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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



April, 1918 



HEADS OF^GRAINl I?! 



frames and bees of the top hive. Put on 

 the cover, and in one minute they will be 

 too hajipy to fight. Try it on your weak 

 colonies in the spring. You can even intro- 

 duce a plurality of queens by this plan. It 

 is the Miller smoke method without the 

 smoke. Next winter when packing those big 

 winter cases, just try one without pack- 

 ing, and over the entrances put doors to be 

 kept shut tight when the weather is too cold 

 for the bees to fly. I wintered mine that way 

 — some packed and some not, and I can 't see 

 any difference. Both are No. 1. 



Bellefontaine, O. Clyde Cordrey. 



A Student's At the conclusion of 



Ten Commandments the first half year 's 

 of Beekeeping. instruction in apicul- 



ture at the University 

 of California a little examination was given, 



DIFFERENT FIELDS 



the tenth question in this examination be- 

 ing: " What are some of the things es- 

 sential to success in beekeeping?" 



One of my students gave the following 

 answer, which might be adopted as the Ten 

 Commandments of beekeeping: 



" (1) Good beekeeper (knowledge and 

 dependability); (2) good bees (Italian); 

 (3) good hives; (4) good bee pasture; (5) 

 good equipment - — ■ smoker, hive tool, ex- 

 tractor, wax-extractor, storage facilities, 

 honey packages and an enclosed place to 

 work; (6) good apiary site, with wind pro- 

 tection, even temperature, and convenient; 

 (7) honest, agreeable neighbors; (8) a love 

 of the work; (9) a good market; (10) some 

 other capital, or business, to tide one over a 

 year of small returns. ' ' 



I predict that he will be a successful bee- 

 keeper. 



Berkley, Calif. Geo. A. Coleman. 



THE BACK LOT BUZZER. 



Andy Jimpson says he gave full insiructiotis with the bees he sold l-o a beginner the other day, lut the 

 feller called him up by phone last niyld and said they arrived all right, bvt he had forgoltenwhatwas the next 

 tiling to do. Andy said there was only one thing lie could lliink of, an' titat was to send the money. 



