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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Aug. 17, 1905 



The hive is double walled, and takes 10 crosswise self- 

 spacing frames in the brood-chamber. The inner bottom 

 slopes to the front, which permits of the hive being set level 

 on its stand, and l<eeps the floor dry, too. There is no pack- 

 ing of any kind between the walls, the hive merely being lined 

 inside with lighter material. The frames are llxie^i inches, 

 outside measure, and there is room for a follower at the back. 

 This gives an entrance space fully 17 inches long, and as I 

 make it s^' of an inch high, it will readily be seen that there 

 is abundant room or means for ventilation. I regulate the 

 entrance in the ordinary way, by the use of entrance blocks. 



Now, with this large entrance there is no need of prying 

 the hive off the bottom board, as is often done with hives 

 having detachable bottoms. Bees need lots of air when they 

 are storing honey, but to give it in this way is so much easier, 

 so much more practical, that tall, narrow" hives are not "in 

 it " at all. 



When you pry or wedge up a hive, such work must all be 

 undone again at the close of the season. The bees fly out 

 more or less along the sides, and often cluster there also. This 

 makes it worse about bees getting into one's shoes while 

 standing at the side of the hive. This is especially so if low- 

 top shoes are worn. Then, when swarms issue the queen is 

 liable to leave the hive by the side entrance, and get lost in 

 the grass, if she is clipped. Give me the permanently large 

 entrance, regulated with the blocks, every time. 



Now this hive has a large base; it does not blow over 

 easily, and, besides, afi'ords large super accommodations. 



I forgot to mention that it has a portico similar to the 

 Langstroth hive. 



The super takes 13 frames if ordinarily spaced, or 12 with 

 a follower. 1 have used both a 6-inch and a 7-inch frame in 

 the super for extracting, and both work admirably. For my 

 own convenience I want nothing larger than a 7-inch frame 

 for extracting purposes, but on 8 and 10 frame hives of the 

 ordinary make it is better to use a deeper frame. There will 

 be more honey harvested at less expense by using one deep 

 super, taking the same size frame as those used in the brood- 

 chamber, than in two shallow supers. A narrow, shallow 

 super costs nearly as much as a standard-depth brood-cham- 

 ber, and two of them require just double the amount of 

 manipulation. 



If one doesn't mind extracting from large frames, then 

 there is no question about their superiority over shallow ones, 

 in most places, for the production of extracted honey. When 

 I say this I have in mind the Langstroth hive and frame. In 

 my hive I get nearly as much super-room as there is in a 10- 

 frame Langstroth brood-chamber, and have the pleasure of 

 using a 7-iach frame. 



There is a large telescope cover, ventilated, that fits down 

 all over the super and rests on a rim about an inch below the 

 the top edge of the brood-chamber. This affords a good deal 

 of shade in summer, and keeps out all rain during the winter. 

 When I wish to prepare the colony for winter, all that is 

 necessary to do is to remove the frames from the super, spread 

 a cloth over the honey-board which is left in place, lill the 

 super full of dry forest leaves, and the job is done. I always 

 leave the flat super-cover off during thewinter, otherwise the 

 packing would become wet in the super and destroy the colony 



This hive costs a little more at the start, but if you pro- 

 duce extracted honey, and live in a place where bees need a 

 good, substantial hive, make some on that order and compare 

 their utility ivith othpr Tn^t-oo r,f Vii^r^it, Scioto Co Ohio 



their utility with other makes of hives. 



(£onxx^ntton 

 Procccbings 



Report of the Chicago-Northwestern Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Conveutloa, held at Chicago, 111., 

 Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, 1904 



(Continued from pa^e 56'* J 

 DETECTING .\DULTERATION IN BEESWAX. 



Pres. York— Have you the entire letter? 



Mr. Abbott — I l.ave the entire copy, my comment anO (lit 

 editor s v.pon it. 



Dr. Miller — Just what is the statement he did m:ike? 



Mr. Abbott— The sentence states that honey is not 

 adulterated, but that p;.raffin is used wholly or in p;in in 



the manufacture of foundation. Those are not exactly the 

 words hut that is the substance of it. 



Dr. Miller — That leaves it, he might say if he knew 

 of a single case in which some fool who was making ex- 

 periment!- might have used only half a pound of it. Per- 

 haps it will be wise for us to be careful in what we say, 

 and rather ask the question whether Prof. Wiley has any 

 proof; and perhaps it would be wise to let the journals 

 ask him. I think that would be better. 



Mr. Dadant — 1 think you are doing Mr. Wiley a great 

 deal too much honor by paying so much attention to what 

 he says. In regard to this accusation, it only strikes one 

 or two firms. I am perfectly willing to stand on my own 

 responsibility, and my respectability, without any atten- 

 tion being paid to it. 



Mr. Dittmer— Mr. Dadant is wholly right. Prof. 

 Wiley's reputation in the past has been such that he de- 

 serves no attention on our part, and the best way to get 

 rid of an obnoxious person is to ignore him. 



Mr. Abbott — Mr. Wiley is chief chemist of the United 

 States; his word is authority not only in the United 

 States but all over the world. He is quoted as the repre- 

 sentative of the United States by the chemical men of the 

 world and we cannot ignore Mr. Wiley. We have to face 

 the fact that he represents the United States among the 

 scholars of the world so far as chemistry is concerned, 

 and he represents the United States so far as the people 

 in command are concerned. We cannot ignore those 

 things. It is all right enough to say we are giving him 

 too much advertising. We are not giving him too much. 

 The chief chemist of the United States, who speaks by 

 authority of the United States, ought to tell the truth. 



Mr. Dadant — But he doesn't. It will serve no purpose 

 whatever to demand anything. A man who will state a 

 thing which he knows to be false will stick to the false- 

 hood. He will make an untruthful statement again, and it 

 will simply make matters worse by having anything to do 

 with him. 



Mr, Hutchinson — Not only Mr. Dadant but all other 

 comb-foundation manufacturers are affected if these state- 

 ments go out in the Rural New Yorker all over to the 

 reading community that buy honey; it prejudices them against 

 our product. 



Mr. Dadant — In that case, don't ask him to prove it but 

 simply state that it is not so. If you ask him to prove it 

 when he has made the statement he will prove it in some 

 way if he has to manufacture something in order to prove 

 it in one single instance. That will be sufficient for him, and 

 sufficient to hurt your business that much more. 



Mr. Colburn — I wanted to ask if anybody here knows 

 whether bees will work on foundation that is made nartially 

 of paraffin ? 



Dr. Miller— Yes. they will. 

 Mr. Colburn — What proportion? 

 Dr. Miller — I don't know. 



Mr. Wilcox — What causes the difference in foundation 

 with regard to some being very hard and others very soft at 

 the same temperature? 



Mr. Dadant — Beeswax is a little like iron; you can cast 

 iron and make it malleable, and it is the same way with bees- 

 wax. Pour beeswax into a mould and the cake will be brit- 

 tle. It will break readily and you can't stretch it. But put 

 that cake of beeswax under the roller and it will become mal- 

 leable ; that is, warm it to a certain temperature. There are 

 a good many points concerning beeswa.x that it is impossible 

 for the genera! public to know. In regard to the adultera- 

 tion of beeswax with tallow, it may be well to inform you 

 as to the way of detecting tallow. It is very easily detected ; 

 it makes the beeswax softer, and when you have a cake which 

 you suspect of having tallow at the ordinary temperature, 

 run your fingernail over the cake. If it is pure beeswax it 

 will make ripples in the cake ; if it is tallow it will make 

 a dull-looking streak in the cake. 



INCREASING THE CIRCULATION OF BEE-PAPERS. 



Pres. York — Here is a question that I didn't ask myself, 

 but I would like to know the answer. "What can be done 

 to increase the circulation of bee-papers?" 



Mr. Moore — Advertise. 



Mr. Abbott— I do net think that that ought to be passed 

 by. I am not saying that because I am interested in papers ; 

 I don't publish a bee-paper ; I publish a farm paper. But it 

 does seem to me that there is not enough pride among bee- 

 keepers in our industry. I asked that question and I asked 



