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over on another. Then when I commenced casing, 1 began at the 

 first table and packed in cases marked 15 and 16-oz. Fancy, 15 and 

 16-oz. Xo. 1, 15 and 16-oz. No. 2, and after finishing that table I went 

 to the second and packed 13 and 14-oz. Fancy, 13 and 11-oz. Xo. 1 

 and 13 and l-l-oz. Xo. 2, then to the third table and packed 11 and 

 12-oz Xo. 1, 11 and 13-oz. Xo. 2. 



Fancy had to be capped to the wood and free from travel stain 

 and attached to all four sides. 



No. 1 Fancy attached to all four sides, well capped except out- 

 side row of cells and very little travel stain. 



Xo. 2 at least three-fourths the side surface attached and well 

 capped, except the outside row of cells. 



I have had personal charge of the grading and wholesaling of 

 several cars of honey graded in this way, and have never had a 

 dissatisfied customer from honey thus graded. 



Sioux City, Iowa. 



[It is a great deal of satisfaction to me to see this interest in the establish- 

 ment of a set of uniform grading rules. I firmly believe that something definite 

 will come of it at the National Convention next February. If we can get them 

 it will be worth a year's work of the Association, and personally I am willing 

 to push whatever rules may be adopted, even though they may need some revision 

 later.] 



Is the Langstroth the Best Frame? 



CH. NOEL EDDOWES. 



'^^^ ATELY, in your journal and in Gleanings, my attention has 

 jl ■ been drawn to a discussion on the merits of the Langstroth 

 frame and the 16"xl0" frame. As I am the only Eddowes 

 who has kept bees on bar-frames in the Argentine, I conclude that 

 I am the man referred to on page 153 of your number for April, 

 1912. 



It has appeared to me strange that I have not heard of the 

 IG^'xlO'" frame having been tried in the U. S. A., especially, as in 

 my experience it has decided advantages over the Langstroth, and 

 I can only account for it not having been tried by the inherent con- 

 servatism of bee-keepers. I must explain that my experience has 

 been gained in districts of the Argentine where one or two degrees 

 of frost happens only once or twice in the year, and in Jamaica 

 where it does not freeze at all. As there are many districts in the 

 states like those in which I have worked, my experience may be of 

 interest to my brother bee-keepers. 



I will give you an account of the results in one of my yards 

 this year, where I have an equal number of Langstroth and 16"xlO" 

 frarhes. All the hives have 10 frames in the brood nest, all were 



