1891 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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With Replies from our best Authorities on Bees. 



Question 185. Which L'i better far sjtmnicr 

 -a single or double u-dlled hive ? 



Single. 

 Ohio. N. W. 



Double-walled. 

 Illinois. N. W. 



A double-walled hive. 

 Vermont. N. W. 



A single-walled hive. 

 New York. E. 



H. R. BOARDMAX. 



Dadaxt & Sox. 



A. E. Maxum. 



Ramblek. 



Double-walled, the year round. 

 Wisconsin. S. W. E. Fkaxce. 



My preference is strongly for the double wall. 

 Oliio. N. W. E. E. Hasty. 



I have had no experience, except with single- 

 wall(>d hives. 

 Illinois. N. W. C. Mrs. L. Harrisox. 



wSingle for us. With one apiary, or whei-e 

 wintei'ed out of doors, the case is diffeient. 

 New York. C. P. H. Eewood. 



A single-walled hive is better at any time of 

 the year in a climate like that of Southern or 

 Middle Ohio. 



Ohio. S. W. C. F. MuTH. 



I use single-walled hives, summer and winter. 

 When wintered in cellar. I don't believe we 

 need any thicker. 



Wisconsin. S. W. S. I. Fkeebokx. 



Single-walled hives, by all means. All double- 

 walled hives are a clog upon that kind of man- 

 ipulation which means success. 



Michigan. S. W. James ILeddox. 



I don't know. I think a single one. I'm sure 

 it's best for the bee-keeper, if the bees will do 

 as good work in it. 



Illinois. N. C. C. Mii^eer. 



If it were not for the extra expense I should 

 prefer a double-walled hive, but shading with 

 a boai-d or grapevine answers almost as well. 



Louisiana. E. C. P. L. Viaija)X. 



The single is more convenient. The double 

 is somewhat better for the bees. All things 

 considered. I would tak(^ them single. 



California. S. R. Wilkix. 



I prefer a single-walled hive at all seasons. I 

 then would use a cheajj handy packing-case in 

 spring, or in spring and winter both, if I win- 

 tered out of doors. 



Michigan. C. A. J. Cook. 



A double-walled hive, if properly ventilated, 

 is better for the bees, but hot so good for the 

 bee-keeper. I would not have hives perma- 

 nentlv double-walled. 



Illinois. N. C. J. A. Greex. 



"I don't know;" but the hives in my apiary 

 that had an outer case, and were packed in 

 chaff and cut straw last season, yielded much 

 more surplus than those in single-walled hives: 

 and I'm so well pleased with the results of one 

 season's trial that I intend to repeat the process 

 the coming season. 



Ohio. N. \V. A. B. Masux. 



All things considered. I prefer the double- 

 walled hive, especially where there is chaff or 

 fine stiaw between the walls. Bees in snch 

 hives rai'ely stop work in the sections on ac- 

 count of heat, while they ai-e often driven from 

 the same on many hot days during a copious 

 flow of honey, when in single-walled hives. 



New York. C. G; M. Doolitti.e. 



[It really troubles me, friends, to see such a 

 '"disagreement" among the "doctors" on a 

 matter of so much importance. The perma- 

 nent-wall chaff hive, such as we have sold and 

 illustrated for so many years, was a child of 

 mine, and it is more than likely that I am 

 somewhat prejudiced in its favor. The testi- 

 mony of friends Mason and Doolittle, it seems 

 to me, is pretty hard to explain away: but we 

 might add. that they are in a northern climate. 

 But then, our friend Viallon. away down south, 

 says even there he would i)refer a double- 

 walled hive: and I am alnindantly satisfied, 

 that, a great many times at least, a double- 

 walled hive is a real protection from the severe 

 heat of summer. I suppose it depends a good 

 deal upon how the hive is made, and may be 

 somewhat as to whether it is located in the 

 shade or in the dii-ect rays of the sun. Very 

 likely, too, a pent-up locality, say with build- 

 ings surrounding so there would be but little 

 wind, may have something to do with it. Now, 

 I think I would compromise the matter by al- 

 ways having both kinds of hives in the apiary.] 



SPECIAL DEPARTMENT FOR A. I. ROOT, AND HIS 

 FRIENDS WHO LOVE TO RAISE CROPS. 



RAl'ID MUI/riPLICATIOX AXD XEW GEXERA- 

 riOXS. IX GAKDEXIXG. 



This is a matter that has interested me great- 

 ly, especially when thei'e is a sudden and great 

 demand for any particular plant and vegetable. 

 How can we multiply it most rapidly? With 

 strawbeiries w(i want to make them put out 

 runners as quickly as jjossible. The new plants 

 want to be rooted at the very earliest moment, 

 and then they are to be set at work putting out 

 runners in like manner. We have plants of 

 some varieties that have started runners even 

 May 1. By June 1 we expect to have strong 

 plants: and these in a month more will be send- 

 ing out runners likewise. Another thing, these 

 new plants made from runners during the 

 month of May. if set out in rich ground, will, 

 with the long season before them, make a ti-e- 

 mendous growth if they are just crowded; and 

 it is these plants, with the Jessie variety, that 

 give fruit in the fall. We are going to try hard 

 for a crop of fall berries this vear. 



There is another plant (or vegetable, rather) 

 that seems to delight in multiplying its species. 

 It is the Egyptian onion. Last season we filled 

 ordeis for sets and bulbs that grew at the bot- 

 tom of big plants, to something like ?4().oo. This 

 reduced our stock so that we found oni'selves 

 unable this spring to furnish onions for the 

 market-wagon. What we had weie on exceed- 

 ingly lich ground on the creek bottom, and they 

 have made a piodigious growth. In fact, I 

 never saw any thing in the shape of onions, 

 with foliage like them. As we want the sets to 

 plant out. we are in a hurry to have them send up 

 seed-stalks: and, like tlie strawberries, great 

 vigorous seed -shoots were started so as to be vis- 

 ible ]Mavl. Of course, the Egyptian producesthe 

 sets on top of the stalk. Now, I do not know how 

 much matured these top sets must be to grow: 

 but I pulled them off last season, when they 

 \\ere (iuitc gn-en and imniatun^. and set them 



