THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



Now, Mr. Editor, I have very briefly de- 

 scribed oar hive, and some of its advanta- 

 ges ; to fully explain its good features and 

 make plain its construction, would take 

 many pages and numerous illustrations, but 

 we hope ere long to have it fully described 

 and illustrated. 



Associated with myself, as a joint inventor, 

 is Mr. Harvey Knight of Littleton, this State. 

 Mr. Knight has been for years one of our 

 leading honey producers in this State and has 

 for two years been manufacturing supplies, 

 although now out of the manufacturing bus- 

 iness. He has also been Secretary of our 

 State Association for several years. 



We have applied for a patent on some of 

 the new features. We do not expect to be- 

 come wealthy on royalties, but by thus pro- 

 tecting ourselves we hope to receive partial 

 remuneration for our labors. We honestly 

 believe that our invention is worthy, and will 

 be a grand help to the pursuit. 



LOVELAND, Colo. 



Dec. 28, 1892. 



That Air Blast Article [Page 269. J— Where 



the Extra Energy Comes From to 



Make a Stronger Blast. 



S. COBNEIL. 



REPLYING to Mr. 

 Hasty '8 letter, 

 page 300, I have to 

 say that I understand 

 the blast of a smoker 

 to be the air in mo- 

 tion as it passes out 

 of the nozzle, and 

 the more rapid the 

 motion of this air 

 the stronger is the 

 blast; also, the great- 

 er the quantity of air 

 driven through the nozzle in a given time 

 the more rapid the motion, and consequently 

 the stronger the blast. In all the smokers I 

 have seen in which the " cut off " was ap- 

 plied, more or less of the current is dissipa- 

 ted between the bellows and fire barrel, ow- 

 ing partly to bad construction, and partly 

 to want of information on the part of the 

 maker. By the improvements I have sug- 

 gested all the air contained in the bellows 

 and fire barrel is driven through the nozzle, 

 and in addition thereto there is the large 



quantity induced to join the current, and 

 enter the fire barrel, without passing through 

 the bellows. To drive this increased volume 

 of air through the bellows, without loss of 

 time, it is not necessary to either '"attack" or 

 •'contradict " the doctrine of the conserva- 

 tion of the energy, as Mr. Hasty seems to 

 suppose, because there is abundant energy, 

 and to spare, stored up in the muscles of the 

 operator's hand to do the additional work 

 required. As there is a very much larger 

 quantity of air driven through the nozzle, in 

 the same space of time, a little considera- 

 tion should make it plain to every one that 

 the blast must be stronger. By having two 

 new smokers, one having my suggested im- 

 provements, and the other of the ordinary 

 Bingham type, but of exactly the same ca- 

 pacity in every respect, and discharging the 

 air of each one, say 2.5 or 40 times against 

 the windwheel of an anemometer, the regis- 

 ter of the instrument will show exactly the 

 relative strength of the two blasts. Before 

 long I hope to have an opportunity of mak- 

 ing such a test. I have no doubt as to the 

 general result, but I want to know how much 

 per cent, one blast is stronger than the other. 

 Lindsay, Out. Dec. 10, 1892. 



Something About the Markines and Color of 

 the Golden or Five-Banded Italians. 



S. F. TBEGO. 



iRIEND H. : — I noticed your editorial on 

 five-banded bees in last Oct. Review 

 and will say I have had much the same 

 experience in getting five-banded bees ; but 

 I have one queen that gets bees with the 

 first four segments a// yellow andaboutone- 

 half of them have the fifth segment about 

 one-fourth yellow, and once in a while I see 

 a bee with a very narrow stripe on the sixth 

 segment. They are really not banded bees 

 at all, but are all yellow on the first three 

 segments of the abdomen and the rest 

 black. It would be nearer right to call them 

 two-handed, one yellow and one black band. 

 The great trouble with the queens sent 

 out by some is that they do not produce even 

 good three-banded bees. 1 received some 

 queens from the South some months ago 

 that were sent to one of our customers for 

 us and they were actually not good leather 

 colored Italians. The party who sent them 

 booms his cheap queens. 



