AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



January 



veloped quite profitably in Kansas 

 and in the vicinity of the large or- 

 chards beemen sometimes find excel- 

 lent locations. The Baxter brothers 

 combine beekeeping with apple grow- 

 ing near Ft. Leavenworth. While 

 this kind of combination offers very 

 satisfactory possibilities, there are but 

 few men as yet who have developed 

 the combination on an extended 

 scale. The fruit men are no longer 

 inclined to overlook the value of the 

 bees at blooming time, and not infre- 

 quently an orchardist and a bee- 

 keeper will combine forces to mutual 

 advantage. 



An article in our November issue 

 gave an account of the special con- 

 ditions in the Arkansas valley. Sim- 

 ilar locations are to be found in the 

 valleys of some of the smaller 

 streams in the eastern section of the 

 State. At Emporia the boys' and 

 girls' clubs, under the leadership of 

 Charles A. Boyle, have a membership 

 from all parts of the county. It is 

 readily apparent that members in 

 some sections of the county have a 

 great advantage over others, because 

 of a more favorable location. At 

 Augusta, Carl F. Buck has several 

 outyards which yield a good surplus 

 almost every year. Almost anywhere 

 in eastern Kansas there seems to be 

 a sufficient flora to support the bees, 

 but the amount of sweet clover and 

 alfalfa within reach seems to deter- 

 mine the surplus over most of the 

 territory where the writer has vis- 

 ited. 



At Eskridge, Roy Bunger and wife 

 devote their entire time to beekeep- 

 ing. They are buying large numbers 

 of bees in box hives and transferring 

 them, thus removing many uncared 

 for bees from the locality, while in- 

 creasing their own apiaries. Bunger 

 is assisting many of his neighbors in 

 getting their bees in shape for proper 

 management. 



At Blue Rapids the writer attended 



a field meeting which was attended 

 by an enthusiastic lot of beekeepers, 

 both men and women. W. E. Axtell, 

 of that place, has been influential in 

 developing local interest in field 

 meetings at that point. While Mr. 

 Atkins was engaged in extension 

 work in Kansas, under the U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture, the Blue 

 Rapids beekeepers made good use of 

 him in connection with their field 

 meetings. Although extension work 

 has been under way for only one sea- 

 son, it has shown results which are 

 highly pleasing to those who have 

 been influential in getting it started. 

 The Kansas boys' and girls' bee clubs 

 under Mr. Boyle's leadership ha/; 

 been among the most successful and 

 have attracted wide attention. We 

 plan to give an extended account of 

 the organization and results of this 

 club work in a later issue. 



The study of locality as applied to 

 beekeeping offers some very interest- 

 ing possibilities. The fact that a con- 

 siderable variety of well-known 

 honey plants are present does not 

 always insure a crop. The influence 

 of soil and climatic conditions is far 

 more important than has been gener- 

 ally understood. Kansas is farther 

 west than Missouri and has a lighter 

 rainfall, yet apparently Kansas is by 

 far the better State for honey pro- 

 duction. The writer is inclined to 

 regard Kansas and Nebraska as 

 among the best States for beekeep- 

 ing. True, neither of them is, as yet, 

 far advanced in the establishment of 

 commercial apiaries, but the few ex- 

 tensive honey producers are getting 

 large crops and with surprising regu- 

 larity. It should be borne in mind, 

 however, that there are very large 

 areas in both States that are not 

 suited to beekeeping on a large scale. 

 The prospective apiarist should be 

 exceedingly careful in choosing a lo- 

 cation in either State. 



Roy Bunge 



ife, extensive honey pr 

 cers at Eskridge. 



Kansas be 1.. i pi n al Blue Rapids 



The Langstroth and Jumbo Hives 



By G. Bohrer 



ON the first page of the American 

 Bee Journal for November ap- 

 pears the picture of Moses 

 Quinby and an article by the editor. 

 The picture and article bring back to 

 my memory a conversation I had 

 with Mr. Quinby at a convention of 

 beekeepers held at Cleveland, Ohio, 

 during the winter of 1872. I had 

 used the Quinby hive. It was of the 

 eight-frame pattern. The frames of 

 this hive were two or more inches 

 deeper than the Langstroth frame 

 and an inch or more longer. I asked 

 him why he made his frame both 

 deeper and longer than the Lang- 

 stroth frame. In reply he said: 

 "Where I reside, in New York, the 

 winters are long and the cold snaps 



