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grows wild and spreads all over the 

 country. Buckwheat is cultivated 

 extensively. 



The Krainer bees are not black as 

 you suppose. The lore part of the 

 body and belly shew gray, and only 

 the hinder parts show brown-black. 

 Such is the type of bees that have ex- 

 isted here ever since there has been a 

 Krain, so history informs us. 



Bee culture in Krain has ever been 

 a great financial s aircefor the inhab- 

 itants. The trade in bees (exporting) 

 commenced about 80 years ago and 

 continues to the present. There has 

 never been a bee paper published 

 here." 



From Mr. Pauly's letter it is seen 

 that the original native Carniolan 

 bei s are a type tha are radically dif- 

 ferent from bees having yellow marks 

 on any part of them. Not five per 

 cent of the queens imported from Car- 

 niola have come from the Alpine 

 regions where the original native bees 

 are isolated from mongrels. I wish 

 that our bee-keepers might see bees 

 from Carniola where no yellow speci- 

 mens exist. Mr. Pauly will send to 

 me from his apiary, more I expect 

 than I care for, and although I have 

 obtained hundreds of queens I never 

 have sold one. Should I get a surplus 

 of Carniolan queens I will accommo- 

 date others to the extent of my supply. 



Richford, N. Y. 



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Best Size off Hive for Extract- 

 ed Honey. 



BY DK C. L. TINKER. 



In answer to an inquiry for an arti- 

 cle on the above subject I will say 

 that the storifying Larigstroth hive, 

 having a capacity for only 880 s< 

 inches of comb in'the brood chamber 

 to cany a brood frame about 7x17 in. 

 in size, is the best for bee-keept 

 most localities. It is practical , a 1 -' 1 

 found upon trial, to use eight stories 

 of such a hive for extracting where a 

 continuous passage way queen 

 cinder is used. 



In contracting the brood chain!' 

 according to the state of the honey 

 flow and in limiting the queen ag 

 non-producing workers hatching out 

 at the close of the harvest, the queen 

 may be finally limited to the ' 

 story, leaving seven stories to be seal- 

 ed for the extractor. The seven si 

 will contain from 250 to 800 pounds 

 of honey. 



Mr. J. F McIntyre,oneof tin 

 authorities on the production of ex- 

 tracted honey on the Pacific slope, 

 states that he prefers a brood frame 

 for extracting of large size, 11x17 in., 

 10 to the hive, and it is possible that 

 in such localities as his, where the 

 honey flow is apt to be abundant and 

 long continued, a large frame for ex- 

 tracting may be used, on accoun 

 there being a less number of frames 

 to handle to obtain the same amount 

 of honey, but it is certain that no 

 larger yields can be obtained on 

 frames 11x17 than on frames about. 

 7x17 in size. 



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