1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



15 



QuGstioi;)'Box^ 



In the multitude of counsellors there is 

 safety. — Prov. 11-14. 



Hoiv Often Should Fraiiic§ be 

 manipulated ? 



Query 1.— Please tell about how often you 

 " go into " or take frames out of each hive in 

 the course of the year.— Ky. 



G. M. Doolittle — About three to four 

 times. 



W. R. Graham — About six times; 

 oftener in queen-rearing. 



Prof. A. J. Coolv — It depends. No 

 short answer can be given. 



E. France — It depends upon the sea- 

 son, and what you want to do with the 

 bees. 



P. H. Elwood — About once in ten 

 days, during warm weather, until the 

 close of the swarmiug season. 



Dr. C. C. Miller— My, goodness ! Not 

 many times the past year. Sometimes 

 twice, sometimes a dozen or twenty 

 times. 



W. G. Larrabee^All the way from 

 two or three to fifty — just as many times 

 as they need it, but not unless they do 

 need it. 



B. Taylor — I cannot answer. Some 

 hives are not opened during the season ; 

 others are opened, and frames handlefl 

 many times. 



R. L. Taylor — Except in search of 

 foul brood, I probably take frames out 

 of about one in twenty of the hives dur- 

 ing the season. 



C. H. Dibbern — I never open a hive 

 unless I have some purpose in view. 

 Why " go into " a hive when there is no 

 object in doing so ? 



Mrs. L. Harrison — When I was a 

 novice I went into them quite often. 

 Now I let 'em be. It I notice anything 

 wrong, I " go in ;" otherwise I stay out. 



Rev. E. T. Abbott— Only when I think 

 the welfare of the colony demands it, 

 and that is not very often. The less 

 they are " gone into," the better it will 

 be. 



Jas. A. Stone — It all depends upon 

 how much work they are doing, or 

 whether they are pure or not. If they 

 need Italianizing, then a good many 

 times. 



J. E. Pond — I cannot tell how often. 

 I don't open hives unless I see some 

 need therefor. Such occasions may oc- 

 cur more or less often, depending upon 

 circumstances. 



J. A. Green — Not at all, unless there 

 is some special reason for it. Some of 

 my hives have not had the frames in the 

 brood-chamber removed or handled in 

 two years or more. 



J. M. Hambaugh — This is hard to an- 

 swer. Some colonies are not disturbed 

 during the season, while others are 

 handled quite frequently. I never dis- 

 turb the combs without a cause. 



Mrs. J. N. Heater — That depends upon 

 the strength of the colony to be drawn 

 from, and the number of frames I need. 

 I have taken ten or more frames of 

 brood from single colonies, in a season, 

 taking from two to four at a time at in- 

 tervals of two or three weeks, while 

 other colonies could not spare any. 



H. D. Cutting— When I began keeping 

 bees I "went through them" almost 

 every day. But of late years I seldom 

 take out frames if the colony is all 

 right, and you can tell by outside indi- 

 cations. 



Dr. J. P. H. Brown— I might go into 

 a hive several times a day — then not for 

 a week. Some hives might not get 

 opened over once or twice a year. Never 

 take a frame from a hive unless they 

 can spare it. 



Eugene Secor — Never, unless there is 

 some reason for so doing. If a colony 

 has a laying queen, and is otherwise all 

 right, I do not touch a frame. Its con- 

 dition is easily ascertained without ma- 

 nipulating frames. 



Allen Pringle — This " going into" the 

 hives and handling the frames of brood- 

 chambers has been growing smaller with 

 me and "beautifully less" for many 

 years. Of late, some of my brood-cham- 

 bers are not opened at all from spring 

 till fall ; others are, as the circumstances 

 may require. 



Rev. M. Mahin — I cannot answer that 

 question. In some of my colonies I have 

 not moved a brood-comb for years; in 

 others I have had them all out several 

 times during the past summer. I do not 

 take combs out of hives unless there is 

 some reason for doing so. I have learned 

 to not open hives for fun. 



G. W. Demaree — Well, let me see. I 

 usually examine my colonies the first 

 warm spring days to see how they are 

 off for stores. Then in apple-bloom I 

 lift out the frames till I find the queen 

 and clip her wing, if not already clip- 

 ped. I then let them alone till locust 

 bloom (May 10 or 15). I now give them 

 the section-cases, or extracting-supers, 

 ready for all the honey that may be 

 stored from white clover. When I need 

 brood for any purpose, I take it from 

 any strong colony that can spare it. 

 Really, now-a-days I manipulate my bees 

 as little as I can get along with. But not 

 because I fear it will hurt them. 



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A THOUGHT 

 THAT KILLED 

 A MAN! 



He thought that he could trifle with 

 disease. He was run down in health, 

 felt tired and worn out, complained of 

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 headaches. His liver and kidneys were 

 out of order. He thought to get well by 

 dosing himself with cheap pills. And 

 then came the ending. He fell a victim 

 to Bright's disease ! The money he 

 ought to have invested in a safe, reliable 

 remedy went for a tombstone. The 

 thought that killed this man 



HAS KILLED OTHERS. 



statistics show that 90 per cent, of 

 the deaths from pneumonia, Bright's dis- 

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 from derangements of the liver and kid- 

 neys. These great organs keep the blood 

 pure and in healthful motion. When 

 they get out of order the blood becomes 

 poisoned, the circulation impeded and 

 the whole system speedily breaks down. 

 It is 



A DANGEROUS IDEA 



to imagine that pills can strike at the 

 root of these diseases. It has been thor- 

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