. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 1907.] THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. RELEGATE THE BOX-HIVES. BURTON N. GATES. 271 A RELIC of our forefathers' days, like the treasured "blue dishes" on the side-board or the pewter plates and mugs which adorn the din- ing room, has come down to us in the bee yard. Our grandfathers, and in fact, most of our fathers knew of nothing better to hive bees in than what we now designate as the old- fashioned or box-hive. To be sure, it was a great improvement upon keep- ing bees in straw skeps, or in logs, or "gums," as they were called; bu
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 1907.] THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. RELEGATE THE BOX-HIVES. BURTON N. GATES. 271 A RELIC of our forefathers' days, like the treasured "blue dishes" on the side-board or the pewter plates and mugs which adorn the din- ing room, has come down to us in the bee yard. Our grandfathers, and in fact, most of our fathers knew of nothing better to hive bees in than what we now designate as the old- fashioned or box-hive. To be sure, it was a great improvement upon keep- ing bees in straw skeps, or in logs, or "gums," as they were called; but since we now have a convenience in the frame-hive, which is as superior I was recently asked to prepare a paper for the Miassachusetts Board of Agriculture, which would tend to pro- mote the apiculture of that section of the country. In considering my subject in "Bee-Keeping—Some Sug- gestions for Its Advancement in Massachusetts" (Burton N. Gates, Bulletin, Massachusetts Crop Re- port. August, i'907, pp. 26-36), I decided that there are two funda- mental forces impeding progress in apiculture. One force, which is at work unbeknown to most bee-keepers, and which is wiping out hundreds. HOME APIARY OF JOHN M. DAVIS, SPRING HILL, TENNESSEE. (See Page 270.) to the box-hive as china dishes are of colonies annually in north-eastern to pewter or wooden plates and cups, United States alone, is disease. I why in the world do we not place know you don't like to think of such the old box-hives (a veritable nuisance a pessimistic thing, and what is more, and menace to progress) on the shelf with the other relics and an- tiques of our forefathers' day? Like most antiques, as is known to the collector, the box hives are num- it is not my purpose or privilege to speak of it here. The other force is the box-hive. Many a time, in talking with the nrogressive bee-keepers in Massachu- erous in relation to the early date setts, which may be considered typical of the settlement of th
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