Junk, 1919 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



HEADS OF GRAIN Ji/ggLM DI FFERENT FIELDS 



tell Josephine Morse, page 226, also the 

 Editor, page 214, that a good way to move 

 bees is to spread a sheet on the ground, set 

 tlie hive in the middle, and pull the sheet 

 up on the sides, tying the two front corners 

 of the sheet at the back of the hive, and 

 the two back corners at the front of the 

 hive. It may be done in half the time re- 

 quired for sacking a colony, and with much 

 less danger; and when one takes the hive 

 out, the cloth beats the bag all to death. 

 Just untie the two knots and throw the 

 cloth down and run; and when the bees have 

 all gone in, lift the hive off the cloth or 

 use smoker and drive the bees in before 

 throwing the cloth down. 



On page 248, in answer to Julius C. Bech- 

 tel, I suggest that by using the hanging 

 section-holder (N super) which covers the 

 sections on all sides, I save half the scrap- 

 ing, and the sections look better without 

 scraping than they used to with it. 



On page 227, in fastening with a stick, 

 why not use a furniture caster and roll 

 it down in half the time? and why waste six 

 per cent of your foundation (which is $6.00 



on every $100 worth of foundation) by 

 mashing it down on the top-bar, when you 

 can fasten it just as well, or better, and just 

 as rapidly, with a spoon and hot wax (even 

 without a groove) and save four or five 

 dollars out of the six? In using different 

 methods of fastening foundation, wiring, 

 etc., half the battle is in learning how to 

 do it quickly, which is learned only by prac- 

 tice. A man tries a new way for a few 

 minutes and pronounces it no good, and says 

 he can do it faster his old way; whereas if 

 he would try the new way till he gets the 

 hang of it, he would save much time, and 

 perhaps dollars ' worth of material. 



Hammonton, N. J. C. E. Fowler. 



[Such section-holders would prevent much 

 propolizing; but we find there has been very 

 little demand for them during recent years. 

 * * * There is value in the suggestion 

 of saving wax when fastening foundation; 

 but w4iy not save still more wax by using 

 one-third rosin? E. F. Holtermann saves all 

 the wax bv using paraffin and rosin. — Edi- 

 tor.] 



THE BACK LOT BUZZER. 



When Ma got home from Florida this niiriiiff she said she wouldn't exactly stati' that the bees and 

 everything she saw down there was lazy, hut she did see a dog chasin' a rabbit one day, an' they were both 

 walkin'. 



