4 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



I cut holes into these outside hives from the middle one, so the bees 

 could go through. Then T let the bees tly out doors from the middle 

 hive, and I put my surplus cases on the middle hive. The bees soon 

 began to fill these cases, but to my surprise and regret, I could not 

 get the bees to go into these side hives. This, I said, was of no use 

 and I took away these side hives and shut up the openings and put 

 one of them on top of the middle hive and put my surplus cases on 

 top of all. Very soon the queen began to fill this body with brood 

 instead of swarming out, and I soon had seventy-five pounds of nice 

 comb honey in the cases and w^as delighted. I then saw that I had 

 been making a mistake in making my hive broad instead of high to 

 enlarge it. Our bee-keepers think, many of them, that they 

 should have a larger hive than the eight frame, and add ten, twelve 

 or even fourteen frames in width instead of putting two of the eight- 

 frame hives — one above the other, as I did twenty years ago, making 

 a tall hive more like a hollow tree — the natural home of the bee. 



This hive that is about a quarter larger than the large hive that 

 the Dadants use is about the right capacity for a queen to deposit all 

 the eggs she wishes for the colony, so there will be no swarming if 

 sufficient surplus cases are put on in time so the honey may be car- 

 ried above, so as to leave adequate space for the queen. Then again 

 it is about the right size and form to enable the bees to store an ample 

 supply to carry them through any Winter and Spring without danger 

 of starvation. Now, after twenty years use, I do not see any need 

 of changing to anything different, as it makes possible so many things, 

 which I will speak of later. This, however, is the hive I use and 

 recommend, as it is heavy enough to lift these bodies separately when 

 they are filled. 



Last summer, when I took off one hundred pounds of as fine 

 comb honey as you would wish to see, from this outfit where it had 

 been for twenty years, and only making two visits yearly — the one 

 to put on the honey cases and the other to take oft' the honey — I 

 thought that was as nearly automatic as we could get things in this 

 world. When I realized what an enormous amount of honey is going 

 to waste in this country every year, which takes no fertility from the 

 soil, and could be so easily gathered up, I resolved to do all I could 

 to make this method of handling bees known. 



I put up an outfit for a teacher in the High School, two years 

 ago. The school is right across the street from the outfit I put up 

 twenty years ago. She got over one hundred and fifty pounds from 

 it this year while away on her vacation. Last fall the Bissells went 

 to Europe for a year, and their man put on cases for one hundred 

 pounds before they went away, as the house was to be shut up, and 

 those were filled when they returned. 



A Miss Rogers, just outside of the city, has three hives. She re- 

 ceived $74.00 worth, wholesale, from them. She says all it cost her 



