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season from fifty working hives), and for one who has 

 oiten no time to attend to his bees when they require it. 

 They swarmed six times last year, five of which swarms 

 he lost, having been obliged to be from home on more 

 important duties than bee-keeping. I have noticed that 

 this apiary has yearly for these last seven seasons, turned 

 out very nearly a ton of honey, and can come to no con- 

 clusion but that the Langstroth frame has a great deal to 

 say for such high results. The Canon writes in reply to a 

 query of mine — " with regard to the Langstroth frame, it 

 certainly gives greater scope to the working powers of our 

 stocks, which would be cramped in small standard frames, 

 especially if used in my locality." 



This is a remarkable report, and one not equalled by 

 any user of the Association Standard frame. It is a little 

 strange however that after mentioning the size of the 

 frame (16 x 10) both the Canon and his interviewer have 

 fallen into the same error of describing it as the Langstroth 

 frame. Certainly it is of nearly the same capacity as 

 the latter, which however is 17I long by g\ deep, and not 

 so readily manipulated as my 16 x 10 " Commercial 

 frame," the latter being of the same size as that which the 

 late C. N. Abbott endeavoured to have recognized as the 

 British standard. 



The moral then is that large frames require less atten- 

 tion and are productive of permanent and larger profits ! 

 But whik a small frame would never allow of such slight 

 attention, had more care been given to the larger frames, 

 some fifty per cent, more honey would have been secured. 



During a Steady Flow of Honey 



the bee-keeper may be troubled with numerous swarms, 

 and unless he is on the alert, all his arrangements will be 

 sadly discounted. Where he can secure powerful colonies 



