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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Sept. 3, 1903. 



quality of their work 'in the supers. They 

 enter the sections readily, cap their combs as 

 white as the snowy range, and use little prop- 

 olis. The quality of the work of our Carno-1 tal- 

 ians is distinctly superior to that of the vari- 

 ous etrains of Italians in the same yard, while 

 the quantity of honey they have stored is 

 fully equal to the best Italian colonies. 



A. I. Root on Depth of Frames. 



The senior editor of the iGleanings in Bee- 

 Culture, asked his opinion with regard to the 

 advantage of shallow frames over those most 

 commonly in use, thus expresses himself: 



" Friend H., if you want my personal opin- 

 ion in regard to the matter, I would say, stick 

 to the Langstroth .frame. Since I began 

 bee-keeping, every little while somebody 

 gives his reason for thinking the Langstroth 

 frame is not the best shape or size, and more 

 or less follow him ; but in due course of time 

 the new kind is dropped, and we get back 

 to the standard Langstroth. There are not 

 only more bees in the world on this size of 

 frames than all other sizes together, but I am 

 not sure but there are ten limes as many. Per- 

 haps I am not posted, and up to the times; 

 but I very much doubt whether there is ad- 

 vantage enough in a shallower frame to pay 

 to use another than the Langstroth. 



The Future of Bee-Keeping. 



This is viewed very hopefully by Mr. G. C. 

 Creelman, Superintendent of Farmers' Insti- 

 tutes for the province of Ontario. In the 

 course of an address before the Ontario Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, reported in the Cana- 

 dian Bee Journal, he said : 



'' We are getting inquiries every day about 

 bees; people want to branch out, and we find 

 the younger people are growing up and ask- 

 ing for information concerning the common 

 things that are about them. I don't know 

 anything amongst Nature's studies better 

 than to give a child a hive of bees ; if the 

 parents, if the older brothers, those of you 

 who are here, could take those children and 

 bring them along, and get the school teachers 

 interested, and offer prizes for the best collec- 

 tion at the fall fairs, raised by the boys, of 

 flowers, fruits, and so on, I believe we would 

 have such an awakening in apiculture that 

 the amount of honey produced would exceed 

 the demand, and it at the same time we car- 

 ried along a package of tracts, and kept the 

 papers full of it from one meeting to the 

 other, and kept talking honey, honey, in all 

 our agricultural papers, a very great interest 

 would be taken, and the demand would be 

 increased. You have to keep these things be- 

 fore the people. 



'' As it is at present, there is so much lack 

 of interest that the chopping down of a tree, 

 or having to feed the pigs, will keeji them 

 away from the meeting ; but it they have been 

 thinking of that meeting for eight months or 

 a year ahead, you would have a very much 

 greater attendance. I think you men, who 



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are thinking along these lines, and using your 

 brains to the very best advantage, are not 

 doing enough; you are doing all this but 

 you do not get a chance to tell the great num- 

 ber of people about it; you are to a large 

 extent wasting time. A great many have 

 heard these things before, and they are here 

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Using Starters in the Brood-Nest. 



It is a fact patent to all, I think, that a col- 

 ony that is building a set of combs in the 

 brood-nest, and that has at the same time 

 ample storage room in the super, has all de- 

 sire to swarm removed, and the necessity for 

 rapid comb-building for storage purposes re- 

 moved, and that the desire for workers in 

 such a colony is paramount. Hence, nearly 

 all the comb that is built by the bees, and im- 

 mediately occupied Ijy the queen, is built, 

 worker size, whether the queen be one month 

 old or three years old. 



But to secure these conditions, everything 

 must be normal. The colony must have a 

 laying queen and an ample field force at the 

 time they are hived, whether the swarm is 

 forced or natural. Again, it is necessary to 

 have a steady tlow of honey; but these condi- 

 tious nearly always prevail at such times in 

 Colorado. 



Any condition that will retard rapid comb- 

 building, like an old queen with a good force 

 of young bees and a small field-force, or a 

 colony that has been given a frame or two of 

 brood to help them, and has a small field-force, 

 or a colony, let it be large or small, that is 

 compelled to rear a queen, will invariably con- 

 struct much drone-comb. 



But I think it is still safe and advisable, 

 here in Colorado, where our swarming season 

 does not stammer along through the year, as 

 in oriental countries, but is nearly all done in 

 20 days after the honey-llow begins, to con- 

 tinue the use of starters only in the brood- 

 nest ; and our reward will be a good crop of 

 the most beautiful surplus honey that can be 

 produced, and brood-chamljers filled, with 

 none too much drone-comb, as hundreds of my 

 own. and others' hives will attest.— M. A. 

 lin.L, in Uleaning.s in Bee-Culture. 



Four Tons of Comb Honey from 70 

 Colonies. 



I promised you that I would tell you how I 

 produced that four tons of honey from 70 

 colonies, spring count. In the first place, I^ 

 had all young queens. I do not believe in 

 keeping queens vifter they are two years old, 



