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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



a peculiar appearance, but their points 

 of superiority are yet to be discover- 

 ed. The great claims of their super- 

 ior qualities made by certain parties 

 in this country, are, we regret to say, 

 not fully substantiated by reports of 

 English bee-keepers. 



Since our last issue the Jamestown 

 Electric Street Railway has been ex- 

 tended to Falconer and runs direct to 

 our office, Cars run to and from all 

 points in Jamestown every half hour, 

 so that should any of our friends 

 happen to be in the city at any time 

 they can have no excuse for not call- 

 ing on us at our office. 



We wish our friends would send in 

 some short articles for publication of 

 interest to our readers. We need 

 three or four articles for our next 

 number. 



The weather for the past three weeks 

 has been most delightful, and bees in 

 this locality are doing well on golden- 

 rod. 



We have seen nothing of the Cali- 

 fornia Bee-Keeper for several months. 

 Has it "gone up? " 



Almost all standard styles of hives 

 used in this country are made with 

 the brood frames running at a right 

 angle to the entrance of the hive. By 

 so doing the frames in the Simplicity, 

 Dovetailed and kindred styles of 

 hives have considerable more length 

 than depth. All standard extractors 

 are made to take such frames, and we 

 do not think it would be advisable to 

 change, but there are a great many 

 bee-keepers who believe that the bet- 

 ter way is to have frames extended 



across the hives parallel to the 

 entrance. A writer in the Bee-Keep- 

 er* Record, (British), argues that by 

 the parallel plan the frame next the 

 opening forms a curtain, excluding 

 cold draughts, and you can contract 

 or expand a hive by use of but one 

 division board ; also, that you can 

 turn up the quilt at the back of the 

 frames and manipulate at the back 

 with the hive top set forward as a 

 shield from the observation of in-com- 

 ing and out-going bees. One of oui 

 principal arguments in favor of the 

 right-angle plan is, that it allows the 

 air to circulate more freely, thus keep- 

 ing the interior of the hive cooler in 

 summer. This turns against us by 

 claiming that the brood is killed by 

 allowing draughts to come through 

 the entrance up between the frames in 

 late winter and early spring Many 

 experienced bee-keepers believe that 

 a frame should not be any longer than 

 its depth and that bees prefer to work 

 down rather than across. 



We make a great many hives for 

 use in Southern countries that have 

 nine 10x15 frames each hung across 

 the entrance like the illustration here 

 given. These hives seem to give al- 

 most perfect satisfaction to those who 

 use them. 



Use full sheets of foundation in 

 both brood and surplus cases. 



Cook's " Manual of the Apiary " 

 reduced to $1.00. 



