19()4. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPEK. 



93 



"May it not be that all living cells 

 struggle and fight for life, the hope ol 

 higher things and better days as a 

 property of living cells, and insepar- 

 able from them, animates all life from 

 the lowest to the highest, ana is real- 

 ly what Maeterlinclv calls the 'spirit 

 of the hive' ? 



"The first hive in the picture (five 

 Langstroth hives on the left not 

 shown) is the hive exhibited at Cork, 

 and the village carpenter, Taylor, who 

 made it, is nearly in the rear of it. He 

 has distinguished himself as the first 

 to attempt making a hygienic hive; 

 but whether he thought of the sweet 



improvement, however, on the hives 

 of 1867. The fioor-board is fixed to 

 the hive, wnich is ob.1ectionable. The 

 iron legs were made so that weights 

 could be placed on them for security 

 against storms. The legs ai"e half 

 an inch from the sides of the hive, 

 The inside breadth is fourteen inches, 

 and takes nine frames at one and a 

 half inch spacing or ten frames at one 

 and three-eighths inch spacing. The 

 bees certainly do better on 

 the ten frames, and I think 

 Eangstroth was right when he 

 concluded that one and three-eigths 

 inches is the best allowance for combs 



DR. SMITH'S APIARY, DONEMANA, IRELAND. 



smiling goddess of health or her illus- 

 trious father Esculapius, while making 

 it, is problematical. 



"The second hive in the picture is a 

 'combination hive' made fiteen yeai's 

 ago by Fulton, a very expert carpen- 

 ter and bee manipulator, living near 

 Claudy, Ala. The hive takes fourteen 

 frames and a divison board. It is a 

 well-made hive that has many advan- 

 tages, and only one fault. It is not 

 hygienic, and is not now stocked with 

 bees. The next is the Langstroth hive, 

 one of a dozen from the late T. G. 

 Newman, of Chicago, in 1895; not an 



in the brood chamber. The two stand- 

 ing hives are of simple construction. 

 One of them, with frames across the 

 entrance, has double walls at the 

 sides; the other, with frame ends to 

 entrance, has double walls front and 

 back. 



"In hives with double walls, if the 

 inner walls should happen to be tight 

 — and the bees will endeavor to make 

 them so — and the outer walls open to 

 some extent, allowing circulation of 

 air, the double walls do not seem to 

 do any harm. Some bee-keepers say 

 that their bees do best in hives with 



