THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



Jumiityy 



ard, but how many in the hivo is the 

 question. The number advocating the 

 8-franie hive is growing less, and the 

 number using the 10-frame is growing 

 larger and some of those who have been 

 in the liusiness for years say that a 12- 

 or 14-frame hive is none too small. 



From what I know about the business 

 bi-re. and we going to start a new 

 apiary, I would use a 10-frame ^'Drai)er 

 barn," as I believe it a more suitabU^ 

 hive than a smaller one. I don't expect 

 the bee-keepers will rush into this coun- 

 try very soon, but for fear some might 

 pull up stakes and come, regardless of 

 results, I will tell them a few of the 

 drawbacks. The first is the question of 

 health, and I will say that from June 

 1st to November 1st the country is full 

 of malaria. The only means of getting 

 from place to place is by boat and all 

 supplies must be brought to the apiary 

 through the swamps after being put off 

 the steamboat. Your honey must be 

 gotten from your apiary to wliere the 

 steamboat can get it on board; that 

 means that often you must load your 

 honey on a 'iigliter'" and have it towed 

 through the swamp by a small tug-boat. 

 There are but very few locations wber(! 

 an apiary can be established on the 

 river bank and on ground elevated 

 above over-flow, and if there is such a 

 location the other fellow is ahead of 

 you and got his bees there. In fact, 

 range is almost unlimited, but good dry 

 places to locate an apiary are scarce. 

 A person might build up platforms on 

 which to set his bees, but it has not yet 

 been done that I am aware of. Success 

 and failure are together here as else- 

 where. Men with no experience will 

 buy up two or three hundred colonies of 

 bees and before a year passes there is 

 "but a remnant" left and it is for sale, 

 and the owner swears the business is a 

 fraud. There are some who think the 

 bees need no attention, so give them 

 none, and a failure is the result. Sum- 

 ming it all up I will say that eternal 

 vigilance is the road to success, and in 



no place is it more true than right here 

 in Western Florida. 



Marchant, Fla.. Nov. £6, 1900. 



The editor is requested by the pub- 

 lishers to announce that they will give 

 away thirtv-five dollars' worth of sup- 

 plies, which may be selected from their 

 1901 catalogue, to Bkk-kkeper readers 

 this season: and also afford each of our 

 present readers an opportunity to pay 

 their subscription far in advance, simply 

 for addressing and si-nding out a few 

 privat' mailing carls. When the W. 

 T. Falconer Manufacturing Co. makes a 

 proposition you may be assured it is 

 purely business, and no catch game. 

 Write to them to-day for full particulars. 



UEK OR Sl'IDKK ? 



A special dispatch to the Philadelphia 

 North Amcriciin of Si'ptember 23, from 

 Paterson, N. J., says: 



Daniel Steinmau, an athlete, died 

 from tlie sting of a bee, after intensa 

 suffering. Physicians «ay the poison 

 affected his heart. 



Steinman went to Oakland, N. J., a 

 week ago. to camp. One night he 

 awoke with a cry of pain. He said a bee 

 had stung him behind the ear. and he 

 sliowed a small red blotch, but nothing 

 more was thought of the matter. He 

 returned home. 



A slight pain back of his ear increased 

 in intensitv, despite his wife's efforts to 

 allay it bv liousehold remedies. Stem- 

 man last 'Thursday morning awoke in 

 such agonv that lie could not go to work. 

 Dr Alexander diagnosed the case as 

 blood poisoning. On Friday it was found 

 necessary to administer opiates to in- 

 duce sleep, and Steinman's condition 

 became serious. Every remedy known 

 to science was tried, but without 

 avail. 



While the dispatch says it was a bee 

 sting, the circumstance indicates a 

 spider's bite. Bees are not in the habit 

 of strolling around and stinging sleepers 

 at night. They have other business to 

 attend to at home. 



