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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Jan 1 



are pollen and honey. The brood is re- 

 newed from time to time with brood taken 

 from the same queen on the other side of the 

 perforated partition. So this hive makes a 

 continual hatching of queens possible, while 

 it keeps up a hive full of bees, since it has a 

 good queen laying. As soon as the cells are 

 ready to hatch they are placed in cell-protect- 

 tors and given to nuclei. Our nuclei are made 

 to contain ten half frames such as are describ- 

 ed in the " Hive and Honey-bee " (page 267, 

 American edition) by Mr. Dadant, who used 

 them himself when he reared queens for sale. 

 We find them better than the same surface in 

 large frames, and they can be joined together 

 when the nuclei are either destroyed or en- 

 larged. 



CANDIED VS. BOTTLED LIQUID HONEY. 



Figuring up the Profits on Bottled Honey; Answer 

 to Mr. Aikin. 



BY CHAI^ON FOWLS. 



And now remember, Mr. Aikin, 

 Nae kind of license out I'm takiu' ; 

 Frae this time forth I do declare 

 I'se ne'er ride horse nor hissie niair. 



— Robert Burns. 



As suggested by the editor I will now " pay 

 my respects to the Ridgepole (F)ow]." It 

 seems the sage of the Ridgepole must have 

 been Aikin for a fight or he would not have 

 started out gunning after Ohio poultry. He 

 " puts up a good game too" as defense, but he 



GIR.\UD-PABOU AND WIFE READING GI^EANINGS. 



In this manner one single hive reared 

 and brought to the hatching-point 314 queens, 

 all from this single selected queen, during the 

 season of 1900. Our first trials in this line 

 were made in 1897, but we did not fully suc- 

 ceed until the summer of 1899. This year the 

 result was superb. We have about 100 colo- 

 nies, and make our own foundation, as we are 

 unable to find any thing but adulterated goods 

 on this side of the ocean. 



[The above was translated by C. P. Dadant, 

 who says Mr. Giraud-Pabou has three sons 

 with him, the youngest of whom is 16. They 

 are in the mercantile business at Landreau, 

 and their specialty in the bee business is queen- 

 rearing. 



\ The person holding the frames of completed 

 queen-cells is a son of Mr. Pabou, and proba- 

 bly the one who achieved such remarkable re- 

 sults in queen-rearing. Even a Doolittle or a 

 Pridgen might be proud of that batch of cells 

 shown in Fig. 2. — Ed.] 



should have noticed that in my article on page 

 304 I disclaimed any intention of attacking 

 his methods of marketing in Colorado. 



I suppose in the " wild and woolly West " 

 they have such great crops that, with the 

 sparse population, there is a perpetual glut in 

 the honey market, and no doubt 6 cts. a pound, 

 or the price of sugar, is all it will bring ; but 

 the case is different down here. People are 

 willing to pay something for flavor. 



Now, Bro. Aikin, you may be safe clear up 

 on the top round of the apiarian ladder with 

 that owl so close ; but he is an old enemy of 

 the fowl tribe, and I have mounted up high 

 enough to get a squint at him, but I shall 

 urge my numerous family to get after you 

 both. 



You say he's peaceable; but I'm too old a 

 Fowl to be fooled like that. I can see through 

 his thin disguise, and I'm going for him with 

 my gun and a brinistoiie-pot, for he's a Miller, 

 and I always tell my friends to beware of those. 



