June 14, 1906 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



511 



turned a leaf and begun working for glory. I 

 got the glory, but precious little honey. Prob- 

 ably the Italians would have made things 

 hum for extracted honey with plenty of empty 

 combs. This shows that nothing is perfect 

 under the sun. Though I am proud to say 

 I have had some better success with Italians 

 of late. I had a few hustlers, but, after all, 

 the honey was not so fancy. It looked greasy 

 or water-soaked, and did not demand the 

 high price that we got for No. 1 fancy. 



In the mountains of Western North Caro- 

 lina are wide stretches of forests where the 

 sound of the woodman's ax is not heard; 

 where are towering cliffs and lonely dells 

 where Nature weeps and echoes die. Here 

 the black bees have found an ideal home, as 

 the years have passed. 



I procured from a colored man a colony of 

 black bees from a remote place 13 years ago. 

 It was in a section of a hollow tree called in 

 the South " a gum." It was so heavy that I 

 could carry it only a few steps at a time till I 

 must rest. At length I got it home to my 

 apiary. The following spring I transferred 

 the bees to frames and gave them 2 stories of 

 8 frames each. The hive stands there yet. I 

 never have fed those bees a pound. They 

 don't swarm, and never fail to give their 

 quota of honey and of the best quality. Can 



we not infer from this that through ages in 

 places so roomy the instinct to swarm has been 

 lost? 



This brings us on to large hives. The con- 

 venience and adaptability of small hives may 

 be painted in glowing characters by their 

 many advocates, but after a series of years I 

 am forced to the conclusion that the majority 

 of bee-keepers are using too small a hive, not 

 only in the South, but in the North also. 



On this my first trip North (to Hudson, N. 

 Y.) I noticed the same contrast between large 

 and small hives as I find in North Carolina, 

 the large always far outstripping the small. 

 Some have objected to the honey that must 

 go to the brood-chomber of a large hive as 

 dead capital. Would you not as well object 

 to the large slices of meat that lie on the 

 platter, upon which your children feast to 

 give them bone and muscle to surmount the 

 problems of life! So with the busy bee — too 

 much is just enough. G. W. McGuirb. 



Dark Ridge, N. C. 



Prospects All Right 



We have had no frost to injure fruit-bloom 

 so. far this spring; no excessive rain either, 

 and the prosptets for bees and fruit are all 

 right, up to date. 



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