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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



locality will be compelled to admit the value 

 of the queen excluder in the production of 

 comb honey." 



With an 8-frame hive I have seldom found 

 it advisable to contract the brood nest of an 

 established colony ; but I would contract the 

 brood nest of a newly hived swarm. I would 

 do this to force the white honey into the 

 sections. 



A Dovetailed Protection for the Dovetailed 

 or any Single-Walled Hive. 



Mr. W. A. King has been arguing in 

 Gleanings for an outside, protecting case to 

 be used over single-wall hives in winter. 



In reply to one of his articles, Ernest Root 

 says : — 



" Hundreds of bee-keepers have the eight- 

 frame Dovetailed hive, and they may take a 

 notion to winter outdoors either a half or all 

 of their colonies, because the cellar, if they 

 have one, is too damp, or because some 

 other condition is not right. They have the 

 hives on hand, and desire to winter out- 

 doors. Now, how shall we fix them up? If it 

 is practicable, and sulisequent experiments 

 justify it, we propose i)uttiug on the market a 

 winter case made of >^k lumber, dovetailed at 

 the corners. This case will be % inches 

 deeper and larger all round than the 

 eight- franae Dovetailed hive, and it is to have 

 a tin- roof cover. By dovetailing the corners 

 we find we can make it of much lighter lum- 

 ber, and we are also able at the same time to 

 dispense with corner-posts. Well, this win- 

 ter case, or cap, is to be set directly over the 

 regular eight-frame Dovetailed hive, and is 

 deep enoiigh so that the edges may be push- 

 ed down into the sand or sawdust around 

 the hive. We then virtually have a double- 

 walled hive, with a dead-air space so called. 

 This air-space will be sufficient for moder- 

 ate climates ; but for colder regions, possibly 

 even for the locality of the Home of the Hon- 

 ey-bees, we shall be obliged to use additional 

 packing. To accomplish this, we make a 

 cushion in the form of a ring, just large 

 enough to put around the eight frame Dove- 

 tailed hive, and another cushion on the 

 cover. The case would be then just large 

 enough to slip over the whole snugly, and 

 crowd down into the sand or sawdust, as be- 

 fore mentioned. The expense of the case, 

 when i3ut on the market in lots of 100, would 

 be about .3i"> cents each in the flat. As the 

 chaff, or some absorbent, can be obtained 

 cheaply in most localities , each bee-keeper 

 can make for himself the cushions he would 

 need. Now, please bear in mind that we 

 have tested a similar arrangement only one 

 season, and on a rather limited scale. 



While it was successful last winter, the 

 weather was too warm to prove any thing. 

 This will make the cheapest double-walled 

 arrangement ever before offered in the mar- 

 ket ; and if successful, I do not see any rea- 

 son why it should not supersede all other 

 naore expensive double-walled hives, because 

 it can be so readily adapted to eight-frame 

 hives already in use, that have no porticoes." 



To the above, A. I. Root disagrees in th^ 

 following language. 



" I do not believe that any hive will ever 

 become popular that is made with the inten- 

 tion of removing the packing or winter cover- 

 ing in summer time. After >ou have once 

 protected a hive suitably for wintering, do 

 not think of removing the proteetion in the 

 summer time. The bother, complication, 

 loose pieces, litter, etc., is too much, especi- 

 ally where hives are handled by the hundreds 

 or thousands. Sooner or later, putting on 

 packing will be neglected, and a great many 

 times it will be off at the very time it is 

 needed. Make your protection in the shape 

 of something good and substantial. Have it 

 painted and nice : and if you do this, it will 

 come pretty near a chaff hive made a little 

 smaller, with the view of having only eight 

 instead of ten combs in the brood nest." 



Bro. Root, if you will make your*' good 

 and substantial " protection in such a man- 

 ner that it can be pulled off in summer, 

 about as easily and quickly as a man does 

 his overcoat, there will be but little argu- 

 ment between you and I. 



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OR 



EXCHANGE. 



In the way of a trade, I have come into the 

 possession of a new, Stanley, Automatic, Honey 

 Extractor, that I should be ghid to sell, or would 

 exchange it for honey. It has two baskets that 

 will take combs as large as 12 x 18. Price, $15.00. 

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