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runiiiug- for extracted honey. Comb-honey 

 supers are just like the bodies, only half- 

 depth. The covers are plain and simple, 

 and likewise the bottom-boards. 



In some localities double-walled hives 

 have proven to be very desirable, although 

 the first cost is greater than that of the 

 single-walled liive. But the great mass of 

 beekeepers are using the latter where condi- 

 tions permit. 



Jo W. Ferree, of 



We are sorry to learn that the president 

 of the California State Beekeepers' Asso- 

 ciation, Mr. J. W. Ferree, suffered a serious 

 accident on Saturday, October 24. While 

 riding a new motorcycle he fell from the 

 machine, striking his head on the curbing, 

 which rendered him unconscious. Mr. Fer- 

 ree does not know what caused the fall — 

 whether he was run into, or whether the 

 machine struck something in the road. Some 

 parties in an automobile picked him up and 

 carried him to a hospital in Los Angeles, 

 where he' lay for three days without fully 

 recovering consciousness. When the bee- 

 keepers in the vicinity heard of the accident 

 they crowded into the hospital like a swarm 

 of bees, every one anxious to know the 

 result of his injuries. We are happy to 

 state that Pres. Ferree is now on the way 

 to complete recovery. 



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The name of W. W. Cary, Sr., is closely 

 associated with that of L. L. Langstroth 

 when the latter was perfecting his hive at 

 tlie home of the former. A full account of 

 this was given on page 853, 1913. The 

 elder W. W. Cary died in 1884, and his 

 obituary was written by father Langstroth 

 himself in Gleanings for 1886, page 11. 

 A son, W. W. Cary, Jr., then took up the 

 business of keeping bees and of the making 

 of cider vinegar. He in turn handed his 

 mantle down to his son, Herbert F. Cary, 

 and his son-in-law, Earl M. Nichols, of 

 Lyonsville, Mass. These boys have been 

 doing a nice business in selling bees and 

 queens, beekeepers' supplies, and pure cider 

 vinegar. See Gleanings^ page 853, for last 

 year. 



We are just advised that Mr. Herbert F. 

 Cary, son of the junior W. W. Caiy, was 

 killed instantly in an automobile collision 

 on Sunday, Oct. 25. It appears that two 

 machines, one of which was driven by Mr. 

 Cary, collided after dark in such a way as 

 to damage seriously the two maf-hiues, over- 



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turning one of them and killing Mr. Gary 

 and wounding two of his sons. Tlie accident 

 occurred on a straight road ; but apparently 

 the driver of one machine or the other be- 

 came confused and miscalculated the dis- 

 tance, with the result as stated. 



The electric lights in the modern machines 

 are a source of danger. It is almost im- 

 possible for two machines in approaching 

 each other in opposite directions to see any 

 thing. A pair of powerful electric lights so 

 obscure the road and every thing else as to 

 make miscalculating the distance an easy 

 thing. This is not the first accident of the 

 kind that has happened. Already legisla- 

 tion in several States requires the dimming 

 of lights in cities and towns. Dimming the 

 lights on country roads when passing an- 

 other automobile or a horse-drawn vehicle 

 should also be required. 



e Winter Cases vs., DouMe- 



This year, for the first time, we are 

 testing out large winter cases capable of 

 holding four hives, the same as are used in 

 Canada, alongside of ordinary double-walled 

 hives holding a single colony. Already we 

 find that the cost of the former per colony 

 is greater than the cost of the latter. In 

 other words, it is more expensive to house 

 a colony of bees outdoors in a quadruple 

 winter case than in a double-walled hive of 

 ordinary pattern. The large winter ease 

 holding four colonies must be made of heav- 

 ier stuff, not less than % inch thick, while 

 the ordinary double-walled liive can be 

 made of material of about half that thick- 

 ness. The figures show that the big winter 

 case contains as much lumber as four dou- 

 ble-walled hives built on modern lines. 



The labor of packing four colonies in the 

 bigger cases is much gi-eater than preparing 

 the same number in the regular double- 

 walled winter hives, and then there is the 

 labor of unpacking, disassembling the big 

 cases, and storing away the loose packing 

 material in the spring. So much for this 

 side of the proposition. 



On the other hand, it is probable that the 

 scheme of wintering four hives in one large 

 winter case will give better results than the 

 same number in double-walled packed hives. 

 The heat of the four clusters in the big 

 eases is practically combined in one. By 

 pushing the four hives together in contact 

 the clusters can converge, and at the same 

 time we have a packing space with more 

 packing material; and even if we do not 

 have the combined heat of four clusters we 

 would still have a better-protected colony. 



