1905 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 249 



s„.ae„„. .tav. mmolB, comb in iU S"'.o""Sn,rX tZ^Z^r^^ 

 ''■■rt'r.s .a., a mtle s«. of J.e ..eat o. ^ ^^^^^,^;,,Z 

 anatomy: A queen bee has long le^ fwa-p known to you all. These 

 and short wings; a worker l^ae short ^^^ ^^^ 1^«7" ^'^ J^^, ^^„ ^,ood 

 legs and long wings. There is a rea- things I >^^;« ^« ^^.^^ ^^^^ i,^ that 



ril^^n^rdonra^e^d^rand rTheo^'and practice the modern 

 Til da; long, .he has to travel from ^XnlLryTlfe se.-tions are put where 

 comb to comb. Her strength need not J" t^^^^;^'^*^ i^te„^^^^^ of building; 

 be in her wmgs, therefore, but in hei ^^^^ .^^' ^^.^^^^^^ ^here they do their 

 ^^^' , ^ i-i,- ,•„ +i,Q IpvpI best to avoid storing honey. 



,Zr.TC^^'.:^'J":^i'o^- bLS^HU'. Na..a„. N. p. Ba..- 



uses most of her energy in flight mas. ^ 



TTPTire the wings must be developed ^^ ^-KTma 



ft the' expense of the legs. It follows QUESTIONS FOR DR. BLANTON. 

 that if we wish to save be.es labor and Sabana la Mar, Republica Domm- 

 so increase their capacity for getting j^ana. 



honey we must aim at decreasing Oct. 26, 1905. 



their" need of walking. Editor American Bee-Keeper: 



Now let lie turn to the modern hive, i have just received the custom 

 and see how it carries out this princi- i^ouge statistics for April, May and 

 Die Let us supose an exhausted bee j^^e. The exportation from this 

 has just dropped upon the alighting country is; honey, 6,940 gallons; wax, 

 board with a load 'of honey or pollen. 79,916 lbs. 



First it has to run along the bottom jf convenient could you tell me 

 board then toil painfully up between ,„,hat is the style and -size of Dr. 

 two narrow combs. Then it must Blanton's hives? Do the frames hang 

 squeeze its way between the top bars, square to the entrance or lengthwise? 

 Next it must turn a corner round the what is the size of the entrance? Any 

 carrier and squeeze between the car- special feature for ventilation? This 

 rier and the top bar, then turn another ^-ould interest me greatly as I have 

 corner crawl up the eide of the sec- to make at present, my own hives and 

 tion skirt along the top and finally ^yhat I so far have don't satisfy me— 

 descend along the foundation or comb the bees are hanging out so much on 

 until it reaches the cell in which it the front of the hive. Whether it 

 is vour intention it should deposit jg the smallness of the entrance— only 

 its ioad from five-sixteenths to three-eighths— 



Further, at the risk of wearying q^ some other cause, I do not know, 

 you (for the mere statement of all ;\iy frames are 9x14, 13 frames to a 

 this labor will be wearisome to read), box. .spaced twelve-vsixteenth inches, 

 let me add that all this work has to The next frames I will make 9x19, 

 be done amid a crowd of jostling bees, and the same box will take 10 frames. 

 throu"-h top bars and combs that are Another question: what's the bee- 

 very likely narrowed by deposition of space between bottom board and 

 ^yax * frames? Yours truly, 



l" do not know whether this -seems , '^f ^V*" , ^'■'''""- , 



*• Z^ tl vmi but trv to imagine We believe Dr. Blanton's hive i-s of 



vh'f woulSbe to vmi f vofliad the style known as the "Long Ideal," in 



o farrv a sack of fiour. going upon which the frames are of the Adair or 



\n foui thi^ugh .secret ways into the American type and hang crosswi^e^ 



all to"i\!^^*l"';" ' nn.^ient castle and As to exact size and ventilating de- 



St';rha"i traort^'ooTo'lee Z vice, we o.„„ot .ay b„t perhaps D. 



,w„ or .in-ee hnpdre,, time, a ,.a,-. B.a,Uo., h.u.,e.f w, be ^o -d^ - 



"¥,"„^"L"l Va';fawerme,.e,y „Pon lr\iTtAinAf the%ees on the 



inns rai, 1 ""^ ^ e " . outside is doubtless a result of insuffi- 



am 'Zhing of th "l> a «oal ic,^ ot eien. ventilation, and any plan tbat 



tile n,atte?-ot the Ineonvenlence of will set Into clronlat.on a current of 



