GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



have always had Italians, and the other 

 people I have mentioned have Italians 

 also; but it has not cheeked the diseasq, 

 He says, "It is one of the most simple 

 diseases to deal with." How I wish that 

 were true ! 



He says Mr. McDonald introduced it by 

 buying infected bees. I will give an in- 

 stance: On one occasion it suddenly at- 

 tacked the farms of three beekeepers 

 (queen-breeders whose bees had never had 

 it before). They were all located wtihin a 

 mile of each other. The first one whose 

 bees that got it 



than they would be by Mr. Macy's plan. 

 The alleyways are freer of obstruction for 

 the wheelbarrow. 



To facilitate numbering the position of 

 the stand, the number of the row is paint- 

 ed on the fence or a stake, and the hive 

 number is also painted in the same way. 



The diagram below shows the arrange- 

 ment of the hives; and the figures under 

 east and west show the, initial or row num- 

 ber on the fence or stake; and the numbers 

 on the north show the hive number painted 

 in the same way. The hives are spaced 6 



WEST 



3 4-56 



2 

 3 

 4 

 5 



6 

 7 

 8 

 9 

 10 



11 12 13 



rushed over to the 

 second, and found 

 that it was there too. 

 He went back to his 

 own farm and fought 

 that disease for a 

 fortnight, when it 

 disapp eared. He 

 then, having nine, 

 called on the third 

 beekeeper, who pro- 

 tested loudly that he 

 had not had it; but 

 as he explained to 

 me a couple of days 

 after, his colonies 

 were very weak, and 

 his yard had all been 

 swept with a broom. 

 Now this visitation hit these three farms 

 at one time, practically on the same day, 

 at one time. Mr. Simmins infers that the 

 disease can be cured by a suitable medicinal 

 agent. Will he give us this agent, or will 

 any one else who knows? I am quite sat- 

 isfied that, although I have been living 

 with it for years, I know nothing at all 

 about it. 



Mororo, N. S. Wales. 



35 



POSITION NUMBERED, NOT HIVES 



BY H. F. HART 



While my system of hive-numbering is 

 similar to Louis Macy's, page 489, Aug. 1, 

 my row number comes first, hive number 

 second ; first hive in first row is 11 ; second 

 hive 12, and so on. 



My apiary is arranged in blocks of 10 

 rows of 10 hives in each. The hives are 

 arranged in pairs, put on stands made of 

 2x6 scantling 4 ft. long, end to end, not 

 side by side, and facing east and west. 

 This allows one to be always working on 

 the south side of the hive, with the sun at 

 the back shining on the frame. But in 

 this way the entrances are further apart 



ft. apart between entrances, and 6 ft. be- 

 tween in the rows. 



I have been using this arrangement of 

 hives for the past five years, and the num- 

 bering for ten or twelve or perhaps more; 

 and after laying out some twelve or four- 

 teen apiaries in the last 25 years I would 

 not change either the method of numbering 

 or the plan for the hives. I have this 

 method in use in an apiary of 350 colonies 

 now. 



AUenville, Ala. 



A STRONG COLONY WITH PLENTY OF STORES 



WILL STAND ALMOST ANY KIND OF 



WINTER 



BY L. M. BROWN 



I was a disciple of Mr. A. I. Root when 

 he took an active part in apiculture in 

 the 80's, and I should like to give the 

 "gist" of some of his advice on wintering. 



Have booming strong colonies, then select 

 four combs holding in all at least sixty 

 pounds of honey, and crowd the bees down 

 on these four combs, using a chaff division 

 board on each side. 



I formerly had the two-story chaff hive 



