<i:i"l'KMMKR 1, 1915 



nest, and sliaJ^e or bnisli all the bees in 

 fionl of I he liive. As the combs are tVeed 

 of bees, return Iheni to the hive. 



When this is done, place the cover on tho 

 liive. As the bees pass in at the entran.ce 

 release the queen among- them; and as slie 



passe.' in at liie entran('(> give her a little 

 smoke, and siie is introduced. If the colo- 

 ny has been riueenless some lime, or if there 

 is robbing going on, the colony should not 

 l)e disturbed \\>v foil v-eiiilit hours. 

 Wintin, Cal. 



A HIYELESS COLONY 



BY AXl^KEW CARMAN 



The accomi)anying 

 ]diotogra{>h is one of 

 a freak scrub of wild 

 honey. I have found 

 and cut 163 bee-trees, 

 having hunted bees 

 ever since 1 was old 

 enough, and I have 

 never before found a 

 comb similar to the 

 one here shown. 



Last fall I followed 

 hr'o?' to a large sound 

 homlock - tree about 

 eighty feet high and 

 two feet in diameter 

 at the stump. The tree 

 was growing at the 

 tap of the gorge below 

 the Devasego Falls in 

 the Schoharie Creek in 

 Sr-hohaiie County, X. 

 Y. Wliile watching the 

 bees trying to find the 

 hole in the tnink 

 where Ihey entered, I 

 discovered the comb 



-hown in the pliotograph hanging to a limb 

 about fifty feet from the ground. The only 

 pi-ntPction from the weather the bees en- 

 joyed was the limbs of the hemlock above 

 tlie ^'omb and the surrounding trees which 

 acted as a windbreak. 



The tree was climbed with dilhculty. the 

 bees subdued, the limb holding- the comb 

 sawed off, and carefully lowered to the 



Too careless to look fiirtliei-, the bees had settled on a limb. 



ground by means of a light rope. 



The comb, deducting for the e-stimated 

 weight of tlie limb, weighed forty-four 

 pounds- 



Evidently the bees, having swarmed on 

 the limb, began work immediately, not 

 t'-oubling themselves to look further for a 

 more shelteied harbor inside a hollow tree. 



Plattsville, N. Y. 



FEEDING BEES IN LESS THAN HALF A MINUTE 



riV WILLIAM BEUCUS 



In the issue for Oct. 11. 1014. np|ieared 

 an article, illustrating my new combination 

 hi\e-bottom and feeder. The spring of 1015 

 was ven' cold and rainy, and the new fer^d- 

 ers came in very handy. They far excel 

 anything T have tried so far — nothing to 

 liunt up, nothing to put away. On any 

 day, too cold or rainy for the bees to fly. 

 just fill a pail with warm feed and scjuirt 



some in at the entrances. The pans catch 

 it so there is no waste. It is not necessary 

 to mo^•e any pieces nor even to stoop much. 

 One hundred colonies can be fed in an hour 

 -in fact, 116 Avere fed in 4r> minutes — h'ss 

 liian half a minute fo a colony. It's nore 

 fini than to iro to a i>ood show to feed the 

 Ijees on a cold raw day. 



JIow dilfereut it was a few years ago when 



