GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Twelve supers containing 335 filled sections, the season's har%'est from one hive. 



there were thirteen that would grade as 

 culls an account of not being fully capped 

 over. All of the rest were No. 1 sections 

 Some were a pound, and nearly all above 

 13 oz. net. 



In one of the pictures I am standing next 

 to No. 8 for a comparison of heights, my 

 height being 5 feet 10 inches. Each hive 

 requires a stone on the cover to keep it 

 from making journeys. As you will see, 

 nature has provided lavishly of these neces- 

 sary articles, and there are spare stones for 

 more hives, but no jDlaces to locate any more 

 hives. 



The next hive with comb-honey supers to 

 the left is my first swarm of the season, 

 cast May 5. It produced 196 sections. The 

 next to the left of it, in front of the honey- 

 house, produced 103 sections and 101 lbs. 

 in brood-frames filled with full sheets. The 

 second swarm was cast May 6. In the 

 distance are the Sierra Nevada Mountains. 

 My other increase (three colonies), produc- 

 ed 72 sections, 71 sections, and 73 lbs. in 

 ten new brood-frames. The 1914 season's 

 production from the ten stands as shown in 

 the Sept. 1st, '13, picture was five colonies 

 increase, or 50 per cent, and 811/2 24-section 

 eases of comb honey and 30 new brood- 

 combs filled with honey. These brood-combs 

 are for spare stores to replace some old 

 combs which I may wish to cull out in the 

 spring if any stretched cells or drone-cells 



are found. Every inch of my brood-combs 

 must be working, and contain worker-cells. 



The view across Owen's Valley shows in 

 the foreground the trees where swarms clus- 

 ter to be hived. I climb down instead of 

 up, as is the usual manner of getting to the 

 clusters — down on my knees. Seen in the 

 distance are the Wliite Mountains, elevation 

 over 12,000 ft. In another view (cover 

 l^icture) the Sierra Nevadas rise in the 

 distance with snow-covered peaks over 

 14,000 ft. in elevation. 



Tlie nearest alfalfa in this location is 1% 

 miles away, and not more than 200 acres 

 within a two-mile circle, all on the side 

 toward the White Mountains. The Owen's 

 River Valley is here about 14 miles wide. 

 In some of these pictures two hives are 

 shown that were moved in at the close of 

 the season from a neighboring apiary. 



T am inclined to credit my season's suc- 

 cess to a correspondence course in beekeep- 

 ing which I finished about two years ago. 



The diploma I received, and the crop pro- 

 duced, have promoted me from the ABC 

 class to a fairly good start in tlie Division 

 of AgTicultural Education Correspondence 

 Course No. 15 of the University of Cali- 

 fornia. This calls for some brushing up of 

 the botany on which I had never done any 

 reading. But I hope to live through it. 

 even if do have to make sketches of bees' 

 tongues. 



Bishop, Cal. 



