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Our bees had a good flight Dec. 30; the 

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 carrier made out of two poles, so we can 

 set on two hives at once, and it is all two 

 men can carry without jarring the bees. 



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Qet;)eral \Urr)S. 



"Will TJse a Deeper Frame. 



I have read somewhat of the discussion 

 with regard to the merits o£ the S and 10 

 frame hives ; also with reference to deep or 

 shallow frames. My own experience leads 

 me to conclude that s frames are enough 

 for most bee-keepers, but make the frames 

 iimm' I am making my hives IIJX deep, 

 as this is about the width of the 12-inch 

 board after both edges are planed, and I 

 shall have my frames made to suit this 

 depth, leaving -^-inch bee-space at the bot- 

 tom This will give me about the same 

 amount of room as there is in the 10-frame 

 hive with the standard frame. If I do not 

 need all this space, I can contract the 

 the brood-chamber. It I <'" need it, I have 

 if and, at the same time use the same bot- 

 tom, cover, and super that I now use. 



Newton, N. J. C. H. S. 



The "Color Craze" Condemned. 



I believe it was I who first, at the St. 

 Joseph convention, "arcse to object'' to 

 the present " color craze " amongst queen- 

 breeders and apiarists. I am pleased, 

 therefore, to note that out of the 20 expert 

 apiarists answering the question-box conun- 

 drums (see page 76), only one out of the 20 

 who have tried the yellow queens think 

 them superior to the 3-banded bees, while 

 the other 10 either pronounce no better or 

 not so good. What Mr. Abbott says, in his 

 answer, about " selling '' what people want, 

 and spend no time trying to convince, etc., 

 is well enough as far ns it goes, but if 

 queen-breeders had not first extolled these 

 yellow bees, and claimed them better than 



3-banders, this color craze had never been 

 inaugurated, and we, as bee-keepers, would 

 have been thousands of dollars better off. 



I did not myself mean to condemn the 

 yellow bees simply because they are yellow 

 —that would be foolish. What I object to, 

 and still object to. is breeding for color to 

 the exclusion of useful qualities. Whenever 

 breeders give us queens that are prolific, 

 and whose progeny are industrious, hardy, 

 good comb-builders, and cap their comb 

 white, are gentle and honest, i. c, not in- 

 veterate robbers— I say when they have 

 secured all these jimctical points, then, and 

 then only, should they turn their attention 

 to breeding for color. And whenever they 

 find that they must sacrifice any one of, or 

 any part of any one of the above points in 

 order to secure color, they should halt right 

 there! Beauty is only "skin deep," and 

 what we want is bees for business piir/iuses— 

 not simply insects which are pretty to look 

 at. F. H. Richardson. 



La Clede, Mo. 



A Yahnke (Not Yankee) Bee-Boy. 



I see in the American Bee Journal that 

 two boys write about bees. I am only a 

 boy, too, and like bees very much. I take 

 care of my father's bees. Last spring we 

 had 21 colonies, and increased them to 41. 

 Our main honey crops are from white 

 clover, basswood, and in the fall, along the 

 bottoms of the Mississippi river, are horse- 

 mint, boneset, Spanish-needle, and many 

 other flowers that I don't know the names 

 of. 



The honey the bees gathered from the 

 Spanish-needle all candied some before we 

 took it off the hives, so we could not ex- 

 tract it nor sell it in combs, so we had to 

 cut it out of the sections, put it in tin pails, 

 and set them in boiling water until it was 



When to Move South. 



I must say the article by A. P. Carlson, 

 on page 92, is very misleading. He says he 

 speaks from experience, for he left Minne- 

 sota on June 2, and arrived at Helena, 

 Ark., on June 3, etc. I fail to see anything 

 in Mr. Carlson's letter to show that he has 

 ever been in Texas. 



January or February is probably the best 

 time to change from a Northern to South- 

 ern climate, but it is an injustice to Texas 

 to make the assertion that it would result 

 in sickness or death to move from the 

 North to Texas in June or July. That this 

 is entirely false is proved every year by 

 the hundreds that come to this State from 

 the North. ^ , 



I can readily excuse Mr. C. from any in- 

 tentional wrong, for it appears that he 

 iudges the entire South by that place over 

 there on the bank of the Mississippi river, 

 surrounded by the largest swamps known 

 in the United States. It is natural that 

 Mr C. would not feel kindly toward a 

 place where after two months only SO out of 

 1.000 had not been sick. That is a place 

 that I would not like to risk my health m 

 any time of the year. 



1 was raised in Mississippi, and speak 

 from experience. All that part of Texas 

 lying west of the Brazos is entirely differ- 

 ent from any I have seen on tlae fast side. 

 It is high, dry, and healthy. South of the 

 central part of the State there is a Gulf 

 breeze all summer, and it is much cooler 

 here in summer than in the North. Ihe 

 nights are cool and pleasant— hot, sultry 

 nights are unknown here. 



So I say with Mrs. Atchley, come when 

 you get ready, it will not make any great 

 difference-certainly no risk of any fatal 

 sickness, and if ordinary precaution is 

 taken, there need be no sickness at all. 



I attended the bee-meeting at Beeville, 

 Dec 37 and 28. I made the trip from here 

 on my bicycle. I saw a great deal of fine 

 country down there, but it is too dry for 

 much farming. W. C. Gathbight. 



Cameron, Tex., Jan. '28. 



Pointed Hints for All. 



I had the pleasure of meeting with the 

 Venango county bee-keepers at their -nd 

 annual convention on Jan. '28, at Franklin 

 Pa To say I was agreeably disappointed 

 is putting the statement mildly. I m"ft 

 say that so far as I cam see, I formed the 

 acquaintance of a lot of '-gentlemen - 

 men who take an interest in their business 

 -some veterans, som-e young men, but all 

 apparently intent on making things inter- 

 esting, as well as profitable. The tune al- 

 loted for discussion was like life-entirely 

 "too short -'-not giving time enough to 

 discuss the various subjects brought up tor 

 consideration. If it is to our interest vo 

 meet annually in convention to discuss the 

 best methods of bee-keeping, let us take 

 time enough. Meet promptly at the hour 

 appointed, and proceed to business. This 

 is one point in bee-keeping. The successful 

 apiarist is not the man who puts off his 

 busness until the last minute, "lake time 

 by the forelock; • drive your business, 

 don't let it drive you. Don't be a slave to 

 negligence and slothfulness, and then you 

 will not have to entertain your friends vvith 

 that calamitous howl of "bad luck! 

 "Time and tide wait for no man," and the 



