THE PROTECTIVE BEE-HIVE. 39 
MEMORANDA. 
The object of this schedule or memorandum, which is found upon the 
inner side of the door, is two-fold. 1. To induce the negligent or care- 
less Bee-keeper to be more exact, and, as a consequence, to be more 
successful in the management of his Bees. 2. To aid the scientific 
Bee-keeper, who may be disposed to register various items, in keeping 
a connected record or history of his Bees, to which he may at any 
time refer to ascertain the results of their labors. Jiis of the first im- 
portance to every Bee-keeper that he should know at the approach of 
winter, or when the labors of the summer are over, what amount of 
stock or winter stores his Bees may have on hand, a thing which he can- 
not know with any degree of certainty without something which 
_approaches to a systematic arrangement or procedure. He must know 
in the first place what his hive weighs, and then what his Bees weigh, and 
_then make an allowance of about two pounds for the weight of the wax 
or comb before he can arrive at this knowledge; and yet the possession 
or non-possession of it is to decide, in very many instances, the point of 
life or death in reference to his Bees. If it is ascertained in autumn, 
that his Bees are not sufficiently furnished with winter stores, the de- 
ficiency may be supplied. ‘The requisite amount of cheap honey may 
be placed in the chamber of the hive while the weather is sufficiently 
warm to insure its transfer to the main body of the hive, a thing which 
cannot be done in severe cold weather. When Bees have failed to 
survive the winter for the want of attention to this particular, the whole 
has been resolved into “luck,” “bad luck,” when in fact there has 
been guilt at the door of the Bee-keeper. A Bee-keeper without 
system, and without something like a connected record, which is con- 
templated in the above schedule, is substantially in the condition of the 
shop-keeper, who, without a day book or leger, depends upon the 
fidelity of His memory in all his business transactions. The shop- 
keeper loses a dollar here and a dollar there, and the Bee-keeper loses 
five dollars here and five dollars there, because his Bees were not sup- 
plied with winter stores. Lvery Bee-keeper who can be induced to 
adopt a systematic arrangement in the management of his Bees, will 
find himself amply compensated for his trouble. | 
