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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



The greatest trouble rests with the 

 bee-keeper; he clings entirely too much 

 to second hand packages, just because 

 he can buy them a little cheaper, 

 whereas, if he were to ship his product 

 in good packages, the freight rates 

 would be comparatively less, and in 

 the end, his cost for shipping would be 

 a great deal less than at the present 



time, and there would be no trouble 

 with the R. R. companies, nor any un- 

 satisfactory transactions. 



Therefore, friends, we must ask you 

 to help, each and every one, if you 

 want us to obtain lower freight rates 

 for you. 



Cincinnati, Ohio, Jan. 8, 1907. 



E. D. TOWNSEND. 



mHERE are big hives, and little 

 T hives, and— hives. In these hive- 

 talks I think I better admit at the start 

 I do not know which is the best hive; 

 but I have come to the conclusion that, 

 in this location, with my system of 

 management, for the production of ex- 

 tracted honey, in out-yards, there is 

 no better-sized hive than the 10-frame 

 Langstroth. You will notice I do not 

 say that the 10-frame Langstroth is 

 the best hive. While I use the 10-frame 

 hive in all the extracted honey yards, 

 I realize that size is of more impor- 

 tance than the shape in a hive for ex- 

 tracted honey purposes. 



SIZE OF HIVES OF MORE IMPORTANCE 



THAN SHAPE AND NUMBER OF 



COMBS. 



To illustrate : For years I have used 

 about fifty, 13-frame, Gallup hives. 

 They are about the same size as the 

 10-frame Langstroth hive, and I never 

 could see much, if any, difference in 

 results between them at extracting 

 time. Then, for several years, in con- 

 nection with other styles and sizes, 

 were 25 eight-frame Quinby hives; and 

 these three styles, almost always 

 showed up best at extracting time. 



The reader will bear in mind that 

 these results were obtained with our 

 let-alone-system, where all the colonies 

 at the close of the season, with less 

 than 25-pounds of winter stores were 

 fed sugar syrup enough so that they 

 went into winter-quarters with from 

 25 to 30 pounds of winter-stores; or, 

 enough to last them until the main 

 honey flow in June. 



Then, there were from tvveuty-five 

 to fifty ten-frame Quinby hives — 

 monster hives, with 1,800 square inches 

 of comb surface, and these large hives 

 were always laggards with us. Our 

 8- and 10-frame Langstroth colonies 

 would quite often have an upper story 

 of surplus gathered before these large- 

 hive-colonies were built up, and had 

 their hives full and were ready for 

 their first super. This was a serious 

 condition here, where our main de- 

 pendence is an early clover and wild 

 red raspberry flow. At this time our 

 season would be one-third or one-half 

 over, before these large Ouinbys were 

 read3' to store in their supers; so the 

 Quinby had to go. 



To be sure, they built up into monster 

 colonies, and, were our season a couple 

 of weeks later, the results might have 



