1897. 



THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



259 



first week after moving, the old col- 

 ony will do but little work, but at the 

 end of this time they begin to be 

 populous again , and in a few more 

 days are in a flourishing condition. 

 As soon as the young queen begins to 

 lay, 3 of the 9 brood frames, (and 

 those having the least or no brood in 

 them are taken away, thus leaving 

 only 61,) and the sections brought up 

 to these remaining combs, when all 

 are in the best possible condition to 

 give a good yield of comb honey, as 

 long as the harvest lasts. When the 

 harvest of white honey is over, each 

 hive is given the full nine frames 

 again, so that they may be in good 

 shape as to bees and honey for winter. 

 By the above plan I can fully accom- 

 plish my object, which is to secure 

 the largest number of bees possible in 

 just the right time for the main, or 

 white honey harvest, and rear as few 

 at all other times as is consistent with 

 preparing for said harvest. The above 

 requires some work, but I know of no 

 plan by which as much comb honey 

 in sections can be secured as by this. 

 Now don't anybody think that they 

 must have jmt the hive described (or 

 write for hives, for I have no supplies 

 for sale,) but if you wish to try the 

 plan, adapt what you have to the plan 

 or make something so you can try a 

 few colonies with your own frames 

 and sections in this way, and then if 

 you are pleased all you will have to, 

 do is to make the outside shell for the 

 rest of your colonies in the apiary, 

 thus saving a new outfit all around. 

 Borodino, N. Y. 



" How TO Manage Bees," a 50c 

 book, and the American Bee-Keep- 

 ER a year for oul}' 60c. 



Consider Well the Locality. 



BY W. Z. HUTCHINSON. 



I fear that in many of our apicul- 

 tural discussions we forget the extent 

 and variety of our country Here in 

 the North we are always talking about 

 the wintering problem, about protec- 

 tion, about cellar-wintering, and the 

 like. In the South, winter has no 

 terrors, but there are mosquito hawks 

 that catch queens, and there are ants 

 that attack colonies of bees and give 

 no end of trouble. Perhaps the most 

 important feature regarding different 

 localities is that of the difference in 

 honey producing plants. If there is 

 any one thing that a bee-keeper ought 

 to thoroughly understand, to become 

 thoroughly acquainted with, it is honey 

 flora of his locality. He should know 

 all of the sources from which honey 

 is likely to be obtained, the quality 

 and duration of each, and the time of 

 the year when each yield is to be ex- 

 pected. 



To illustrate: Mr. C. P. Dadant 

 and myself have more than once dis- 

 cussed the relative merits of large 

 and small hives; I contending for the 

 small hives and my friend arguing 

 for large hives. In a sense, we were 

 both correct. That is, we were cor- 

 rect for our respective localities. In 

 my locality the main harvest came 

 early; was short, sharp and decisive, 

 with not enough time for a colony to 

 build up and fill a large hive and then 

 have time to also- store a large amount 

 of honey in the surplus apartment. 

 The hives must be of Such a sizeribhat 

 an average queen could fill the combs 

 with eggs and the eggs transformed 

 into brood by the time that clover 

 opened. In the hiving of swarms the 



