. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 766 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAu Nov. 28, 1901. frame, bet-ause they are not so apt to hide in the space between the lower edjje of the brood-comb and the bottom-bar of the frame. Particularly is this so with black bees, as they are inclined to run off the comb and take the queen with them. When takintra deep frame out of a hive the bees have not time enough to run off, while with a shallow one they would. 1 hare decided to decrease my shallow-frame colonies gradually, and change back to the deep frame.—F. Gheiner, in Gleanings in Bee Culture. Raising Hives f
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 766 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAu Nov. 28, 1901. frame, bet-ause they are not so apt to hide in the space between the lower edjje of the brood-comb and the bottom-bar of the frame. Particularly is this so with black bees, as they are inclined to run off the comb and take the queen with them. When takintra deep frame out of a hive the bees have not time enough to run off, while with a shallow one they would. 1 hare decided to decrease my shallow-frame colonies gradually, and change back to the deep frame.—F. Gheiner, in Gleanings in Bee Culture. Raising Hives from the Ground. Placing hives on high stands is in most places a thing of the past, and it is probable that most bee-keepers would say that there is no sufficient reason for the practice in any case. Arthur C. Miller, however, in the American Bee-Keeper, seems to think there are many places where it is not advisable to set hives near the ground, and he gives ft rea- son for his view. He says: In my home-apiary all hives are placed close to the ground; but in a small one, half a mile away, they are all on a bench some two feet above the ground. Both apiaries are stocked with the same strains of bees and part of the home apiary is worked on the same system as the outyard. In the latter I have no trouble in getting comb honey, but in the home yard it is difficult and almost impossible. The pro- duction of extracted honey is also affected, but not so markedly. So far as I have been able to determine, the difference is due en- tirely to the elevation of the hives. In another small apiary (six colonies) the owner has two hives about IS inches above ground, the rest on it. The two have done tinely, the others poorly. In my own case this experience has extended over several years. In the vicinity of my apia"ries at night a strata of cold fog is often observed close to the ground, and I surmise that this is the cause of my home yard doing less well than the out-yard, the hives of
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