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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



803 



would leave his hivos In this shape either, as 

 he has " migrated " enough to learn the evils 

 of moving bees 75 miles overland, with 75 to 100 

 lbs. of honey in them. 



I give below the statistics of most of the 

 apiaries in the territory covered by this letter, 

 but extending some five; miles further north 

 than that covered by Mr. Brown's. These will 

 be found to vary somewhat from those given 

 by him: but they are as correct as careful 

 attention in collecting could make them. It 

 will be seen by these that the narrow strip, 

 nearly all lying between the J., St. A. & I. R. 

 R. R. and the ocean, with Port Orange on the 

 north and Oak Hill at the south, produced this 

 year about 200 tons o honey. 

 Cols, in spring. 



100 

 70 

 78 

 19 

 10 



38 



E. A. Marsh 

 Tom Adams 

 E. O. Clinton 

 Mr. Hii.sky 

 J. Dial 

 H. S. Harkei' 

 E. G. Heweit 

 John Olson 

 C. VV. Barber 

 O. O. Pt)ppleton 

 Mr. Moore 57 



John Abbott 

 E. M. Storer 375 

 A. F. Brown 308 

 W. P. Wilkinson 19 

 W. S. Hart 116 



. H. W. iVlitchell 57 

 J. P. Turner 

 A. S. Brown 

 Chas. A Id en 

 K. S. Slieldon 

 J. Y. Betwiler 15 

 H. Luthge 18 



T. G.Lindberg 6 

 H. H. Robinson 60 

 J. B. Case 50 



P. Johnson 78 



C. Jones 



increased to 150 



14 



3(X10 lbs. comb honey 

 9ao01bs. comb honey 



incresi-sed to .50 



run for honey, many nu 

 clei for queen-breeding-. 



31„560 



24,U0J 



33,U00 



4,U()0 



1,863 



610 



4,455 



13,150 



15,000 



33,0U0 



13,1 iH I 



9.300 



43,000 



43,000 



6,300 



41.0J0 



31,600 



1,336 



300 



750 



3,2.50 



3,3o0 



5,000 



573 



13,000 



19,000 



16,000 

 lu,400 



45 .300 lbs. comb honey 

 Hawk's Park, Fla., Oct. :i9. 



[We should be very glad to get that article, or 

 one like it, on your method of curing honey, 

 and, incidentally, your ideas on the size and 

 shape of hives. — Ed.] 



PKOPOLi.s FOR warmth; foundation: the 



LONG - IDEA HIVE PREFERRED TO ONE OR 

 MORE STORIES OF THE EIGHT - FRAME 

 HIVES; THE LIFTING QUESTION NOT A SE- 

 RIOUS ONE WITH LARGE HIVES; IMPOR- 

 TANCE OF A HIVE REGULATED TO THE 

 SEASON AND TO THE COLONY; A COMPAR- 

 ATIVE .STUDY OF LARGE AND SMALL HIVES 

 VALUELESS. 



lilt O. O. Popplelim. 



The reading of Gleanings for October 1.5 

 suggests a few notes. 



Ask Dr. Miller why, if bees do not propolize 

 for warmth (see Straw on first page), they do 

 so much more of it late in the season, when the 

 weather is growing colder, than early, when it 

 is growing warmer. 



I think Mr. Galvin and Ur. M.'s assistant are 

 needlessly alarmed (Straw on page 788), about 

 bees cutting out foundation that is fastened to 

 the bottom-bar; at least, my bees aren't so 

 naughty. Possibly, shape of bottom-bar has 



something to do with it. Mine are very narrow 

 — Vb' inch. 



On p. 794, in your footnotes discussing small 

 vs. large hives, you speak of the fun of han- 

 dling— that is, lifting 13-frame hives and long 

 single-story hives. Why, bless- you, friend R., 

 this very question of lifting the upper stories of 

 hives is why I long ago discarded all forms of 

 double-story hives, and adopted the long single- 

 story hive, such as I use exclusively. Of course, 

 there were other reasons; but that is the prin- 

 cipal one why I stick to that style. My general 

 health is so poor that it would be practically 

 impossible for me to handle a fair-sized apiary 

 if I had to handle hives. I doubt whether, in 

 the ordinary management of an apiary, I lift 

 any, certainly not half a dozen, large hives con- 

 taining bees, combs, and honey, in any one 

 season. 



On the same page, Mr. Dayton calls attention 

 to the Importance of having the size of brood- 

 nests regulated to the season; and /would add, 

 to the colony. I called the attention of your 

 readers to this point a dozen years ago, while 

 giving a few of the advantages of single over 

 double story hives, it would be a good thing 

 if your readers' attention could be called to 

 that idea quite often by such articles as Mr. 

 Dayton's. Good things will bear a good deal 

 of repetition. 



So far as large single-story hives are concern- 

 ed, I think the latter half of your footnotes on 

 p. 796 do not apply. Except for extra frames 

 of comb, a large single-story hive uses exactly 

 the same number of pieces, covers, division- 

 boards, etc., whether it contains a large or small 

 colony; and there are no extra pieces to store 

 away when necessary to reduce any colony to a 

 small brood-nest. 



On the same page Mr. Brown gives partial 

 statistics from the Mosquito Inlet honey-flelds 

 which are, I think, fairly correct, and within 

 bounds. In saying a barrel of honey, we usual- 

 ly mean about 400 lbs.; but reports should al- 

 ways be made in something having a fixed and 

 definite value, as pounds or tons. 



All who may hear of our large yield of honey 

 this year should understand that the yield has 

 been a phenomenal one— very much so too— and 

 is confined to one or at most a few localities. 

 Not long ago Mr. Hart allowed me to examine 

 his honey-records for nearly 30 years past; and 

 this year's record excels the best of any previous 

 one by about 40 per ceut. I do not expect to 

 see another sea.son its equal; but this Is pure 

 speculation, of course. 



In your footnotes on p. 794 you suggest the 

 study of our reports this year relative to the 

 comparative value of large or small hives. In 

 my opinion such a study would be absolutely 

 valueless, because the other conditions In each 

 apiary have been so different from any others. 

 Thus, four of us, Capt. Webster, Mr. Stover, 

 Mr. Brown, and myself, practice migratory 



