THE BEE-KHHI'HRS' REX lEW. 



139 



St roth frame by putting them in length- 

 wise, which leaves room for wedging at 

 tlie ends. 



A NICE WAV TO START IN THE USE OF 

 SMALL FRAMES AND SMALL NUCLEI. 



Split I yi inch sections in the middle, 

 lengthwise, fold and tack with ^'^ nails at 

 tlie corners, fill with worker comb, put six 

 in a frame, and put six such frames in a 

 strong colony in an eight-frame hive, the 

 other two frames being full of honey, 

 one on eacli side, feed, and in three 



weeks you will have enough sections of 

 hatching brood to stock 20 or 30 nuclei. 



I winter a few colonies on these frames 

 hy uniting in the fall and feeding for 

 winter. 



Queens mated in these small sectional 

 nuclei will be ready for shipment after 

 laying 24 hours, and will stand shipment 

 well. 



If I desire to keep a queen a month or 

 so I slip a zinc over the entrance. 



Meckling, So. Dak , Mar. 31, 1902, 



SUGGESTIONS AND CRITICISMS 



BY T. K. MASSIE 



Chaff Hives; Thin Top Bars; Slanting Bottom Boards; 

 Telescopic Covers; Cli pping Queens 



The best critics are they wlio, with what they gainsaj', offer another and better waj'." 



chaff hive is alread}' in use. Chaflf hives 



©X page 372 you ask us, when renew- 

 ing, to criticise the Review, to tell 

 which department we like best, which 

 correspondent is our favorite, and why, 

 etc P'or my part, I receive so many 

 good things from the different depart- 

 ments of the Review that it would be 

 a difTicult matter for me to tell from which 

 dep.trtment I get the most information. 

 F. B. Simpson, Arthur C. Miller and P. 

 Greiner are my favorite correspondents, 

 because they treat the subjects of bee- 

 keeping in a scientific and practical man- 

 ner. Scientific and practical men are an 

 absolute necessity to bee-keeping, but a 

 dogmatic theorist gets no consideration 

 from me. 



CHAFF HIVES TOO CUMHERSO.ME. 



On some things the Review is behind 

 the times. In Vol. 14. page 13, speaking 

 of chaff hives, you say they are "necessary 

 in Michigan, as the cool nights drive the 

 bees from the supers when the walls are a 

 single thickness of thin lumber." You 

 seem not to be aware of the fact that a 

 better arrangement than the cumbersome 



are too costly and cumbersome to handle. 



INTRODUCING QUEENS. 



On the subject of introducing queens 

 the Review seeius to be in doubt about a 

 "sure plan." (See page 15, and others 

 throughout the entire vol ) Now there 

 only two conditions under which queens 

 can be 5rt/^/jl' introduced, the normal, or 

 quiet, and abnormal, or excited, condi- 

 tion. Under the former condition b^^ my 

 plan, I will guarantee the safe introduc- 

 tion of every queen. (Tell us about it. — 

 Ed.) 



deep top hars not necessary to pre- 

 vent the building of brace 



COMBS. 



On the subject of wide versus deep top 

 bars to jjrevent brace combs you seem to 

 doubt S. T. Pettit's theory, and say: 

 "The experience leads him to believe that 

 deep as well as wide top bars are neces- 

 sary to prevent brace combs." My ex- 

 perience is the same as Mr. Pettit's. I 

 am now experimenting with 200 frames 



