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GLEANINGS TN BEE CULTITRE 



this so-called noxious weed for pasture and 

 hay. A full carload of sweet-clover seed 

 was shipped from a station in Nebraska last 

 fall. One farmer in Nebraska sowed 600 

 acres in sweet clover last spring. Much of 

 this land was sandy, and he got a stand of 

 only about 300 acres. He will sow the 

 other 300 acres in sweet clover this spring. 

 Bees generally winter well in Nebraska, 

 cither in the cellar or on the summer stands. 



The coUans here are very dry — no dampness 

 whatever. 



The only drawback to beekeeping in 

 Nebraska is a bee disease, not the regular 

 foul brood. It will break out in a yard, j 

 and the bees do not swarm. It may last ^ 

 one or two seasons; and if the colonies are 

 not requeened with young queens they be- 

 come queenless and die out. 



Miller, Neb. 



TERM NOTES - COLLECTIBLE 



P,V AK'TTIUR C. MILLER 



Look on the sunny (and funny) side of 

 things. It is the happier way, and leads to 

 success. 



Hundreds of hives of bees were shipped 

 to California by water in the winter of 

 1859. D'ye mind? 



Perhaps, just perhaps, some of the things 

 we beemen know ain't so after all. I'm 

 talking about the other chap. 



Brothers Holtermann and Crane are 

 scrapping over an eight-foot line fence. 

 Humph ! A fence that high would keep 

 most folks apart. 



The predicted fun has arrived. Sixteen- 

 inch covers on sixteen and one-quarter inch 

 hives ! They do not exactly " fit like a 

 duck's foot in the mud." 



Procrastination is the — say it your way if 

 you wish — ^what I was going to say, howev- 

 er, was that Procrastination is the trouble- 

 maker and crop-loser in the bee business. 

 And you might impress it on your bees too. 



" If the bees are getting honey abundant- 

 ly the boxes may be set a foot or two from 

 the entrance to the hive' for the bees to 

 leave them. Keep from the hot sun." — 

 Quinby, 1860. 



Nice mess caused by the difference of a 

 quarter inch in depth of different makes of 

 "deep supers." It gives one violent thoughts 

 if not angry speech. When shall we gel 

 standardization of supplies? 



So ray friend Byer thinks candy-feeding 

 a fad. Well, son, you have a chance to 

 think again; but give it a good try firs' — 

 the candy, I mean. Candy has sundry and 

 several advantages peculiar to itself. 



What's in a name? "Absorbent cusliions." 

 which must not absorb, but shall permit the 

 passage and escape of moisture. " Call a 

 spade a spade " instead of a " dirt con- 

 veyor," and liien the poor innocents will 

 stand a show of getting the drift of whal 

 you are trying to talk about. A really a'j- 



sorbent cushion over the bees would I)e a 

 sure-enough bee-exterminator. 



Those Californians seldom do things by 

 halves. They voted "wet," and now they 

 have had superabundant rains, which means 

 a good honey crop and plenty of dilutant 

 for the other "wet" things. Blessings never 

 come singly. 



I wonder if F. A. Hanneman " invented " 

 the perforated zinc queen-excluder, or mere- 

 ly applied to the art of bee culture the 

 perforated zinc long used for bean-sifting. 

 The results are all right, so we won't quib- 

 ble about terms or glory. 



Louis Scholl got caught with 35,000 lbs. 

 of comb honey on his hives in winter, stuck 

 there by the mud. Some of the New York 

 boj^s will envy him. Wonder if Scholl and 

 others would not profit by turning some of 

 their energy to a good-roads propaganda. 



Complete equipment to save labor is ex- 

 cellent, if it does not cost more in upkeep 

 and interest than the labor saved is worth. 

 Just where equipment should be curtailed 

 and labor be added is a mooted question 

 which each one must decide for himself. 



In ye olden time a split side stick, with the 

 pith partly removed to form a trough, was 

 filled with a mixture of ale and sundry oth- 

 er things, and pushed in at the hive entrance 

 to feed the bees, to keep them alive and 

 " to give them encouragement." Wonder 

 what some of those old sages would think 

 of the manner of its doing now. 



Who invented comb foundation? Don't 

 answer too (quickly. Listen. " A gentleman 

 just in from California informs us that in 

 San Francisco there is just now no little 

 interest taken in a process of casting the 

 bottoms of the cells of honeycomb from old 

 wax. He says the bee^ will go on and 

 comjilele tlie cells, and thai this jn'ocess not 

 only furthers their work, but secures reg- 

 ularly formed combs in any position in the 



