1885 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



85 



and sell my labor, I have found out it is only har- 

 boring the ideas of the perfectionist to imagine 

 that our profession is not like others, more or less 

 tilled with those who will do right only when forced 

 to by the strong arm of the law. 



I feel that the great part of our profession need 

 no laws, patent or any other; but as long as we har- 

 bor within our i-anks quite a number that do, I say 

 patent when you think best, and give us the results 

 of your many wakeful nights (when you were steal- 

 ing from your lease of life); patent it, but give it 

 to us; don't keep it under a bushel. We want it, 

 and are willing and can affoi-d to pay for it. 



My style of reversible frame as inclosed in the 

 hive is described in A. B. J. Comments and ques- 

 tions are now in order. James Heddon. 



Dowagiac, Mich., January, 1885. 



Below we give an engraving of the hive in 

 question. 



HEDDON'S I.ANGSTKOTII HIVE. 



E represents the cover, which is a plain 

 piece of hoard I inch thick, deated across 

 the ends. Very likely a board planed as 

 thin as this, and only li'* or 18 inches wide, 

 would not warp to 'make much trouble, if 

 kept well painted. But we have had very 

 much trouble from covers warping and 

 twisting, when made Ki inches wide and I 

 thick for Simplicity hives. In fact, we 

 never succeeded in' getting any sort of a 

 cover for Langstroth hives that would not, 

 sooner or later, let bees get under the edges, 

 until we adoi)ted our well-known Simplicity 

 cover and bottom-board. 



The case ot sections 1) is so well described 

 at the end of this article that we need not 

 go over it here. The above case has three 

 division-boards, as will be noticed, giving 

 room for 4 rows of sections, 7 sections in 

 each row. As a width of sections 7 to the 

 foot has been so many times mentioned, we 

 presume this case is just 12 inches wide. It 

 holds the same number of sections, it will be 

 observed, as does our case, only they are 

 narrower. The sample hive mentioned has 

 not yet reached us, but I presinne the bot- 

 toms of the sections are Hush with the bot- 

 tom edge of the case, except the sheet of 

 metal that separates them. 



G represents the skeleton, or sink honey- 

 board, as friend II. calls it, which is the 

 special feature of his system of management. 

 I will have a good engraving made of this 



honey-board for our next issue, nothing pre- 

 venting. 



Hive A is simply an ordinary Laugsti'oth 

 hive, omitting the sides of the portico, and 

 using the ordinary triangular blocks to ad- 

 just the entrance. The arrangement of the 

 bottom-board and stand will be given in our 

 next. 



As mentioned in another column, no one 

 is expected to advertise Heddon's Lang- 

 stroth hive unless he tirst makes arrange- 

 ments with :\Ir. II. for so doing ; and even 

 after having made this arrangement we are 

 all to sell them at his prices. These we extract 

 from his circular, as below : 



All who are acquainted with our hive, know that what we 

 raean by a " hive in the flat " includes about twice as much as 

 is usually sold under that term. There being two surplus sto- 

 ries, makes it really a three-story hive, a.s we sell it, either 

 made up or in the flat. 

 One hive made up, complete, with 2 cases and 56 one- 



pound sections 83 00 



One hive complete, with two broad-frame supers and 48 



one-pound sections 3 50 



One hive, arranged for extracting 3 00 



PRICE IX THE KLAT, FOB IJO.MB OB EXTRACTED HONEY. 



One hive, nniled together •« JO 



Two to live hives, all flat, each 1 SO 



Six to ten hivc«. each 1 *0 



Kleven to twentv-tive hives, each 1 30 



Twentv-six to fli'tv hives, each 1 2" 



Fifty -one to one hundred hives, each 1 20 



Heddon's skeleton sink honey-boards, each 2.=> 



perdoz 2 .W 



" per 100 15 00 



We think the above cheaper than most bee-keeoers e^n make 



thtrn.as it requires exi>eHen'-e and a special form to make 



rl . .. 1 >ii.v-boards as thev sho'ild be made. We sell them 



lb- up conipl''te. With these " boaixis "" no queen-ex- 



iKof anv use in the production of comb honey, and 



■I. > - ri|ually adv.Hitagcous in the production of extracted 



Oil page H\ the (luestiou is raised, whether 

 anybody has a right to make Heddon's style 

 of case." It' I am correct, friend II. does not 

 claim that the case is his invention ; and so 

 far as I can see, it is substantially the case 

 used bv J. V. Moore, of IMngharaton, X. Y.. 

 as far back as 1S7(). Below I give you some 

 extracts which I have taken from page T2. 

 April (iLEANiNos for ls7t) : 



M'cll. I sec vou don't want any advice about hives, 

 so I siipposf this will lie paper thrown away; but it 

 vovi will rciwl it and consider, [ am satisfied; for if 

 you ilon't lia\ (■ the best rack in America, the re- 

 sponsiliilitv won't rest with me. 1 know you won't 

 adopt it, because vou are like me and a great many 

 other bee-keepers" — you can't be told any thing till 

 you have the experience and see the reality. 



Inclosed is a description of our rack as we now 

 make it : 



.). 1'. MOOllE'S RACK FOH BOXES AND S.M.A^LL FRAMES. 

 I.A.NOSTHOTU SIZE. 



Take stuff Mti inch thick, by 2'.i wide: cut 4 cross- 

 pieces 15'8 inches long, and 2 side-pieces 21'.i inches 

 long. Nail thrnufrh the side-pieces into ends of 

 cross-pieces; put :( tinisliing si.xes into each end of 

 cverv cross-piece, putting together so as to forni 3 

 boxes or spaces, without top or bottom; each to be 

 «', inches wi-ic l.v l.V,, loiighy 2^i deep. Get Russia 

 sheet iron, cut with a machine, 2 pieces for middle 

 ■« inch wide, and -^ tor end-pieces ''s inch wide; 

 punch .5 holes in each, on a block of hard wood, 

 with a square-end punch, so as to take a piece out; 

 punch the 's-inch ones along the middle, the is ones 

 a little nearer one side, and nail these irons on the 

 bottom edges of the cross-pieces of the rack, %vith 

 IVi-inch finishing nails, letting the edges project U 

 inch into the spaces, to support the ends ot boxes 

 and small frames, when set down into the spaces. 

 Use boxes and small frames 6='., inches long in this 

 rack, of such width as to leave ^i inch side shake. 

 J. P. MoORE. 



Binghamtoii, N. Y., Feb. 2-2, 1876. 



If the above describes what friend Hatch 

 wants to make, of course there is nothing to 

 prevent his making as many as he chooses, 

 and selling at whatever price he thinks 

 proper, 



