The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-02-25
FARM AND HOME MATTERS.
IMPORTANCE OF THE BEE INDUSTRY.
How to Make n Good Hive-Orehnrd and
Garden Hints-Among the Poultry
Farm Notes for February-A Collie
ton of odd Recipes, Etc.

The bee industry is of much more i'm
portance than most people suppose. Il is
true if bees are kept In the old style, that
is, put into gum" or box, or, as is fire.
quently the case, in a nail keg, and then
given no further attention until honey Is
wanted. and then the bees are killed in
getting it, there is not much profit in the
business.
But there is much batter way TO keep
bees than this, says correspondent of
the ST. Louis Republic. Bees cannot make
honey without something to make it from,
but if they are worked on the right plan
they can be helped great deal to secure
q crop of honey. Sometimes there are
seasons when bees cannot gather enough
to live on, but these are few. If the bees
are kept in a modern, movable frame
hive, where the bee-keeper can examine
them and give them attention, he will
stand much better chance of getting q
crop of honey.
Everything else being equal, as large 4
crop of honey can be obtained ia one kind
of hive as another, but making everything
equal is the point. ii bees are kept warm
or are where they can keep themselves
warm, especially in early spring, and have
plenty of stores, so that they can build up
rapidly, that is, raise young bees to take
the place of the old bees that have died
during the winter and spring, so as to have
large numbers of bees early to begin to
gather the nectar rs soon as possible; and
then have plenty of storage room-any-
one having bees in this condition has
hem Just about right. These conditions
may be helped by not giving the bees too
much room at a time, but have the extra
room given along just as the bees need it.
The hive that we would recommend as
being the best adapted to handle the bees
the easiest way Is simply box so made
as to take frame 17B inches long and 81
inches deep. outside measure; the top bar
should be l95 inches and project over the
end bars three-Quarters OF an inch on
each end, so as TO rest in q place rabbited
out in each end of the top of the box.
The box may be made so as TO take eight
or ten of these frames, as the beekeeper
desires, but q follower or division board
should be used so as 10 contract the space
in the bOx-we will now call it hive-so
as TO give the bees Just what room they
can fully occupy. and then move the di-
vision board and give another frame as
the bees need room until they occupy the
whole chamber, and then another cham
Der should be TERED up on the lower
chamber or brood nest. OF course, there
should be bottom board for the hive to
rest on and then a top to cover the hive
with. Frames or sections can be used in
the upper chamber for the surplus honey
as desired.
There are many reasons for using q hive
OF this description one reason is that this
frame we have described IL Il standard all
over the United States, and there are
many large factories making hives, and ii
the standard frame CT section IL used sup
plies are much easier obtained than when
something old is used Manufacturers
would AZ soon make one kind as an other
if they can make them in large quantities,
but odd sizes ara not often called Tor, so
the standard sizes are kept in stock. We
know of one firm that was over seven hum
dred orders behind the last season and
was kept that way by new orders taking
the place Of orders as fast as they were
filled for several weeks. Any one sending
in orders, when they were rushed that
way, Of an odd size could rot have it filed
at Gll. SO in this instance it is best to fol-
low in the beaten path.