Septkmber, 1919 



GLEANINGS T N BEE CULTURE 



575 



these deep frames, as will be seen by tlic 

 number of supers; and this picture, it should 

 be remembered, was taken on Jiily 8 in the 

 fore part of the honey flow. The luxurious 

 honey-house in Fig. 6 is also an example of 

 the prosperity of Mr. Jones' bees. 

 Other Yards of Interest. 



E. Clark of Ingersoll, owing to the cramp- 

 ed quarters, has his bees in two long rows 

 as will be seen in Fig. 10. Mr. Clark has 

 surprisingly little trouble with drifting and 

 as he always introduces laying queens he 

 has no trouble with queens entering the 

 wrong hive after the mating flight. How- 

 ever, he intends moving some of his bees to 

 an outyard next spring. Fig. 5 shows the 

 type of hive he uses for wintering. This hive 

 has not been entirely satisfactory and Mr. 

 Clark is now adopting the cork-packed hive 

 shown in the fore part of Fig. 10. 



The primitive yard shown in Fig. 1 con- 



tains about 200 colonies, all in box hives. 

 They are owned by James Wrightson of 

 Paisley. Mr. Wrightson winters his bees 

 in sawdust-packed hives. In consideration 

 of the antique hives, he has good success. 



The shade frame on the hives in Fig. 8 

 is used by J. H. Sieffert of North Bruce to 

 I^revent the sun from overheating the colo- 

 nies. The frame is made the same size as 

 the hive, from six to eight inches deep, and 

 is jDlaced above the inner cover. Mr. Sieffert 

 being a handy man has many labor-saving 

 devices in his yard. He has 200 colonies of 

 excellent leather-colored Italians. 



Fig. 7 shows a very good scheme used 

 by E. V. Tillson of Tillsonburg. Mr. Tillson 

 paints his queen-excluders red and his bee- 

 escape boards blue. In this way he has no 

 confusion in taking off supers of honey. Mr. 

 Tillson also uses the Jumbo hive successfully. 



Ingersoll, Ont. 



OLD ABANDONED APIARIES 



Visit to Zimmerman and Crowaer 



Gi-ves "Joints on Roadside Selling, 



i2-Frame Hives, and Ventilation 



By E. R. Root 



ONE dav in 

 May Chas. 

 F. M. Stone 

 of Lamanda 

 Park, and Frank 

 McNay of Pasa- 

 dena, formerly 

 of Wisconsin, 

 and myself, 

 drove up into 



Sycamore Canyon near Los Angeles, where 

 there were two old abandoned apiary sites 

 among the sages. The accompanying pic- 

 tures show what we found — empty hives and 

 frames that 

 the owners had 

 not come after, 

 and an old so- 

 lar wax - ex- 

 tractor of ye 

 olden days, 

 somewhat typi- 

 cal of sun wax- 

 melt e r s that 

 have been and 

 are even yet 

 used in the 

 State. Last, 

 but not least, 

 we discovered 

 that runaway 

 swarms had 

 found lodge- 

 ment in some 

 of the old hives 

 stacked up. 



K u n a w a y 

 swarms are 

 very common 

 in California. 

 Where old 

 hives are left 

 it is not i;ncom- 

 mon to find 

 them full of 



Fi<;. 1. — The girl who was sellina; her father's new orano;e-l)los- 

 som lioney at the rate of 39 rents a pound, in Mason jars, along 

 the roadside. The apiary in the background, not shown here, is 

 shown in Fig. 11. Her sales averaged about $25 a day. 



bees. What Mr. 

 Stone and Mc- 

 Nay found was 

 no great surprise 

 to them. There 

 were bees there. 

 They ' ' met' ' us 

 in a way that in- 

 d i c a t e d that 

 they thought 

 they owned the whole ranch. 



As Mr. Stone and I were driving down 

 one of the highways we found along the 

 roadside a young woman. Miss Beula 



Crowder, sell- 

 ing her father's 

 orange honey 

 produced this 

 year. She was 

 averaging 

 sales of $25 a 

 day, and get- 

 ting, in Mason 

 jars, at the 

 rate of 39 

 cents per 

 pound. No en- 

 terprising 

 young man in 

 need of a farm- 

 erette beekeep- 

 er to sell his 

 honey or help 

 in the apiary 

 or make his 

 flapjacks need 

 apply, for the 

 reason it may 

 be too late. 

 While the 

 stand is not 

 elaborate or ex- 

 pensive, it does 

 the business, 

 as the receipts 



