Atril, 1919 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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k e 3' with 

 the bee. Tho 

 bee has person- 

 ality. It has an 

 object in life. 

 The monkey is a 

 scattorbrain, be- 

 cause he has on- 

 ly himself to think about." — Monthly Bul- 

 letin of the Chamber of Commerce of Ho- 

 boken, N. J., Sept. 191S. 



"I should like to try wintering with 

 frames crosswise of the hive. It sounds rea- 

 sonable, and I will try it out. ' ' — D. G. Hol- 

 termann, Brantford, Ont., Canada. 



"Have had two colonies in our back yard 

 for the last five years and never a summer 

 swarm and never a winter loss until last 

 winter when two mice squeezed in and ruined 

 one colony. However this is educational to 

 me. I thought I knew a mouse's limitations 

 before; but I surely do now and there will 

 be no more mice nests inside the hives. Our 

 one hive went thru the winter in fine shape 

 and has made over 200 pounds of clover 

 honey." — I. T. Eowland, Albany, N. Y. 



"We have about 240 colonies, and run 

 most of them for comb honey, altho more 

 extracted honey is produced here in the 

 Yakima Valley than comb. This climate 

 is very changeable, the temperature going 

 below zero in winter, and away up in the 

 90 's in the shade in summer. Between times 

 we have great windstorms in which the 

 bees are killed by the wholesale when com- 

 ing home loaded with nectar. In the winter 

 I have only a chaff cushion in an empty su- 

 per over the brood-chamber and a piece of 

 canvas over that with an entrance made 

 smaller of course. ' ' — Victoria Becker, Ya- 

 kima County, Wash. 



"Last summer I carried your little one- 

 frame observation hive with me for four 

 weeks while I lectured in Ohio teachers' in- 

 stitutes. At the Hotel Secor in Toledo I 

 was followed by detectives who thought the 

 little hive was an infernal machine intend- 

 ed for purposes of destruction. I was told 

 the next day that as many as nine persons 

 had been in my rooin at one time inspecting 

 what seemed to be a dangerous proposition. 

 Among them was the manager of the hotel 

 and the house detective. They did all this 

 in spite of the fact that the name, ' A. I. 

 Eoot Co., Medina, O., ' was printed on the 

 hive." — W. A. Matheny, Athens, O. 



"Your Gleanings should have much credit 

 from this locality, as it was at least par- 

 tially responsible for the organization of our 

 local beekeepers' association for mutual 

 benefit, with the result that local prices ad- 

 vanced 61/4 cents per pound in five days 

 after the association first offered honey in 

 car lots. At the beginning of the season 

 some contracts were made as low as 10c per 

 pound, and the Utah car-lot buyers unani- 



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mously bid 15c 

 i'. (). 1 1. Til the 

 li\'e days prices 

 advanced from 

 15c, our best of- 

 fei' received in 

 the association 

 meeting from a 

 car-lot represen- 

 tative, to 21%c, 

 but no sales. The association eventually sold 

 100,000 pounds at 25c f. o. b. Utah. On ac- 

 count of bad weather and roads they are hold- 

 ing some that was not delivered for the same 

 price, 25c; and, as the quality is strictly 

 fancy, the selling committee feel that the 

 honey is well worth tho price asked." — 

 John A. Cronk, Myton, Utah. 



"Mind you, I do not say bees can not 

 hear; but I have been quite a close observer 

 for nearly 40 years, and I am still awaiting 

 evidence that they can. When those won- 

 derful aluminum combs supersede the combs 

 constructed by the bees strictly in accord- 

 ance with the laws of their Divine Creator, 

 then I will believe that bees can hear. But, 

 reaHy, what is the difference whether they 

 can hear or not except for our satisfaction 

 of knowing? It is the honey they are after 

 (and they do not find it by following the 

 'conie-on,-girls, ' tone of field workers), and 

 that is what we are after also." — Elias Fox, 

 Juneau County, Wis. 



"All writers appear to condemn Heurth 's 

 Funics. I have tried them now on a large 

 scale for five years, and have obtained 10 

 times the crop and 30 times the unfed in- 

 crease that I used to get from natives. In- 

 deed they have been my staff during this 

 awful epidemic among bees. Can you not 

 appeal for a fair trial of them? Prejudice 

 dies hard, and Cowan's verdict was on the 

 surface a true one. They have some griev- 

 ous faults, but they are a most wonderful 

 bee. I have tried many thousands of them, 

 and can speak with some confidence." — C. 

 B. Bart:ett, Barley Park, Oxon, England. 



[The writer claims to be the largest bee- 

 keeper in the British Isles. — Ed.] 



"I winter my bees ontdoors in standard 

 ten-frame hives. I have my colonies on a 

 stand 18 inches from the ground, stand 

 holding 10 colonies, and tight against each 

 other for winter. I remove all the tops to 

 get them as close as possible and cover the 

 entire 10 with one cover made in the same 

 way that the ordinary metal cover is made. 

 I place above the frames a small lattice- 

 framework consisting of five strips of %- 

 inch wood, which cover about seven frames, 

 with the cross strips turned down so as 

 to give the bees access from one frame 

 to another across the top of frames. 

 Over this I place a super with a burlap bot- 

 tom and fill super with cut straw or hay, and 

 my bees generally come thru O. K. and I 

 have them working in the supers during ap- 

 ple-blossom time. "—Otto J. Spahn, Wesit- 

 chester County, N, Y. 



