Mav 14, 1903. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



317 



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Testing Honey -Barrels. 



''To test honey-barrels before waxing, a 

 bicycle pump is recommenried in Gleanings in 

 Bee-Ci^lture. instead of blowing into the bar- 

 rel with the breath. — American Bee .lournal. 



Blowing the breath into a barrel or can to 

 test it for leaks, is very unreliable. A decid- 

 edly better way is to place the lips tirmly in 

 or against the aperture, draw into the lungs 

 and exhale through the nose all the air possi- 

 ble, by repeated draughts, which necessarily 

 become shorter as the air is pumped out of a 

 tight receptacle. By this means much more 

 power, with less effort, is exerted; and in 

 ■case of a leak, iu testing cans, the inrushiog 

 air from outside, while the breath is momen- 

 tarily held to listen, will reintlale the partly 

 •collapsed tin. thereby keeping up a constant 

 cackle and ling as tbe sides readjust them- 

 selves to the original position. In testing 

 barrels, when a leak occurs, and while the 

 bung is yet stopped by the human pump, the 

 hissing of rushing air may be audible, or, if 

 the leak be very small, the suetion at the 

 bung will be gradually reduced, and readily 

 recognized by the pumper. — Editorial in the 

 American Bee-Keeper. 



Time for Cutting Alfalfa. 



I have just read Bulletin No. 114, issued 

 from the experiment station at Manhattan, 

 and it says. " Alfalfa should be cut when not 

 more than one-tenth of the plants are in 

 bloom. Early cutting invigorates the plant. 

 The late cutting of the first crop seems to in- 

 jure the plant more than at any other time." 

 In September, IflUl, I planted six acres to 

 alfalfa, and got a splendid stand. In the last 

 week of May, 1902, I concluded that one-tenth 

 of the plants were in bloom, and the crop was 

 ready for cutting, and I cut ten swaths 

 around the field. It set in so rainy and 

 cloudy that I stopped the mower and waited 

 two weeks for fairer weather, lamenting all 

 the time that I was injuring the hay crop by 

 letting it stand so long without cutting. But 

 I was surprised, when I came to cut the sec- 

 ond crop, to find that the piece that I cut 

 earlier did not turn off more than about one- 

 half as much as the piece I cut later; and 

 this was the case with the third and fourth 

 cuttings. All through the season I could 

 distinguish the very line where the earlier 

 cutting left off and the later cutting com- 

 menced. The ground and soil are all the 

 same, rich bottom, about 30 feet above per- 

 manent water, no weeds, foxtail, or crab 

 grass in the field. The hay from tbe earlier 

 cutting did not remain on the field to injure 

 growth of second crop. Please explain to me 

 why my alfalfaacts so contrary. — J. M. Craig, 

 of Anderson Co., Kans., in Gleanings in Bee- 

 Culture. 



Hiving Swarms on Shallow Frames. 



When only a single story is used it is likely 

 to result in the bees swarming out again. The 

 editor of the Bee-Keepers' Review manages as 

 follows: 



When I began using the Heddon hive, put- 

 ting a swarm into a single section, and puL- 

 ting on the sections, there was so much 

 swarming-out that I came very nearly being 

 discouraged. Finally, I began using both 

 sections of the hive for a brood-nest for the 

 first three days. On the fourth day I set the 

 upper section, and the supers, to one side 

 (crosswise of an empty hive), then set the 

 lower section off the bottom-board, returned 

 the upper section and supers to the old stand, 

 and shook down in front of them the few bees 

 that were clustering in the lower section. I 

 used starters only in the frames, and, at the 

 time of removing the section, the conibs in 

 the upper section were usually one-third or 

 one-half completed. Some of the combs in 

 the lower section were just nicely started, and 



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