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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



and other people good, treating- duty as a 

 friend rather than a master, and work as 

 a joy rather than a task, laughing often, 

 worrying about nothing, and loving all 

 men. If this does not bring success, it 

 will bring something that is better, for it 

 carries with it all that is be&t in life. — 

 Walter Taylor Field. 



Adopting the Ten-Frame Langstroth as the 

 Standard Hive. 



The Langstroth frame has become the 

 standard frame, and now an attempt is 

 being made to standardize the ten-frame 

 Langstroth hive. It is a worthy object 

 and shall have my sympathy and support. 

 Bee keepers" supplies are very high in 

 price; unusually so — some of us think they 

 are higher than necessary. Let that be 

 as it may, one thing that makes the price 

 high, is the multiplicity of styles and sizes 

 of the various commodities. Look at the 

 various sizes, styles and widths of sec- 

 tions. See the different sizes and styles 

 of shipping cases, for even the same size 

 of sections. And so on through the list. 

 The more these things can be standard- 

 ized, cut down to one kind, size and style, 

 the more cheaply they can be furnished. 

 If everybody would use the ten-frame 

 Langstroth hive, it would not only lessen 

 the cost of hives, but would also cut 

 down all the list of furnishings that go 

 with hives. 



The Influence of Lnvironment. 



Environment has a wonderful influence 

 upon man. Not only the people with 

 whom we associate, and the books we 

 read, but the house we live in. the food 

 we eat, even the clothes we wear, have 

 more or less of an influence upon our 

 lives. The man who always buys cheap 

 clothes, buys a cheap farm, team and 

 tools, builds a cheap house and always 

 patronizes a cheap hotel, one whose 

 mind always surrounds itself with cheap 

 things, those of a low grade, eventually 

 becomes a cheap man himself— like his 

 surroundings. This course is often taken 

 from, mistaken notions of economy. The 



man who sits down to write an article 

 with a stubby pencil or on scraps of 

 waste paper, can"t expect to write so 

 good an article as though he were push- 

 ing a fine, gold fountain pen over smooth, 

 white, nicely ruled paper. No, I don't 

 advise, nor expect, one to be foolishly 

 extravagant, but I would prefer to have 

 fewer things, and let them be of first- 

 class quality, than to surround myself 

 with a lot of cheap trash. In the end 

 there is more profit and comfort in 

 articles of good quality; besides they 

 really have a beneficial influence upon 

 their owner. 



An Above Ground Wintering Cellar Can- 

 not be Made Satisfactory. 



Mr. Geo. Wood, of Wesley, Ontario, 

 writes me as follows: 



Wesley, Ont.. Jan. 16. 1911. 



Editor Review: — I am going to take ad- 

 vantage of "special request." page 18 of 

 January Review. 



Being in a location where a good cellar 

 is an impossibility, and out door wintering 

 unsafe, I wish to learn how to build an 

 above-ground wintering house. I have 

 had considerable experience with a saw- 

 dust packed building, but the results are 

 too many dead bees on the floor. In the 

 accompanying engraving the building is 

 shown just back of the dwelling house. I 

 would like to see this subject considered 

 in the Review. Geo. Wood. 



I never knew a building above ground 

 to be a success as a wintering place for 

 bees. The whole trouble lies in the va- 

 riability of the temperature. A cellar be- 

 low ground is kept at an even tempera- 

 ture by that great reservoir of heat. 

 Mother Earth. Walls of some non-con- 

 ductor, or slow conductor, of heat do not 

 manufacture any heat. Tney simply pre- 

 vent any heat that may be confined in- 

 side of them to radiate away more slowly. 

 Let the walls of a building be two feet 

 thick, and filled with sawdust, if a spell of 

 zero weather comes on, and lasts long 

 enough, it will be only a question of time 

 when it will be just as cold inside the 

 building as outside. That is, providing, of 

 course, that there is no source of heat in- 

 side. A building above ground, such as 



