. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. July 6, 1899. AMERICAiN BEE JOUENAL 423 and to handle, but he has fears that the two-story hives with smaller frames are not so g-ood. Mr. Poppleton thinks there is no question that the g'reater capacity all in one stor3-is much better for extracted honey, altho he doesn't pretend to understand why. Mr. Root says orders are on the increase for 10 and 12 frame Lang-stroth hives from ex- tracted-honey men of the South, and the 8-frame size is pre- ferred by comb-honey men of the Korth. Quite a few are ordering- what he calls Draper's " barns "
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. July 6, 1899. AMERICAiN BEE JOUENAL 423 and to handle, but he has fears that the two-story hives with smaller frames are not so g-ood. Mr. Poppleton thinks there is no question that the g'reater capacity all in one stor3-is much better for extracted honey, altho he doesn't pretend to understand why. Mr. Root says orders are on the increase for 10 and 12 frame Lang-stroth hives from ex- tracted-honey men of the South, and the 8-frame size is pre- ferred by comb-honey men of the Korth. Quite a few are ordering- what he calls Draper's " barns " to test alongside of the reg-ular 8-frame hives. Comb versus Extracted Honey.—In a discussion re- ported in the Canadian Bee Journal, Mr. Holtermann took the ground that the beginner should be discouraged from producing- comb honej'. He estimated that 70 pounds of comb could be produced to 100 of extracted. Mr. Gemmill thought this mig-ht be right some years, and some years wrong. Mr. Davidson thought the amount of comb was placed too high, and Mr. Darling said that not far from him first-class comb honey was sold for 5 cents. No one seemed readj' to champion the cause of comb honey. Queens Reared in Queenless Colonies.—Dr. Miller seems to have in W. W. Somerford an ally to help support his heretical notion that good queens can be reared in a colony from which the queen has been removed. Mr. S. saj's that such queens have given him entire satisfaction for j-ears, seeming to be just as good as queens reared by the Doolittle plan, except at times just after a honey-flow. At such times he is obliged to do considerable culling in order to g-et large queens that will mate quickly, and early mating and early laying he considers the best evidence of a good queen.—Gleanings in Bee-Culture. Inspecting Queens in the Cells.—W. W. Somerford re- lates in Gleanings in Bee-Culture that when rearing queens in foul-broody apiaries he found it essential to examine the contents of the qu
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