1895 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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headline to my paper on that subject. It should 

 have been headed " Bee-paralysis Contagious." 

 I do not believe that the disease is hereditary 

 in the strict sense of the term, but that an in- 

 fected queen will communicate the disease in 

 the ordinary way by contact. I do not wish to 

 reopen the discussion of this matter, but simply 

 to make a correction. T. S. Ford. 



Columbia, Miss., April 9. 



THE GOSPEL OF ART. 



Work thou for pleasure; paint or sing or carve 

 The things thou lovest, though the body starve. 

 Who works for glory, misses oft the goal ; 

 Who works for money, coins his very soul. 

 Work for work's sake, then, and it may be 

 That these things shall be added unto thee. 



Kenyon Cox. 



H. Y., Wash. — Bees can not, with any satis- 

 factory results, be kept in a room adjoining the 

 kitchen over winter. You had better leave 

 ohem outdoors. In your climate they will prob- 

 ably winter all right. It might be advisable to 

 put over them winter protecting-cases. 



W. S. Y., la. — We leave chaff cushions on the 

 hives along toward the first of June in our lo- 

 cality. It is better to leave them on a little too 

 long than not long enough; in fact, it does no 

 harm to leave them on all summer, only that 

 they take the place of section-crates or any 

 supers designed to take surplus. 



W. B. R.. Fa.— The braula, or bee-louse, we 

 sometimes find on the backs of imported queens 

 direct from Italy; but we never knew them to 

 make any serious trouble. The bees themselves 

 will soon remove them when the queen is in- 

 troduced into a strong colony. We do not know 

 where you will find any further particulars 

 than those given by Prof. Cook in his book. 



H. M. S., O.—We would say we recommend 

 the use of full sheets of foundation in the 

 brood-frames; medium brood if wired, and 

 heavy brood if unwired. Yes, we recommend 

 wiring, running the wires parallel with the 

 top-bar. Yes, use thick top-bars.— Carniolan 

 queens are preferred by some; would refer you 

 to John Andrews, Patten's Mills, N. Y., or Mrs. 

 Jennie Atchley, Beeville, Tex. 



M. J. A., R. I.— Hives, as a general rule, 

 should face the east. If they are placed toward 

 the south it gives them too much sun in the 

 middle of the day. If they face the west they 

 are apt to get too much wind; if toward the 

 north, also too much wind and too much cold. 

 Taking all things into consideration, having 



hives point toward the east is preferred by the 

 majority of bee-keepers. 



W. F. C, Ore.— When the bees build the 

 combs crosswise we don't know of any way but 

 to cut the combs out, straighten them out, and 

 fit them back into the frames by the directions 

 that are usually given for transferring. If they 

 are too crooked for that, use the Heddon short 

 way, given on page 32 of our catalog. We al- 

 ways advise beginners, and everybody else, in 

 fact, to put at least a small starter in each 

 brood-frame; otherwise they may have a condi- 

 tion of things much like yours. 



W. H. W., Tex.— The half-inch space in the 

 Dovetailed hive, back of the division-board, has 

 a purpose. If every thing fit down in the hive 

 snug and tight you would have difficulty in 

 removing the Hoffman frames. We therefore 

 have provided what we call the "lateral play." 

 Remove the brood-frames; shove the division- 

 board into the half-inch space. That breaks 

 propolis connections. Remove the division- 

 board, and then you have room to shove over 

 the brood-frames and handle the same easily. 



J. M., Kan.— A good deal will depend upon 

 locality as to whether you can use two-story 

 eight-frame hives with the section-crate on 

 top. The colony should be a tremendously 

 strong one, with brood and honey in both stories 

 before any surplus will be put into the sections. 

 —Bees will be likely to fill the second story 

 with honey or brood before they occupy the 

 section-crate.— The yield of section honey from 

 the two eight-frame bodies all depends upon 

 your locality, season, and size of colony. 



J. R. W., Minn.— The circumstance you re- 

 late regarding drones from black queens is not 

 an unusual one. Indeed, the progeny from 

 hybrids— that is, a black queen fertilized by an 

 Italian drone— will vary all the way from black 

 to bright-yellow bees or drones. We very often 

 See some very nicely marked Italian drones 

 from queens that are perfectly black; therefore 

 it is not color always that decides purity. If 

 you were to take some of those nicely marked 

 drones, and mate them with pure Italian 

 queens, if it were possible, you would find the 

 resulting progeny only % Italian. 



O. F. H., Cal.— The best inside lining for a 

 solar wax-extractor of small size is Russia iron. 

 Zinc and galvanized iron would darken the 

 wax, and, besides, would reflect back too much 

 of the light. Of course, if you can get an 

 asphaltum that will not be affected by the heat 

 or the wax it will make no difference what 

 metal you use. The asphaltum used by photo- 

 stock dealers for painting developing-trays 

 would be about the thing. For large-sized 

 extractors there is nothing better than matched 

 boards of butternut .wood, or something that 

 will not shrink much. These, of course, should 

 be painted black. 



