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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Feb. 15. 



queens: " The queen is caged and placed un- 

 der the alighting-board, when the swarm soon 

 returns, and at the end of seven days she is re- 

 leased in the hive. Usually this stops any 

 further swarming during the season by colonies 

 thus treated."—^!. B. J. 



Thk yeky same. First Small Boy. — We had 

 a little baby come from heaven to our house 

 last night. 



Second Small Boy.— Huh', that's nothin': we 

 had one went to heaven from our house last 

 night. 



First Small Boj/.— Say, Pete. Fli bet it's the 

 same kid. 



An American mixture that's sure cure for 

 foul brood is mentioned in B. B. J., and that 

 skeptical journal expresses doubts about it, and 

 says something about "wooden nutmegs." 

 Now look hero. Mr. J. Bull; we own up to the 

 wooden nutmegs, but we don't want the 

 humbugs of all creation saddled on us; and 

 when one is gotten up on British soil, please 

 don't put our label on it. 



What a bit of spite can be shown by empha- 

 sis on some little word! When Mary marries 

 John, Sarah (who has failed to catch him) says, 

 "I hope Mary will be happy with him," and 

 the special emphasis on that word " hope " pre- 

 dicts dire calamity for Mary. And now "ye 

 editor" says, p. 104, "I hope the doctor's past 

 record will enable him to live down such a re- 

 port." Why couldn't he hush it up. as I do his 

 failings? 



That's a nice scheme of A. I. Root, to have 

 a gain of a year by cutting crimson clover in 

 time to plant corn on the ground; but, pray, 

 where are the poor bees to have a chance then? 

 Per contra. C. E. Thorne reports from Ohio Ex- 

 periment Station in Stockman: "We have nor 

 yet succeeded in getting a satisfactory stand of 

 this clover at the Experiment Station, though 

 several attempts have been made, nor have we 

 heard of its being successfully grown in this 

 latitude. 



HIVES, LARGE VS. SMALL. 



small hives moke pkofitabI/E. and why; 



a careful kkview of the whole 



matter. 



Jiy H. R. Baardnuoi. 



I have been discussing the matter in my own 

 mind for some time as to whether any thing 

 more could be protitably said upon this already 

 thoroughly canvassed subject. I am quite 

 sure, when the arguments are all in, could the 

 vote be taken, no change would be noted in the 

 use of hives. 



It could not be possible that all of the bee- 

 keepers in this great diversified land, from the 

 cold North to the sunny South, could agree 

 upon the same kind of hive, either in size or 

 style. 



Methods must be as various as the climate. 

 This question of hives, then, is largely a mat- 

 ter of locality. I can speak for my own locali- 

 ty only, as to what hives or methods suit me 

 best. I would not presume to discuss with the 

 bee-keeper of the South or West as to what is 

 best for his locality. 



Much depends, too, upon what is sought to 

 be accomplished — whether the apiarist is work- 

 ing for comb or extracted honey, or both to- 

 gether; whether he wants increase, or wants 

 to prevent increase; whether he wants to se- 



ll. R. BOA ROMAN. 



cure all possible of the hom^y gathered, and 

 supply its place by feeding, or depend entirely 

 upon natural sources. It seems to me that, for 

 the ijroduction of extracted honey, the liering- 

 up feature would be indispensable, whether the 

 hive used were large or small: and it also ap- 

 pears to me, that a small hive is better adapted 

 to this purpose than a large one. But I am a 

 specialist in comb honey, and perhaps had bet- 

 ter consider the qtu^siion from that standpoint 

 alone. In order that my prejudices as well as 

 my preferences be more clearly understood I 

 will describe my hive: 



It is an eight- frame hive, taking a frame V2f.^ 

 xl% in., inside measure. You will see that 

 this enables me to use a wide frame for sections 

 that holds sections. frames to the hive, or 54 

 sections in a hive. I have lecently, within two 



