

 times when they would not begin in a deep one. 



"The manipulations of the brood-nest in the early 

 spring, at swarming time, during the honey-flow, and, in 

 fact, at all times of the year, are much more advantageous 

 over the deeper- frame hives, and therefore allow of more 

 being accomplished with less labor. This is a factor that 

 should be considered well by every bee-keeper." 



After a thorough discussion of this subject it was de- 

 cided that a man convinced against his will is still uncon- 

 vinced. 



fContinued nest werk.) 



[ Our Bee-HeepinS Sisters] 



Conducted by Emma M. Wilson. Marengo, 111. 



Honey Cosmetic. 



Put in a cup the white of an egg, add a large spoonful 

 of extracted honey, perfume to your taste, and mix thor- 

 oughly. Before going to bed, cover the face and hands 

 with this cosmetic, which will whiten the skin, making it 



smooth and clean. 



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Use of Honey in Cooking. 



I wonder if many of the sisters realize the importance 

 of doing everything possible to increase the use of honey in 

 cooking. If every family in the land should learn that for 

 some things honey is far superior to sugar the difference of 

 consumption would run up into the — well, let us stop and 

 figure a little. Take the one item of honey-cookies alone. 

 At our house we are very little given to the use of pie and 

 cake, so we are not heavy consumers of honey-cookies, 

 probably not using more than one batch a month, requiring 

 a pound of honey in the making. I know of other families 

 that would " get away " with such a batch once every week. 

 But let us be very moderate, and allow each family to 

 use for honey-cookies a pound of honey each month. They 

 say there are some 80,000,0(K) people in this country and 

 there must be a good many more than 8,000,000 families. If 

 each one of these families puts into honey-cookies a pound 

 of honey each month, that would make 8,000,000 pounds a 

 month or 96,000,000 pounds a year. Forty-eight thousand 

 tons! That's a good bit of honey, isn't it? Would help 

 the market quite a little, wouldn't it ? 



Now, if each of the bee-keeping sisters will make a 



