AiausT, 1918 



GLEANING S' IN BEE CULTURE 



HEADS OF GRAIN~^ {D/FRO^a rDIFFERENT FIELDS 



container should be placed to catch the 

 drained honey. I have had as much as one 

 and one-half barrels a day go thru this un- 

 capping-barrel, without the least trouble. 

 Medina, O. J. E. Thompson. 



Friction-top Pail I do not agree with 



the Best Container. the idea that extract- 

 ed honey should be 

 sold in glass bottles to any great extent. 

 To strive for a trade in fancy bottles of 

 individual design seems to be directly 

 counter to sound principles of merchandis- 

 ing, since in such sales the container and 

 its packing must cost more than its con- 

 tents. Manufacturers of syrups that sell at 

 the price of honey or a little less are not 

 so foolish. Nor do I think that selling in 

 60-pound cans is efficient marl^eting. My 

 experience convinces me that there is an 

 unlimited sale for honey in 10-pound fric- 

 tion-top pails, with a small percentage of 

 fives and perhaps twos, and that at extract- 

 ing time a slight addition to the work of 

 preparing for market will enable careful 

 producers to furnish honey in carload lots 

 in such containers to the entire satisfac- 

 tion of the trade. Such a net saving* in use- 

 less expense could not be less than two 

 cents per pound. Harrison H. Brown. 



Laplata, N. M. 



Double or Single- At least in the vicin- 



WaUed-Hive? ity of Albany, N. Y., 



I think the desire on 

 the part of many of our beekeepers to use 

 the cheapest single-walled hive is a big mis- 

 take. The double-walled hive is much bet- 

 ter for the bees, either summer or winter. 

 A boiling-hot July sun shining on a single- 

 walled hive will sometimes melt the combs 

 down in spite of all the ventilation the bees 

 can make. With the double-walled hive, 

 combs will not melt down, and it probably 

 requires less work for the bees in providing 

 ventilation — and ventilation work is not 

 making honey. Shade? It is not always 

 possible to have the natural kind, and for 

 artificial shade the double-walled fills the 

 bill better than any other kind. For win- 

 tering, if outdoors, the superiority of the 

 double-walled hive is not disputed; and if 

 to this advantage be added a third wall or 

 interior case to hold frames on end and 

 packing used, bees will winter in very good 

 shape. O. F. Eowland. 



Albany, N. Y. 



Bees in the Wall 

 of a Building. 



tion is asked: ' 



Very miu-li more fre- 

 quently t h a n one 

 would think, this ques- 

 ' How can a colony of bees 



be removed from inside the wall of a build- 

 ing where they have taken up their home?" 

 Not long ago Gleanings received in one mail 

 four such inquiries, showing that the bees 

 very much like quarters between the parti- 

 tions of a building. Accordingly some gen- 

 eral directions for getting bees ' ' from out 

 of in between ' ' seem to be in order. 



If it is at all possible to remove the 

 combs, Ihetransferring maybe done according 

 to the usual method of transferring from 

 box hives. In case the bees are in an inac- 

 cessible place it would be very easy to re- 

 move the bees, but to remove the queen 

 also would be quite another proposition. To 

 remove the bees, attach a bee-escape to their 

 entrance so that they may escape from their 

 home but be unable to return. Place near 

 their entrance a small nucleus. If the two 



Colony of bees taken from the wall of a house 

 by C. R. Zimnu'i-nian, Swanton, Ohio. The width 

 of the space occupied was 14 inches, and the 

 length of the comb was seven feet, two inches. 



