January, 1919 



GLKANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



37 



HEADS OF GRMNl QFiMQi r DIFFERENT FI ELDS 



the ratio 2 to 4; but if one were to travel 

 away to the north, where the nights are 

 considerably cooler, the proportion would 

 vary still more in favor of extracted. 



While I have not tried to raise any comb 

 honey for a few years, I have seen a hot 

 sunnnor when I did get about 50 combs 

 from a hive. But usually it is too cool here 

 at night (and that is what makes the good 

 wheat that brings th« world ehampionshij) 

 to Canada) to allow the bees to break into 

 clusters small enough to produce comb hon- 

 ey, and, consequently, some summers we 

 can not get a single comb except in shallow 

 supers, while at the same time I have got 

 100 pounds of extracted. "What, in this in- 

 stance, is the ratio of comb to extracted? 

 W. J. Boughen. 



Valley Kiver, Manitoba. 



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Quadruple Double 

 Walled Hives. 



lustration has been 



The QuadruDle double- 

 walled hive shown in 

 the accompanying il- 

 used with success by 

 Hugh L. Lynn, Livia, Ky. There are two 



This Qiuidrupk'd tloul)le-walled liive makes it pos- 

 sible to use summer covers and have the hives of 

 different heights. Tlie brood-chambers remain pack- 

 ed the year round. 



entrances on the south, one on the east, and 

 one on the west. For convenience in han- 

 dling, the four hives in each group are five 



Mr. Lynn is careful to have his hives dissimilarly 

 arranged, as A.I. Koot recommended many years ago. 



inches apart. This makes it possible to use 

 summer covers and to have the four hives 

 at different heights. The roof, or water- 

 table, reaches to within about an inch of the 

 top of this brood-chamber, thus leaving 

 plenty of room for the summer cover, even 

 when no super is being used. 



It will be noticed that four of the roof 

 boards have less slope than the lower roof- 

 ing, the projecting ends serving to hold the 

 winter case in position. 



As a winter protection, above this double- 

 walled hive are placed the winter case of 

 leaves and the cover herewith shown. This 

 case is made narrower at the top in order 

 to reduce the size of the roof. 



This winter case (or cover) paeked with leaves roofs 

 the quadruple double-walled liive. 



Get Your Price ' ' Tlie Price Ques- 



for Honey. tion, " by A. S. Brown, 



page 724, December 

 Gleanings, should be read over two or three 

 times by the crazy fellows who take any old 

 price for their honey. To endeavor to edu- 

 cate people to thinking they want honey, is 

 a fine idea, and is my favorite plan of work- 

 ing. The other suggestion: "When whole- 

 saling, sell at wholesale; when retailing, sell 

 at retail, ' ' will cure a lot of your honey-sell- 

 ing troubles. I have kept bees for seven 

 years and have had no trouble in cultivating 

 a class of trade that pays 25 cents per sec- 

 tion, in spite of the stores and some bee- 

 keepers that persist in selling at 15 cents, 

 or two sections for 25 cents. The past two 

 seasons stopped that nonsense. Two years 

 ago I had 1,500 fine sections. There was no 



