THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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good queen will keep more than the 

 equivalent of 10 "L" frames filled 

 with brood in season, if we will only 

 let our bees work perpendicularly in 

 a properly proportioned hive, instead 

 of forcing them to spread out lateral- 

 ly out of all proportions, and when Dr. 

 Tinker and Jas. Heddon struck on the 

 idea of dividing their brood chambers, 

 giving combs greater depth, they made 

 a long stride in the right direction, es- 

 pecially so with the Doctor, as it is 

 the longer and contains more cubic 

 space perpendicularly in proportion to 

 the length and width. 



In 1889 I helped a neighbor cut a 

 bee tree that contained combs 8 ft. 3 

 in. in length, but the widest one would 

 not average over 6 in. in width, be- 

 cause the hollow in the tree was so 

 small. They had been in the tree only 

 about 37 days, yet we got between 50 

 and 60 lbs. of honey out of it. The 

 combs contained over 5 ft. of brood in 

 depth. After leaving out the drone 

 biood we got enough to fill 10 "L" 

 frames and had some scraps left. 

 Here was more brood than was possi- 

 ble for any man to obtain from one 

 comb by lateral extension. 



Some time ago I was in the north- 

 ern part of this county and stopped 

 with a man who had six colonies of 

 bees in gums, two of which were un- 

 commonly large, larger I believe than 

 a flour barrel and some 4 or H in. long- 

 er. The combs were full length. 

 They were full to the bottom. I said 

 to the man, " You have two hives that 

 are quite large." '' Yes," said he, 

 "those two hardly ever swarm, but 

 when it comes to robbing I get four or 

 five times as much honey from one 

 of them as I do from any of the small- 

 er ones." "I suppose," said I, "those 



large ones don't have as many bees in 

 them as the smaller ones, and perhaps 

 that is the reason they fail to swarm." 

 "Heap more," was the reply. This 

 was what I of course had surmised; 

 more bees and more honey. 



And again, the "L" hive requires 

 too much manipulation. We have to 

 contract and pack for winter, expand 

 to get the bees in the spring for the 

 surplus crop, contract to secure the 

 surplus crop, and again expand for 

 the bees to build up for winter, which 

 is entirely too much labor, and if we 

 attempt to contract by using loose di- 

 vision boards we soon learn what a 

 nuisance of a loose rattle-trap they 

 are. If we must have a division board 

 we want one that will fit sufficiently 

 tight to stay where we place it. It 

 seems to me that a piece of rubber- 

 nailed an the ends would cause the 

 boards to adhere to the walls and stay 

 where we put them. 



Concord Church, W. Va. 



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Toltec Gorge. 



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 marvelous Moqui Snake Dance being de- 

 scribed, with full page illustrations, by Dr. 

 R. W. Shnfeldt. of the Smithsonian insti- 

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 Lute H. Johnson — a story of mining life in 

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