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SIZE OF HIVES. 



IMPORTANCE OF HAVING TUEM EXACT. 



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T has been claimed that a queen bee will lay ."5000 eRgs 

 in 21 hours. If this be a fact, then she will require 

 ^^^ (!3,000 cells in which to dejiosit her cgirs. This will 

 keep her occupied for 21 days, wheh the eggs first depos- 

 ited will be hatchiuiT, and she will again have rx)m for 

 continuing her work. We will say that it will require 

 1200 cells to hold the lioney and pollen. This will give us 

 75,000 cells for the wants of the brood chamber. ^Any one 

 can determine for himself as to the shape and size of the 

 frame he desires : whatever the sliape, it will require the 

 number of cells given. A Standard 10 frame Langstroth 

 hive contains about the number of cells given. To find 

 the number of frames required for a hive, set your divi- 

 ders Ig inches, then mark off on the rabbeted end and at 

 ona side across the hive, then back again setting the di- 

 viders at opposite side of hive ; this will give you the 

 spaces for the frames, and the ia inch space between 

 frames. A worker cell is 7-16 inches in dei)th, this on 

 each side makes worker comb 'i thick. Frames should 

 be placed 1' inches from centre to centre, this allows ji 

 space between combs which gives an abundance of room 

 for two rows of bees to pass back to back. 



I have always thought a Standard Langstroth hive was 

 l=i'u inches in length. It's inches in width, and 10 inches 

 in depth, and have always so made mine. I notice you 

 make them longer and wider. The size I use is the 

 measurement given by Mr. Langstroth in his book. 

 Some nine years ago L. hives were made in Burlington, 

 Iowa, by the thousiiid ; I ordered .some for myself and 

 friends, ard when 1 went to use Ihcra. fauiid they were 



only \TA inches in length and about 9K deep. My 

 Standard frames whe!i used in them were tight fU/iiiir 

 on tlu! ends outside which was a terrible annoyance in 

 me. Wliy cainiot wo all have our L. hives made of one 

 size, fo that when we buy bees or sell them or buy hive.i 

 the frames will work in one just as well as another ? 



T. G. McG.vw, Monmouth, 111., Jan. 2i)th, 187(5. 

 To be sure we were riiiht iu rcj^ard to tlic 

 size of a Langstroth hive, for we sent to Mr. 

 L. direct for a frame just right. The frame is 

 now in our possession, and measures 17\x 

 Qig, and the projections for the frame to hang 

 on are ^4 at each end. As it seems generally 

 agreed that '^^{ is the proper space at the ends 

 of the frames, a Langstroth hive sliould meas- 

 ure exactly 18?^, between front and bacJ< as 

 we have directed many times before. The 

 width of the hive is less essential, but as near- 

 ly all the hives for 10 frames that we could 

 And, measured 14 '4 inches, and as we find it to 

 work about right in practice, we have taken 

 that dimension. Hives are usually made of 

 planed inch lumber, and as this averages about 

 Jg, we have left a guage with our planing mill 

 men, and we insist that every lot of lumber 

 shall me made exactly J^. This would bring 

 the outside of the hive, SO/g long, by 14 wide. 

 Now to be sure that none of the frames are 

 ever pinched, we will add }g more to the 

 length, and therefore we hive made the iron 

 frames for guages of the outside of the hive, 

 just iwcntii and one fourth long^ by fourteen 

 inches wide. 



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t,ITTL,E '"SITN BEAM." 



BEAR NOVICE :— You have the picture of my littlo 

 ) "Blue eyes" in the "Medley of Bee-Kecpers," 



' perched above the head of Mrs. Langstroth. She 



often says, "I should think that lady would get tired of 

 holding mo on her head." You call her in the Medley "An- 

 other Blue Eyes" now we call her here at home "lattlc- 

 Sun Beam" because she sheds light, happiness and good 

 cheer, wherever she goes ; so even the neighbors are get - 

 ting so they call her '-Little Sun Beam." Well, I thought 

 I would make you a Christmas jiresent to-day, and send 

 you another picture of our "Little Sun Beam" and let you 

 see how much she has improved since April 1875. She is 

 still my little bee-keeper, and you have no idea how much 

 she helps me ; when I am opening hives she keeps run for 

 screw driver, or the turkey winas and smoker, and if 1 

 wonder where that Ijig pen knife or screw driver is, she 

 says "I know pa, you left it down where you opened that 

 last hive. I'll run and get it." When extracting she 

 will carry the empty frames back to me and run errands, 

 and make herself generally useful when a swarm comes 

 olT. Master Willie, 13 years old, is afraid to eo-ne near 

 for fear of stings ; but "Little Bun Beam" scarcely ever 

 gets stung, and if she does, she never quails nor gives up 

 but comes back again. I have seen her stung five or six 

 i times at once, and what is strange it scarcely ever swells 

 the least bit, neither does it make her timid. I wonder 

 at it sometimes. 



One Sunday 1 was walking among the hives and a 

 drone with his big hum frightened her so I caught him 

 and showed her that the drones were big fellows that 

 would not sting, then I caught a dozen or so and put 

 them in her bosom, and told her to go in and tell mothei- 

 there were some bees in her neck ; of course there was 

 some senimbling and striking and brushing for a minute 

 until mother said that it wis one of "fathers tricks." I 

 told her the drones were great fat fellow that did not 

 gather any honey, but were always eating. So I killed a 



