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day to embark in the bee-business ? Of 

 course I would be willing to work at 

 anything that I could do, if I could not 

 get work at my trade. 



The main object in writing this is to 

 find out, should a man come to that 

 country (without capital), could he find 

 plenty of work to make a living? Or 

 has the country already more workmen 

 than are needed ? Subsckiber. 



Northern Minnesota, Nov. 10. 



Friend S., I do not think it would be 

 advisable to come to Beeville just now 

 expecting work. However, you might 

 find work here. There are four to six 

 brick houses going up in Beeville nearly 

 all the time, but 1 think there are plenty 

 of laborers here now. I am not posted 

 in regard to machine work, as my time 

 is almost wholly taken up with the bees, 

 and I have no time to investigate such 

 things ; but San Antonio, 90 miles north 

 of here, is a city of 60,000 inhabitants, 

 and has considerable public work going 

 on constantly, and you would be likely 

 to find employment there, or at some 

 other towns in southwest Texas. 



There is no winter loss here in bees 

 caused from cold, as it does not get very 

 cold here. But bees can be neglected 

 here and allowed to starve to death in 

 winter, etc. 



I think you would better come and 

 look at the country before you move. 

 Jennie Atchley. 



Bee-Management in Florida. 



[Owing to the severe Illness of her 

 son, Mrs. Atchley has been hindered in 

 preparing and forwarding matter for 

 this department, so we take the follow- 

 ing from "Gleanings" for Nov. 15, 

 being from a " Sunny Southland" bee- 

 keeper. Mr. Mitchell's crop this year 

 was 21,500 pounds from 57 colonies, 

 spring count. — Editor.] 



I use the 8-frame dovetailed hive, 3 

 stories high, exclusively, in my own 

 apiary. For several years I used the 

 two-story 10-frarae hive, but greatly 

 prefer the 8-frame three stories high, as 

 it enables ino to gain all the advantages 

 of a large hive without having to do any 

 heavy lifting. 1 use seven frames in the 

 two upper stories for extracting from, 

 and practice tiering up to thoroughly 

 ripen my honey ; at the same time I give 

 the bees plenty of room to store. 



I extract from the upper story, then 



lift up the second one, and place the ex- 

 tracted one underneath. This placing" 

 of seven empty combs right in the mid- 

 dle of the hive seems to incite the bees 

 to do their best to fill that empty space j 

 for the way they will pile the honey in 

 there is astonishing. In the meantime 

 the full combs in the upper story, being 

 In the warmest part of the hive, are 

 thoroughly ripened and capped over 

 ready for extracting by the time the 

 second story is full enough to be lifted 

 up. I claim by this method to obtain 

 more well-ripened honey than would be 

 possible with a two-story hive. 



Equally good results could be obtained 

 with the 10-frame hive worked in the 

 same manner, but it is too heavy to 

 handle ; but I find I can handle the 8- 

 frame body, with seven frames of honey, 

 without any great muscular effort, al- • 

 though I am anything but a Hercules. 



Having three stories entails some ex- 

 tra handling to lift the second story off, 

 put the empty one In place, and the full 

 one on too again ; but to offset that, a 

 little smoke puffed Into a third story of 

 capped honey depopulates it of bees to 

 such an extent that the brushing off is a 

 small matter compared to the same op- 

 eration with a two-story hive. Then 

 there is less trouble with swarming, less 

 hanging out, and making increase Is as 

 easy as falling off a log. I merely lift 

 off the third story, see that it has a 

 frame of brood in all stages ; move the 

 two lower stories to a new location, 

 leaving the single story in the old. The 

 bees already on the combs, reinforced 

 by the field-bees, give me a strong colony 

 that never fails to rear a good lot of 

 queen-cells. 



In extracting I run honey from the 

 extractor through cheese-cloth into a 

 large tank holding about 1,600 pounds, 

 where it stays until 1 need more room, 

 when I draw it off from the bottom into 

 barrels, for shipment. 



H. W. Mitchell,. 



Hawk's Park, Fla. 



**I<^o«l lSi-oo<l ; Its Natural History 

 and Rational Treatment," is the title of an 

 interesting booklet by Dr. Wm. R. Howard, 

 of Texas. It also contains a review of the 

 work of others on the same subject. It is 

 being sold at the office of the Bee Jour- 

 nal. Price, postpaid, 25 cents ; or clubbed 

 with the i)EE JouKNAL for one year— both 

 together for $1.15. 



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