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was worth to him several years of Glean- 

 ings. — Ed.] " 



If any of the readers of the Review have 

 had experience along this line I should be 

 glad to hear from them. 



The Principles of Snmmer Management. 



The last meeting of the Ontario Bee- 

 Keepers' Association was a good one, and of 

 the many excellent ideas brought out none 

 were more valuable than those embodied in 

 a paper by E. A. Hoshal under the title that 

 stands at the head of this article. They are 

 worthy of careful thought and study. I copy 



its brood nest, but the great bulk of it will 

 be above: in fact this latter instinct so pre- 

 dominates that it is generally said among 

 bee keepers that 'bees always store their 

 honey above their brood. ' Besides, they 

 store it as near the top of the hive as possi- 

 ble, and for consumption use that lowest 

 down and nearest the brood. In breeding, 

 the upper part of the brood nest is kept 

 immediately next to the honey. When 

 the brood in the upper part of the brood 

 nest hatches, and the honey flow is sufficient, 

 the bees will fill with honey the cells out of 

 which it hatched, and thus they continue to 

 work, as it were, to keep connected the 

 brood and honey by filling with honey this 

 shallow space of empty cells continually be- 

 ing created between them through the 



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the article from the Canadian Bee Journal. 



" Every art and every science has certain 

 underlying fundamental principles which 

 govern it, and which, under like circumstan- 

 ces, produce unvaringly the same results. 

 Honey producing is no exception to this 

 rule. If we will but observe various colo- 

 nies of bees and their methods of working, 

 it will be found that they do so along cer- 

 tain definite lines, or in other words, in a 

 certain well defined manner in accordance 

 with their instinct, no matter whether they 

 are domiciled in the most approved modern 

 hive, or among the rocks, or even in the 

 carcass of a dead lion. Now, 1 wish you to 

 observe very carefully, and to thoroughly 

 understand what is this general, yet well de- 

 fined, manner in which they work under 

 these varying circumstances. 



A colony of bees, when left to itself, will 

 store some of its honey about the sides of 



hatching of brood, thereby forcing the brood 

 downward, keeping the honey at the top, 

 and if there be not sufiicient comb to con- 

 tinue this, compelling them to build more 

 beneath the brood lor its accomodation un- 

 til the hive is filled. To illustrate, let figs. 

 1, 2 and 3 represent hives of various sizes 

 and shapes cut perpendicularly in two 

 through the center so as to expose the cen- 

 tral comb of each. Then acuta will repre- 

 sent in each case about the dividing line 

 between the brood and the honey. That 

 portion of the hive above this line will be 

 filled with honey, while the brood will be 

 immediately next to and below it: «hould 

 there beany unoccupied comb or space in 

 the hive, (unless it be unreasonably long or 

 wide in i)roportion to the strength of the 

 colony ) it will be found between the Vjrood 

 and the bottom of the hive DE. It will be 

 found also, that it is in the emptied cells 

 made so by the hatching of the brood, along 



