Gleanings in bee culture . great distance bees have to tlyto find something. My crop amounts t)from one to three gallons a year from eachhive. I have kept bees since 1886. Theeight-frame Dovetailed hives are over 20years old, and it seems they will last anoth-er 20 years. It was owing to a lack of room on a smallcity lot that I had to place the bees on aroof. If there were any other way I wouldnot advise anybody to do so, because it isvery hard to go up or down the ladder orstairs with large supers, bringing new col-onies up, etc. On the other hand, they areout of the way, and would not sting
Gleanings in bee culture . great distance bees have to tlyto find something. My crop amounts t)from one to three gallons a year from eachhive. I have kept bees since 1886. Theeight-frame Dovetailed hives are over 20years old, and it seems they will last anoth-er 20 years. It was owing to a lack of room on a smallcity lot that I had to place the bees on aroof. If there were any other way I wouldnot advise anybody to do so, because it isvery hard to go up or down the ladder orstairs with large supers, bringing new col-onies up, etc. On the other hand, they areout of the way, and would not sting any-body. I formerly kept bees on the outskirtsof the city, but it is troublesome to be awayfrom the bees in swarming season, so I hadto give it up. Clipping the queens wings Ithink is not advisable on a tin roof, becausein the summer time the queen is likely to behurt if she crawls out on the hot tin. Mywife catches all the swarms because I amnot home in daytime. I keep down increaseby uniting the weaker ones in fall. The. KEEPING BEES ON A TIN ROOF IN THE CITY OF BROOKLYN. 1907 GLEANINGS IN GEE CULTURE. 1441 honey harvest is small where the bees haveto liy from three to five miles to cemeteriesor parks, and gardens are scarce in largecities because ground is too , N. Y. THE ASPINWALL N0NSWAR3IINGHIVE. A Second Years Test at the Vernon BurtYard; what One of the Most ExtensiveBee-keepers in the United States Thinksof the Hive. BY E. R. ROOT. By referring to page 399 of our issue forMarch 15, this year, one will see several il-lustrations showing the Aspinwall hive afterone season of test; but, unfortunately, thephoto at that time failed to show the vitalfeature of the hive—namely, the slatted di-vider that is inserted between each pair offrames and sach row of sections. Mr. Burthas given the hive another severe test foranother year; and while the colony wasbooming at its height we took some morephotographs showing its external and inter-nal construction. Thes
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