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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



April, 1918 



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Shipping Honey to 

 Soldiers at the 

 Front. 



Referring to Dr. Mil- 

 ler 's note about how to 

 ship honey to our boys 

 at the front, it may in- 

 terest many readers to know how I have 

 been successfully doing it for a year and a 

 half. My second son is fond of bees and 

 just as fond of honey. So, when he took his 

 place in the fighting line, I decided that he 

 should not want for honey. Therefore once 

 a month or so, I ship him a can among the 

 other tidbits the mother knows he likes. In 

 the paint stores here varnish is often sold in 

 a quart can that has a small screw cap. So I 

 bought a lot of new ones at 10c each. To fill 

 one, I warm the honey in the warmer above 

 the cook stove, so that it will run freely into 

 the small hole of the can. The Canadian 

 limit of weight for packages to France is 

 seven pounds, so I requisition a square 

 cracker box which just holds nicely the can 

 of honey and the dainties that make up the 

 limit in weight. This box is wrapped in cot- 

 ton cloth, which is sewn in position, making 

 a package that brings rejoicing not to one 

 boy alone but to all the boys around, for in 

 the trenches the community spirit is strong. 

 As parents, we have gone thru the agony of 

 the fateful telegram ' ' dangerously wounded 



in face;" the weary waiting for more news 

 for 10 days, trusting that no news was good 

 news; then the joy of a hopeful pencil scrawl 

 from himself. Since many who read this will, 

 alas, have a like experience, let me assure 

 them of one thing: the kindness and skill 

 displayed by the doctors and nurses to our 

 boys is almost beyond understanding, and the 

 good folks of the town where the hospital is 

 located do their utmost for other folk's sons. 

 Victoria, B. C. F. Dundas Todd. 



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Condemns Home- Home-made supplies, 



made Hives; January Gleanings, page 



Wants Paint. 26, may be all right for 



the other fellow, but 

 not for me. I believe any one who is con- 

 templating putting money into a home ma- 

 chinery plant, will not do so after he tries 

 several brands of home-made hives. One's 

 local mills have the necessary machinery, 

 good workmen, and a willing spirit; but all, 

 or nearly all, of the extensive beekeepers 

 buy their hives from mills that make a spe- 

 cialty of such work. 



For the last two weeks I have been "fixirg 

 up" hives which I bought along with the 

 bees that they contained. Without an excep- 

 tion I have discarded the home-made ones 

 and have kept under protest those that were 

 made by the local mill. Next summer, when 

 I need a hive, I want a good one — one that 

 is accurately made to the 32nd of an inch; 

 one that is square, and that will take a super 

 without leaving bee cracks at end or side. 



After working on these unpainted hives I 

 am entirely unable to comprehend how a man 

 as particular concerning details as is Dr. C. 

 C. Miller always seems to be, can let his hives 

 go unpainted. Locality? Well, an unpainted 

 hive in this climate is fit only for kindling 

 wood after two years of use. 



Visalia, Calif. DeWarren B. Davis. 



How That Snow The frontispiece for 



Picture Was Taken. March Gleanings is in- 

 teresting to me for 

 more than one reason. The apiary shown 

 had been established in the previous spring, 

 and on Jan. 1 following I took the train and 

 went the 90 miles necessary to get there, so 

 that I covild see how the bees were winterin!^ 

 as a card from a friend said they had had 

 a heavy snow fall up there. This was my 

 first season 's experience with bees on the let- 

 alone plan from October till the following 

 April, without giving them a visit during all 

 that time. It was very cold at the time the 

 picture was taken. After digging down to 

 the entrances of a couple of cases and finding 

 a space cleared by heat from the bees, I de- 

 cided to leave them alone. They wintered 

 perfectly and never since have I bothered 



