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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Any sized hive can be used, but the hive that I have used 

 for the past 20 years with the best of sucoess (havinR at times 

 over 300 colonies in theui) is 14 inches square, inside, and 12 

 inches high, using a frame 10^x13;.^ inches, outside meas- 

 ure. The advantages of this hive are : 



First, a natural brood-chamber; the cover shutting upon 

 the honey-boards hermetically closes the top of the hive, and 

 prevents all escape of heat from the brood-chamber, enabling 

 a colony to build up faster. 



Secoud, the frames are self-spacing, and when the hive is 

 closed it is ready to be moved to an out-apiary. 



Third, ease of manipulation. 



Fourth, its adaptability to either comb or extracted 

 honey; in comb honey there being less burr-comb and travel- 

 stain ; in extracted, ease of handling, and strength of frame. 



honey-flow has been a god-send to our bee-keepers, for the 

 greater portion of our bees did very little the early part of the 

 season ; in fact, we had some very peculiar conditions during 

 last winter and spring. Lart year there was considerable 

 foul brood, and much of the so-called pickled brood. This 

 caused many weak colonies at the beginning of winter. Then 

 we had most zero weather in November, and many of the bees 

 failed to build up, and many colonies that were strong were 

 smothered by being sealed or packt air-tight. The bees sweat 

 to that extent that they were as wet as a dish-rag in the hive. 

 The air becomes foul, and when the temperature gets down 

 low, the bees in this humid condition cannot leave the cluster 

 to seek the honey, and they die of starvation with the honey 

 almost touching them ; when the bee-keeper opens the hives 

 in the spring, he finds his bees dead, and the interior of the 



Hive of Cyrus C. Aldrlch, of Riverside Co., Calif. 



together with the absence of propolis, as the hooks that hold 

 the frames are protected from propolis by the honey-boards. 



I invite investigation and comparison with any other hive 

 in use. Eiverside Co., Calif. 



Peculiar Conditions — Increase by Dividing. 



BY E. S. LOVEST. 



We meet to-day many of our bee-keeping friends wearing 

 a broad smile, and with a light heart. I am happy to say that 

 some of them are blest with a moderately-full pocket-book — 

 the result of their own and the efforts of their little friends, 

 the bees. Why, it seems to be getting fashionable for some of 

 our bee-kings, or cattle kings, to take a trip to Chicago, or 

 some Missouri river point, with their own car of honey or 

 stock. Well, I guess it is all right, if they do not soar so 

 high as to forget their poor relatives. 



To use a common expression, many of our bees have been 

 doing a land-office business since the jubilee. Many of them 

 averaged about four pounds during the month of August, and 

 Id some localities the bees are still bringing in considerable 

 honey. This will continue till the first cold storm. The late 



hives damp and moldy. The bees sealed up this way are 

 worse off in a chaff hive than they would be in a common box. 

 The statement that the bees died here last winter for the 

 want of hooey is mainly incorrect. We had a very late spring, 

 and as many of the bees came through the winter in a weak 

 condition, and where the bees were not lookt after, they were 

 still further weakened down with spring dwindling. Then, 

 again, while we have had but little foul brood, compared with 

 last year, we have had the so-called pickled brood by the 

 wholesale. I have visited over 2,000 colonies that were 

 affected with it ; in fact, I failed to find one apiary that the 

 bees did not have this disease — some much and some little. I 

 have workt hard with this disease this season, and I have 

 again proven that the salt remedy, which I described in a 

 former article, has again been very effective in getting rid of 

 the disease; and where our bee-keepers continued the remedy 

 as I askt them to do, and also cleaned out the hives and sup- 

 plied the bees with comb foundation and a little honey, if 

 necessary, the bees soon got over the disease, and the owners, 

 as a rule, have reapt a bountiful harvest of honey and wax ; 

 while many of those "go-as-you-please" bee-men, where they 

 paid no attention to them, while some of them built up all 

 right many did not, but they dwindled along, and when the 



