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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



much of it ready to hatch, and 

 restricting the new swarm to eight 

 frames by thick division-boards, 

 placing the honey rack on it and 

 forcing the bees right into Hie 

 rack ; to get room, in two days I 

 had to put under a second rack and 

 they boomed right along, and the 

 old hive with cells cut out and 

 a queen put in became a good stock 

 colony. We must have all the 

 bees we can keep in the hive to 

 get the largest results. It is prac- 

 ticable to tier up three or more 

 cases to make room for the army 

 of workers we want. It has been 

 my practice for two years, and I 

 like it, so to strengthen those col- 

 onies I work for comb honey, and 

 then restricting the queen to not 

 more than eight frames and thus 

 forcing the bees upward. I prefer 

 the ten-frame hive because I want 

 the room below to work up poiver 

 for the needed time as well as to 

 give me its brood chamber on top, 

 and then restrict by putting in 

 dummies at the sides, which are 

 very useful also in wintering on 

 summer stands. 



As for side storing I never could 

 get bees to do it here. I have had 

 frames with natural comb in sec- 

 tions and foundation also remain 

 empty all the season in hives that 

 have filled case after case above. 

 I have no doubt that bees differ in 

 different localities in this respect. 

 We do not want to work against 

 "cheap Italian labor" as Professor 

 Hasbrouck has it, but we do want 

 to avail ourselves of every advan- 

 tage that cheap labor gives us. 

 Chmiottesville, Va.,Ja7i. 19, 1884, 



EDITORIAL. 



There seems of late to be a great 

 diversity of opinion regarding the 

 subject of teaching beekeeping to 

 the masses and encouraging begin- 

 ners to engage in it, and we think 

 that one great cause of this differ- 

 ence is that we do not rightly 

 understand and provide for the re- 

 lations existing between tlie spec- 

 ialist, or the one who has his whole 

 capital invested in his apiary de- 

 pending upon it for support, and 

 the one who only keeps a few colo- 

 nies, by which to provide his table 

 with sweets and perhaps help to 

 reduce some of his minor expenses. 



Both have rights which must be 

 respected and provided for, and so 

 long as the education of the masses 

 of beekeepers is left to those who 

 have the best hive and goods for 

 sale, just so long there will be 

 trouble. 



Do not misunderstand us. We 

 would not have you think for one 

 moment that in the next sentence 

 will come an appeal for you to sup- 

 port the Apiculturist. Not at all. 

 We would only act as a means to 

 induce tlie beekeepers of America 

 to establish a thorough system of 

 associations, governed by a na- 

 tional association, wliich shall rep- 

 resent the interests and rights of 

 the masses who are engaged in this 

 industr3\ 



It is only through these that we 

 may hope for the best results, and 

 they should be supreme authority 

 upon all matters pertaining to api- 

 culture, and so thoroughl3' organ- 

 ized and permanently established, 

 as to be proofagainst the undignified 



