THE BLE-KEEPERS' RE\'IEW 47 



would put in one or more small windows above the hives, always 

 cutting your glass one-half inch short at the bottom or top so that if 

 any bees do get out when you are working with them, you will not he 

 annoyed in thinking they will die on the windows. This i> important 

 and should not be neglected, and any windows that you do not cover 

 should always have this small opening at the top or bottom or both. 

 Remember, this work you are doing is for a lifetime and for your chil- 

 dren after you, and should be done well. So just read this and stand 

 around and look at it till you get everything right. Remember that 

 bees in a single hive will swarm out or starve in an attic nearly as 

 easily as out on the ground, so always and for many reasons use one 

 hive placed over another. Any make of a hive will do to start with 

 if you have plenty of honey cases on hand. But we always advise the 

 best dovetailed hive, 8-frame. Two of these are in every way about 

 right for a home for the bees. 



(To be continued. ) 



Management of Three Thousand Colonies Bees in 



Fifty Yards 



By J. J. WILDER, Cordelia, Ga. 



^^*2V ' ^'^^ close of the season, when 1 had about 2-")() colonies, there 

 ^^1^^ was a good little bank account to the credit of the bees and 

 I did not draw on it much for more supplies for the next 

 season, as I wanted to use it two seasons hence, when I would be 

 giving the bees my entire attention and would be spreading more 

 rapid. But 100 one-story hives were fixed up for the approaching 

 season's increase during the winter and 200 full-depth bodies for 

 storing room and the bees to be run mostly for extracted honev. This 

 was done to have a lot of ready-built combs to be used for the next 

 season's increase. 



Working as I was at the sash and door factory, T picked out the 

 most suitable lumber I could for making the bodies and also for the 

 lOo one-story hives, and also for covers and bottoms, and cut it out 

 and worked it up by hand and nailed it up well, buying only the frames 

 from the factory, which I wired and used full-sheet foundation. This 

 was done at night and at odd times during the winter, before the next 

 season, but a girl was hired to fix up most of the frames, as I could 

 not do all the work. I made a little mistake here. I should not have 

 used yellow pine lumber for this purpose, e\en if I did use great care 

 in selecting it, for in the first place it was too heavy and then it warped 

 and twisted badly and most of it had to be culled out during the next 

 few seasons. At that time there was no more suitable lumber avail- 

 able, so far as I knew. I could have bought regular dovetail bodies, 

 but T never made more out of such lumber for my bee business in 



