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have tliem quick, and set them along the road where they are easy to 

 get to, and they are sweet and fall of molasses and sugar. God has 

 made some of them very sweet, and we may learn how to get it out 

 by the sweat of the brow. But lazy folks never can ; they try some 

 other way, generally they want somebody else to do it. I would say 

 to the club speak loud and plain. 



Influence of the Hive upon Successful Bee-keeping. 



Mr. Jasper Hazen, Albany, jST. Y. — 1. A hive of 2,000 cubic 

 inches, and no boxes, will give no surplus honej' in good shape for 

 market. 



2. A hive with boxes upon the top, of the capacity of twenty 

 pounds, may give from nothing to forty pounds. 



3. A hive with boxes of the capacity of seventy pounds, upon the 

 top and sides, will give twice or thrice as much surplus as the second 

 class named. 



4. A liive with boxes upon the top and sides, of the capacity of 125 

 pounds will give twice as much surplus as the third class named. 



Demonsteation. 



In 1864: I had three of the second class of hives. They gave me 

 .each one swarm, and not one pound of surplus honey. "With the 

 other proprietors I had thirteen in the third class of hives. They 

 gave Y97 pounds of surplus, an average of sixty-one pounds. In 1867 

 I had eight colonies in the third class of hives, and four colonies in 

 four Eureka hives, the fourth class. The eight gave 500 pounds of 

 surplus, an average of sixty-two and one-half pounds ; the four Eureka 

 hives gave 500 pounds, an average of 125 pounds. I know no reason 

 why the diiierence in the amoujit of surplus was not owing to the 

 different construction and size of the hives. A productive queen will 

 give working force sufficient to work in all the eighteen boxes at one 

 time, so as to begin in the last before the first is fully completed. If, 

 instead of the eighteen boxes, as furnished in the hive I^o. 4, they 

 only have two, as given in !No. 2, all the workers will cluster out in 

 idleness, but the small number that occupy the two boxes. 



Adjourned. 



