. Gleanings in bee culture . the length. Among other experiments,Mr. Shoemaker bought twenty standardten-frame American hives with shallow-frame extracting-supers. He says that, sofar as he can see, bees do as well in theAmerican hive as in any other; but he rais-ed two objections to them. First, duty,freight, and all, they cost too much; second,the bees glue them up so badly with propo-lis that they are harder to work. However,I could not see that they gathered morepropolis than they do in New Mexico; andI think that, if he had been well versed onthe use of the standard American hive inhis lo
. Gleanings in bee culture . the length. Among other experiments,Mr. Shoemaker bought twenty standardten-frame American hives with shallow-frame extracting-supers. He says that, sofar as he can see, bees do as well in theAmerican hive as in any other; but he rais-ed two objections to them. First, duty,freight, and all, they cost too much; second,the bees glue them up so badly with propo-lis that they are harder to work. However,I could not see that they gathered morepropolis than they do in New Mexico; andI think that, if he had been well versed onthe use of the standard American hive inhis locality of Mexico he would have foundit ahead of the Ludlofif type to which hehas gone back. During the swarmingseason Mr. Shoemakerkeeps two men to hiveswarms. This is usuallyduring June, and thebees swarm fast and fu-riously then. He claimsthat he could make alot more honey if hecould control?swarming,for some of the strongcolonies that do notswarm produce as muchasJ285 lbs., while his av- 1911 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 143. Fig. VII.—One of the transitional hives which Mr, LudlofI made and used between the first he madeand the perfected Simplex hive he is now putting out. erage is about 35 lbs. Right there is thepoint where I think he would do much bet-ter with the American hive if he had everhad experience with it and would use foun-dation; for since he does not produce combhoney he ought to be able to control swarm-ing with his ten-frame American hives. At Cuerna Vaca the bees store a littlehoney in March; but the main flow comesin October and November. Mr. Shoemakerthinks that the honey is made mostly fromfruit-bloom, and colored a bright amberfrom a small yellow weed which comes upthick in the stubble. He was kind enoughto let me taste the honey, and to give me asmall sample to bring home. The honeywas excellent, and should create a demand;but one of the strangefacts that I learnedfrom him was that fromthis one apiary he sup-plied the city, and allthe towns up the oldMex
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