. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 94 TBE BEtJ-KEEPERS' HE VIEW. are out, and I will go out in the country in the morning with escapes, put them under extracting chambers before noon, and load the same chambers on the wagon and bring them home in the evening with but few bees —perhaps some of the tender ones—in them. Now who will give us such an escape for this year's use ? IHiCJ will show many im- provements in appliances. Shall not the es- cape be one of them ? LOVELAND, Colo. March 7, 1«> Some Phases of California Bee-Keeping.— Rise and Fall of a Bee - Hive.—The Present Opportuni
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 94 TBE BEtJ-KEEPERS' HE VIEW. are out, and I will go out in the country in the morning with escapes, put them under extracting chambers before noon, and load the same chambers on the wagon and bring them home in the evening with but few bees —perhaps some of the tender ones—in them. Now who will give us such an escape for this year's use ? IHiCJ will show many im- provements in appliances. Shall not the es- cape be one of them ? LOVELAND, Colo. March 7, 1«> Some Phases of California Bee-Keeping.— Rise and Fall of a Bee - Hive.—The Present Opportunity for Califor- nia Bee - Keepers. "; ^H£ ques- i/ tion of a standard hive and a standard frame has in the past had no end of agi- tation in the East and has at length been dropped; if not as a dead issue at least as a hopeless attainment. How- ever, on this side of the continent, I find the old subject coming up occasionally ; and perhaps California is in better shape to-day to secure this desideratum than any other portion of the country. Although, at pres- ent, this State is getting a diversity of sizes, there has been a time when bee-keepers had the pleasure of handling bees in a standard hive, for, from Oregon to Mexico, the Har- Ijison hive knew no rival. When Mr. Harbi- son came to California in 1857 with bees, he had previously had a brief acquaintance with the newly invented Langstroth hive. The acquaintance seems to have been too l)rief, for it led him to seek an improvement and the result was the hive that bears his name and which has been little known out- side of California. The California section box was also invented about the same time and comb honey was the exclusive product. The invention and introduction of the honey extractor, however, marked a new era in honey i)roduction, and the new commer- cial product found favor, and (jreat favor, among producers in this State. It was then discovered that the rejected, loose-frame Langstroth
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