1910 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



487 



referred to the Bureau 

 of Entomology for ex- 

 amination. 



Ohio probably has 

 one of the best foul- 

 brood laws of any 

 State in the Union. 

 A law that provides 

 for an appropriation 

 of only $500 and one 

 inspector can not ac- 

 complish a great deal. 

 Every State really 

 ought to have a corps 

 of seven or eight men. 

 It reduces railway 

 travel and hotel bills 

 when the functions of 

 the two lines of in- 

 spection work are com- 

 bined in one. 



Indiana has an ex- 

 cellent law, probably 

 as good as Ohio. Sev- 

 eral other States are 

 beginning to appreci- 

 ate the value and the 

 importance of making 



the State Entomologist, foul-brood inspect- 

 or. The State Entomologist, a trained sci- 

 entist to begin with, has at his command 

 stenographers, clerks, and an oflfice, and it 

 is possible for him to keep a record of all 

 disease-infected areas and to give advice by 

 letter as well as in person. It is our judg- 

 ment that all laws in the different States 

 should be modeled somewhat after the one 

 of Ohio and Indiana. They were originally 

 drafted by Dr. E. F. Phillips, who, after a 

 very careful study of the general conditions, 

 decided that bee-inspection work naturally 

 rested with the State Entomologist. 



SHALLOW VS. FULL-DEPTH FRAMES. 



Is the Divisible-brood-chamber Hive all that has 

 been Recommended? 



BY T. P. ROBINSON. 



Although I have the highest esteem for 

 Mr. Louis H. Scholl, I have very little use 

 for shallow supers, at present at least. Louis 

 and I are good friends, but I think it is 

 amusing to see how careful he is not to tell 

 us how long it takes him to can one thou- 

 sand pounds of honey ready for shipment. 

 Taking the honey off the hive is the small- 

 est part of the work. Cutting it from the 

 frames, putting it into cans ready for ship- 

 ment, and then fixing the supers for further 

 use is where the rub comes. 



We have some of the shallow supers, and 

 consider them a perfect nuisance. The bees 

 have a way of sticking them up to a fearful 

 degree, and just as soon as we begin on them 

 the extractor practically runs dry; in other 

 words, we get honey only about half as fast 

 as with the full-depth frames, for it takes 

 just as long to handle a shallow frame as a 



MAKING SURE OF SOME DOUBTFUL CASES. 



deep one; and the man with hired labor, 

 who values time, can not fool with these 

 shallow combs. 



I have a record to submit to our "6 ft. 2 " 

 brother, which modesty has kept me from 

 making public until now, but for argument's 

 sake I will mention it. One year during 

 the latter part of August we were taking all 

 the surplus honey from our hives. We had 

 gone through ail the apiaries except one 

 that was fourteen miles away, and we reach- 

 ed this yard with our equipment and four 

 helpers, Mrs. Robinson being one of them, 

 whose particular work was the uncapping. 

 I took a man in the yard with me to help, 

 and to haul the honey to the tent; and in a 

 short time we had the tent full of honey in 

 full-depth frames and all hands started at 

 the extracting. In seven and one-half hours 

 the whole yard was extracted clean, all su- 

 pers back on the hives, the bees in first-class 

 working order, the honey canned, crated, 

 and ready for shipment, with nothing left 

 to do except to go home; 3500 pounds of ex- 

 tracted honey was the result, besides the 

 cappings, which were heavy with honey. 

 We could have done the job in six hours; 

 but we had only a two-frame extractor, and 

 we could not all work to advantage. The 

 uncapping was done with a cold Bingham 

 knife. We would not use a hot knife in our 

 part of Texas. 



My experience with the shallow frames 

 convinces me that they are all right for the 

 man who has a good deal of time to fool 

 away, but that they are not suited for the 

 busy man. I could never take care of my 

 500 colonies, and at the same time operate 

 my farm, cultivating 150 acres of land my- 

 self, if I used shallow frames. To bother 

 with a sectional hive when it comes to find- 

 ing a queen is out of the question altogether 



