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one hundred at a time. As my 

 neighbors and friends saw what suc- 

 cess was attending my untiring efforts 

 they ahiiost en masse took the bee 

 fever, and came to me to get hives 

 for them, for as a gentleman told me 

 last week they think that what I don't 

 know about bees isn't worth know- 

 ing. I often tell them that they 

 give me more credit than I deserve. 

 I have taken and read carefully the 

 Beekeepers' Magazine for about four 

 years, and the Weekly Bee Journal 

 for nearly the same length of time. 

 Have read "Alley's Handy Book, " 

 on queen-rearing and reared some 

 fine queens by his method for the 

 past two seasons. 



The great trouble with me is in 

 getting my queens purely mated, as 

 there are so many native bees all 

 around me. I fear that I have al- 

 ready made this article too long, but 

 must tell you that I have taken two 

 thousand pounds of extracted and 

 four hundred pounds of comb honey 

 this season. Now have fifty-eight colo- 

 nies all in good condition for winter. 

 I would have taken double that 

 amount if the season this year had 

 been as good as it was last. For 

 the present, adieu. 



Salado, Bell Co., Texas. 



THA T NE W FRAME ! 



By Will M. Kellogg. 



I READ friend Demaree's article 

 in the January number with much in- 

 terest. While I agree with him in 

 what he says as to various writers 

 dictating for all climates, I must dif- 



fer with him a little and still stick to 

 the dogma of only one-sized frame 

 in an apiary, though I do but very 

 little manipulating, but when I. do 

 I want no bother of odd sizes. 



But what interested me most of 

 all was that new frame, and I must 

 say that I like that from the very 

 start. Experience is the best teacher, 

 we know. I began with tight top 

 bar frame, and in a hive with tight 

 sides they were an intolerable nui- 

 sance, and I changed to the narrow 

 open-topped ones, and was very 

 much better suited. Having to use 

 lumber | in. thick, or be at greater 

 expense to use wider stuff, I naturally 

 made all my new frames of that 

 width top bar. But I have always 

 been troubled more or less with 

 combs projecting beyond the frame. 

 Having bought some extra stacks, 

 the frames of which were one, or one 

 and one- eighth inch wide, I was for- 

 cibly reminded how much finer, and 

 more easily handled were the combs 

 built on such width top bars. Also 

 that less bunches of comb were built 

 between and on top. I have thought, 

 if I ever made any new frames, I 

 would stand the extra expense and 

 use the wider stuff. But before that 

 time came I got to using side open- 

 ing hives, and some of them like 

 King's Electic,and Hill's Winter Bee- 

 hive, having wide top bars, I lost my 

 dislike of the latter, and for ease of 

 working I rather prefer them to the 

 narrow open top, since the movable 

 side gives plenty of room for side 

 movement at the few times a year 

 that I want to open the brood nest. 

 Then, too, I find the sections work so 

 much nicer on an even top, and are 



