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vegetable matter, and have laid them 

 carefully away (or future use, where 

 they will not be exposed to the dis- 

 ease until I am sure it is safe to use 

 them. My hives I shall he;it in the 

 same way ; or clean and repaint on 

 the inside and out, making all cracks 

 and joints as tight as wax. I have a 

 few healthy colonies that I shall watch 

 very closely, and will not try to in- 

 crease my stock, and I will treat with 

 the best remedy I know of. until I 

 lose them or effect a cure. 



It might be a good idea to call a 

 bee-keepers' convention and devise 

 some means to exterminate this thing; 

 and by so doing we can act in har- 

 mony. I think unless every bee- 

 keeper takes an interest in trying to 

 annihilate this foul brood, it will be 

 hard to get rid of. 



Napoleon, x3 Ohio. 



For tlie American B,;e JournaL 



DescriDtion of tlie Hivo I Use. 



J. H. ANDRE. 



Last season I gave a description of 

 a new hive that I had tried, and as I 

 have made some alterations and im- 

 provements in it, I will describe them 

 also. 



For the body of the hive use lumber 

 29-32 of an inch thick, cut 16 inches 

 in length. Use square strips in the 

 corners to nail through, of the exact 

 thickness of the lumber, and nail 

 through both ways. This is far bet- 

 ter than a mitre joint, as it cannot 

 give, warp or split. The body of the 

 hive is 11% of an inch deep, with 

 frame-rests cut down all around the 

 top 5^ of an inch, and }4 oi an inch 

 back. A cross is put in exactly in the 

 centre of the hive, of 5-l(i-inch strips, 

 \% or 2 inches deep. The frames are 

 made of i^xl inch, and 7x10 inches 

 inside ; 20 are used. Hang in 5 in 

 each space, with the inside one nearly 

 close to the cross-piece, and with 

 their inside ends close against it. 

 The inside top-bar should project only 

 % of an inch, and the outside one % 

 of an inch. Opposite corners should 

 be warm frames, and the other two 

 cold ones. This gives the bees a 

 chance to get to any part of the hive 

 without going under or outside of the 

 frames, and a frame of brood or 

 Jfoney may be taken as desired. 



In shipping, 4 or 5 frames will go 

 in a little space, and be in neat shape. 



A colony may be confined in >4 of 

 the hive and winter safely. No tin 

 rests are needed, as the inner ends of 

 the frames may be loosened easily. 



For the bottom use pieces 22 inches 

 long, one 8, and the other 10 inches 

 wide, with an entrance cut in J^xl2 

 inches. Bevel the edge of a piece of 

 board 4I4 inches wide, to give it \% 

 inches drop, and fasten it to the end 

 of the bottom-board at the front with 

 a hinge at each end ; this gives an 

 incline, and in winterit maybe turned 

 back, and if wintered outof-dors it 

 will keep out the snow ; if wintered 

 in-doors it will keep out the light, 

 and takes less room ; but it does not 

 close the entrance. 



The bottom is % of an inch thick, 

 as is also the cap. The side-pieces of 

 the cap are 7i|, and 18 inches long. 

 The gables rise to ^% inches. The 

 roof is 12x22 inches (two pieces of 

 cour.se). The cap is nailed together 

 with strips in the corners, the same 

 as the body of the hive. The case 

 rests on top of the hive, and may be 

 arranged as desired. I have used 

 some cases without any divisions, 

 simply by nailing strips across the 

 bottom of the case where the sec- 

 tions come together. I believe that 

 style will be used altogether in the 

 near future, for it is less work to 

 make it, and in taking out and put- 

 ting in sections it requires not half 

 the labor. More room may be used 

 on a hive, and it is warmer for the 

 bees. 



To make three hives it needs one 

 board JijiX 12 inches, and 12 feet long, 

 for rooting ; ore 29-32x12 inches, and 

 Ui feet long, lOr bodies ; one ?4xl0 

 inches, and 16 feet long, for caps and 

 bottoms ; and one ^4x8 inches, and 16 

 feet long, for caps and bottoms. Only 

 three different widths are used, and 

 the lumber cuts without waste. 



After examining plans of all the 

 hives I have ever heard of, I have 

 adopted this, for it is the only style 

 that may be used and have the brood- 

 chamber in the shape it should be — 

 square— without heavy, unhandy 

 frames, and also secure the other 

 advantages described above. 



Lockwood,? N. Y. 



For the American Bee Journal. 



CMiiEes in Apiarian Fixtnres, 



T. B. TURNEK, (50—90). 



In looking over the pursuit of api- 

 culture for a few years past, and 

 viewing the many changes that have 

 taken place, and that have been ad- 

 vocated by bee-keepers, the inquiry 

 has arisen in my mind, have not too 

 many changes been made in apicul- 

 tural fixtures for the interests of 

 apiculture in general V I verily be- 

 lieve that "too much change" for 

 beginners is very discouraging, and 

 that in some way there should be 

 more uniformity among bee-keepers, 

 in the hives, sections, section-racks, 

 and shipping-cases used, allowing a 

 change in these and other things used 

 in the apiary only after something 

 better has been tested and adopted by 

 many of the most experienced api- 

 arists. 



Every beginner, especially of small 

 means, should have the very best and 

 cheapest appliances to begin the busi- 

 ness that can be obtained. If he gets 

 catalogues from different supply 

 dealers and examines them he will 

 find a great many different hives, 

 sections, section-racks, or surplus 

 arrangements, shipping-cases, and va- 

 rious other things, in use and highly 

 recommended for use by those engag- 

 ing in the pursuit, and he is bewil- 

 dered. He knows not which to 

 adopt, and is just as likely to choose 

 the poorest one of the list as the best, 

 until he has experience and knows 



what is best. Experience in this 

 matter has prompted ine to write this 

 article for the beuelit of the inexperi- 

 enced. 



There is but one solution of this 

 difficulty, and that is lor the beginner 

 to take the advice of some reliable 

 bee-keeper of his acquaintance, as to 

 what fixtures lie sliould use, and the 

 advice given will generally be such as 

 sliould be followed. There also should 

 be a recommendation, adoption, and 

 use of an article by several experi- 

 enced bee-keepers. The writer has 

 recommended hives that he was using 

 himself for the adoption and use of 

 beginners, but now, after 13 years' 

 experience in the use of various hives, 

 and watching the reports from dif- 

 ferent experienced bee-keepers, he 

 can heartily recommend to beginners 

 a hive that he does not use. 



Look at the changes in hives from 

 what was formerly used. In my A B 

 C days in bee-keeping, we had a hive 

 in two sections, with a double set of 

 frames of the Gallup style. Then we 

 had the patent Buckeye hive, with a 

 shallow surplus frame on top of the 

 brood-frame ; then we used the hive 

 invented by Rev. L. L. Langstroth,for 

 a short time, until a bee-keeper made 

 for us what he claimed was better 

 than that, a 9framehive, llxlOinches 

 inside measure. After a careful re- 

 scearch after the best hive for all 

 purposes in four years,another change 

 was made, and the bees were moved 

 into a Langstroth style of hive hold- 

 ing 8, 10, 11, 12 and 13 frames, 11x11 

 inches inside measure, where they 

 still reside. Having visited many 

 bee-keepers who had more varied ex- 

 periences in changing from one hive 

 to another than myself, the universal 

 opinion expressed is that there has 

 been too much change in hives among 

 bee-men. 



One uses a particular hive with a 

 specific object in view, and he will 

 keep on changing hives until that 

 object is attained. Another individ- 

 ual will start out with a different 

 hive, with a different object in view, 

 and lie will repeat the conduct of the 

 first, until he finds the hive to suit the 

 special purpose. Then the same in- 

 dividual may have different objects 

 to gain at different times, and if they 

 are numerous, he will find that dif- 

 ferent hives must be used to accom- 

 plish them. Then the wise apicul- 

 turist wants the hive that is adapted 

 to the attainment of the greatest 

 number of objects, in order to be suc- 

 cessful in the highest degree. Bee- 

 keepers want to keep in view the fact 

 that success in their pursuit is some- 

 what like that in otlier pursuits — the 

 greater the number of ends success- 

 fully met by the use of a single in- 

 strument, the better in the economy 

 of time and expense, other things 

 being equal. 



Though I am not using the Lang- 

 stroth hive, but may use it in* the 

 near future, and have no hives of any 

 kind for sale, my advice from past 

 experience would be to all beginners, 

 to adopt and use the 8 or 10 frame 

 Langstroth hive, as adapted to accom- 

 plish the greatest number of apicul- 

 tural objects of any hive adopted and 



