May, 1919 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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Water Saved Having received word 



These Bees. that five packages of 



V)ecs were at the post- 

 ofHico uncalled for, and were rapidly dying, 

 I poclceted a flaslc of syrup and one of water, 

 also a brush and sardine-tin, and went with 

 first aid. I got permission to tend them. 

 The ]iostoffice authorities urged me to take 

 the bees home before they all died; but I 

 soon convinced them that water was what 

 the bees needed most. The janitor used 

 good judgment in placing them on a window- 

 sill in the shade and air. He had tried a lit- 

 tle sugar syrup at the suggestion of some 

 one, but they did not care much for that. 

 When I ajjpHed the water — say, but tliey got 

 busy and cleaned it up about as fast as I 

 got down the line of five cages, ready to go 

 over them again. I had most of the jjost- 

 office force on hand Sunday morning inter- 

 ested, and even the postmaster got worked 

 up and tried his hand at watering them. 

 But I learned something all right; and that 

 is that five pounds of bees took over a pint 

 and a half of water that morning. I went 

 down again Monday morning, and they took 

 a little over half a pint again then. Many 

 of those that seemed suffocated revived, and 

 the rest were soon in fine condition. 

 Decatur, 111. Chas. A. Black. 



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What Industry Can 

 Do for a Beekeeper. 



W. H. Kircher has 200 

 colonies. He has two 

 kinds of hives, but 

 each kind is by itself as seen in the picture, 

 and the whole surroundings are a model of 

 neatness. He produces extracted honey, has 

 a ready market for his honey, and since he 

 has had the small diseased apiaries about 



him cleaned up he is succeeding well. The 

 bees and some small fruit, jirincipally cur- 

 rants, give him plenty to do. This is a good 

 examp'e of what persistence, industry, and 

 intelligent management can do in an aver- 

 age Michigan location. 



Yjjsilanti, Mich. Edwin Ewell, 



Extension Worker in Beekeeping 'for Mich. 



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Retarding the 

 Hatching of Eggs. 



In the S e p t e m b e r 

 Gleanings, 19 18, de- 

 partment of "Glean- 

 ed by Asking," J. B. Douglass questions: 

 ''(!an bees control hatching of eggs?" He 

 believes they can. So do I. To a weak colo- 

 ny, which already had lost two virgin 

 queens (i^robably on their wedding flights), 

 I gave another ripe cell together witli a 

 frame of eggs from another hive, and could 

 observe that not all of these eggs hatched. 

 Unfortunately also the third young queen 

 was lost, and I was astounded to see that 

 the bees started from the then-unhatched 

 eggs new queen-cells (11 days later), one 

 of them producing a beautiful young queen. 

 Guatamala. Jose Gutman. 



1 1 believe that the incubation of freshly 

 laid eggs can be retarded by regulation of 

 temperature. However, in this case, I 

 think the eggs were stolen from another 

 hive. — Mel Pritchard.] 



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All the Queens Last year I had a pe- 



Were Lost. culiar experience. 



With only a few colo- 

 nies I have been able to go thru them 

 quietly and careiully about once a week and 

 keep all queen-cells cut out. Last spring I 



Mr. Kircher's apiary at Murris, }.l... 1... ;:.; result of intelligent muuajjcment. 



