GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Selling strawljerries ; the way E. B. Rood manages near Bradentown, Florida. See page 591. 



bees, nor sliding combs past each other so 

 that bees are rolled and crushed, and thus 

 infuriated; and, what is more noticeable, 

 the moving of the combs is as quietly done 

 as the turning of the leaves in a book, and 

 tlie bees show no tendency to bunch up on 

 the combs, so that, if one is looking for 

 the queen, there is no great mass of bees 

 collecting at any one point, which makes 

 it difficult to see the combs at all, and al- 

 most impossible to locate the queen without 

 using so much smoke as to cause the bees 

 to stampede. 



If desired, the bees may be brushed from 

 both sides of every comb without taking 

 the combs out of the hive body at all — 

 that is, without detaching them, for there 

 is plenty of room for the brush on eitlier 

 side of the combs as they are swung one 

 by one from one side to the other. 



If Mr. Anthony wishes to take a comb 

 entirely out of the hive, he can do so more 

 easily than he could take a comb from an 

 ordinary liive (Fig. 3), and he can put 

 tlie combs back just as easily. The combs 

 can not be slid back and forth in the hive 

 in bunches of twos or threes; but with 

 this construction there is, perhaps, not as 

 much need of it as with the ordinary hive. 

 If one desires, the cover and supers may 

 be removed and the combs lifted out from 

 the top as in Fig. 4; but Mr. Anthony 

 finds that there are so many advantages 

 connected with the other way that he rare- 

 ly gets at his combs from the top. 



1 found in this hive a new method for 

 sjiacing brood-frames, in that they are hung 

 off the center, causing them, through gi-av- 

 ity, to attempt to swing beyond the per-- 

 1 endicular. They are i^revented from do- 

 ing so, however, because of pins on the 

 lower inside ends of the brood-case against 

 Avhich they lean, and are spaced. This 

 construction affords little chance for stick- 

 ing with propolis, and there are no ob- 

 structions like nails and staples to dull an 

 uncapping-knife or to hitcli and catch in 

 removing frames. 



I was told more was obtained in this hive 

 than expected; for with much manipulation 

 of it in periods of dearth of honey, no time 

 as yet had occasioned the use of a tent; 

 and it looks reasonable that the keeping 

 of brood-frames from exposure at their top 

 sides, where the honey is stored, and the 

 keeping of all frames compact would aid 

 much toward the avoidance of robbing. 



Mr. Anthony runs for comb honey almost 

 exclusively. The few extracting-supers 

 that he has are exactly like his brood- 

 cliamber. The comb-honey super is shown 

 ill Fig. 5. Instead of the regular section- 

 liolders, wide frames are used, according 

 to the Hand method, which entirely sur- 

 I'ound the sections. The foundation is also 

 put in by J. E. Hand's plan, in split sec- 

 lions. The slats forming the separators 

 are nailed on one side of the wide frames, 

 as shown by thf frfjffle at the left lying 

 pn top. 



