THE AUSTRALIAN BEEKEEPERS’ JOURNAL. 
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In the Eastern Annex, among a very large 
and fine exhibit of ironmongery, I was sur- 
prised to find a lot of beekeepers’ apparatus, 
notably extractors, solar wax extractors, un- 
capping tins, honey tanks, and swarm or drone 
traps made of all metal. These were ex- 
hibited by Mr. Simpson, the well-known iron- 
monger of Adelaide, and were as fine speci- 
mens of tinsmiths’ work as one would wish to 
see, which, from subsequent enquiries, I found 
were also very cheap. The extractors were 
both two-frame and four-frame extractors, the 
latter with self-reversing frame-holders. 
I subsequently found a rather large exhibit 
of hives and appliances in the Western Annex 
by Messrs. Dickens and Sons, of Wakefield 
Street, Adelaide. Here were hives of several 
patterns, chiefly of the Langtroth form, as 
adopted in Australia, with variously arranged 
supers, crates, &c. There was also a good 
assortment of capital smokers and other appara- 
tus. Some extractors here are worthy of 
note, which I intend describing when speak- 
ing of Messrs. Dickens’ factory which I visited 
subsequently to my inspection of their very 
attractive exhibit. 
My intention was to visit many of the 
principal apiaries within reach of a day’s 
journey from Adelaide, but after the first week, 
which was chiefly taken up with jurors’ work, 
the weather became so wet and stormy that I 
had to content myself with seeing two or three 
apiaries only in the immediate neighborhood 
of Adelaide, concerning two of these a few 
words may be of interest. 
The form of hive now almost universally 
adopted by South Australian beekeepers is 
the Laugstroth, similar in all essentials to the 
form adopted in this colony, which we have 
styled the Australian Langstroth and described 
in these pages. There have been, however, 
many forms of hives iu use among beekeepers 
in and about Adelaide, but I am informed 
they are now reduced chiefly to two, namely, 
the Langstroth and Dzicrzon, or German hive, 
the former rapidly superseding all but this 
last, which is much in favor with some few bee- 
keepers, and it was to the apiary of one of these 
(Sir. Wiedenhofer) that I paid my first visit. 
This apiary is rituated in one of the suburbs 
to the east of the city iu a locality where bees 
have a grand range over the park lands and 
gardens well covered with eucalypti. It is a 
house apiary, that is, all the hives are placed 
under a shod. This is a long low building 
open in front and partly so at back, closed at 
the ends, and from memory I should reckon 
it about 30 feet long, 10 feet broad (back to 
front) and from 7 to 9 feet high ; it is 
paved with brick throughout. The hives are 
all of the Dzierzon form, some two and 
many three compartments or stories. These 
hives all open at the back, and the frames 
slide into the hive by means of grooves 
cut in the sides into which the project- 
ing ends of the toji bars of the frames tit 
freely ; the frames, therefore, bang crosswise in 
the hive or parallel with front and not parallel 
with the sides as in the Langstroth. In 
putting eight or ten frames into one of these 
hives the first one is pushed in close to the 
front, the second close up to the first, and so 
on, till all the frames required are in, when a 
frame with a glass panel closes in the com- 
partment. As one cannot judge of spacing 
the frames, putting them in in this way, 
spacing nails are driven in each frame so that 
when all are in the whole series can be pushed 
bodily close up to the front without fear of 
crushing any of the bees. In removing the 
frames a special pair of tongs or pincers is 
used to grip the ends of the frames, and if one 
wishes to get any of the front frames all those 
iu rear of them must of course be lifted out 
first, it is this particular fact in connection 
witli the German forms of hives, both the 
Dzierzon and Berlepsch, which has been urged 
as a great objection, and our readers will 
remember a controversial correspondence in 
our pages upon this very point last year. 
For my part, having used both these forms, 
Dzierzon and Berlepsch, I have found no great 
difficulty if one uses the proper appliances and 
mode of working, still, all things considered, 
I prefer the Langstroth. Mr. Wiedenhofer 
showed me his methods of manipulation, and 
when he took his frame-box and tongs, sat 
down comfortably under cover in the rear of a 
hive, and lifted out ten frames one by one, 
placed them in his long special box, found the 
queen and replaced the frames, and not a bee 
disturbed or flying, I must coufess he proved 
the hives could be as easily w T orked as he 
claims. Mr. Fiebig, another Adelaide api- 
culturist, had some stocks in this apiary, 
but the majority he had just moved to 
Kangaroo Island, where he intends carrying 
on the business of queen-rearing on a large 
scale. This Island has been set apart by the 
Government for the breading of pure Italian 
bees, and the introduction of any hut that 
variety of bee is strictly interdicted. As 
there are no native varieties of bees likely to 
interfere with the pure mating of young 
Ligurian Queens, it is very probable Kangaroo 
Island will furnish all Australia with a fine 
strain of Italian or Alpine bee. Some ex- 
periments in this direction made last year by 
Mr. Fiebig were, I was told, highly successful. 
Another apiary I visited was that of 
Mr. A. E. Bonney, the well known apiarist 
and successful queen-breeder of South Aus- 
tralia. His apiary is situated in the suburb 
of Burnside, in a splendid locality, rich in 
desirable varieties of eucaliipti, orange or- 
chards, Ac. At the time of my visit, early in 
September, Mr. Bouncy was already extract- 
ing honey. The number of stocks in this 
apiary is not large, as Mr. Bonney devotes 
himself largely to queen-rearing, iu which he 
adopts the miniature hive and methods of 
Alley, as given in his “ Handy Book.” Mr. 
