33 



If for no other reason than to promote the bee keeping industry, put 

 TOUT bees, if now in box hives. <m to frames See to it aJso that tout 



neighbor? do likewise: vou will be rep«aid many fc^. 



fi" we can but rid the State of this one hiodr^nce to progress, the 

 worth of the iDdustry will advanoe many per cent. 



In order to demonsrrate how much behiQchand you Iil^. ;" - v.! '. 



rem ind you that it was in iSol. more than fifty years s. 

 L. L. Langstroth devised the movable "frarae"" hi%-e. '.•: ::. iz his 

 journal. Oct. 30. ISol. he says: "The use of these frames will, I am 

 persxiaded, give a new impetus to the easy and prolitaWe mana^iement 

 of bees." Large bodies move slowly, despite such irnqtiestiofiable 

 imp>eTus. 



tcFLtTEXCE OF THt TyTE OF HlTE, 



Closely associated with the prob'eni of transferring is the scVr":rr. 

 of the style of hive to use, ar.d its :::duer.oe upon the successs ■ 



If you would get aU you can oa: o: yotir b^s, the type of .. 

 you use will greatly hiixier or increase your results^ F:- ■ -:. .v, as 

 we attempt to show, the box hive is worth ahitost nothir.g : : ., , ^v-.:er; 

 he cannot take surplus in marketable form from the frame. Ajr-.i:.. 

 many of the frame hives in use are too small. They cramp the q.:- - r . 

 do not allow her to lay to her full capacity, and consequently dazv.y- r 

 the crop. 



Of coxirse to prescribe for ever\-body"s r.; ~ ~ 



who use the Langstroth siie frame we v 

 ten-frame hi\-e. If possible, use two bo . - 



she is young and prolific, will take care o: ^ . 



will get the retiu^ns. Moreover, we believe pers^^iialiy li. . _ ^ 



so-called ""unspaced" frame: it allows more frecviom i:. ^ 



a "spaced " frame, and where prv^poliiing is hea\y. it is a doiigai, 

 new frame manufacturevi to be Vised with " tin spacers, " but used v« . > 

 out the tins or the "mispaced frame," has been \"i?ry satisfactocy to 

 the writer. 



Sectiox Boxes. 



Li connection with types of hi\-T?s, we wv>uld say that the 4 by 5 

 or other oblong section is promising to market better than the sqiisre 

 section. Ask a merchant which of these two sell the better. a::.i :. > 

 usu.'jl exj.vrience is the oblong. "It looks Larger." say his customers. 

 -Estliotii'^lly speaking, the oblong is more pleasing than the sqtiare, 

 which doubtless h.^is its uncvMisv'ious intiuence on the trade. 



Vigor of the Stvxk, 



Corivbtcvl with the site of the hiA-e are the virtiK* ai>d A^aluo of a \~ig- 

 oro\is stock. If you ha\'e tvlouies which are healthy, but uuprv^lidc and 

 lacking vigv^r. the queens h.nd best Iv killed and Iv succee\lc»,i by sx.>nv 

 young. pr\">litic bUxxi. But in a cramjxxl hi\"e. say a K»x or eA"eit eight- 

 frame hive, the most pn>htic queen may fail to bring results in terms of 

 honey, simply because she has not rvxtm. Oive the same colony ten or 

 more f ranges to breeil up on. and >"Ou may not believe Axnir e\vs; wu 

 may question that it is the san>c queen. 



Dr. Kirkland. in the " Ohio Farmer." IVc. 12. ISoT. up<.>n transferring 

 fnnn Ix^x hives thn,v ivlonies. of which "the tirst had not swarmtxi in 

 two years ; the seivnd had long tvaseil to mai\ifcst any industry : aini 

 the other had ncATr swarmed," sax's: '* Within txwutv-tour hours each 



