THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 5 



was putting on the cases and lifting oil the honey, as she sells the 

 boxes and starters with the honey that weigh eight pounds to the 

 hundred. That will pay for putting in the new boxes and starters. 

 These bees are in the house attic and in an old granary of her father's, 

 in single-walled hives, and I wish to say that i believe double-walled 

 hives are the worst delusion that has ever got hold of the bee 

 fraternity, for they rely upon some kind of packing to bring their 

 bees through. To leave them out in a snowdrift, exposed to all the 

 storms that blow, is equally as bad as putting them down cellar for 

 four or five months among the dead and the dying with no chance 

 for a flight until spring. Bees should be put in buildings above 

 ground where they do not have to be disturbed fall and spring; so 

 arranged that the bee-keeper can see to them any day in the year, 

 and where the bees can have a flight whenever the weather is suitable, 

 and where the bees will, in this big hive with lots of stores, com- 

 mence brood-rearing very early and be ready for the honey harvest 

 when it comes. 



You will please notice, then, that all that goes to bring the results 

 that we get from this method is doubling the size of the hive and 

 placing these hives in buildings where they can be amph^ protected. 

 This makes all the other things possible which we will tell you about 

 later. There are from one to two hundred of these outfits in and 

 around Grand Rapids, Mich. They have produced from one to two 

 hundred pounds of comb honey this dry year per colony. There has 

 been no swarming, except in one instance where not enough svirplus 

 was put on, so if we can produce unlimited comb honey and not have 

 the bees swarm till we wish to double them at the end of the honey 

 flow, it opens to the bee-keepers great possibilities, and if m"c can pro- 

 duce comb honey instead of extracted it will go far to eliminate foul 

 brood. 



If the bees do not swarm out at haying time as formerly, the 

 farmers should produce all their own sweets. It is all about them. 

 They can go up into the attic or out into a building especially ar- 

 ranged for the bees about the first of November, when the bees have 

 all clustered down in this tall hive out of the surplus honey, thus 

 enabling them to lift oft" their honey supply without seeing or hearing 

 a bee. This should be very attractive to them and will bring them 

 a larger margin for the labor expended than anything else on the 

 farm. Now, in conclusion, this introductory will get us better 

 acquainted and has told you how big a hive I use to get largest results. 



I, therefore, think that in my next article I cannot do better than 

 to tell you all I can about buildings for bees and how to best arrange 

 the bees in them for best results, both for the man who only wishes 

 to keep a few colonies and also a building for large apiaries. For our 

 bees should be housed as much as our horses, hens or cattle, and they 

 will pay larger dividends for less labor. 



