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is used for tlic inner one and six or 

 eight inc-lies of paeking left b twcen 

 the walls. Mr. K''ousc is very en- 

 tliusiastie about the advantages of 

 this case and all his colonies which 

 now number near five hundred, in 

 several yai'ds. are in these single col- 

 ony cases. Aside from the inc'"eased 

 e.xpense neces.-ary to make a separate 

 eas(> for each hive there are somo de- 

 cided advantages in his method. 



The wi'iter uses a packing case 

 wliich holds two colon'es at his 'owa 

 aiiia'T- This is made from a dry good.s 

 box because of the greater economy 

 of cost. Two colonies occu. y the 

 same hive stand the year around. Dry 

 leaves are used for, packing. This 

 cheap case is described fully in Pio- 

 ductive Beekeeping. 



THE HOSHAL WINTER CASE. 



Mr. A. E. Hoshal of Beamsville, On- 

 tario has a winter case unlike any- 

 thing else which the writer has s;en. 

 This is a single colony case and he 

 uses both metal cases and wood. Soar- 

 ing prices caused by the war make.^ 

 the metal prohibitive just now but the 

 cases whicii he made before the ad- 

 vance in price were very reasonable 

 in co>t. Mr. Ho h 1 uses the Heddon 

 divisible hive and gets good results. 



The three pictures show how the 

 cases are packed and unpacked with 

 the same material year after year. 

 He uses planer shaving.? and after the 

 co'ony is unpacked in spring replaces 

 the packing material in the cas? and 

 piles them up against the outbuilding 

 as can be seen in the photo. 



These cases are very light when 

 made of galvanized iron and if a 

 good quality of material is used will 

 fast for many years. Mr. Hoshal is 

 an extensive producer and has every- 

 thing arranged so that he can pack 



or unpack his colonies in a minimum 

 of time. The first picture shows the 

 light lifting irons by means of which 

 he lifts the case onto the sliect whicli 

 is to catch the packing material. The 

 next one shows the case on the sheet 

 ready to be unpacked. The third 

 picture shows how easy the case is 

 removed and the fourth shows the 

 unpty case behind the hive and the 

 material on the sheet. The p;ick,ng 



is now dumped into the empty 

 case, the cover replaced and the case 

 adiled to the growing pile. When 

 time comes to prepare the colony for 

 winter it is an equally s>mple opera- 

 tion. The packing is dumted onto the 

 sheet and the case placed over the 

 hive, when the pack ng is again dump- 

 ed into the case and carefully packed 

 about the hive, the covers a'e placed 

 and all is snug for winter. For paok- 



MR. HOSHAL READY TO REMOVE THE PACKING FROM HIS MEIAL 



WINTER CASE 



ing a colony with the minimum of 

 labor the Hoshal is the simplest the 

 writer has yet seen. 



THE HIVE IS LIFTED UP AND THE PACKING FALLS OUT ON THE SHEET 



The Yellow Peril 



BY CHARLES DUFF STUART. 

 {Illiislrcitio/is by John R. Doue/as.) 



We in common with neighbor- 

 beekeepers are suffering from 

 a visitat on of yellow j.ickets. 

 The plague descended upon us about 

 July 1st. We traced them to their 

 nest which hung like a Chinese lan- 

 tern under the eaves of our house, and 

 destroyed it utterly, by dislodging and 

 dropping it in a bucket of sea ding 

 water held just beneath. The inter- 

 icjr of the nest was full of young 

 1 r a?, langcd sy.i me re lly in cells 

 not unlike the cocoon of the honey-bee 

 c?ll, af'er the wax is mel ed away. 



But this wholesa'e slaughter only 

 temirorarily checked the enemy. They 

 re formed their lines, so to speak, 

 called out the reserves and came upon 

 us again. 



At first they seemed satisfied to 

 carry away the dead bees lying on the 

 gi-ound in front of the hives, but as 

 thpir numb-^rs increased they grew 

 bolder and attacked live bes on the 

 landing boards and even entered the 



