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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Jan. 1 



V vs. SQUARE EDGES ON HOFFMAN FRAMES. 



Having read the two articles from Messrs. 

 Hyde and Davenport on Hoffman frames, I 

 add my testimony. I suppose it is unpleas- 

 ant for you now to go back on that V edge 

 in Hoffman frames after counting on its 

 imagined excellence so long. Well, I found 

 if the frames and hive were not made very 

 exact, after a few years' use, and propolis 

 had accumulated, they would slip past each 

 other, thus reducing the space about J inch. 

 This so often happened, and I had to be so 



guarded, that I hated the Hoffman frames 

 worse on account of it; and, having a few 

 frames made at home without the V, I found 

 them much more satisfactory. I have 40 of 

 thosehives with supers the same, lOframes, 11 

 in. deep, 13 long in brood-chamber, and 12 in 

 the super, with hanging Jones frames in the 

 half of my yards, 250 colonies or so. So, for 

 humanity's sake, do discard the V, and, as 

 you say, make upright bars about § thick. 

 R. F. Whiteside. 

 Little Britain, Can., Nov. 23. 



GET the section OF HONEY WITHOUT JUMPING OR CLIMBING FENCES. 



[We often hear about the royal road to success, as if there were no square turns or re- 

 tracing of steps. Whatever we may say about other things, there is no real short cut to 

 the production of fancy comb honey. The old adage, '.' Try, try again; if at first you don't 

 succeed," may apply in the case of the fancy honey shown above. Get it ? Of course you 

 can if you go along the right way; and you won't have to jump or climb fences either. It 

 may look more difficult than it is, and, again, it may prove more complicated than it 

 seems. Tryit. — Ed,] 



