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leral principles embodied in the old several bee men that say they are not 



;p hive, in the construction of the afraid of bees, and that they can do 



isible, is to overcome the instinct anything with them; same time this 



the bees to store their honey in the one drove them out, says A. F.Eilen- 



)od-chamber, where it profits the berger, of Tonowanda, N. Y., in the 



;-keeper nothing and to facilitate Modern Farmer and Busy Bee. Mr. 



: harvesting of the crop in an at- Peter Brady, a big lumberman who 



ctive form. With the foregoing lives in the city of Buffalo, has a 



ts before us, we can very readily swarm that took his house for a hive 



; that a deep frame cannot give six years ago this summer. He has 



irly the amount of section honey a large brick residence, and on the 



it a shallow one will, and the causes peak of the south end they were in 



: unavoidable. The natural instincts between the plaster and roof boards; 



the bees ought to be followed as also in the cornice. It was bees and 



sely as possible, where they do not honey in every place they could get 



nflict with the interests of the api- in. I told Mr. Brady that I would get 



st; when this happens they should them out, as he wanted to reshingle 



restricted as much as may be prof- his house, and could not. It took me 



ble to their owner. about four hours with four men to 



\s a cold-weather frame, I fully kill them and get out the honey. As 



ree that one 11 inches deep will near as I coui^ estimate it there were 



nter splendidly; but as a warm- between nine and ten hundred pounds. 



ather frame it would be impractical The most of it was clover honey, and 



■ producing comb honey. I do not, there must have been two bushels of 



wever, accept for an instant the bees, anyway. I did not get stung 



;ory that deep frames are better for once. They filled my clothes and 



nter than two sets of shallow gloves full of stings. This is what I 



mes, or that there are, with divisi- call a big colony of bees, and it took 



brood-chambers, cold drafts pass- nerve to handle them. Working on 



J directly through the center of the the peak of a house is not like the 



Dod-nest. When two sections com- ground. You just have to take it as 



ise the brood-chamber, a strong it comes. 



lony will cluster between the two 



es until to all intents and purposes, MORE THAN 100,000 BEES WERE 

 space exists. In the spring when 

 ; colony is weaker, the brood-nes 



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above this space. We observe, then q^,^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^jl,^^ 



It this space cannot effect the heat ^^^^j^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^ 



nerated by the cluster. i\/r;ii^ o*- tj,.;^„^ ^t- t>„ ^.i ,.u 



T,, r r -1 -^1 .Li J- • Mills at Bridgeport. Pa., the other 



[The cause of failure with the divis- ^ ^s soon as the smoke had rolled 



brood-chamber hive generally .^^^ ^^^ ^j^^^.^^^ remnants of 



mes from applying the system of +i,^,v u^^^^ i ^^ ^^i^j t-u r*<.i 



' .' r ° • , 1 , r their homes had cooled the little in- 



magement originally intended for ^^^+^ 1..,^^., ri ^ o^*. t-^ 1 t 



° ^. r 1 • 1 1 sects, human-like, set to work clean- 



; non-sectional, which can have no • 



ler result. a ...i u 1 



r • , , 11 .1 J ) ^x L- Apparently, an ambulance corps 



f wish to call the readers attention ^^^ formed, numbering several hun- 



the fact, however that Mr. Mc- ^^^^ ^ees. These began getting out of 



;al is raising extracted, while I ain ^^e way their dead comrades, many of 



producer of comb honey only. A ^j^^^ ^-^^^^ ^^ ^ j^^^^^ ^^^/^^^ 



tme II inches deep may do first-rate ^^ ^^-,^^j suggested the work 



extracted honey. I cannot say, as ^^^^ ^^^^ be going on daily on the 



^ave had no experience, having nev- R^,gg„.j battlefields. Each bee 



prodvK:ed a pound, for the market, ^^^j^j^^ ^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ struggled 



^ ■ away with it, and as the field was 



Rose Lawn Apiary, Germania, Ark., strewn with thousands they have been 



t. 7, 1904. employed the past few days. — Phila- 



■ • delphia Telegraph. 



A BIG BEE TREE (?) 



[ want to tell you wnat I did with a When wntin.£r to advertisers mention 



arm of bees that had whipped out The American Bee-Keeper. 



