GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURK 



id by M. Norikaiie, Tukataimira, Hoi'ahimaken, Ja|)an 



drones will not mix with foreign drones 

 and queens, and so they always retain their 

 natural character. 



In 1909 the president of the Beekeei^ing 

 Association of Shimabara Peninsula was 

 the governor of the peninsula, and in 1910 

 our association sent Mr. F. Nakamura to 

 the Sandwich Islands, where he bought 

 some colonies of pure golden Italians from 

 Mr. Eph. C. Smith. The following year 

 these colonies had increased to 150, and 

 were divided among the members of our 

 association. 



In 1911 and the following year there was 

 quite a rage for the Italian honeybee, espe- 

 cially in Gifu, Fukuoka, Rumamote, and 

 Nagasaki Ken, and the price per colony ad- 

 vanced to yen 100.00 ($50.00), and even 

 reached yen 150.00 ($75.00) at the height 

 of the rage. This enthusiasm did not die 



out till the beginning of this spring; but 

 the price now is only yen 10 — 15 per colo- 



Stocking of bees is not at all evenly dis- 

 tributed over this country, even in this small 

 peninsula. Some parts are very much over- 

 stocked, and the other parts have not a 

 single colony. 



Modern beekeeping is quite a new indus- 

 try in Japan, and at present beekeepers are 

 rather colony-sellers than producers of hon- 

 ey ; but I believe that in a few j^ears the 

 industi-y will greatly increase, and much 

 honey will be produced. We have many 

 honey-plants such as cherry, rape, jasmine, 

 fruit-blossoms, live oak, wax-tree, buck- 

 wheat, tea-blossoms, camellia, and many 

 others. 



Nagasaki. Japan. 



ADVANTAGES OF A SHALLOW BMOOD^FKAME 



UY U. W. HOWELL 



I use ten-frame brood-sections, but have 

 them only eight inches deep. This depth, 1 

 find, is better adapted to this locality, and 

 gives more honey in the supers. When the 

 bees are stonng honey from the fall tiow, 

 and the queen is decreasing her egg-laying, 

 this space is filled with stores for winter. 

 Tlie medium-depth brood-nest which I use 



does not allow so much room for stores that 

 we do not need to winter on here. 



I make my frames 7V2 inches deep, and 

 want Ihem to hang flush with the top edge 

 of the hive section, just as the sliallow deep 

 supers do. I then use 16 x 20 sheet-zinc 

 queen-excluders which lie flat on top of 

 frames and hive section. 



