GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



November, 1918 



FROM THE FIELD OF EXPERIENCE 



carried out by the bees, destroys nearly all 

 prospects of the securing of any fancy hon- 

 ey,- and very little of any other kind. If 

 we can find a case with the desire to super- 

 sede one of our best thorobred queens, and 

 raise all of the young queens from her, 

 quite a gain can be made in this way; and 

 very nearly the same can be made by rear- 

 ing our queen-cells above a queen-excluder, 

 as this places the bees very much in the 

 same position and desire as does a case of 

 supersedure. It is well worth while for 

 each apiarist to do what he can along these 

 lines. G. M. Doolittle. 



Borodino, N. Y. 



BEEKEEPERS FOR LIFE 



Two Enterprising Youngsters and Some Things 

 They Do and Study 



"If we live to be 80 years old, like you, 

 we shall still be beekeepers." So said Will 

 Klabuhn to A. I. Root on June 29, when he 

 and his brother, needing some supplies in a 

 hurry, visited the Home of the Honey Bees. 

 These two, with their father, comprise the 

 firm of Klabuhn & Sons, and with the 

 "pep" and enthusiasm they display, it is 

 not strange that their faney-comb and ex- 

 tracted-honey apiaries are known for a good 

 many miles. Their home in Conneaut, O., 



away in the extreme northeast corner of the 

 State, is 106 miles from Medina. Starting 

 at three in the morning, they drove 78 miles 

 and surprised their sister in Cleveland for 

 breakfast, then drove on to Medina, stop- 

 ping on the way to rescue a man and woman 

 and six children imprisoned under an over- 

 turned Ford. The young giants took hold of 

 the machine where it lay upside down 

 against a bank, tipped it back onto its 

 wheels, when it was able, altho battered and 

 torn, to limp on its way, with its badly scar- 

 ed crowd, thanks to the two heroes of this 

 tale. Some Ford story! The boys ar- 

 rived in Medina about 10 o 'clock and we 

 held an informal bee convention. ' ' The 

 question box, as usual, was the chief feature 

 of the convention ' '• — and everybody asked 

 and everybody answered. 



Their winter loss was only 7 per cent. 

 Young queens that kept up brood-rearing late 

 in the fall were largely responsible for this 

 good record. The boys have no use for old 

 queens simply because they are too likely to 

 quit laying in the latter part of August, so 

 that the colonies go into winter quarters 

 with old, worn-out bees. 



Will Klabuhn had just had an interesting 

 experience with an unscrupulous or careless 

 Southern breeder. (Not a Gleanings adver- 

 tiser.) Just a year ago he ordered a dozen 

 queens from this breeder, and sent the mon- 



Will and Walter Klubulm of Couneaut, O., " snapped " just after their arrival in Medina 

 last summer. Bee-suits are just riglit for a quick automobile trip. 



June day 



