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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Aug. 1 



side, or end, using a plain follower at the 

 spring side. I use the same follower with No. 

 1, which I use with plain sections. You will 

 see that the openings in the separators are at 

 a point where the sections meet, giving free 

 passage each and every way through the super, 

 also giving the cappers a chance to close up 

 their bees in fine and uniform style, and giv- 

 ing them a chance to recede and get out of the 



No. 1. — Plain sections. 



No. 2. — Grooved sctions, top closed, .3 sides open. 



No. 3 —Follower. 



Arrows show beeways. 



way while changing sections. I do the work 

 of taking out full and replacing empty sec- 

 tions at same time, taking out none but well- 

 filled ones. I work only for comb honey. 



Last season was an off one, yet I averaged 

 over 65 well-filled sections per colony, most of 

 which would class as " fancy white." I call 

 my separator the "Harrison" for want of a 

 better name. GEO. W. Harrison. 



Susanville, Cal., Mar. 3. 



[The peculiarity of your mode of using sec- 

 tions is that they can not be tiered up — that 

 is, I judge your honey-flow must be of such a 

 nature that you require only one tier of sec- 

 tions at a time ; but in most places in Califor- 

 nia the practice is to use two tiers of sections 

 — sometimes three and four, and it is certain- 

 ly a great advantage to do so, or at least I so 

 considered it in the localities I visited. How- 

 ever, you can get very nice honey, beautifully 

 well filled, on the plan you describe. With 

 the exception that the openings through the 

 top are closed, your method is the same as 

 that which has been used in England, for a 

 good many years in connection with slotted 

 .separators. It is also practically the same, 

 with the exception of the open top, as that 

 U9ed by L. A. Aspinwall, and by Louis Scholl 

 and H. H. Hyde, mentioned in this issue. All 

 things considered, I think you will find it an 

 advantage to practice tiering up. — Ed.] 



WHY THE QUEEN WOULD NOT STAY IN THE 

 HIVE. 



June 27th I introduced a clipped queen in a 

 hive of bees. On the 28th, about 4 o'clock, 

 she came out of the hive with quite a number 

 of bees gathered around her on the grass. I 

 put her back into the hive. The next day, at 

 about the same hour, she came out again with 

 bees around her as before. I put her back 

 again. The next day, 30th, she did the same 

 as before, and so on for four or five days. 

 July 4th she came out twice. I caged her and 

 introduced another queen. The bees seemed 

 tobe very uneasy until I introduced the second 

 queen, but are all right now. Before I intro- 

 duced the second queen I opened the hive, 

 taking out the frames, some of which were 

 two-thirds filled with comb with considerable 

 honey, but could not find an egg. What do 

 you think was the trouble ? L. C. Upp. 



Mt. Pulaski, 111., July 6. 



[Friend U., you do not tell us where you 

 got the queen that behaved so queerly. Un- 

 less you know she had been laying in some 

 other hive I should say she had never been 

 fertilized. Then the question arises, "Who 

 was so foolish as to clip a queen without know- 

 ing that she was a laying queen?" Unless 

 you tell us what you know about her before 

 this queer behavior, we should hardly want to 

 conjecture a reason. I have, however, known 

 laying queens, when introduced into a new 

 hive, go out in the manner you mention, as if 

 they were displeased about something ; but I 

 never knew one to hold out so long in the 

 way you describe. I should say she was not 

 worth bothering with any way, and you did 

 the proper thing in giving the bees another 

 queen. — A. I. R.] 



HIVING SWARMS IN ROOMY HIVES. 



Say to Chris. Kinsel, p. 556, if he will use 

 two hives instead of one in hiving his large 

 swarms he won't be troubled by their leaving 

 the hive. The upper hive should contain the 

 frames, and the lower hive should be empty. 

 Shade the hive well, and the third day take 

 away the bottom hive and lower the top hive 

 on to the bottom-board. Wm. Craig. 



Luce, Mich., July 8. 



[Very likely, friend C, more room inside 

 of the hive, especially during exceedingly 

 warm weather, would have a tendency to pre- 

 vent the bees from leaving. Of course the 

 hive should be in the shade if the sun is shin- 

 ing very warmly. — A. I. R.] 



B. M. H., N. C. — If your bees have plenty 

 of honey in the hive, don't bother about feed- 

 ing them now. In fact, feeding should not 

 be resorted to at all unless there is a liability 

 of the bees becoming short during the com- 

 ing winter. In your locality the bees should 

 have, along about November, at least 25 lbs. 

 of sealed stores, or what would be the equiva- 

 lent of six frames, Langstroth size, or honey 

 partly capped over. 



