Gleanings in bee culture . two feeds, and ripen the food aswell. One member, Mr. John Clarke, statedhe had fed a colony in this way in the depthof winter, and with success. LARGE OR SMALL HIVES. A discussion on large hives created a smilewhen the writer asked Mr. Edmanson to givehis experience with a small hive and thetwelve-frame Langstroth hive. Mr. Edman-son said he had the Richardson hive (capaci-ty between eight and nine fiame Langstrothhive), and his son, Gladstone, had in thesame apiary a dozen of the twelve-frameLangstroth-Holtermann hives The flow hadbeen very poor, but the latter hiv
Gleanings in bee culture . two feeds, and ripen the food aswell. One member, Mr. John Clarke, statedhe had fed a colony in this way in the depthof winter, and with success. LARGE OR SMALL HIVES. A discussion on large hives created a smilewhen the writer asked Mr. Edmanson to givehis experience with a small hive and thetwelve-frame Langstroth hive. Mr. Edman-son said he had the Richardson hive (capaci-ty between eight and nine fiame Langstrothhive), and his son, Gladstone, had in thesame apiary a dozen of the twelve-frameLangstroth-Holtermann hives The flow hadbeen very poor, but the latter hives had aver- 22 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. Jan. 1 aged more than the former by twenty totwenty-five lbs. per colony. Another mem-ber stated that the buckwheat honey-flowhad really not been as good as last year, butit had been remarked by the small-hive menthat, owing to less swarming, and, therefore,less broken-up stocks, they had secured morethan the usual amount of buckwheat was admittedly an eye-opener to NERVOUS SYSTEM OF BEES. In our last article was given an account ofthe muscles of insects where the close simi-larity between those of insects and higher an-imals was pointed out. It was shown that,in a general way, there was very little differ-ence, though the interesting fact was statedthat, in insects, the muscles are very muchstronger and more quick to act. They seemto show a perfection which is found in noother group of the animal kingdom. As wasstated in the last article, sensation and vol-untary motion are the exclusive function ofanimals; and where animals show a superi-ority in these functions we regard them high-er in the scale of life. Of course, muscularaction and voluntary motion are in close ac-cord, and thus, in one sense, insects (and, ofcourse, our bees, which stand at the head ofthe insect world) may be said to rank veryhigh. Even man has not the muscularstrength in proportion to quantity that theinsects exhibit. It will be interesting, also
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