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ern Iowa, and I used the long hive 

 entirely." 



We have ourselves tried the " long 

 idea" with the Quinby frames, and had 

 at one time some 30 hives of this style 

 with 'M frames each, which were equiv- 

 alent to 30 frames of the Poppleton 

 hive. We also had some (iO hives with 

 11) frames ll'/i by 12 inside. But these 

 were so arranged that we could also 

 use supers on them. We finally re- 

 turned entirely to the system of shal- 

 low supers which we use still. 



A Small Group of Those in Attendance at the Clarinda, Iowa. Field Meet Aug. n 

 I. Carl Anderson. 2. Dr. E. L. Crowson. 3. M. E Darby. 4. E. J. Baxter. 5. C. B. Baxter- 

 6. H C. Hartman. 7. O. E. Ostrus. 8. Thos. Parker. <; T. E. Ostrus. 10. W. D. Foley, it. Harold 

 Ostrus. 12. Oscar Ostrus. 13. G. M Shaver. 14. J. L Strong. 



customed to handling them count this 

 a worthless argument, but all novices 

 readily see the difference. 



3. It is more difficult to extract the 

 honey from deep combs than from 

 shallow super frames. The combs are 

 heavy and more tiresome to handle. 

 More stooping is required. 



4. When removing surplus honey for 

 extracting, the hive must necessarily 

 be kept open quite a while. This gives 

 occasion for robbing, if the crop is at 

 an end. When supers are used, the 

 super may be removed, the hive closed 

 at once and the bees shaken out in 

 front. A bee-escape, which may be 

 used also under a super, is out of the 

 question with the one story, horizontal 

 hive. 



The name " long idea " was given to 

 the first horizontal hives offered in this 

 country, in 1872, by Gen Adair, of Ken- 

 tucky. He had named his hives " new 

 idea," but the change was popularly 

 made in some way to what the " idea " 

 represented. The champion of " long 

 idea " hives in this country is the old 

 veteran soldierand practical beekeeper, 

 O. O. Poppleton, of Florida. His hives 

 hold 24 frames UK by 11>2 inches, in- 

 side measure. In the American Bee 

 Journal of April 13, 1899, in reply to 

 objections made to this style of hive, 

 Mr. Poppleton wrote: 



"The discussion over these hives 

 occurred when I was first starting my 

 apiary in Iowa. After trying both 

 styles for a year or two, I adopted the 

 long single-story hive and still use it, 

 not having a single double-deck hive 



in my apiaries. I used about 500 

 double-story hives for two years in 

 Cuba, and was glad to return to my 



own style Let me review Mr. 



Doolittle's objections very briefly. I 

 can work a single-story hive much 

 easier than a double story. The extra 

 depth of my frame and a little higher 

 stand makes the top of the hive the 

 same height from the ground as the 

 top of a two-story Langstroth hive. I 

 shake my bees inside, not on top of 

 the hive, and avoid the trouble of 

 crawling bees he speaks of. I used to 

 be as successful as the average bee- 

 keeper in wintering my bees in north- 



The Seventh Iowa Summer Meeting.— 



The series oi summer meetings being 

 held in Iowa do not lack in interest as 

 the season advances. At some points 

 the attendance is notas large as others, 

 owing to the fact that the number of 

 beekeepers in reach are less. At Clar- 

 inda on Aug. 12 the friends gathered at 

 the apiary of J. L. Strong, who has 

 kept bees in Iowa for nearly half a cen- 

 tury. Nearly as many came from Mis- 

 souri as from Iowa, and E. J. Ba.xter 

 and son of Nauvoo, 111., came all the 

 way across the State to be with us. M. 

 E. Darby, the State Bee Inspector of 

 Missouri, and E. J. Baxter were the 

 principal speakers, and entertained 

 their hearers in an interesting manner 

 with incidents of days that are past and 

 friends who have passed on. 



Bee diseases and other subjects were 

 discussed for a time, and much pleas- 

 ure was the result of the examination 

 of the Strong apiary and apparatus. 



The day was very pleasantly spent in 

 informal discussion and in cultivating 

 the acquaintance of the persons in at- 

 tendance. Only one more of these 

 summer meetings remains to be held. 

 The photograph shows only a small 

 part of those present at Clarinda. 



Frank C. Pellett. 



Atlantic, Iowa. 



Bee-I^eping M FbR Women 



Conducted bv Miss Emma M. Wilson. Marengo. III. 



Beekneping as a Vocation — Location 



To Illinois Wife: — There is some- 

 thing to be learned by a visit to a large 

 apiary; but don't count too much on 

 it. If you dip in for yourself, with the 

 aid of a good text-book on beekeeping 

 and a bee jo 'rnal, you will know more 

 certainly whether or not beekeeping 

 is a thing exactly fitted for you. Da- 

 dant's Langstroth ($1.2-5) and Root's 

 A B C and .\ Y Z of Bee Culture ($2.00) 

 are the leading text-books on bee cul- 

 ture. To either of these Dr. Miller's 

 "Fifty Years Among the Bees" ($1.00) 

 may serve as a supplement. It gives 

 in detail his entire management for the 

 year, making it more instructive than a 

 number of visits would be. Either of 

 these books can be obtained by send- 

 ing the price attached to the American 

 Bee Journal, Hamilton, 111. 



To give up another business to em- 

 bark upon beekeeping with little or no 

 previous experience would be a hazard- 

 ous experiment. If there should be a fail- 

 ure of the honey crop in the first year — 

 and such things do happen — one would 

 be likely to wish very much that the 

 experiment had not been tried. Much 

 better it would be to begin beekeeping 

 on a small scale as a side issue, con- 

 tinuing the previous regular business 

 until such time as experience should 

 warrant casting loose from other 

 sources of income. For some will 

 make a success of beekeeping and 

 others a failure ; and no one can tell in 

 advance who shall be the successes, 

 and who th • failures. Neither can any 

 one decide the question for himself by 

 any amount of study or investigation 

 without actually trying it on with 



