]\L\RCU, 1919 



GLEAKINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



151 



FROM THE FIELD OF EXPERIENCE 



and will continue to do so until conditions 

 arc much changed. 



If beekeepers generally adopt this system 

 of rearing their own queens, in less than five 

 years we shall be back to where we started 

 25 or 30 years ago. Howard M. Myers. 



Ransomville, N-. Y. 



[There are a great many "farmer bee- 

 keepers ' ' who own quite a number of colo- 

 nies, and who do not feel that they can af- 

 ford to buy queens for their entire apiary. 

 These people may be capable of rearing 

 queens quite successfully; aiid I believe that 

 it is much better for them to purchase one 

 queen of good stock to use as a breeder, 

 and raise their own queens, than to allow 

 the bees to requeen themselves year after 

 year, as is often the case. While these 

 home-bred queens are likely to be largely 

 mismated, they are enough better than the 

 third or fourth generation of hybrids so 

 that it will pay well to raise them. — Mel 

 Pritchard.] 



ANOTHER KIND OF WINDBREAK 



stalks 



Threaded in the Meshes of Woven 

 Wire Do the Trick 



During the past year the value of a wind- 

 break has been so strongly presented both 

 by beekeepers and our Government experts, 



that I have been convinced of the necessity 

 for one as a protection for any bee-yard. I 

 had been thinking about windbreaks for 

 five years or more and had planned one such 

 as I would build, if I ever had occasion to 



Fia 



-The kind of wire fencing used in making 

 cornstalk-fence windbreak. 



the 



Fig. 1. — View of Mr. Hassinger's apiary showing cornstalk-fence windbreak of different heights on two sides. 



