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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Decembee, 1919 



HEADS "OFIgMINT PPOM .'.; DIFFE RENT FIELDS 



had a complaint. I am a conductor on the 

 city cars and find ample time to devote to 

 my bees. I consider it a very profitable and 

 interesting sideline and find among the car 

 men a ready market for all the honey the 

 bees produce. 



As we have recently secured the eight- 

 hour day, father and I are planning to run 

 an out-apiary next year. 



Chicago, 111. Tim O'Donnell, Jr. 



Old Refrigerator This hive I made out 



Used for Hive. of an old refrigerator. 



I boarded it up on the 

 inside so that I can use standard Langstroth 

 frames in it. The bottom compartment 

 holds 20 full-sized frames and a super, and 



.Refrigerator remodeled into a hive. 



the upper compartment 10 full-sized frames 

 and a super. I put the frames in crossways, 

 and have a glazed sash next to the frames 

 so that I can see the bees by opening the 

 door behind. Frank Koupal. 



Ord, Neb. 



Criticises After reading the 



Phil Frankliii. Backlotter's story on 



page 652, October 

 Gleanings, in regard to wintering, it makes 

 me feel like saying something in reply. I 

 have seen people before now who thought 

 everybody had brains but themselves. I 

 hardly know which is the worse — that kind 

 of man or one who thinks nobody has any 

 brains but himself. Possibly, so far as 



making a success of anything is concerned, 

 it is six of one and half a dozen of the other. 



But what I want to say is this: After 

 this gentlemen beekeeper had read the dif- 

 ferent ways of wintering published by some 

 of our best beekeepers in the country, and 

 in different States and sections, and had 

 thought of his own State and section (which 

 he should know all about), I think he could 

 have doped out a method that would have 

 suited him and assured him greater success 

 than trying to copy after every State and 

 country that he had been reading about. 



A beekeeper of Canada or Wisconsin can 

 tell his neighbor beekeepers how to winter 

 their bees better than he can tell some one 

 in Maryland or some other State. So I 

 think that if Mr. Franklin had studied his 

 own locality, and compared it with that of 

 some other States, he would not have been 

 in such a puzzle. N. L. Jones. 



New Church, Pa. 



A Wide-awake The Boys' and Girls' 



Bee Club. Beekeeping Club of 



Douglas County, Neb., 

 is one of the best on record. On June 5, 

 nioinbers of this club, their ages ranging 



Taker of tlie first prize, 

 from 10 to 18 years, began beekeeping with 

 one frame of brood, bees and queen in a 

 modern hive. On Sept. 6, the contestants' 



Apiary of the taker of second prize. 



