Dkck.mpkk. 1918 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULT U M E 



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HEADS OF GRAIN T iPPOMlQ fl DIFFERENT FIELDS 



chanie! He told us that he took from them 

 last 3'ear three "hives" (as he called them), 

 and got 17 lbs. of honey. We bought those 

 three boxes of bees June 8, and transferred 

 them into three modern hives ha\"ing drawn 

 combs and ga\'e eaidi one of them a (jueen 

 of the best Italian stock. From June 8 to 

 Sept. 18 of this year they made us 114 lbs. 

 of extracted honey })er colony, which sold at 

 23 cents a pound, making an average in- 

 come per colony of $24.15. That is the dif- 

 ference between keeping bees and beekeep- 

 ing. C. Klabuhn & Sons. 

 Oonneaut, O. 



HowStingless As a source of possi- 



Bees Perform. ble interest I have pur- 



chased four colonies 

 of stingless bees. The natives find these 

 wild bees in hollow trees, from which they 

 cut about one yard of limb or tree body, 

 leaving the entrance in the center. Both ends 

 are then covered w^ith mud and the small 

 log hung in the shade. After purchasing, 

 I transferred to ten-frame hives, and dur- 

 ing the process discovered that in each 

 colony the combs were all in a horizontal 

 position, five or six on top of each other, 

 being supported by little wax pillars and 



having a -Ts-iiich space between the combs. 

 There were no empty cells, but all of the 

 eggs and larvae were sealed in the cells, the 

 eggs being laiil in pollen and sealed imme- 

 diately. The queen is larger than an Ital- 

 ian, but has very small wings and can not 

 fly. These bees are good workers. All in 

 between the frames of the hives that I gave 

 them they built quantities of cups about 

 1 inch in diameter and l\i inches in height, 

 and filled these with honey. 



Enrique Bahr. 

 San Pedro, Honduras. 



Can Anybody Has any one invented 



Answer This? a dependable contriv- 



ance for watering bees 

 on the desert? Here in the West there are 

 many fine locations for apiaries, so far as 

 pasturage is concerned, but no dependable 

 water supply. Some sort of metal tank hold- 

 ing three or four barrels of water with a 

 safe and sure device for permitting a small 

 quantity to escape at a time would fill the 

 bill and permit an extension of out-apiaries 

 to many waterless localities. Has any one 

 hit on a device? W. E. Woodruff. 



Cottonwood, Ariz. 



THE BACKLOT BUZZER. 



Benny Sourweed, who quit chickens for bees, tays he'll never k<) back to poultry. Benny says with the 



price of honey this fall, he can do all the cacklin' and crowin' himself. 



