Publisht Weekly at 118 Michigan St. 



George W. York, Editor. 



Jl.OO a Year— Sample Copy Free. 



38th Year. 



CHICAGO, ILL., MAY 26, 1898. 



No. 21. 



Loaded Field-Bees in the Sections. 



BY G. M. DOOLITTLE. 



There is much being said of late about raising hives up 

 from the bottom-board, and providing the large entrances to 



deposit their honey where it is wanted. And the claim is also 

 put forth that by so doing the bees can more easily enter the 

 sections, as they do not have to crowd their way up through 

 the center, or most populous part of the hive, as they do when 

 only the ordinary entrance is used. Of one thing all the advo- 

 cates of this plan seem to be sure, which is, that unless the 

 bees are thus forced to go from the fields to the sections with 

 their loads of nectar, the same will of necessity be deposited 

 by these bees in the comb-cells of the brood-chamber. 



Now I wish to ask each of the gentlemen thus arguing, 

 what reasons they have for believing that field-bees ever de- 

 posit their loads of nectar directly in the cells? Mr. Golden, 

 1 believe, claims that he knows that they do this, but if he has 

 told us ivlty or how he knows it, I have failed to see the place. 



Mr. R. C. Aikin (ond Famihj), PrcsUlcnt of the Colorado Bee-Keepers' Association.— From Oleanings. 



those not fully raised, as above, so that' the field-bees, with 

 their loads of nectar, may be obliged to pass up the sides of 

 the hive to the surplus receptacles, thus compelling them to 



This craze that has come over the people for " high-up " en- 

 trances reminds me of a similar craze along about 30 years 

 ago, when it was thought necessary to have from one to four 



