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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



November, 1919 



HEAPS OF GRAlTnOmilHrDIFFERENT FIELDS 





tion. The colony was found to be in good 

 shape; bees and combs clean, good stores, 

 and brood-rearing progressing finely. 

 Granville, 111. Edwin O. Gunn. 



Reese and Knight Eeese and Knight, 

 Move Colonies who have bees on the 



Successfully. Twin Falls Tract as 



well as several yards 

 in Utah, shipped 325 colonies in a carJune20. 

 It was very hot at the time, and, as I hauled 

 and helped place them in yards when they 



Truck load of bees hauled by Reese and Kiiiglil. 



arrived, I had an opportunity to see for 

 myself the result of such a shipment under 

 hot conditions. The colonies were loaded in 

 the car with 2 by 2 strips between each tier, 

 and wire screen on the top and bottom of 

 each colony. Water was used several times 

 on the trip. The result was one colony 

 drowned, while the balance came thru in 

 good condition. We moved this car load by 

 three truck loads, 108 colonies to the load, 

 using the two-inch strips between tiers. 

 They were hauled several miles to different 

 locations in the sagebrush close to the ir- 

 rigated fields. M. C. Ware. 

 Twin Falls, Ida. 



Bees and Honey at There is an unusual 

 Spokane Interstate lack of interest on the 

 rair. part of beekeepers in 



making exhibits at 

 fairs in this part of the country. The ex- 

 habits in the bee-and-honey department of 

 the Spokane Interstate Fair this year were 

 the smallest in many years. It is the inten- 

 tion of the Fair management, and a few 

 local people who are interested, to see what 

 can be done toward creating more interest 

 in the apiary department next year. Pre- 

 miums to the amount of $132 were awarded, 

 most of which were taken by J. E. White- 

 field, E. D. Kingslaud, and Mrs. M. E. Baker. 

 The Spokane Seed Company had a full 

 colony of Italian bees in a wire cage per- 

 haps six feet high and four feet square, 



which were handled daily by the writer, 

 showing just how a hive is opened, the 

 frames of comb and bees removed, the queen 

 found, and then the frames replaced. 



The bee and honey exhibits were judged 

 by the writer, who remained with the ex- 

 hibits during most of the time of the fair, 

 and who was quite surprised at the interest 

 manifested by many in beekeeping and hon- 

 ey production in the Northwest. It will be 

 his endeavor, as well as that of the Spokane 

 Seed Company, to do everything possible 

 to spread apicultural information thruout 

 this part of the country, and, if possible, 

 increase the production of honey thru the 

 keeping of more bees in a better and more 

 eflicient manner. We see no reason why, 

 thru a systematic effort, this can not be ac- 

 complished during the next two or three 

 years. It is a piece of important conserva- 

 tion of resources that should be pushed to 

 the farthest limit. George W. York. 



Spokane, Wash. 



This large colony together with their eight combs 



was found suspended from a limb late last fall by 



F. E. Hawkins, Copley, Ohio. 



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Why InvaUds Should Page 856, 1917 Glean- 

 Prefer Comb Honey, ings, details the re- 

 covery of an invalid 

 by practically making honey his chief diet; 

 and the patient pointed out that it had to 

 be comb honey, not extracted, which last 

 did not react so well on his system. Mr. 

 i-uerden, who reports it, does not seem to 

 guess the cause. 



Now, let's see: Why do so many of us 

 after dinner fish out a nickel package of 

 chewing-gum, and proceed to imitate 

 the family Jersey thru its mastication? 

 Said gum 's advertisers will tell you in yard- 

 high letters that it promotes digestion by 

 increase of saliva. And I am inclined 



