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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



or no help, I cannot hope to have things 

 as they ought to be, or as I would like to 

 have them. I just do as well as I can, 

 and let it go at that. 



I didn't expect that this was gcirg to 

 be such a long letter when I started, and 

 am sorry if I have taken up too much of 



your time with an account which brings 

 up a flood of memories that are vital to 

 me, but may not interest an outsider. I 

 thank you for the kindly interest you have 

 shown me. 



Cassville, Wis,, Nov. 6, 1909. 



Some Conditions that must be Considered if 

 Separators are not Used. 



ADRIAN GETAZ. 



have no doubt 

 obtained all the 

 I wish to add, 



■ IN the Septem- 

 ^^■^ -* ber Review, 



f^ Mr. Morrison as- 



■ifc m^ M serts a good many 



Py »^ things that, as 



|BC|^ ' the editor says, 



may be considered 

 as heresy; at least 

 by some beekeep- 

 ers. 1 wish to 

 say, right at the 

 beginning, that I 

 that Mr. Morrison has 

 results he claims; but 

 emphatically, that the 

 bee keeper who might think that he can 

 obtain the same results, stands a splendid 

 chance of being woefully disappointed. 



Mr. Morrison says that separators can 

 be dispensed with when three conditions 

 are fulfilled: Hives perfectly level; 

 narrow sections; and full sheets of 

 foundation. Perhaps I should say here 

 that nearly all the honey I have pro- 

 duced has been obtained without separ- 

 ators. I did use common separators to 

 some extent at the beginning, and, lately, 

 I have used to a slight extent the fences 

 and plain sections. I sell all my honey 

 in the local market so that an absolute 

 regularity is not necessary. I will add 

 that, without separators, the four bee- 

 way sections are the best. They give 

 more regular combs than the two-way 

 sections. I do not find that the thickness 



of the combs, or width of sections, makes 

 a very great difference, but it makes 

 some. 



SOME ESSENTIAL CONDITIONS. 



The essential conditions to obtain the 

 results claimed by Mr. Morrison are, 

 besides those he mentions, a heavy flow, 

 a strong colony, and warm weather. 

 When these conditions exist, the bees 

 will work equally well in all parts of the 

 super and all the sections will advance 

 simultanously, but let one or more of 

 these conditions fail and you will have 

 another tale to tell. If the weather is 

 cool, the bees will huddle together in the 

 center of the super, and the outside 

 sections that they occupy will bulge into 

 the unoccupied ones. If the flow is light, 

 only a part of the sections are occupied, 

 and a similar defect takes place. If the 

 flow IS light and intermittent, some sec- 

 tions will be partly or completely 

 capped before being completed. 



Mr. Morrison says that the natural 

 thickness of a comb is only one inch. 

 Like Dr. Miller, all I can say is: "I don't 

 know." I think the demolishing of a few 

 box-hives will show any one that the 

 bees are far from confining themselves 

 to a single thickness of comb. 



BEES WILL STORE MORE HONEY WITHOUT 



SEPARATORS, AND STILL MORE 



IN FRAMES. 



The bees will store some more honey 

 when no separators are used; and still 



