1895. 



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with the feminine cussedness elim- 

 mated, while the. principal if not in- 

 deed the entire object should be first, 

 to get rid of the masculine cussedness. 

 When this is done the feminine wick- 

 edness will disappear naturally. This 

 too would hold as true with women 

 as with bees. 



For my part I have given up both- 

 ering with trying to get ' ' goody two 

 shoes " bees, as I am quite sure that 

 the ugly ones store the most honey. 

 Is this not true too with humans ? 



If I wished to get an angelic stock, 

 I would go for queens giving good 

 drones, and prevent all their drones 

 from being bred or prevent their Hy- 

 ing out. 



Honey crop will be very light out 

 this way for 1895, without we get a 

 fine run of old field pine honey. One 

 year my bees stored of it in Sept. 

 2500 lbs. Generally however, we get 

 it in July or August. It is fine body, 

 flavor and color. No other honey 

 produced excels it in these three par- 

 ticulars. 



I was much interested in Mr. Ben- 

 ton's paper on the ' ' Giant Bees of 

 India." Our Goverment Agc'i Dep't, 

 should make a thorough trial to get a 

 cross 01 these bees with Italians, and 

 also introduce them into frame hives, 

 using foundation to correspond with 

 the cells they naturally make. If 

 either or both of these things are ever 

 accomplished, all our State and Nat- 

 ional Experiment Stations should 

 breed them for the people at low 

 prices, at first only one queen to each 

 apiarist. This would settle the 

 "Fakirs " hash. 



With a metal comb with larger cells, 

 say between drone and worker, then 

 dipped in hot wax so as to coat it, then 



fill the brood chamber with it. 1 am 

 inclined to think that our bees could 

 be bred up to a lai'ger and fixed type. 

 As the smaller environment of very 

 old comb will give a siBaller Italian, 

 and as a drone hatched in a worker 

 cell is much smaller, a larger worker 

 cell must increase the size. Why not ? 

 Amherst, Va. 



Small or Large Hives. 



BY MRS. OLIVER COLE. 



This subject has been well discussed 

 for many months past. My brother 

 beekeepers have had a fair fight over 

 the subject, and 1 am not prepared to 

 say which have the majority. I have 

 been a reader, not a writer of the 

 journals. 1 took Paul's advice and 

 kept silent. I am a reader of the 

 Beekeeper. I felt I had an invita- 

 tion from J. F. Gates to give my 

 thoughts, as he earnestly wished the 

 readers would do so on the subject of 

 Tall Hives, through this Journal. I 

 am willing to be chosen on his side 

 for tall or large hives to talk down 

 the small shallow 8-frame hives. They 

 will do to play with, if one has plenty 

 of time. I would not denounce the 

 small hive, perhaps in a warmer cli- 

 mate than New York State, they may 

 do, but for business give me a large 

 hive. I do not mean to go to the ex- 

 treme, but a good common sense hive, 

 with a deep frame. Now, woman-like, 

 I desire to carry my point and to do 

 this must give some views concerning 

 this hive I am in favor of. I must 

 differ concerning the old box hive. I 

 do not say "fudge " or "fogy" for 

 the principle is good. Thei'e is one 

 good feature in the old box hive. 

 Those that do not know the nature of 

 the honey bee cannot trouble them 



