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THE AMEEICAN BEE JOUKNAL. 



took us to his apiai-y, and opened forty of his hives. 

 Each comb was built straight in the frame. 

 (Signed) H. L. Osborn, 

 B. Wood, P. M. 



G. J. Wood, Justice of Peace, 

 Aarok Benedict, Italian queen breeder, 

 Bennington, Ohio. 



"I take stock in the Diamond Frame Hive. The 

 combs are all straight in the frames." 



(Signed) A. J. Cook, 



Agripultural College, 

 Lansing, Mich." 



Now, Ml". ^Miller, my bees, as -well as the bees 

 of all the above-named parties, with many 

 others, '■'■'know their duty to their owners and 

 will do it just so well,'"' in the Diamond Frame 

 Hive, which you or anybody else can purchase 

 for a reasonable compensation. Or you can 

 "get the secret of training them' ' in the Diamond 

 Frame Hive mth the same results, if you pos- 

 sess "compos mentis" enough to set yom* own 

 hive level. The hives you made, or the bees in 

 them, must have been very inferior and should 

 have been destroyed, instead of selling them to 

 the beekeepers of the old school, since the peo- 

 ple have been kept in doubt and darkness long 

 enough by the "would-be kno^^ing ones." Let 

 us have "more light" approaching from the 

 East," and more "substitute" retm-ning from 

 the West, in compensation for tlie Jouknax.. 

 So hurrah for the Bee Joubnal, and tlie one 

 that can obtain the most bees and honey, in the 

 best hive, during the season of 1870. 



a. v. conklin. 



Bennington, Ohio. 



For the American Bee Journal. 

 Bees in J. M. Price's Square Frame 

 Double-Cased Bee Hive. 



Mr. 31. Miller, of Peninsula, Ohio, having 

 given in liis experience with bees in square 

 frames hung angling, I have only to say tliat 

 what he says on page 99, No. 5, vol. 5, of tlie 

 American Bee Journal, is absolutely true, 

 anA \\\\\\)e no invariably in any liive made as 

 Ms or Dr. Conklin's Diamond hive is. But if 

 Mr. Miller ^\\\l make a liive like mine, with its 

 two movable sides or di-\ision boards, (No. 20, of 

 description), and then read 3Ir. Gallup's article 

 "How to Ventilate," on page 8, vol. 4, of the 

 Ajniebican Bee Journal, he will get a good 

 idea of my management to get straight combs ; 

 the rule, not the exception— straight combs every 

 time; impossible to be otherwise. I generally 

 start a swarm vdth two full frames of comb and 

 brood, and three empty frames, placed alter- 

 nately, with a division board placed close to 

 each of the outside empty frames ; thus forming 

 a tight hive of five frames' capacity. When the 

 bees" have filled the three empty frames, I 

 move the division boards out towards the outside 

 and put in two more empty frames ; and repeat 

 until the hive is full of frames. By having every 

 alternate frame only empty, the bees cannot do 

 otherwise than make the comb straiglit. 



My hive, as described in the Bee Journal is 

 free to all, to make and use, who have paid Mr. 



Langstroth for a right to use his principle in 

 bee hives, as I have done. I have in use both 

 forms of hive, his and mine, and I think mine, , 

 made according to description, is a little ahead \ 

 of any other hive, except my own last invention 

 — my Movable Casket Bee Hive. For ease of 

 management — stimulating the queen in early 

 spring, for the early production of brood ; or to 

 stimulate the queen to keep up the production of 

 brood during a temporary th-outh in the sum- 

 mer; and for the more ett'ectually wintering 

 bees in any climate, I believe my Casket Hive is 

 without an equal. All wlio have seen it, pro- 

 nounce it perfection reached. 



John M. Price. 

 Buffalo Grove, Iowa. 



For the American Bee Journal, 

 Shallow iLangstroth Hives. 



I began beekeeping with "box hives." but 

 soon found that, in order to have control of my 

 bees, they must be in movable comb hives. 



As the Langstroth hive w as the only mova- 

 ble comb hive used to any extent in tills section, 

 I procm-ed the right to use it, and have used it 

 witli great success. 



My hives are mostly of the shallow form, 

 being 85 inches deejD inside of tlie frames, or 10 

 Inches including space above and below the 

 frames. 



I have taken nearly double the amount of sur- 

 plus honey from my hives of the above depth the 

 past season, that I liave from otlier hives that 

 were 14 inches deep and upwards and contained 

 equally prolific queens with a similar amount of 

 bees in the spring and did nor swarm. The bees 

 worked more diligently in the shallow hives than 

 in the deep ones.- 



My experience thus far teaches me that I can 

 obtain more honey from a hive of the fh-st named 

 depth, than I can from one of gi-eater depth of 

 frame, if the frames hang square in the hive and 

 the siu'plus boxes are placed above the frames. 

 But as for bees v\intering in such liives on their 

 summer stands, in northern districts, as well as 

 they will in a more compact form of hive, such 

 as Mr. Alley's form of the Langstroth hive, or 

 Mr. J. M. Price's double cased hive, I do not 

 think they will. 



To winter bees with good success, on their 

 summer stands, in the nortliern distiicts, it is 

 necessary that the heft of the honey should be 

 directly above the cluster of bees, and the tw'o 

 hives named above greatly facilitate that ob- 

 ject. 



I am in favor of 3Ii-. Greene's suggestion. So 

 here goes. I, George M. D. Kuggles, twenty- 

 four years old, was born in Washington county, 

 Vermont; lived ten j^ears in New York, and 

 have resided nine years in Hartland, Vermont ; 

 am a farmer, and keep bees. The enclosed 

 needful will enable the Editor to take the hint, 

 and continue to send the Journal to my ad- 

 dress. 



George M. D. Kuggles. 



Hartland, Vt., Dec. 14, 1869. 



