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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



November, 1918 



the lower hive of each pile rests on a box 

 about the size of a brood-chamber. When 

 our colonies are cellared under such condi- 

 tions, we can be sure we have made no mis- 

 take. If another perfect day for a flight 

 should occur later, and we are inclined to 

 wish the bees had been left out, we need 

 only to look at the quiet and contented mass 

 of bees hanging below the bottom-bars of 

 the brood frames, to dispel any doubts. 



to find the record from Stray Straws and 

 elsewhere. What a^ storehouse of informa- 

 tion his accumulation of record books must 

 be, and how fortunate for the rest of us 

 that a few careful people take time to 

 record such facts as these! In most cases, 

 the records indicate that the bees had a 

 good flight the day before being carried into 

 the cellar. 



During the 24 years for which data are 



Table giving the dates of Dr. C. C. Miller's cellaring. 



It sometimes happens, perhaps once or 

 twice in a lifetime, that November fails to 

 furnish such a flight day as I have describ- 

 ed. When this happens poor wintering is in- 

 evitable, unless the beekeeper by some rare 

 instinct was induced to put them in the 

 latter part of October. 



In this connection, I have tabulated the 

 dates on which Dr. Miller has cellared his 

 bees since 1888, as far as I have been able 



available, the average date for setting in is 

 Nov. 20. They were put in twice in October, 

 three times in December, and 19 times in 

 November. They were put in before Nov. 

 20 10 times, after Nov. 20 11 times and on 

 Nov. 20 once. Thruout these reports there 

 are many expressions of regret that the 

 bees were not put in earlier, but no indica- 

 tions that he ever regretted putting them in 

 too early. 



SKYSCRAPER BEEKEEPING 



DE. MILLER, 

 in his de- 

 partment 

 of Stray Straws, 

 in our issue for 

 October, page 

 602, referring to 

 the skyscraper 

 propped up with 

 rails a s shown 

 on the cover of the September number, 

 frankly said he had "never seen anything 

 like that in real life. ' ' When he adds that 

 he ' ' suspects ' ' that ' ' such things are so 

 rare that they hardly need be considered, ' ' 

 he voiced a very natural opinion. I might 

 have expressed it similarly myself six 

 months ago. Pictures on pages 589 to 593 

 inclusive show that the skyscraper is by no 



New Conditions and Possibilities 



'brought About by the Production 



of Extracted Honey 



By E. R. Root 



means very rare. 

 The half-tone il- 

 lustrations in 

 this issue are 

 further proof of 

 this stai-tement. 

 We shall have il- 

 lustrations from 

 time to time 

 showing whole 

 apiaries of skyscrapers — perhaps not so tall 

 thruout as the one shown in the October is- 

 sue, but showing yields which, on account 

 of good wintering, good locations, good man- 

 agement, and the production of extracted 

 honey, are by no means uncommon. 



Take the single case of L. S. Griggs of 

 Flint, Mich., pictures of whose apiaries and 

 individual colonies are shown in this issue. 



