. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Nov. 16. 190S THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 791. ^ (£ontrtbiiteb -f Special drticles =\ J' Methods of Bee-Management in Idaho BY K. F. ATWATER MK. tiETAZ, in his mention of my methods and system on page 727, has inferred a little more (from an article in the Review) than the facts, and two more years of ex- perience have somewhat changed my practice. About half of our bees are now run for comb honey. We continue to winter them in open sheds facing south, or else pile them up in a long row, and protect the rear and top with tar-paper. In this section (Boise
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Nov. 16. 190S THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 791. ^ (£ontrtbiiteb -f Special drticles =\ J' Methods of Bee-Management in Idaho BY K. F. ATWATER MK. tiETAZ, in his mention of my methods and system on page 727, has inferred a little more (from an article in the Review) than the facts, and two more years of ex- perience have somewhat changed my practice. About half of our bees are now run for comb honey. We continue to winter them in open sheds facing south, or else pile them up in a long row, and protect the rear and top with tar-paper. In this section (Boise Valley) high winds are rare, and for low average wind velocity there are few places to compare with it. One bee-yard is wintered on the summer stands, as they are in a very sheltered locatioL. For comb honey we use the 8-frame standard hive, some- times 1^4 or 2 stories high, but mostly 1 story at all times. For extracted honey we have mostly 10-frame Langstroth hives, but the bee? are often wintered in 114 stories, and what strong colonies they contain in the spring ! There are serious objections to the use of a very largo frame (Dadant), but if the use of the 10-frame Draper barns could be relied on to control swarming, I would use them. A friend has 80 colonies in 13-frame Dadant hives, but they will swarm at times. I have 2000 plain, shallow extracting frames hanging on nails, but they have not come up to my expectations. My helpers always despise them. For comb-honey hives we use Hoffman frames almost en- tirely, and if I were to begin again, I think the Hoffman frame would be best, even for extracting, though I don't know how well they would work in 10-frame hives, where there is no room for the division-board. For the past two seasons, I am sorry to say that an abundance of empty comb has not prevented swarming as well as it should. Also, with Langstroth combs in the brood- chamber and shallow combs above full of worker-comb, the need of a queen-excluder is greatly les
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