1895 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



439 



Dadant. you may go ahead with your big hives. 

 I now refuse to be " persuaded." 



Now, friend Root, in praising my own special 

 hive I do not mean to condemn other small 

 hives (or large ones either). I have no doubt 

 your eight-frame Dovetailed hive can be used 

 in the system I practice, and have explained in 

 this article, to good advantage. 



Forestville, Minn., May 17. 



TWO EIGHT FRAMES. ONE TOP OF THE OTHER, 

 NOT AS GOOD AS THE .JUMBO HIVE. 



Edit07' Gleanings: — You ask friend Nash, on 

 p. 349, if he ever tried two eight-frames, one on 

 top of the other. I will say that I have tried 

 them, also the ten -frame two and three stories 

 high, and they do not give as good results. 

 Why '? Because there isn't sufficient cap room. 

 You can get strong colonies in the eight or ten 

 frame two stories, but they are not in conven- 

 ient form for sections. You see, when you have 

 the si.xteen frames in one hive you can put on 

 48 sections, and the hive is not yet as tall as it 

 is wide or long; you can put on another tier of 

 48 sections, and it is not yet as high as it is wide 

 or long. All bee-tuen acknowledge that the 

 proper form of a hive is square, as nearly as 

 may be. When the third tier of sections is 

 added it is then nearly square. 



How do you suppose the eight-frame two- 

 story hive would appear with this number of 

 sections on ? Rather out of proportion, I think; 

 don't you ? 



I find that I can conform to the principles of 

 honey-production, as laid down by Heddon or 

 Honey Producer, better with my Jumbo hive 

 than with any other hive I have used, except 

 his third principle, which cuts no figure in 

 this management, as the bees seem to fill the 

 outside sections just as well in the sixteen- 

 frame as in the eight-frame hive. 



I was extracting from the Jumbo hive May 

 2d. One of them contained seven frames of 

 sealed brood. May 4 I transferred some from 

 ten-frame hives into the Jumbos; three and 

 four frames of brood was all they had, and they 

 were packed in chaff, sides and top. All the 

 protection the Jumbo hives had was the uppi-r 

 story filled with chaff. The eight-frame hives 

 are none of them ready to transfer yet. 



Raspberry will soon be in bloom. The bees 

 wintered In the Jumbo hive will be in fine 

 shape to store it while the eights and tens will 

 be building up. N. E. Doane. 



Breckenridge, Mich. 



with. The great mass of your readers do not 

 belong to that class, but are willing and anx- 

 ious to learn while they live. If my apiary 

 were situated at a distance from the river-bot- 

 toms, where I could not have early and late 

 pollen and honey, I think it would be an advan- 

 tage to lue to use the ten -frame hive in prefer- 

 ence to the eight-frame. If I ever increase my 

 bee-business I think I will try fifty ten-frame 

 hives, and institute some comparisons; then if 

 I decide that I do not want them I can sell them 

 to some fellow on the other side of the fence, or 

 send them to Richland Co., Wis., to be used for 

 Hatch-m% purposes. 



The strongest colony now in my apiary was 

 wintered out of doors on two hive-bodies of 8 L. 

 frames, each packed in planer-shavings On 

 the 3d of May I noticed about one peck of bees 

 hanging out at the entrance. I examined them 

 and found much brood in both stories, and 

 queen cells started preparatory to swarming. I 

 gave them a third set of frames, which they at 

 once occupied, and now (May 13th) I find the 

 preparations for swarming have disappeared; 

 and truly there is no occasion for it, as there is 

 but little prospect here for a honey crop before 

 basswood. 



But here is the point I wish to make: If the 

 experience of the past winter holds good, there 

 are other colonies in the yard that would now 

 be considered rather weak, but at the close of 

 the season's work I shall find that their honey- 

 record is as good as or better than that of the 

 other. If a queen produces a large amount of 

 brood very early in the season, and the honey 

 season is long, as it usually is here, she will be 

 very likely to do less during the middle or lat- 

 ter part of the season than some queens that do 

 not get down to business in egg-laying so early. 



Browntown, Wis. Harry Lathrop. 



FOUL-BROOD LAW IN WISCONSIN 



Friend Root:— I have watched with great in- 

 terest the discussion relating to large and small 

 hives, and trust the same will be continued un- 

 til all the light possible has been thrown on the 

 subject. There are a few individual bee-keep- 

 ers in this country who think they know it all; 

 but they are a disagreeable class of men to deal 



indefiniteI/Y postponed; an appeal to the 

 bee-keel'ers of that state. 



By N. E. France. 



1 am surprised that the bee-keepers are so in- 

 different to one of the vital points in bee cul- 

 ture. Often have I called upon bee keepers of 

 our State, and explained to them the nature of 

 foul brood, contagious and fatal; and unless 

 something is done to stop the spread, the future 

 outlook for Wisconsin as one of the best honey 

 States is very alarming. Many times I have 

 been asked, " How near is foul brood to their 

 bees?" — as if a few miles insured their safety! 

 With the present demand for queens and honey, 

 I have plenty of cases reported where foul 

 brood has appeared from some supplies bought 

 3000 miles away. We have never had a case of 

 foul brood, and don't want to. I have spoken 

 on this subject in conventions in many towns 

 of Southwest Wisconsin. Last November, at 

 Montfort, the Southwestern Wisconsin Bee- 



