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THE B^E-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



La Revue Internationale. — I had sup- 

 possed that in running for extracted honey, 

 the bees always preferred to store ( as they 

 certainly do to build comb) above the brood, 

 so that one would run the risk of getting less 

 honey on the "long-idea" plan of using one 

 story, and extracting from the sides, than by 

 using supers and extracting from above. 

 Yet in opposition to this principle, which I 

 believe is now almost universally accepted 

 in this country, we have the fact that the 

 Layens hive in France, and Gravenhorst's 

 "Bogenstuelper" in Germany, both of which 

 are on the long-idea plan, are used to some 

 extent, and that they have many partians. 

 Editor Bertrand incidently gives the solu- 

 tion. He was never able to get good re- 

 sults when frames of about the Dadant depth 

 or less were used according to the Layens sys- 

 tem; and it was not until he had adopted the 

 Layens hive, and then the Dadant hive, 

 that he realy knew what it was to get a crop 

 of honey. He concludes that it is impossible 

 for one frame to be equally adapted to the 

 two systems — bees on Layens frames will be 

 slow about extending work sideways. 

 Another well-known Swiss bee-keeper, M. 

 Theiler, has harvested more surplus since 

 putting supers over his Dadant frames, than 

 when the same frames were managed accord- 

 ing to the Layens system. It seems then 

 that a frame should be considerably deeper 

 (proportionally, or absolutely?) than the 

 Dadant to give the best results on the long- 

 idea plan. The Layens frame, for example, 

 is 143^ inches deep and 12 1-5 inches wide. 

 Possibly here we have the practical reason 

 whythe "long idea" was generally discard- 

 ed in this country. Mr. Poppleton, of 

 Flordia, and some others there (according 

 to Gleanings for 1895, p. 320) still use the 

 long-idea hive, but what the dimensions of 

 their frames are, I do not know. However, 

 to put at ease doubters of Mr. Hasty's 

 calibre (Review, p. 19G— "Conflicts of au- 

 thority the normal state of things in actual 

 search after actual truths"), I may as well 

 add that " Loyalstone " of Australia, an ex- 

 tensive and experienced bee-keeper, uses 

 ordinnry L. frames in his long-idea hives: 

 and still thinks they stand at the top. 



Denveb, Colo. 



Jan. 4, 1897. 



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FLINT, MICHIGAN. DEC. 10. 1896. 



W. B. House, whose advertisement of 

 " Yellowzones" appears in this issue is 

 thoroughly reliable, and I have no doubt 

 that his remedy will do what is claimed for 

 it. I tried it for a cold and it acted almost 

 like magic. 



" home, sweet home, " IS HABD TO FIND IN 

 OALIFOENIA. 



Hollow trees and caves in the rocks must 

 be hard to find in California, judging from 

 the following extract from a private letter. 

 Santa Ana, Calif. Nov. IG, 1896. 

 * * * I was driving in the country and 

 saw what I took to be a swarm of bees, and 

 1 halted to see where they would settle. The 

 proprietor said: " If you want to see a 

 sight, go up stairs in the barn. " For three 

 score years I have never been without bees, 

 and have always been with them more or 

 less, but there was a sight that I had never 

 seen nor dreamed of, since I was old enough 

 not to dream of impossibilities. Hanging 

 from the ridge-pole were sheets of honey at 

 least three feet long and the same in width. 

 Lower down on the roof-boards were other 

 sheets as large as the first mentioned, and 

 under them, lying on the floor, were large 

 sheets of as fine orange honey as one eyer 

 tasted. A few days later I returned and 

 took ten colonies of bees: four from the 

 barn, one from another barn, one from 

 under a table standing on the lawn, etc. 

 You will find colonies in church steeples, 

 windmill towers — any place where they can 

 gain an entrance and find shelter for their 

 nest. * * Wm. Paxton. 



foundation with deep cells. 



The American Bee Journal anounces that 

 Mr. E. B. Weed with the A. I. Root Co. has 

 succeeded in making foundation with high 

 walls— from 14 to '^., inch in depth, and con- 

 siderable enthusiam is exhibited. 



