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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Septembee, 1919 



Warren has proved beyond a doubt that 

 nature, having put out these inducements, 

 knows what she is doing. 

 Warren's System of Comb-honey Production. 



G. M. Doolittle nearly all of his life 

 stressed the great importance of having 

 powerful colonies made up of young bees of 

 the right age at the right time. (Notice 

 the black type.) He used to say that many 

 beekeepers made the mistake of having a 

 large force of bees at the wrong time. From 

 extensive observation all over the United 

 States for the last 30 years, I know that he 

 was absolutely right. I observed that in 

 California, for instance, many beekeepers 

 had colonies which were too weak for the 

 orange flow but strong enough for sage. 

 They would get a light yield of orange and 

 a good flow of sage. The same holds true 

 of the alfalfa flow. Again the reason why 

 many fail to get a good crop from alsike or 

 white clover is because they don't have colo- 

 nies strong enough when clover does come. 

 They will often have hives with a large 

 force of bees but after the clover is out of 

 bloom. Better late than never is a poor rule 

 here because it generally means failure. 



One of the strongest and most consistent 

 advocates of powerful colonies made up of 

 young bees of the right age at the right time 



is Harry R. Warren, the subject of our 

 sketch. According to Mr. Warren, for his 

 locality at least, the average queen will not 

 give him the working force he wants at the 

 first bloom of the alfalfa, so it is his policy, 



Fig. 4. — Mr. Warren's portable extracting houso 

 that he formerly used. He now uses a central ex- 

 tracting station with power equipment, to which he 

 hauls the combs; but, as he runs mainly for comb 

 honey and almost exclusively for it this year, he will 

 extract very little comparatively. 



as outlined in our last issue, to throw the 

 strength of two, three, or more queens or 



Pig. 5. — iForeman Truxton V. I);inpiii tittiiij; at tin \\lii>l •! o;il of tlie lisht Ford trucks. In the back 

 ground is a heavy truck with one of the men in the act of loading hives and supers. lu the extreme 

 background are some of the buildings whexe the workers of the ranch are housed. At thei extreme right 

 is a tent-covered sleeping-room that Mr. AVarren himself uses, and the fact that he uses this outdoor sleep- 

 ing-room the year around may explain in part his wonderful vitality and endurance. 



