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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



August, 1919 



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J_ keeping 

 fraternity, 

 I think, should 

 appreciate the 

 article of Mr. 

 Joseph H. Peter- 

 son of Garland, 

 Utah, under the 

 head, 'It Works 



Very Satisfactorily,' in April, 1919, Glean- 

 ings, page 227. His method is decidedly the 

 most satisfactory I have ever used for fas- 

 tening foundation in frames. He does not 

 name the tool he describes, and I wish to 

 suggest 'Sticker' as a good name. It is 

 short and appropriate. Any one can make 

 a sticker. I made one from a piece of 

 scrubby cedar I cut several years ago on top 

 of Stone Mountain near Atlanta as a sou- 

 venir, and it works fine. Choose a hot day 

 for using the sticker, and have the cup of 

 water handy, as suggested by Mr. Peterson, 

 to keep the" foundation from sticking to the 

 sticker." — L. K. Smith, Carroll County, Ga. 



' ' Has it ever happened for any one else 

 that a queen was received in a shipment of 

 honey. I received from Florida a seventeen- 

 case shipment of section honey, and upon 

 opening it found a virgin queen running 

 around as spry as a cricket. I had a queen- 

 less colony, so I introduced her successfully, 

 and now have a fine yellow prolific layer. 

 She is a beauty. ' '— G. E. Leavitt, Hamilton 

 County, Tenn. 



" E. G. Norton, a progressive beekeeper 

 of Nevada, produced over $32,000 worth of 

 honey from 600 colonies last season, or an 

 average of $53.33 per colony. Some people 

 are rather skeptical as to the chances of 

 ' making good ' in the bee business. In fact, 

 one man told me that it was rather a risky 

 business to enter. As far as I can see per- 

 sonally, more money is made out of bees 

 for the amount of capital invested than 

 from any other established business in the 

 world. ' '— Bevan L. Hugh, Santa Clara Coun- 

 ty, Calif. 



' ' About 20 years ago I was a cripple as 

 the result of muscular rheumatism. I was 

 advised to keep bees, which I did. After 

 handling them one year and getting stung a 

 number of times, the rheumatism left me. 

 I had bees for five years, and I had no pain. 

 I quit for two years, and the rheumatism 

 came back. At once I bought some more 

 bees and have never had rheumatism since. 

 I have doctored with the best doctors this 

 State has, but the only cure found is bee- 

 stings. One of my hives this day has 32 

 pounds of capped honey on top of the hive 

 body, and I put on another super. ' ' — Gill- 

 more 0. Bush, Orange County, N. Y. 



' ' About two weeks ago I visited the rice 

 mill at Beaumont. Going down the plat- 

 form I noticed quite a few bees flying 

 around. Upon investigation I discovered 

 that they were working in the end of a box 



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car. The men on 

 the platform 

 said that the car 

 had just been set 

 in that morning. 

 After prying ofE 

 one of the 

 boards we found 

 that they had a 

 large brood-nest 

 and a lot of surplus. I have wondered if the 

 car had been on a siding for some time to 

 allow the bees to accumulate the stores, or 

 if the coming brood was sufficient to keep 

 the colony working while the car was being 

 moved from place to place. I never saw nor 

 heard of a similar incident. — C. H. Deabler, 

 Hardin County, Tex. 



"One day while getting a hive ready for 

 bees, a number of bees came flying about 

 the empty hive. Thinking it a good plan 

 I set the hive down to let the bees clean 

 out the little honey that remained, and 

 thus have it nice and clean for the ones or- 

 dered; but the bees never left, and in less 

 than one hour the hive was occupied by a 

 strong colony. Three days afterward I 

 moved the hive to a permanent stand. Two 

 days later bees were flying in great numbers 

 over the same spot, so I brought another 

 empty hive and set it down with the same 

 results. Immediately the hive was occupied 

 by a strong colony. This makes two strong 

 colonies. Each came the same way and on 

 the same place." — Edwin F. Kuhn, Cumber- 

 land County, N. J. 



' ' Crop conditions in this section — clover, 

 none; honeydew and dark (yellow) honey, 

 liberal enough only to keep the bees breed- 

 ing and spoil the clover honey (if there had 

 been any)." — Chas. F. Hoser, Montgomery 

 County, Pa. 



' ' Yesterday I was in a red-clover field 

 and heard bees humming. I watched and 

 found that they were working on the red 

 clover. In a short time I found that they 

 were working on imperfect heads. There 

 were a great number of grasshoppers in the 

 field, and they had eaten the bloom to some 

 extent. Where the heads were eaten the 

 bees were able to get their tongues down to 

 the nectar. At times they hesitated at a 

 perfect head, but seemed to know at once 

 that it was no use and passed on. So far 

 this is a poor year in this locality. The bees 

 are fine, but they have gathered no surplus. 

 Theie is some white clover — in some places 

 enough to give a whitish cast to the ground, 

 but there are no bees on it." — R. R. Ram- 

 sey, Monroe County, Ind. 



' ' Thanks for the ingenious smoker which 

 we found of great help during the present 

 epidemic of influenza. It is an ideal ap- 

 paratus for aeration in hospitals, sanitari- 

 ums, and in private homes. Several fami- 

 lies. having fallen suddenly ill at once, I took 

 two smokers and stuffed them with dry 

 eucalyptus leaves. I then went to the bed- 



