Frames should be placed in a hive an inch and one-half from center to center, and should have three-eighths of an inch space between them and the hive.  This last item was considered of enough importance to have a patent issued for it.  If the distance from the top of the frames to the honey board, or between the frames and the hive, is less than three-eighths of an inch, the bees will propolis it together, and if it is more, they will build comb between.

    MRS. L. HARRISON.

WHAT SHOULD BE WORKED FOR.

As publishers, says the Weekly Bee Journal, we should,

1.  Encourage planting bee-pasturage, that there may be, every season, a crop of honey to gather, in order to make apiculture a certain occupation.

2.  Foster district and local societies to afford mutual instruction, and strengthen fraternization.

3.  Institute large and attractive honey and apiarian exhibits at all fairs, to educate the community to the desirableness of a superior product.

4.  Cultivate a discriminating domestic market, to encourage superiority and excellence.

5.  Sell at all times, and in all places, an honest article under an honest name.

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