NOVEMBER 1, 1914 



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showing tlie two sticks 

 crossing each other lo 

 hold up tlie combs. 



Fig. 3 is a view of 

 surplus stored in a 

 common box, used as a 

 super on an old box 

 hive. 



In Fig. 4 the comb 

 with the large drone- 

 cells partly capped 

 with honey is a wired 

 frame that by mistake 

 I put in a hive without 

 any foundation what- 

 ever. The other one 

 is a frame that con- 

 tained a full sheet of 

 foundation drawn out 

 into worker comb. The 

 frame witliout any 

 foundation was at the 

 side of the hive, the 

 last frame. Had 1 

 made the mistake, and 

 placed it in the center, 

 it would have been fill- 

 ed with drones, I sup- 

 pose. 



About iDorticos, I 

 will never be without 

 them. I am using one 

 in front and at back 

 for protection from 

 heat and especially 

 rain. In hot weather 

 I take the movable end 

 piece out for ventila- 

 tion. Before using 

 porticos in front or 

 back, I have lost at the 



least a quart of bees from several colonies 

 when a rain came up, especially at night 



Fig. '2. — Another box hive split open, 

 compartment as well as those in the super. 



showing 



in the brood- 



wheu they cluster out like a swarm. 

 York, Pa. 



THE TEN=FRAME MIVE TOO SMALL FOM EXTMACTl 



DUCTION 



BY D. L. VPOODWARD 



Mr. George M. Huntington's article, page 

 215, March 15, "Extracting from the Brood- 

 combs before the Honey-flow to Give the 

 Queen Room," is an incentive to me to write 

 a few words along that line. Right here I 

 want to say that I heartily agree with the 

 editor's note, that " locality is practically 

 the whole thing." In some localities it may 

 be necessary and practicable to extract be- 

 fore the flow in order to give the queen 

 enough room, and in other localities (mj' 

 own for instance) it is far from necessary. 



My main trouble is to get my bees to store 

 enough honey in the brood-chamber to carry 

 them through to the next honey-flow. 



For some time I have been of the opinion 

 that the ten-frame hive is not large enough 

 where running for extracted honey. If I 

 were to start all over again I certainly 

 would adopt the twelve-frame hive. For 

 me to change now would mean too gi-eat an 

 expense in money and labor, as I have some 

 300 colonies in ten-frame hives, and over 

 700 supers with drawn and wired combs. 



