1898 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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jections which were much stronger than theirs. 

 It takes a plump ^s projection, not less than 

 J/s wide, to stand ihe rapid liandling. We 

 want some kind of lead nail or button, or a 

 piece of zinc about >^ inch wide clasped on to 

 the end bar. This, VV clasped into the 

 edge of the end-bar, i i would give a 



smooth bearing. Of '- -' course, you are 

 not an extracted-honey producer. Will you 

 please bring up this subject at once in GIvEAN- 

 INGS? I should like some time to give my 15 

 years' experience with 8 and 12 frame hives. 



If you wish you can put this lelter in GLEAN- 

 INGS, and let the b< e-keepers say what they 

 think. Perhaps I have been too plain, as I 

 have much respect for the Root Co. and the 



wouldn't allow us to jaw them in their own 

 paper — a comfort that's still left us. 



Possibly, howevei, we bee keepers are a tri- 

 fle to blame ourselves. If we would all agree 

 entirely, and then say exactly what we want, 

 I've very little doubt we'd get what we ask 

 for. But one man prefers this, another wants 

 that, a third howls for something else, the 

 fourth thinks the first three all fools, and the 

 only wonder is ihat, in trying to find out what 

 will suit the jangling lot, the whole A. I. Root 

 Co. don't go into winter quarters in some in- 

 sane-asylum. 



But let's talk about that frame. That's a 

 matter I've been deeply interested in, not 

 merely on general principles, but because most 



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way they do business, and the taste they use 

 in manufacturing goods. 



But I don't like to be buying Maule's Thor- 

 oughbred potatoes with red flesh without ever 

 saying so. They are completely worthless for 

 market. 



Molesworth, Out., Can. 



[Dr. Miller replies:] 



I sympathize with you in your feeling of 

 impatience with the A. I. Root Co. They're 

 all the lime doing something that doesn't suit 

 me. If I think a certain article ought to be 

 made just so, they're certain to make it some 

 other way. Still, if I should march to Medina 

 and finish off the whole crew of them with a 

 shot-gun, just as likely as not some other firm 

 would spring up in their place that would be 

 worse still; for may be the superseding firm 



of my hives have been in use so many years 

 that they must be renewed, and I'm renewing 

 the frames as well. Before me lies a frame 

 that is, I suppose, the same as the sample 

 frame you have. It doesn't suit me, perhaps, 

 any better than it does you; but we might not 

 agree upon the same object ons. As to the 

 diflference between a frame for extracting and 

 one for comb honey, I don't view it as I for- 

 merly did; fir, after a little esperience in the 

 matter, I don't believe the difference amounts 

 to much. I believe if I wanted to run for ex- 

 tracted honey I'd want the same frame I do 

 now. 



Very likely you aie right, that most of the 

 handling is by the projection of the top- bar. 

 Considering that point alone, I should prefer 

 a projection 3 inches long and about an inch 



