1896 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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Langstroth.L Dadant would think it rather 

 small. G Advocates of the ten-frame Langstroth 

 might object that it did not give enough super 

 surface. Some would say the frames are too 

 deep for comb honey. Perhaps those are enough 

 "possible objections;" but if you try it you will 

 probably find it a pretty gbod hive, although not 

 many others will be likely to adopt it. I don't 

 figure the capacity 3000. C. C. Miller. 



Marengo, 111. 



THE CLIMATE OF WASHINGTON STATE; A 

 "whack" at RAMBLER. 



I notice an article by Rambler in which he 

 says, in part, "An enterprising bee-keeper of 

 Latona. Washington, has adopted the sensible 

 plan of leaving that wet country during the 

 rainy season, and sojourning in the salubrious 

 climate of Southern California," etc. Now, I 

 live in Washington, and have been in Califor- 

 nia and a good many other States, and I wish to 

 enter a protest against his libel of our State. If 

 Rambler would have this "enterprising bee- 

 keeper" leave California when it gets too hot, 

 and Maine when too cold, or some other State 

 when he gets dried up, he would be "on the 

 jump" all the time. The rainy season here is 

 not so bad as some people would have you 

 believe; and for my part I like it. We have 

 one of the best States in the Union. I have 30 

 colonies of bees. I examined them on the 16th 

 of February, and there were young bees in the 

 hives then. W. E. Daniell. 



Sumner, Wash., Feb. 34. 



horlick's malted milk; its composition, etc. 

 |pln regard to the composition of malted milk, 

 would say that it consists of .50 per cent of pure 

 fresh cow's milk, sterilized; 26.35 per cent of 

 wheat, rich in gluten; 23 per cent of barley 

 malt, and .75 per cent of ash and alkaline mate- 

 rial. It is a fully cooked and partially predi- 

 gested food, having a very pleasant taste, per- 

 fect solubility, freedom from any injurious or 

 harmful ingredients, and which will supply the 

 most concentrated nutrition in the most easily 

 digested and convenient form. This is proven 

 by the fact that it is used for very young chil- 

 dren, for delicate children, invalids, and in 

 other cases where the matter of diet is of vital 

 importance, with the very best of satisfaction. 



We are pleased to note that you have used 

 the preparation personally with good satisfac- 

 tion, so you are doubtless conversant with many 

 of its uses and advantages. As regards its use 

 for the grubs of young bees, we regret that we 

 are unable to advance any opinion or advice, 

 never having had any opportunity of testing its 

 value for this purpose, and not knowing exactly 

 what the composition of a proper food for such 

 a case would be. 



We have noticed one thing in connection with 

 malted grain, and in connection with the so- 

 called " grains " that are left after the extrac- 



tion of the valuable nutritive properties from 

 the malted grain; and that is, when exposed to 

 the air they seem to have a great attraction for 

 honey-bees. We think that this would show 

 there is something in malted milk which honey- 

 bees would have an affinity for. We hope that 

 some of the bee-keepers will try the product, 

 and should like to hear from them as to the 

 success they have with it. 



Horlick's Food Co. 

 Racine, Wis., March 12. 



sections crosswise or lengthwise of the 



FRAMES. 



Dr. C. C. Miller: — In running for comb honey 

 would it be a disadvantage or advantage to 

 place the sections crossivise in the super to the 

 brood -frames'? I have noticed the practice of 

 some bee-keepers, of putting the frames in the 

 upper story crosswise for extracted honey. Is 

 not such practice wrong in practice and in the- 

 ory? This refers to the Square hives, Gallup 

 frames, and similar hives. Novice. 



Beaumont, Cal., March 3. 



[Dr. Miller replies:] 



If a hive is set perfectly level, I suppose it 

 can not make any very great difference how the 

 super is put on. But it isn't the easiest thing 

 to have it exactly level, and there is some ad- 

 vantage in having it incline forward. That 

 helps the bees about cleaning out. With the 

 hive inclining in that way, I certainly shouldn't 

 want either sections or extracting-frames to 

 run crosswise, for they wouldn't hang level, and 

 sections would be built to one side. In any case 

 it seems better to have frames or sections in 

 super running the same way as in the lower 

 story. C. C. Miller. 



Marengo, 111. 



numbering hives. 



Requisites. — A set of brass stencil numbers, 

 1)4 inch, 40 cents; brush and ink, 25 cents. 



Stencil the numbers on your hives. If you 

 want to change the number, and your hives are 

 painted, a wet cloth will rub the numbers off 

 in a few seconds; but it will stand the weather 

 more than a year. If your hives are not paint- 

 ed, a few strokes with A. I. R.'s 10-cent iron 

 plane will remove the old number. Try this. 

 It is better than tags tacked on. 



Rumford, Va. R. F. Ritchie. 



Dr. Miller's second question, on page 168, re- 

 minds me that, in Germany, according to 

 Rauchfuss Bros., alfalfa yields no honey, even 

 'When cultivated in large areas. 



Arvada, Col. F. L. Thompson. 



O busy bee! exalted so! 



We'd work like you, we vow. 

 If we could loaf six months or so 



As you are loafing now. 



—Washington Star. 



