. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 262 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. April 6, 1905. brood in the middle of it as large as my band, or say about 25 square iDches, then all is well. So you see, Dr. Miller, that even though brood-rearing may have ceased in the yard in the reguar colonies, that it must not have ceased in the little hive in the window, and it was this fact that led me to write what I did on page 126. I naturally did not stop to think that the " late summer " carried a different meaning to others than it did to myself. Bees here have wintered excellently, and the sprin
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 262 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. April 6, 1905. brood in the middle of it as large as my band, or say about 25 square iDches, then all is well. So you see, Dr. Miller, that even though brood-rearing may have ceased in the yard in the reguar colonies, that it must not have ceased in the little hive in the window, and it was this fact that led me to write what I did on page 126. I naturally did not stop to think that the " late summer " carried a different meaning to others than it did to myself. Bees here have wintered excellently, and the spring seems to be opening up earlier than it did last year. Almost every day I see bees out after water. Allen Latham. New London Co., Conn., March 13. Some Notes and Comments—Bee-Hives BY F. GREINER. SOME bee-hives are so constructed that it seems neces- sary to give them frequent " goings-over "—removing propolis, burr-combs, and the like, in order that the combs may be handled easily. I have kept bees in frame hives for 30 years, and have not found it necessary to clean any of the frames or hives when there were bees in them. I use hives with wood rabbet and frames made of one-inch- ?wide material. There is not a frame in my 200 occupied hives but can be taken out with comparative ease, and nearly all my frames are of the loose-hanging kind. When for some reason a hive-body is empty—as it often happens when we " shake " bees—why, then, if it seems necessary, we scrape the inside and the rabbets, but it is not generally necessary. On the tops of my frames some burr-combs accumulate; these are sometimes removed with a simple little tool which answers nicely as a hive-opener. It is made on the putty- knife order, only much stouter. I made it from a piece of a broken spring. One end is drawn out to not quite knife- edge and is about 1% inches wide ; the other is left the size of the steel, about l}i inches wide, and has the corners nicely rounded. It suit
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