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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Oct. 5. 190S 



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WINTEE IS COMING 



Are Your Bees In Good Condition ? 



Outdoor Wintering is the Safest for the Majority of Bee- Keepers 



Dovetailed Chaff Hive 



This i6 one of the very beet hives we sell ; and for win- 

 tering bees, or for the production of comb honey, we do not 

 know of anything better. 



A good many suppose that double-walled hives are use- 

 ful only for winter; but in localities subject to cool nights 

 and a very hot burning sun during the middle of the day, 

 they are none too warm for comb honey. Some of the best 

 bee-keepers of the country are beginning to learn that such 

 a hive, having well-protected supers, produces not only 

 more, but a better-filled comb honey. Our dovetailed chaff 

 has 3 inches between the walls, and when packed with 

 chaff, sawdust, planer-shavings, or any loose material, 

 makes a very warm brood-nest. The water-table, or pic- 

 ture-frame-like rim, covering the inner and outer walls, per- 

 mits the use of the same supers that are used in the single- 

 walled hives. When these supers are put on this hive and 

 then covered with its warm, telescopic cover, the bees are 

 in position to store comb honey as they can not do in su- 

 pers not so protected. 



Dovetailed Winter Case 



There are those who, having single-walled hives desire 

 something which, at a slight additional expense, will con- 

 vert their hives into double-walled abodes for bees during 

 the winter. Again, some others who winter in-doors wish 

 something cheap and serviceable in the way of a protection 

 to put over the hives after they are set out in the spring. 

 To supply such we are prepared to furnish an outside case 

 having the same cover and the same outside shell as go with 

 the chaff hive described here. These are set over the S- 

 frame hive, and the opening at the bottom of the case (that 

 is, the space between the hive inside and the ease) is 

 stopped up with the padded sticks. Packing material is 

 poured in the space, after which a cushion or tray is put on 

 top of the frames, and the cover set over the whole. This 

 arrangement as a whole has given the best of results. 



These are large enough to go over 10-frame Dovetailed 

 and Simplicity hives, allowing only ^s -inch space on each 

 side 



See prices of both S and 10 frame sizes in bottom line 

 of table below. 



Table of Prices of Dovetailed 

 Chaff Hives 



l-story Chaff Hive, no super or upper story, 



with tel. and super cover and chaff-tray. 



Without foundation starters 



With foundation for 1-inch starters 



•<-story Chaff Hive for comb honey without 



sections or foundation starters 



For 4'4x4i4'xl"s beeway sections 



For 4,'4x4i4xli._. plain sections 



For 4x5xl'„ plain sections, in D. super . . 

 Same with spciions and foundation starters 



With 4'4x4'4xl,!-a' beeway sections 



With 414x414x1',. plain sections 



With4x5xl'\ plain sections. In D. super. . 



Winter-case body with padded sticks 



Winter-case with 7-inch cover complete 



Desig- 

 nating 

 Letter 



YW.5 

 YW6 



YW53S i 

 YW52P I 

 YW52M 



YW64S I 



YW641-\ 



YW64.VI 



Z 



YZ 



EfiHTFRAME 



KD IN FLAT 

 PRICE IN LOTS OF 



3 25 

 3 45 



4 00 

 4 15 



3 70 

 2 80I 



3 20 

 3 35 



12 25 

 12 .50 



4 403 50 



4 55 

 75 



L .50 



3 65 



60 



1 30 



10 



23 00 

 23 50 



14 50 27 00 



15 25' 28 50 



15 75 29 50 



16 50' 31 00 

 2 75 5 00 

 5 50' 10 00 



25 



54 50 



55 75 



03 75 

 67 50 



69 50 



73 25 

 12 00 

 24 00 



400 



400 



470 

 460 



490 



480 

 470 



510 



SO 



ISO 



3 50 

 3 60 



TKN KR-vME 



KD IN FLAT 

 PRICE IN LOTS OF 



3 80 



3 90 



8 35 

 3 50 



3 65 



3 80 



62 



1 25 



10 



13 751 

 13 00 1 



34 10 

 24 60 



00 



58 



15 25 28 50 67 50 



16 00 30 00 



16 .50 



17 35 



3 85 



31 00 



32 .50 

 5 20 



10 50 



71 25 



73 25 



77 50 

 13 25 

 25 00 



410 

 410 



490 



480 



525 



515 

 505 



550 



85 



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Compleie prices and descriptions in general Catalog. Ask for it. 



9 Percent Discount for October Cash Orders 



The A. I. Root Company, 



MEDINA, 

 OHIO 



GhicaQo, 144E..ErieSt. 



Philadelphia, 10 Vine St. 



New York, 44 Veseu St. 



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