1871.] 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



would present a sorrier show tlian even Mr. 

 King's American hive," is he not slurriiior? 

 Wlien he saj'S Mr. Hazen's articles were ])ub- 

 lislied as ^^ bona fide facts,'^ is he not slurring? 

 Please give us the facts, if we have them not, 

 and do not give us slurs. 



Novice asks, " What has Mr. Ilazen invented, 

 or what has he done to further bee-keeping? 

 Answer-;-what part of his hive was invented and 

 patented by him, I know not, but I do know 

 that he has advertised and described a hive of 

 which he claims to be the inventor, known as 

 the Eureka hive, and the boxes are small, and so 

 made that, when filled, they will show off in the 

 best manner. They are so mnde and arranged 

 in the hive that, if thei'e is honey to be had and 

 bees to make it, they will surely put it in, and in 

 large quantities. The hive also is so arranged 

 that a large number of boxes can be applied at 

 one time — sufficient to keep the bees at work 

 during one honey season, without overhauling. 

 This comes to us as the doings of Mr. Ilazen, as 

 an advancement in bee-keeping. We hope a 

 grateful public will honor him, and we hope this 

 is a sufficient answer to N.'s questions, without 

 mentioning what else he has done. 



Speaking of Mr. Hazen's " scattsering his 

 articles thi'ough the press," Novice says — 

 "Their tendency has been to discourage all real 

 progress or improvement, tcUh no other design 

 (the italics are mine) than to advertise indirectly 

 his non-swarmer, as he claims it to be." Is not 

 that a hard saying? Can anybody believe that 

 it can be all truth? While all that has been 

 pointed out as against it is, that it is arranged 

 so as to get surplus in boxes, rather than in 

 frames. 



Now I want to talk a little about how it looks 

 to us little folks to follow Novice's way. In the 

 first place we must lay aside our present hives 

 and get the Langstroth, with right to use ; then 

 a melextractor ; and then, for the want of ex- 

 perience, we should probably make a failure for 

 some years. Then, too, I think Novice has 

 somewhere told us (though I do not see it now) 

 that "we must not mind any quantity of stings, 

 not even a dozen an hour." '■'■ Ipray thee have 

 me excused,'''' many will say, as well as myself. 

 But N. further tells us how to get our honey in 

 frames without extracting it. Simply fill in the 

 otherwise box space with frames. Such frames 

 would not be so convenient to keep from files 

 and get to market in good condition, as the 

 boxes, and yet if they were small would cost 

 more than the boxes. In getting honey in 

 frames for market, I will leave the pubiic to 

 judge if it is not behind the box system. 



What I have so far said has been in connec- 

 tion with the idea that a larger profit may be 

 realized, by an expert, with frame hives than 

 with box hives. But does anybody know that 

 while of late there has been great improvement 

 in the quantity of honey obtained froni frame 

 liives, there has also been from box hives? while 

 the latter bears the better price. 



With my best wishes to all bee-keepers, and 

 my thanks to all who have imparted the infor- 

 mation on the subject that they possess. I close. 

 Bangor, Me., June G, 1871. AlonzoBaknard. 



[For the American Bee Journal.] 



Hazen's Patent. 



Mr. Editor:— a correspondent of your Jour- 

 nal writes: — ''Nothing certainly could give us 

 more pleasure than to learn that Mr. Hazen has 

 made a larger profit from his bees than we have 

 from ours. AVe rejoice at any one's success with 

 bees ; but not in selling the public patent rights 

 for something which they have already. What 

 has Mr. Hazen invented, or what has he done to 

 further bee keeping? Mr. Hazen has for the 

 past six years, or more, scattered his articles 

 through the press, so carefully gotten up that 

 they were innocently published as giving bona 

 fide facts ; and yet their tendency has been to 

 discourage all real progress or improvement, 

 with no other design than to advertise indirectly 

 his Non-swarmer, as he claims it to be." 



This is something like shooting poisoned ar- 

 rows in the dark, for the writer does not give us 

 his name or place.* 



His implications are that Mr. Hazen is frau- 

 dulently selling a patent to which he has no 

 right, and pressing the sale by falsehoods, inno- 

 cently published by the press as b ma fide facts. 



1 should take no notice of these remarks, or 

 make any reply to them, did I not think proper 

 to give a short answer to the question— "what 

 has Mr. Hazen invented?" And this would 

 hardly seem necessary to any who have the 

 back numbers of the Bee Journal, with an illus- 

 tration of the Eureka hive. The three impor- 

 tant parts of the hive are the central apartmeni 

 for breeding and wintering the colony. This, 

 in the medium sized hive, occupies a space of 

 six or more inches wide, eighteen inchi'S deep 

 from front to rear, and sixteen and a half inches 

 high. Comb frames, or bars with side guides, 

 or simple bars, may be used at the pleasure of 

 the operator. If judged necessary from the size 

 of the sheet, a centre guide may pass from the 

 centre of the bar down to the bottom of the 

 hive. Upon each side of the breeding apart- 

 ment is a cliamber for boxes, six inches wide in 

 the clear, eighteen inches deep from the front to 

 the back of the hive, and sixteen and a half inches 

 high. This height isreached by three courses of 

 boxes one upon another, each box five and a half 

 inches high. These boxes are placed with their 

 inner end within three-eighths of an inch of the 

 naked comb, with such apertures at the top and 

 bottom of the box as the operator pleases. This 

 leaves a chamber, eighteen inches square and 

 six inches deep, at the top of the side boxes and 

 breeding apartment, which we call the top 

 chamber. This is the central or breeding apart- 

 ment. 



When the side boxes are removed, we come to 

 the naked comb on both sides of the breeding 

 apartment. On each side we then place a board, 

 eighteen inches long and sixteen and a half 

 inches high, which we call movable partitions. 

 They reach just as high as the top of the breed- 



* Novice's real name ami residence are, nevertlieless, as 

 ■n-ell li-[iown [o bee-koepers generally, as liiose of ili:. Haze:i, 

 iind it is liardly fair to charge him with shooting in tlie 

 dark. — Eu. 



