GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



PEBEUARy, 1918 



HEAPS OF GRAIN T PpQll fflDlFFERENT FIELDS 



wood, Ark., fair the following week and 

 talk bees. This fair was just like Fort Smith 

 ill most respects. As a direct result 



of this exhibit, the Fort Smith high school 

 has purchased a hive of bees and started a 

 class in apiculture. 



The accompanying photograph shows 

 some of the prize winners at Fort Smith and 

 their displays. 



The boy on the left is Harry Davis, 

 age 15 years, the youngest exhibitor. Next 

 is W. J). Strong. Third from the left is E. 

 J. Cline, and next to him is J. W. Rice, who 

 won several prizes. Fifth is W. H. Laws, 

 the judge. At the end is H. P. Gannaway, 

 the dean of the beemen of this vicinity. Mr. 

 Gannaway is probably the largest producer 

 of comb lionev in this county. 

 • Ft. Smith, Ark. E. J. CLINE. 



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How Much More On page 941, Dr. C. C. 



Extracted Than Miller seems to think 



Comb Honey. the claim that colonies 



run for extracted hon- 

 ey will produce 50 to 100 per cent more 

 honey than when run for comb, isn 't any- 

 thing more than loose guessing. We suppos- 

 ed this was common knowledge. At any 

 rate, in our old location in Minnesota and 

 our present one in Montana, we have proved 

 to our own satisfaction that this is a fact. 

 Corvallis, Mont. FRANK MORGAN. 



When Introducing, In an editorial, Septem- 

 Why not Daub ber 15, 1916, the philos- 



Eees Alone, and ophy of the daubed 



not the Queen? queen is admirably giv- 



en in th^se words: 

 ' ' The general spill and apparent ruin of 

 the combs so diverts the attention of the 

 bees that the queen is forgotten. ' ' Some 

 people will object to this method of queen 

 introduction on the score of injury done to 

 the queen by her honey bath. We all know 

 that when honey is spilled over the combs a 

 bee or two will sometimes be drowned; and 

 even if the queen escapes with her life 

 she may not be any the better for her rough 

 experience. I don 't see why the bees that 

 are cleaning up a catastrophic mess should 

 not forget a dry queen as well as one that 

 has become an anima^ted honey "blob." 

 Why not pour the honey in, and then (or 

 very soon after) release the queen dry'? I 

 don 't think much of the strange-odor theory, 

 but the odor of evaporating honey would cor- 

 lect the smell of a strange queen quite as 

 well as her actual immersion. 



I was astonished to learn from A. C. Miller 

 that a bee takes only ten trips for honey in 

 a day. Astonished as I was, I soon saw 

 that what he said was true. Take a hive of 

 forty thousand bees — that is, a moderately 



strong one that would cast a five - pound 

 swarm. You can count the number of bees 

 that fly out every minute; and I find that 

 when things are pretty busy they number 

 200. That is 12,000 an hour, and 96,000 in 

 a working day of eight hours — a fair length 

 of day when allowance is made for compara- 

 tively slack hours morning and evening. If 

 we presume that each bee takes ten trips 

 this will give a working force of about ten 

 thousand bees, which seems about right. 

 The man who imagines that each bee takes, 

 say, twenty trips a day, will have to say 

 that there are only five thousand gatherers 

 in such a hive, which, as Euclid would say, 

 is absurd. G. G. Desmond. 



Sheepscombe, England. 



CC: 



Make It Now if This wheel-barrow was 



You Need It Next manufactured by a 

 Season. friend of mine, W. R. 



Pennock of Stouffville, 

 Ont., who, in addition to being a beekeeper, 

 is also an expert mechanic. This barrow is 

 the best thing of the kind I have ever seen, 

 for while quite light, weighing less than 40 

 pounds, yet it is very strong. By simply re- 

 moving a cotter pin and shifting rods so as 

 to give you a different leverage,, the barrow 

 can be made to carry a heavy load and still 

 retain its resiliency. For ordinary use it 



A very handy wheelbarrow. 



will carry three full 10-frame supers; but by 

 making the shift mentioned, a much heavier 

 load can be handled easily. Mr. Pennock 

 has made quite a few of these barrows this 

 season and every user with whom I have 

 spoken is enthusiastic as to its merit. The 

 picture shown gives a good idea as to gen- 

 eral construction. 



Markham, Ont. J. L. BYER. 



Unfinished Sec- In The Domestic Bee- 



tions of Previous keeper for January, p. 



Season 13, Floyd Markham, of 



Ypsilanti, Mich., says: 

 ' ' No one can produce fancy honey nor even 

 No. 1, in sections that have drawn comb in 

 them from the season before. ' ' What is the 

 consensus of opinion in regard to drawn 

 comb in sections? I really thought that I 

 was fortunate in having so much drawn 



