Pebklary, 1918 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



105 



HEADS O F GRAIN TPfrom ^n DIFFERENT FIELDS 



comb for next season. I extracted all that 

 were partly filled, and am using them for 

 baits for first supers, placing four on each 

 side of the super. C. V. Rice. 



Lawrence, Mich. 



[There seems to be a general belief that 

 sections containing fully drawn combs of 

 the previous season, and which are filled 

 with honey the second year, are not as nice 

 as those sections containing new comb filled 

 with honey of the same season. The ex- 

 planation of this may lie in the fact that the 

 cappings do not join as well upon combs of 

 the previous season as upon comb of the 

 current season. 



The late B. Taylor, of Minnesota, over- 

 came the difficulty by melting down the cell 

 walls to about half depth. This was accom- 

 plished by a little device which he called a 

 eomb-leveler. A hot plate a little smaller 

 than the inside of the section was placed 

 against the comb on one side; and when the 

 other side was leveled down the section was 

 ready to be given back to the bees. Mr. 

 Taylor claimed that comb honey from such 

 drawn combs was fully equal to any other, 

 with the further advantage that the bees 

 entered supers containing them much more 

 readily than supers containing full sheets, 

 and in this he was probably right. — Ed.] 



102 Barrels From The picture shows one 



One Porto Rican of my three apiaries. 



Apiary. It is located in the 



Bario de Lares, Porto 

 Rice. From this apiary in 1914 I secured 

 the large amount of 102 50-gallon barrels of 



A Successfu] Apiary in Porto Rico, 

 honey. However, owing to the heavy winds 

 that almost totally destroyed the flowers, the 

 crops in 1915 and 1916 were very light, 

 hardly paying expenses. This year the crop 

 is to barrels. 



Lares, Porto Rico. S. COLOM SOTO. 



THE BACK LOT BUZZER 

 Uncle Benny Sottrioeed has fixed the hole in his fence at last. Been that way ever since his netighhor 

 went through it when the hybrids swarmed last si'.mme)'!. Uncle Benirry says it wasn't right, th' fellen 

 shouldn't have been in such a hurry, he ouOht to have gone around by the gate. 



