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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Exliibit of J P. Lutas for 



Kiiiisas l-'uir in 1 iJl J. 



but others evidently passed through, as I 

 saw two Avhen hiving the swarms. How 

 many remained in the hive I do not know. 

 More bees stayed with" the brood this time 

 than before. 



I opened the hive and found on the frame 

 of brood seventeen queen-cells, all contain- 

 ing larva;. 



To sum up, several virgin queens lived 

 harmoniously together foi' five da>-, a.d 

 the swarm, meantime, smarted seventeen 

 ijueen-cells and swarmed out. 



They drew out very little of the founda- 

 tion on wliich they were hived. 



The bees were Italian hybrids. 



A she vi lie, N. C. 



A SENSIBLE AND VALUABLE EXHIBIT AT THE KANSAS STATE FAIR 



BY J. P. LUCAS 



Many a time I have been accused of 

 aUowing my bees to desti'oy my neighbor's 

 grapes and peaches, so 1 had a glass hive 

 and super made, and in the hive put a good 

 sti'ong colony of bees; and in the suiter, as 

 shown in the photograph, a dish of peaches 

 and one of grapes. I thought it would be 

 a novel idea to make such a display for the 

 fair, as it would show the people that bees 

 will not destroy sound fruit. I had the hive 

 at the fairgrounds for a week, and then 

 took it uptown with a nice lot of honey and 

 placed it in a show-window where it stayed 

 two weeks longer. During the three weeks 

 the bees had not touched any of the fruit. 



The other illustration shows a i)art of my 

 display, especially the building made of 



extracted lumey. which caused hits of com- 

 ment. 



On llif end Idward tlie front 1 liad honey 

 produced frou! '_;4 different ])lants, all 

 plainly labeled. 



Tlie door and a\ indows wei'e made i)f wax 

 molded in small cakes, and jtlaced on a 

 boaid. The roof was made of bottles of 

 honey, and on tlie sides and the other end 

 I had my honey for competition, while in 

 the background were the dried specimens 

 of honey-plants and fruit put up in honey. 

 I commenced canning fruit in honey five 

 years ago, and have continued every year. 

 So far. all of it, even that wliich is live 

 year's old, is in perfecJ: condition. 



Topeka, Kan. 



