March, 1918 



GliEANINGS IN BEE CULTURJi 



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honey. Fig. 3 shows the kind of frames 

 of brood he has, and that, of course, means 

 good queens. Speaking of queen-rearing, 

 Mr. Latliam apparently knows every kink 

 in the trade. To make this principle work 

 one must have good queens — no sort of 

 doubt about that — and Allen Latham rears 

 his own good queens. 



Our original genius does not care a fig 

 about ' ' orthodoxy. ' ' In fact, he rather de- 

 lights in going off in unbeaten paths; and, if 

 the other fellow does not like his way of 

 doing, he doesn 't care. 



As I said, Mr. Latham has other hives that 



whether Latham is " quite all there." Then, 

 when he explains his idea, you will be able 

 to see there is more " method in his mad- 

 ness." Instead of having the shelves on tho 

 inside of the building, they are on the out- 

 side. This is where he puts the mai'iig- 

 boxes when raising queens. 



Some day I should like to have Mr. 

 Latham tell us something about the experi- 

 ments he has conducted and the conclusions 

 arrived at. It would take a small volume. 

 A field meet, could be held at his place and 

 beekeepers could learn something, for he 

 certainly knows the inside and outside of 



-Allen Latham's " Orthodox " Apiary, Located on a Rough, Stony Connecticut Hillside. 



he works on the ordinary principle of tiering 

 up wdien running for comb honey. These 

 hives are not run on the let-alone principle. 

 His apiary, seen in Fig. 4, shows that he is 

 following out somewhat the lines of modern 

 orthodoxy, using ordinary hives and running 

 for comb honey. He can be orthodox or 

 heterodox, or any other ' ' dox, ' ' because he 

 has been all. 



If I had the space, I should like to describe 

 completely for you his honey-house. If you 

 can imagine a building turned inside out, 

 you can form some idea of what he has. You 

 would look at it and smile, and again wonder 



a hive better than most ' ' expert ' ' bee- 

 keepers of the country. 



It is not much wonder that Allen Latham 

 and Arthur C. Miller of Providence, E. I., 

 are good friends. Every now and then they 

 get together and compare notes, and are 

 often surprised to see how nearly they see 

 things alike. Both believe in big hives and 

 small ajjiaries scattered at intervals of one 

 or two miles apart. Both drive Ford auto- 

 mobiles to their bee yards, and both get 

 barrels of fun out of the business. One is 

 a banker and the other a teacher, but their 

 common play is beekeeping. 



COMB TO EXTRACTED HONEY 



Two Contrasting Views Submitted 



by Two Prominent Beekeepers from 



T-wo Widely Separated Sections 



OWING to 

 advance m 

 the greater 

 price of extract- 

 ed honey com- 

 pared with the 

 advance of comb 

 honey, many 



comb-honey producers are turning to extract- 

 ed. In comparing the price of comb 

 and extracted honey, one should review 

 the last three years. A good price for 

 comb honey, in Colorado, was $3.00 for a 

 24-seetion case. Extracted was bringing six 

 to seven cents a pound. Last year (1917) 

 comb honey brought $4.00 a case, and ex- 

 tracted brought 12% to 16 cents a pound. If 



comb honey had 

 advanced in pro- 

 portion with ex- 

 tracted, it would 

 have b r o u g h t 

 $6.00 to $8.00 a 

 case last fall. 

 I have been a 

 comb-honey producer in the past, but last 

 year I changed most of the equipment for 

 800 colonies for extracted equipment. 



The first question the beekeeper will ask 

 himself, when thinking of changing, will be: 

 ' ' What will it cost to change to extracted 

 honey?" Now, the cost of changing is not 

 nearly so great as many think. If the comb- 

 honey producer has regulation or standard 



