Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-02-14
Bee Hives and Lumber for Same.

Bee Hives and Lumber for Same.
While it is very important to
have good hives well made for the
bees, would by no means encour-
age the idea that the hive is going
to insure the crop of honey.
You know that good prime
swarm of bees in proper seasons
would store in a nail-keg or q
goods box, and the old log of the
tree as we'll as in the most elabo1-
ate and expensive hive made, other
things being equal.
1t is necessary to have hive to
fit the swarm as It comes out. A
good hive must fill two require
ments reasonably we'll to be worthy
of the name of an improved hive.
It must be a good home for the
little folks! 1t must in addition
be 50 constructed as to be convs.
nient, t, perform the various
operations required by modern bee
keeping.
The hives first mentioned, how
sver do not fill the second re-
quirement, and to meet this end
the movable frame hive was in,
vented.
Under the subject of hives a Int
tie further on I will endeavor tc
show some of the most needfll ad'
vantages the improved hive has
over the old ones.
First, we can increase or decrease
the hive to suit the size of swarmt
we have. ~
Second, we can arrange the sur
plus boxes to fit the same. The
hives we should use is one latne
one has right or patenton to foo
poor Southern people with: It'll
a hive made by any one who see'
fit to make it. Everything fits uni
formly and snug. In this hive
have taken 125 pounds of comb
honey in one single season-o1
course this was under the mos
favorable circumstances and gooc
close attention.
There are many advantages o:
minor importance that [ conle
mention were it not for fear of 60
ing to the waste basket, though
will venture out a little further.
Ore ie that we can clean every
nook and corner CT this hive GU
whenever 1T is necessary. We Cal
requiem when we please. One yer!
important thing in beo keeping ii
to keep good queens in every hive
as all good stock raisers will tel
US, keep good blooded stock. AL
bee keepers can at least keep a few
good Italian queens. This will in.
sure thoroughbred not full-breds
Look at your neighbor's fowl
and stock who keeps only fnll-bret
males on their farms, they lool
fine a1d glossy, while the olt
scrabs are shaggy and rough.
The hive I would advise is the
improved Longstroth. And to us
this hive we must not Jump from
one thing to another lest we ge
into trouble. Everything is mad
TO enter change, and to do this "
must use one outfit to model from
Lumber for hive building shoul
be we'll cured and the right dimen
sions, made up in idle times jus
like the good successful farme
cleans out his bitches, his fenc
rows, etc., don't wait until you
bees are hanging on limb and th
grass taking everything. knew
man one time to have this to haE
pen and his poor wife put them !
a nail keg-and she became one {
our most interesting bee keeper
now running hundreds of hive
and populatil g Thousands of yard
! with good bees and honey.
1t would not be advisable to G
into this work too fast at first, as
would cost too much to pay 70
mistakes and blunders made b
the beginner. A good farmer need
only to be @ little gifted with tool
to mako his own hives and
good one to model from. 1t woul,
be advisable to order all of you
Inside work from some of the regu
lar factories. They come ver,
cheap and fit very neat. | think
have said enough for the presen