GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



September, 1918 



. HEADS '"'OF"' GRAIN l I?|™M p" "DIFFER ENT FIELDS 



Ehree Dead Bees' 

 Ehree Deadr^ees! 

 dhey all rope ouMaa tiny stick; 

 She smell is epooghto make you sick. 

 ' "' fl^iey have Foul Brood- 

 1 Gti rid of them 

 quick! 



A Back-yard The four hives of bees 



Investment you see in the ac- 



That Pays. companying illustra- 



tion are in my back 

 yard on a city lot in North Columbus, and 

 my little daughter Gertrude is standing in 

 the background. The bees have made 250 

 l)0unds of comb lioney up to July 15 of this 

 year. The honey is of the best quality and 



flavor, made of white clover, which was 

 very plentiful in and about the city. There 

 was no trouble to sell it right at the door 

 for a fancy price. The only trouble was to 

 supply the demand. I consider the bees a 

 nice little side line, and they are surely an 

 interesting little insect. They are very lit- 

 tle trouble, esj^ecially the Italian bees. 

 More people should keep bees, for the prod- 

 uct that they supply comes in very nice at 

 this time, especially when sweet is so scarce. 

 Columbus, O. E. W. Mendenhall. 



Some Remarkably 1 wintered 84 colonies 

 Good Wintering. outdoors last winter, 



well packed, without 

 the loss of a single colony. For over two 

 months my ai>iary was snowed under with- 

 out being shoveled out. But all came out 

 fine. The secret of my success in outdoor 

 wintering is simply top ventilation and 

 plenty of stores. The winter of 1916-17 I 

 wintered 117 colonies without the loss of a 

 colony also. A. H. Guernsey. 



Ionia, Mich., E. D. 4. 



An Easy Way A safe and easy way 



to Feed. for the beginner or 



the owner of only a 

 few colonies to feed is thru a screened 

 board over the brood-chamber. With an 

 extension bit bore four holes the size of the 

 top of a can or pepper-box feeder in an es- 

 cajje-board or any board having a I'im or 

 cleats <leep enough to allow the projier 

 space at the top of brood-frames. With 



.V good inveNtnipnt in liers ;it ('uliniiliu> 



