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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



June, 1918 



HEADS OF GRAIN l£?frOMlQa DIFFERENT FIELDS 



Flytraps Made Last spring I had sev- 



of Bee-cages. eral wire cloth cages 



that had been used to 

 ship bees in. I was examining them one 

 day and decided that they would make good 

 flytraps. Sa I removed all the * ' inside fix- 

 in 's, ' ' then cut two circular pieces of screen, 

 each about six inches in diameter. Two or 

 three holes were punched in the center with 

 a lead pencil, and the screens were pushed 

 into the openings in the top of the cage 



Beekeeiper's Inexpensive Fly-trap. 



that had been used to hold bee candy, thus 

 forming cones leading into the cage. 



The cage was then inverted and two one- 

 half inch cleats fastened on the bottom. 

 Shallow tin lids were placed under the 

 cones to hold the bait. I caught several gal- 

 lons of flies with one of these traps last sum- 

 mer. M. L. Dodson. 

 Jennings, Kans. 



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Case of Pritchard In the reply to Dr. 



vs. Miller. Warren B. Davis 



(page 2 3 6, April 

 Gleanings), it is not credited that bees will 

 dilute thick honey with water and move it 

 over next the brood. Yet that is just what 

 the bees always do when there is no honey 

 coming from the fields. If the colony is 

 fairly strong and the brood well up to the 

 top-bars, some of this thin honey will be 

 stored at the bottom of the super over the 

 brood, as he stated. Mel Pritchard. 



Medina, O. 



I don 't know whether bees ever dilute 

 thick honey and then move it elsewhere. I 

 know they carry water into the hive, and 

 that they do this even at times when it 

 seems unlikely there is thick honey in the 

 hive. If thick honey is in an outside comb, 

 it would seem greater economy to transport 

 the thick honey without diluting, and then 

 dilute as it is used, rather than to trans[)ort 

 the water to the outside comb and then back 

 again. 



When candied honey is in an outside comb, 

 I believe it is a common thing for the bees 

 to carry out the granules and waste them. 

 Yet if the beekeeper from time to time 



sprays with water the candied honey in the 

 cells, the bees will utilize the honey. Now, 

 if candied honey can thus be thinned and 

 used, and the bees are up to the trick of 

 carrying water to thin the thick honey, why 

 shouldn't they carry it to the candied honey f 

 As the Scotch say, "I hae ma doots, " but 

 sufiicient evidence might dissolve those 

 "doots." C. C. Miller. 



A Remarkably This I consider a re- 



Good Colony. markable colony of 



bees. It is my ten- 

 frame scale hive for 1916. The picture was 

 taken after the white-honey season closed 

 and before any combs were removed for ex- 

 tracting. As I lacked extracting-combs I 

 put on five section supers containing sec- 

 tions with empty combs, the three upper 

 ones being eight-frame supers. The bees did 

 not store much honey in the upper one, as 

 it was put on near the close of the season. 

 On July 19, when the white-honey season 

 ended, the gross weight of the hive as shown 

 in the picture was 54% pounds. From June 

 1 to July 19 they made a gain of 370 pounds. 



A Remarkable Hive. 



The greatest gain for one day was 19 pounds. 

 I weighed them every night, but did not 

 make a duilv record. In tlio fall thev made 



