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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



If the bees and stores are proportion- 

 ate to the number of frames, there will 

 be no difference. Usually, though, they 

 are not. — James A. Green. 



I presume it would be about the same. 

 But on eight frames they would be 

 usually more crowded, and so would go 

 up more quickly. — A. J. Cook. 



I prefer an eight-frame hive, though 

 the difference is little. The better the 

 honey-flow, the quicker they commence 

 work in the sections. — WillM. Babnum. 



In the first phrase, I suppose sections 

 are referred to. If the colonies are pro- 

 portionately strong, I can see no reason 

 why there should be any difference. — 

 Eugene Secor. 



If you mean when a swarm is hived in 

 an 8 or 10 frame hive, then I answer, 

 in the 8-frame hive. If you do not so 

 mean, then I do not understand the 

 question. — G. M. Doolittle. 



The eight frame hive. Bees prefer to 

 store honey above the brood, and an 8- 

 frame hive is always preferable, in my 

 mind, for comb honey. If I worked for 

 extracted honey alone, I think I would 

 use a larger hive. — Emerson T. Abbott. 



I have never used the 10-frame Lang- 

 stroth hive. I should think there would 

 be no difference, even by experimenta- 

 tion it would be impossible to answer 

 this. Two colonies could not be had ex- 

 actly alike otherwise, to make a fair 

 test. — R. F. Holtermann. 



With an average number of bees to 

 the frame, say 4,000, I think there 

 would be no perceptible difference as to 

 time of commencement in the sections, 

 but with 8,000 more bees in the 10- 

 frame hive, I shouldconsider my chances 

 better for a honey crop than with the 

 smaller hives. — S. I. Freeboen. 



In my own experience, I have found 

 no particular difference. Bees, as a 

 rule, will not occupy sections while they 

 have room below, but this rule fails 

 often. I use the close-spadng method, 

 to force my bees into the sections, and it 

 has always proved a success during the 

 10 or 12 years since I first " caught 

 on " to the idea. — J. E. Pond. 



Since I have been using an 8-frame 

 hive I have not produced any comb 

 honey, but many years ago I beat the 

 record in Texas on securing 300 one- 

 pound sections from one colony in a 10- 

 frame Simplicity hive, and as I believe 

 in letting good enough alone, I would 

 use a 10-frame hive;. But to answer 

 your question direct, I will say I don't 

 know. — Mrs. Jennie Atchlev. 



^P~ Do not write anything- for publication 

 on the same sheet of paper witn business 

 matters, unless it can be torn apart without 

 interfering with either part of the letter. 



Dandelion Honey. 



The first honey put on the market here 

 this season was gathered from dandelion 

 bloom, I think. This is the earliest date 

 (June 23rd) that surplus, in nicely finished 

 sections, has ever been offered for sale in 

 this locality, to my knowledge. 



The comb in the sections above referred 

 to is very yellow, resembling golden-rod. 

 The honey has quite a distinct dandelion 

 flavor. It will probably not be liked by 

 many. Eugene Secor. 



Foresi! City, Iowa, June 24, 1893. 



Large Crop of White Clover. 



I am glad to say that my bees are doing 

 well. I had one very large swarm to issue 

 on May 9th ; I hived them in one of the 

 Nonpareil hives, in one brood-chamber. I 

 put on a super, and to-day it has 24 one- 

 pound sections full of very nice honey, but 

 not all capped over. I have 4 other colo- 

 nies that are doing well in the supers — 

 nearly all full. There is a very large crop 

 of white clover here, and bees work on it 

 early and late. N. W. Shultz. 



Shreve, O., June 17, 1893. 



An Experience with Robber Bees. 



Robbery germinated in my apiary yester- 

 day. A 3-frame nucleus of that "gentle 

 ."j-banded stock." were robbing a fuU 8- 

 frame hive of Cypro-Italians, and had quite 

 a brisk trade started before .1 discovered 

 them. Whew, how those "golden pets" 

 did work ! I tried everything, and it seemed 

 as if the strong colony (the swarm weighed 

 12 pounds on May 10th) was doomed to de- 

 struction. They did not even defend them- 

 selves against these saucy intruders. I 

 noticed that these Italians, instead of 

 " smellin' round and vegetatin' " like 

 blacks and hybrids, walk right in and pro- 

 ceed to fill up their tanks witliout further 

 ceremonies. 



It happened in the middle of the day. 

 After exhausting my limited stock of bee- 

 lore, and bouks and papers ftn- all available 

 plans, 1 was ready to give up in despair, 

 when I resolved to adopt the following 

 plan, which proved a complete success : 



I closed the entrances to boCh hives, and 



