. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 574 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Sept. 3, 1903. quality of their work'in the supers. They enter the sections readily, cap their combs as white as the snowy range, and use little prop- olis. The quality of the work of our Carno-1 tal- ians is distinctly superior to that of the vari- ous etrains of Italians in the same yard, while the quantity of honey they have stored is fully equal to the best Italian colonies. A. I. Root on Depth of Frames. The senior editor of the iGleanings in Bee- Culture, asked his opinion with regard to the advantage of shallow fra
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 574 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Sept. 3, 1903. quality of their work'in the supers. They enter the sections readily, cap their combs as white as the snowy range, and use little prop- olis. The quality of the work of our Carno-1 tal- ians is distinctly superior to that of the vari- ous etrains of Italians in the same yard, while the quantity of honey they have stored is fully equal to the best Italian colonies. A. I. Root on Depth of Frames. The senior editor of the iGleanings in Bee- Culture, asked his opinion with regard to the advantage of shallow frames over those most commonly in use, thus expresses himself: " Friend H., if you want my personal opin- ion in regard to the matter, I would say, stick to the Langstroth .frame. Since I began bee-keeping, every little while somebody gives his reason for thinking the Langstroth frame is not the best shape or size, and more or less follow him; but in due course of time the new kind is dropped, and we get back to the standard Langstroth. There are not only more bees in the world on this size of frames than all other sizes together, but I am not sure but there are ten limes as many. Per- haps I am not posted, and up to the times; but I very much doubt whether there is ad- vantage enough in a shallower frame to pay to use another than the Langstroth. The Future of Bee-Keeping. This is viewed very hopefully by Mr. G. C. Creelman, Superintendent of Farmers' Insti- tutes for the province of Ontario. In the course of an address before the Ontario Bee- Keepers' Association, reported in the Cana- dian Bee Journal, he said : '' We are getting inquiries every day about bees; people want to branch out, and we find the younger people are growing up and ask- ing for information concerning the common things that are about them. I don't know anything amongst Nature's studies better than to give a child a hive of bees; if the parents, if the older brothers, those of you who are here, could t
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