224 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER October, 



itself to be the fittest of the two and ing honey. I had put in a couple of 

 to it I must look for the realization of empty frames near the center and at 

 honey crops. this time the bees had filled them with 



The objection to handling large comb. The center comb was an old 

 frames, so frequently raised, resolves one but it was not attached to the bot- 

 itself into nothing more serious than tom bar of the frame. The bees ex- 

 an imaginary grievance. The big col- tended the combs in the one, the new 

 onies in the big hive are able to take part being drone comb, of course. The 

 care of themselves to such an extent case of combs had been in the honey- 

 that the real need of handling the house all winter and when it was giv- 

 brood-combs is reduced to the mini- en to the bees was placed over a wood- 

 mum. When the fact is appreciated zinc honey-board of the latest design, 

 that all handling of the brood-combs Now, near the bottom of one of the 

 for the sole purpose of cutting out newly made combs and also in the new 

 queen cells to prevent swarming is strip of comb along the bottom edge 

 simply a travesty on art and science of the old one there was quite a 

 in bee-culture, the large frame loses sprinkling of good healthy drone 

 much of its terrors when it is remem- brood in dilferent stages of develop- 

 bered that a little smoke judiciously ment. 



used and a little drumming on the hive The queen was a good prolific one 

 will so frighten the colony that the but there was very little drone comb 

 queen and the greater number of the below. Admitting that there was a 

 workers will quietly run up into nn possibility of the eggs having been de- 

 empty super substituted for the pur- posited there by a fertile worker, I 

 pose and that the whole of them may am inclined to the belief that they 

 then be shaken down in front of the were carried up there by the nurse 

 hive and the queen caught in less time bees out of a desire for drone brood, 

 than the frames of the standard hive What say you, brethren, in answer 

 can be taken out and replaced in a to this? 

 search for her majesty, the burden- wheelersburg, Ohio, Sept. 10, 1903. 



some feature of large frames fast 



fades away and they thus become easy 



to wield. PHACELIA. 



By using the deep-frame hive and 

 the very shallow conjointly the most (Adrian Getaz.) 



efficient service possible may be real- rrORnTNO to seven] ininrists of 



i.ed from them. The large combs will ^ F^J-anTe'lnd^rrm^^^^^^^^^ 

 produce the bees to work with while -TL ^.,^ .^ decidedly one of the best 

 the shallow combs may be used both i^^^^^^,. producing plants known. A pe- 

 for extracting and for swarms, return- culiarity of it is that its nectar con- 

 ing the swarms to the parent hives at tains onlv about 55 per cent, of water, 

 the beginning of the fall bloom. This ^^hile that from other plants generally 

 management gives beautiful results, ii^s 75 or 80 per cent. The honey is 

 The young queen, feeling the impetus jjght amber and of excellent flavor. A 

 of her advantageous surroundings in field of that plant in full bloom is one 

 the big hive, continues the steady of the most beautiful sights. The 

 grind around the yearly cycle with the flowers are sky blue, 

 smoothness of clock work. Talk about The phacelia will succeed on almost 

 producing honey cheaper in sectional all kinds of soil, giving of course the 

 brood-chamber hives! Why it's all a largest returns on the best. It takes 

 mistaken idea so far as this neck of about four pounds of f-oed to the acre, 

 the woods is concerned. The plants begin to blossoia about five 



BEES MOVING EGGS ^'^«1^« ^"^^- ^^^ .Sowing. The bios- 



soms open successively so the blossom- 

 I think I have a pretty clear case jQg period lasts from five to six weeks, 

 against the bees this time. One day more or less, according to the weather, 

 in June of this year I was looking The phacelia can be sown at any 

 over the combs in the extracting su- time between the early spring and the 

 per of a strong colony to see what pro- mid-summer. By successive sowings 

 gress the bees were making at gather- an uninterrupted yield of honey could 



