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gli:anings,in bee culture. 



July 



1.1% inches; 8 in a hive, 11 ?» inches wide inside. 

 2. Yes. I think it somewhat better to spread them 

 a little wider apart in the winter, but not enough 

 better to pay for the trouble. 



Illinois. N. C. J.A.Green. 



Mine are l?^, but I don't really know whether 

 that is best. 2. Yes. There might be some advan- 

 tage in having them further apart in winter than 

 in summer, but I don't believe it would pay for the 

 trouble of changing. 



Illinois. N. C. C. Miller. 



I have my frames about 1^ inches from center to 

 center, and do not have them fixed so as to be just 

 so far apart. I have used those that were spaced, 

 and did not like them. I can space with my eye to 

 suit me best; a slight variation is not objectionable. 



Michigan. C. A. J. Cook. 



1% in winter, in order to allow more bees to clus- 

 ter between the combs, which gives them a better 

 opportunity to generate more heat between combs. 

 2. No. 1 think li'^s or 1% is about right when work- 

 ing for box honey, as I think bees will enter the 

 boxes more readily when the combs are closely 

 spaced. 



Vermont. N. W. A. E. Manum. 



1% inches, but I am not particular that each 

 frame is exactly spaced. With hanging frames, 

 the eye gauges the distance. I have practiced tak- 

 ing out one frame during winter, and giving more 

 space; but after several years' experience I can 

 not see that the bees winter any better with the 

 added space. 



New York. E. Rambler. 



About l?a inches; a little less rather than more. 

 I say, about; perhaps it is not best to be too definite 

 about the matter until we understand more of its 

 importance. I suspect that, in the future, there 

 will be more importance attached to the adjust- 

 ment of the brood-frames than there has been in 

 the past. 2. Yes. 



Ohio. N. W. H. R. BOARDMAN. 



The best results are obtained when the frames 

 are apart from center to center about l>nnches, 

 or a little less. It is not necessary to attach great 

 importance to the one - sixteenth of an inch. 2. 

 Careful and repeated tests have convinced me that 

 no improvements are realized by spreading the 

 frames during the winter months. 



Ohio.:. S. ;W. C. F. MuTH. 



The room for ditference of opinion here is but 

 a email fraction of an inch. Between the widest 

 and narrowest spaces that are used by good apia- 

 rists 1 do not think there is much to choose. One 

 and a half inches is perhaps as good a distance as 

 any. 3. When convenient I like to widen the space 

 a little when fixing them for winter; but the mat- 

 ter is hardly important enough to justify breaking 

 open all their sealing on purpose to widen the space. 



Ohio. N. W. E. E. Hasty. 



l'/4 inches. A large per cent of my colonies are in 

 the Gallup hive, inside dimensions 12X18X12X inch- 

 es high. In hiving young swai^ms we use 12 frames 

 to the hive; Space li4 inches apart; but with old 

 combs, and comts bulged 9 little, we run many 

 with 11 to the hive, to facilitate matters in hand- 

 ling, rather than to keep all pared to the right 



thickness. 3. We have practiced, to some extent, 

 spreading the frames in fall, but have concluded 

 that it does not pay for the trouble. 

 Wisconsin. S. W. S. I. Freeborn. 



After trying many distances fallow IIX inches 

 for eight frames. 2. Yes, sir; and any system pro- 

 posing to space the frames differently between 

 winter and summer will get behind the times, for 

 no such kind of manipulation can bo afforded by 

 the successful bee-keeper of to-day. That is what 

 I think. By the way, it will be well enough to here 

 mention that I am writing what I think, and not 

 what some one else thinks. I respect other people's 

 opinions when they differ from mine, and I believe 

 I deserve some respect for writing my honest opin- 

 ion, regardless of others. 



Michigan. C. James Heddon. 



See answer to G. M. Doolittle on page 491. 



FROM DIFFERENT FIELDS, 



THOSE SERMONS ; WHITE CHITTIES. 



I am more interested in your sermons than I am 

 in the bee business. I have, or keep, only a few 

 bees. I subscribed for Gleanings on account of 

 the bees, but now I read the sermons first, and they 

 have become part of my spiritual life. May God 

 bless you in your work of faith and labor of love. 

 I want to tell you that we have uhWe "Chitties " 

 here; two per cent a month in advance every three 

 months, and corn thirteen cents per bushel! The 

 only difference I see between Munson's Chitties and 

 ours is the color of the skin and amount of cloth- 

 ing. Thomas Adams. 



Gaf kill, Kan., Feb. 24. 



Yes, friend A., there are white Chitties, I 

 fear. Now, there is great need of a good 

 Samaritan right in this line ; and I do wish 

 that somebody— lawyer, minister, banker, 

 or political economist, would tell us how 

 men of capital can help poor people in 

 trouble, by loaning them money at a low 

 rate of interest. If I am correct, these high 

 rates of interest are always received where 

 an investment is risky — so risky that the 

 money-lender loses a great many times. He 

 takes risks that an ordinary banker or mon- 

 eyed man would not take at all, therefore he 

 gets a rate^of interest that will allow him to 

 loan his money so that he can afford to lose 

 one time out of three or four. It seems to 

 be a sort of lottery business ; and as his 

 very life (that is, his financial life) depends 

 on getting his money, he gets hard, unfeel- 

 ing, and unscrupulous. The experiment 

 has been tried to some extent, of giving 

 money outright to those who were in need. 

 Sometimes it works well, but too often it 

 only encourages the one helped, to go into 

 some new piece of extravagance or folly. 

 Why can't this whole thing be managed in 

 the spirit of love between the money-lender 

 and the money-borrower? I feel sure there 

 is something wrong on both sides, or there 

 would notbe that bitterness that exists be- 

 tween the two parties. Right in this same 

 line we have the pawnbroker, who advances 

 money to people who are in seeming distress. 



