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Starkvili.e, N. v. April 4, 1900. 

 .laroii Snyder, Kings ton, N. )'.: 



Friend Snyder — Your favor of yes- 

 terday came lo-iiighl. In reply will say 

 thai i am well suited with our frame, 

 1 7 X 1 1 '4 outside. Were I to change it, I 

 should make it shorter. We use seven to 

 eight frames. Seven to winter on. For 

 extracting we use mostly frames about 8 

 inches deep, to set on top and tier up. 

 We use a zinc excluder, and drive the 

 bees down \\\\.\\ smoke, removing the en- 

 tire story. Were I to change I would 

 make the frame shallower. We formerly 

 used barns — barn-roof and all. We could 

 draw eleven or twelve of them on a two- 

 horse load. Now we draw three times as 

 many with the same size brood-nest. 

 Yours truly, 



P. H. Elwood. 



L.VPEER, Mich., April 7, /900. 

 ^■laro)i Snyder, A'ii/gs/on, JV. }'.: 



Friend Snyder — Yours of the 4th 

 inst., asking what sort of hive and frame 

 I would choose for extracting only, is re- 

 ceived. In my view, for extracted honey, 

 the size of the hive and frame is not very 

 important — the smaller the hive, gen- 

 erally speaking, the larger will be the 

 number required to stock the field. I 

 should not in any case want a hive so 

 large that, as a rule, more honey would 

 be stored in the brood-chamber than I 

 desired there for wintering. For this 

 reason, in this locality, the Draper is too 

 large. If the hives were to be handled 

 much I should want closed end frames. 

 If compelled to choose at once, my first 

 choice would be the Ileddon; second, 

 lo-frame Langstroth. 



\'erv respectfully yours 



R. L. Tayi.or. 



Loyel.\nd, Colo., April 23, 1900. 

 Aaron Snyder, Kings fan, N. )'..• 



I-'riend Snyder — I am afraid I can- 

 not answer positively your inquiry. I 

 thi-tk I would adopt a shallow, divisible 

 brood-chamber hive (my own invention 

 of course), but somewhat different from 

 the Heddon. Could tell you more about 

 it if you were enough interested. What 

 I would adopt would depend somewhat 

 on circumstances — whether I wanted to 

 practice some peculiar system, make my 

 own hives, or depend on the factory. I 

 succeed well with the tlivisible chamber, 

 but it requires a different management 

 from others. Am using 8, 9 and 10 L- 

 frame hives, also the .\merican hive, and 

 the .\merican made into a divisible shal- 

 low chamber, two sections of the shallow 



equaling one regular full depth American. 

 Most of the extracting is from the Ameri- 

 can hives (both full and half depth brood 

 frames), extracting only from the full 

 depth and u.sing the shallow ones for 

 brood, and while this is not a suitable 

 hive for comb it is very good for extract- 

 ed. The deep brood duunber, either sec- 

 tional or deep frame, is a good wintering 

 and brooding hive, I think a little better 

 than the L-frame. I should consider the 

 "barn" a good wintering and brooding 

 hive but too cumbersome, but I have not 

 tried it. i lean toward the shallow 

 frames for both brood and extracting, but 

 it is but fair to say I have not tried the 

 shallow extracting frame, and while the 

 sectional hive is nn' choice for brood I 

 might not like such for extracting. The 

 "barn" frame is ^cc /?>/> to handle in the 

 extractor. RespectfuUv, 



R. C. AiKiN. 



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THE TREATMENT OF NEW BEE 

 JOURNALS. 



The death of a bee journal a few months 

 ago has been followed by a variety of 

 comments in some of the other journals. 

 Some of these criticisms have been writ- 

 ten in a spirit that seemeth to say: "It's 

 good enough for you. You ought to have 

 knovvn better than to have started a bee 

 journal." Other journals have con- 

 demned this style of comment. My own 

 opinion is that the death of a bee journal 

 furnishes a fitting opportunity for point- 

 ing out the folly of embarking in such an 

 enterprise, but it should be done in a 

 kindly manner. 



There certainly is no need of any more 

 bee journals. The field is well covered; 

 perhaps overstocked. If I should sell 

 the Review to day, the last thing that I 

 would think of doing would be that of 

 starting another bee journal; and I cer- 

 tainly would be in a better position to 

 make a success of it than would some man 

 who had had no experience in that line. 

 If Bro. York should sell the American 

 Bee Journal, I doubt if be would ever 

 think of such a thing as starting another 

 bee journal. I doubt if there is a pub- 

 lisher of a bee journal in this country 

 who would not find it well nigh impossi- 



