The Republican journal., 1876-11-09
Farm, Garden and Household,
Honey in Lewiston.

great cdSeS VI money through our streets,
the comb OF which displaying itself white
and waNy through neat glass boxes, tempt
td our reporter to inquire how the bees
Were induced to do good work Fortu-
nately it was found that the gentleman in
question is a Bee King of Aroostook coun-
If, who has probably raised more honey
TINS Year than any person in Maine, Our
representative hasn't had q sweeter inter-
view, TINS many day.
Mir. l.. A Blajsdell of Presque Isle,
Aroostook county, is the very successful
producer OF lhj~ honey. His swarms have
Welded This season over a ton OF honey.
One of his sWarms filed twenty-lour boxes
with Seycnty-iour pounds OF honey; and
from seven swarms he took 800 pounds
This result he obtains by the use ct Il hive
VT his own construction, mgeniously con-
trVed 50 The bees can have plenty OF ali
und abundance OF room to move about
A. one 1ier OF boxes are filled others are
placed IN the hive 50 inteIpOsed that the
bees DO not notice the change He dis
covers the cause of mortality among bees
u winter TO be the moulding of combs, in
consequence ot moisture gathering from
-Healing of the bees. This sours the
honey, and death results from eating it,
His hive has peculiar arrangement tor
ewing room tOr the bees at the same time
g,utilating the hive, SO he has no mould
lud no loss OF bees Last winter the bees
N,uJered nicely in the same place where
the previous winter he lost large quanti-
les tie has forty pt the swalms in his
patent hives and the balance in the old
lyle, bat has obtained nearly all his sur
yiuS honey from the new hives He has
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G-- hive is called the Slat Box Bee Hive.
.ut if f. patented. His hive qives plenty
,, room for The bees to circulate through
the boxes. which he claims most other
a.ye, do not Instead OF removing boxes
.s soon AS the top boxes are filled, he
places a tier of empty boxes between the
upper ami neither tiers The bees mme-
,IjateIy 90 TO work with rrdoubled dill
geuce to ill up the cap-instinctivelv dis
liking to have u hiatus between their
stores ut sweets. The result is they store
more honey than in the old hive; ;hey are
made to work harder and they winter bet
ter. Bees dislike to work upward, and
generally some DAYS production is lost by
adding empty boxes ut the top of the hive.
Mr.. BlaisdeIl last year wintered sixteen
swarms in his cellar. the temperature
never falling below thirty-iive degrees.
fja djd mot lose 4 mint ot bees from the
whole sixteen swarms In the old hive il
,ga. common for binl TO lose from one to
-wo quarts from each hive. In some win.
lers he lost all his swarms Findino he
pouldnt make apvthinc ont of bee keen
th9t hn seems to he br So, abo}t invent