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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



I had 19 full colonies (3 blacks, 12 of or- 

 dinary Italians. ) They stand on my register 

 as follows : No. 5, 5 pounds of surplus. No. 

 6, 20 pounds. No. 1 gave one swarm, ine 

 bees in a five-chamber hive, containmg three 

 queens, gave 20 pounds. The rest gave 



^°My''object is to satisfy myself and those 

 who keep but one kind of l^ees. If my Ital- 

 ians fall behind next year, I shall procure 

 stock from another breeder, and give them 

 one more trial. I have no advice to give 

 and no queens to sell." 



Carniolans and Their Crosses. 



In reply to a correspondent in the C.B. J. 

 Mr. Jones has the following to say concern- 

 ing the Carniolans : 



" Pure Carniolans have not the cross dis- 

 position you speak of, neither have they, as 

 far as I can see, the disposition to rob. 1 

 never had pure Carniolans do it, but 1 have 

 had crosses that would rob like everything. 

 It is a very difficult matter to tell a cross be- 

 tween the Carniolans and the black bees ex- 

 cept by those who have given the matter 

 much attention, and I think that hybrids are 

 often mistaken for the pure races. A cross 

 between Carniolans and Italians is much 

 better than between Carniolans and blacks. 

 There is no doubt of what you say that the 

 pure Carniolan is not equal to our best Ital- 

 ians, or what we term Italians m this coun- 

 try, which have a slight tinge occasionally ot 

 Syrian." 



Extracting From Brood Combs. 

 Some one wrote to Mr. G. M. Doolittle as 

 follows: "When I am working for section 

 honey, my bees are prone to store more or 

 less honey in the brood combs. Had I bet- 

 ter extract this honey occasionally ? " Years 

 ago we used to hear about " extracting honey 

 from the brood combs to give the queen 

 room to lay," but I did not suppose that, in 

 this day and age any practical bee keeper 

 would ask such a query as the foregoing. 

 Mr. Doolittle gives an elaborate answer of a 

 column or more, in the .4. B. J., from which 

 these extracts are taken : 



" I have been a careful observer, and find 

 that when bees are at work best in the sec- 

 tions there will be scarcely a pound of honey 

 in the brood frames, providing that the body 

 of the hive is not too large. I mistrust that 

 the trouble with this correspondent is, that 

 his brood chamber is too large, so that the 

 first honey which comes in goes into the 

 brood combs instead of the sections Hut 

 the extracting of this honey would only 

 make matters worse, for it would give the 

 bees a chance to put more honey below, in- 

 stead of going into the sections as we wish. 

 If any one expects to get a large yield ot 

 comb honey and use the extractor on the 

 brood comV)S at the same time, they cer- 

 tainly will not realize their expectations. 



After the bees get thoroughly at work in the 

 sections, let the brood combs alone, and you 

 need have no fear of the queen being crowd- 

 ed for as soon as the bees are thus occupied 

 they will carry the little ho^^y .they may 

 have in tlie brood combs, with a hive of tje 

 proper size, up into the sections, thus giving 

 the nueen abundant room. 



B.^es will always store honey in the brood 

 chamber, in preference to the Bfrt^o??^' ^^e^ 

 there are empty combs or empty cells there 

 and the more extracting of these brood 

 combs the more empty cells we gi^e, unless 

 the queen has the cells occupied with brood, 

 in which case there will be no honey to ex- 

 tract Again I repeat it, if you wish a large 

 yield of section honey, keep Prolific queens 

 and let the brood combs alone, after they 

 are once filled with brood in the spring. 



Doolittle's Shop and Honey Room.-How to 



Keep Honey and Have it Better 



for the Keeping. 



The following is an extract from an excel- 

 lent article written by Mr. G. M. Doolittle, 

 and published in Gleanings in 1888. Mr, 

 Root kindly loaned the cuts illustrating the 



article : 



" I have been asked to give a description 

 of my shop, and also to tell how I keep my 

 honey so as to have it growing better after it 

 is taken from the hive as I have spoken of 

 in back numbers of Gleanings. To do this, 

 friend Root thought it best to have some en- 

 gravings made, so that the description would 

 be better understood. 



DOOLITTLE'S SHOP AND HONEY HOUSE. 



Fig. 1 shows the shop as viewed fro™ *"« 

 southwest side of the apiary- It is 32 feet 

 long iTiW wide ; butif I were.to build again 

 I think I would have the width at least 24 

 feet. In this shop, during the wmter season, 

 I do all of mv work, such as getting out sec- 

 ions? hives, wide frames honey boards, and 

 all that is necessary to be d^ne along thi 

 line, besides doing much work in the line oi 

 getting out bee fixtures for my bee keeping 

 Sei"hbors, and sawing and planing for all 

 who wish it for all ordinary purposes. 



