THE BEE-KEEPERS HFA'IEW. 



V)\ inches deep, and I perfected an arrange- 

 ment whereby a bee-?pace was always main- 

 tained between two or more sections when 

 set together, and also when set on the bot- 

 tom board, and this without any strips or 

 other traps on the smooth board. I have 

 since tried many depths of frames down to 

 4^0 inches, and am now using many hives 

 of that depth, and, after thirty year's use I 

 know them to be a good hive for winter or 

 summer use. The deeper hives proved too 

 deep for tiering for brood chambers. I used 

 the wire-end frame in connection with these 



to decide whether he is justified in his un- 

 friendly spirit. 



Finding the four-pound sections too large 

 I made some of half the size. These had 

 closed ends, just like modern sectionp. 

 Then I gripped four of them together by 

 three bent wires with thin boards to cover 

 the sides. This made of them a neat box 

 holding eight pounds of honey when tilled, 

 and four of them just covered the top of my 

 KJ-inch square hive. They sat upon the top 

 of hive the edges of which supported the out 

 ends, hut the center needed support, and 



H( ME OF ilAKNET TAYLOK. FOKKSTVILLE, MINNESOTA. 



deeper hives, and one of themis to-day the 

 best single-brood-chamber hive of which I 

 have any knowledge. All of these sectional 

 hives of whatever depth were exactly alike 

 except as to depth, and could be used to- 

 gether. Now, friends, I have given the true 

 history of the origin of my interchangeable 

 brood chamber hive. 



I see by Mr. Heddon's Quarterly that he is 

 hostile towards me. There is no reason for 

 it, except that I made and used these hives 

 more than twelve years before 1 ever knew 

 there was such a man as .James Heddon, and 

 I had no way of knowing that he was going 

 to patent such a hive. When I learned he 

 had, I was greatly pleased. I had no thought 

 of using or claiming the idea in a patent. 

 The readers of bee journals know that I have 

 never expressed a jealous or hostile feeling 

 toward Mr. Heddon, and I leave it to them 



I made T tins to I old tliem up. These T.'s 

 were made by taking a strii) of wood 34 by 

 one inch and 15 iiiclies long, and nailing a ■ 

 piece of tin % inches wide on one edge one 

 of which laid across the center of the hive 

 supported the inner ends of the boxes. I 

 now have armfuls of these tins, and they 

 were the first thing of the kind I ever saw or 

 heard of for that purpose. I had thin boards 

 7^2 inches square to cover these boxes, and 

 four of these boards made a cover for the 

 top of the hive. When no boxes were on, a 

 cap was used to cover these boxes when on 

 the hives. The boxes could be used one or 

 more at a time as required, and could be 

 tiered up to any height. This was a neat 

 and practical arrangement scarcely sur- 

 passed by anything in use to-day. I sold 

 these eight-pound ! oxes just as they came 

 from the hive ; no handling or crates were 



