1898 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



685 



own pet plan; every localit}' calls for different 

 management ; but the underlying principles 

 are the same. This hive calls for entirely 

 new methods of working, that each one can 

 find out only by direct experiment. It will 

 be well for all to make a trial of this hive the 

 coming season. One hive will be enough to 

 test it. The experimenters will find that the 

 bees like the hive, and live and thrive in it. 

 Only a box hive is simpler, and yet is mobile 

 enough for every purpose. The sections are 

 easier to handle than closed end frames. 

 There is no extracting to be done. The hive 

 is warmer. It can be more readily transported 

 than an L. hive. It can be made small or 

 great, deep or shallow. It is a comb-honey 

 hive and extracted hive all in one; also a good 



side wedging goes to show that he would have 

 to have a snbstitute for the fences to hold the 

 sections apart. As he says he uses no sep- 

 arators, I infer he would u^e some sort of stop 

 or spacer to separate the sections, and that, 

 when the same are wedged together, they 

 would squeeze against these .stops. 



A hive as simple as possible — one cover and 

 bottom, and one shell or bod}' which might be 

 used either as a super or as a brood-nest, 

 might be a great boon to the farmer bee-keep- 

 er, and perhaps to those who handle colonies 

 by the hundred. It goes without saying, that 

 it would effect an enormous saving in expense, 

 if such a thing could be accomplished. The 

 question would naturally arise, however, Can 

 a plain section honey-box, 6x4^'/2xl'4 be used 



WARDELL AND A BATCH OF HIS DOOLITTLE QUEEN-CELLS, REARED AT THE HOME OF 

 THE HONEY-BEES. SEE EDITORIAL. 



queen-rearing hive. It can do any thing any 

 other hive can do, and more. 

 Devonshire, Bermuda. 



[Some little time ago I said that Mr. Morri- 

 son would soon tell us something about a 

 kind of hive that had no brood-frames, but 

 which made use of plain sections to perform 

 both the function of brood-frame and honey- 

 box at the same time. The article above de- 

 tails the plan. 



The description is perfectly clear save in 

 one point; namely, that friend Morrison does 

 not anywhere, that I can discover, tell hozv he 

 separates the plain sections from each other. 

 The fact that he uses thumbscrews to produce 



in lieu of a brood-frame? If such a thing 

 is possible, then, of course, those plain sec- 

 tions that have had brood reared in them 

 would always have to be used for that pur- 

 pose; that is, the}' could not be used for mar- 

 keting comb honey. Other supers would, of 

 course, have to be refilled with clean, fresh, 

 new plain sections ready to receive new comb 

 honey; so that, after all, the bee-keeper would 

 have his distinctive brood-supers and his dis- 

 tinctive comb-honey supers, although the 

 construction of both would be identical. 



I see just one objection to Mr. Morrison's 

 plan ; and that is, it abrogates entirely the 

 extractor and extracted honey ; for I assume 



