Circumstances must in a great measure control these matters, but whatever style is adopted it should be adhered to, else much trouble and expense will result.
We deem the tenement hive the best for all purposes. True, the first cost is somewhat greater, but in the end it pays.
The hives should be constructed in as simple a manner as possible, and while if one wants but a few he can make them after obtaining his colony of bees and estimating the size of the brood chamber; yet it is much better if he wants five or more hives to purchase them in the flat.
While we prefer for working bees a cross between the Italian and Holylands (from Syria), yet as a rule we would recommend the Italian as the best for the average beekeeper. Experience will teach one which is the best race.
We shall endeavor to give illustrations of different styles of hives in our next paper but have been too busy to attend to it this month.
Our first advice is “Make haste slowly,” but “stick to it” until you have either mastered the business or found that you were better adapted to some other vocation.
NEW OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BEES.
By Francis Huber.
(Continued from p. 95, Vol III.)
Solicitous to learn its origin, and conjecturing that it might be masculine matter, he began to watch the motions of every drone in the hive, on purpose to seize the moment when it should be received by the eggs.