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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Jan. 15 



AN OPEN-SHED APIARY IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



This affords partial sbade in summer and protects tbe hives from the cold north winds in winter. 



and the building being shaded in summer 

 by ovei'hanging fruit-trees makes a very 

 pleasant home for them. My leisure hours 

 are spent, in summer, about the "bee-stand " 

 which I enjoy very much indeed. I have one 

 colony of the golden-all-over bees. I bought 

 a fertile queen and introduced her to half 

 a gallon of " loafers " which I scraped from 

 the hives early in the morning, according to 

 a plan which I learned by reading, and kept 

 them " queenless and broodless " for 24 hours. 

 Then having the queen on hand I introduc- 

 ed her and was indeed happy to find her all 

 right and laying eggs later. Finally my 

 anxiety was relieved to see the little yellow 

 fellows on the combs, easily detected from 

 the ones on hand before. They are getting 

 along very nicely. 

 Johnstown, Pa. 



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BEE-KEEPING IN TUKKEY. 



Some of the Leading- Honey -plants of that 

 Country. 



BY N. J. NICOLAIDIS. 



I am a bee-keeper of Greek nationality — 

 the first one, very probably, who has adopt- 

 ed movable-frame hives in this old country. 

 From your excellent paper, to which I have 

 been a subscriber these three years, I see that 

 you are interested in bee-keeping all over 

 the world. 



My interest in bees and in movable-frame 

 hives was aroused by a few hints in class by 

 my professor in physics, and, as a result, I 

 decided to find out if bee-keeping pays in 

 this country on the shores of our beautiful 



Bosphorus. I started with one colony, bought 

 from a farmer in my neighborhood, which 

 colony was comfortably lodged in a bari'el 

 such as are used in this countiy for trans- 

 porting water. The swarm that this barrel 

 hive gave me in the latter part of Api'il, 

 which is with us the swarming season, was 

 a really monstrous swarm, and was success- 

 fully hived in a Dad ant hive of my make. 



At that time I was a subscriber to a Swiss 

 bie- journal edited in French, which, how- 

 ever, being too local, did not satisfy me. It 

 was not without pains and eager researches 

 that I found out one of your advertisements, 

 and as a result I sent in my subscription. 



My little apiary consists now of eight 

 Langstroth hives with Hoffman frames. 

 The bees in them are all descendants of their 

 barrel ancestors, and are working pretty 

 well indeed, notwithstanding they had com- 

 paratively little vare from me, as I am oblig- 

 ed to be away most of the time. Next year 

 I expect better results, as I have decided to 

 run half of them for section honey on the 

 Doolittle plan, with increase, and the other 

 half for extracted on the Alexander plan of 

 increase. 



The important nectar-yielding flora of this 

 locality are the following: Fruit-trees, white 

 acacia, horsechestnut, little basswood, pep- 

 permint, ivy, and heather, besides some oth- 

 er minor sources that give a continuous light 

 honey-flow all through June and the early 

 part of July. Our most important honey- 

 flow is that from the acacia bloom, giving a 

 honey of fine flavor and light color. One 

 defect of this honey-flow, however, is that it 

 can not be kept separate from horsechestnut, 

 which yields at about the same time a honey 



