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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



A NUMBERED STAKE IN FRONT OF EVERY 

 GROUP OF THREE HIVES 



BY J. W. SOUTHWOOD 



Louis H. Scholl, in the May 15th issue, 

 calls up the question of hive numbering. 

 It may be true that what is satisfactory to 

 one may not be to another. Yet what is 

 satisfactoi-y to one may be of benefit to 

 others, even if not entirely satisfactory. 

 With this thought in view I will give my 

 method of numbering hives, which has 

 proven, after several years' test, the most 



satisfactory of any that I have tried, and I 

 have tried several others. 



My hive-stands are a little more than six 

 feet long, and hold three hives, one at each 

 end and one in the middle, all facing the 

 south. About two or more feet in front of 

 the middle hive of each group of three is 

 placed a stake wliich is painted white. 

 These stakes contain the numbers in black 

 or blue figures. In order that the figures 

 may be larger, they are arranged so as to 

 read vertically if more than a single figure 

 is used to express tlie number of the colony. 



J. G. Corey, of Santa Paula, Cal., in his 84th year — the man who, years ago, carried a 



colony of bees over 100 miles across the mountains, making a part of the 



trip on snowshoes. See department Our Homes, by A. I. Root. 



