1908 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE, 



431 



This requires extra-prolitic queens which get 

 to business early in the season and lay late 

 in fall. It does not take as many bees to get 

 a lot of honey from apple bloom as from clo- 

 ver; but they seldom are in condition to 

 build much comb, but will till a super in a 

 hurry in good weather. 



Marion, N. Y. 



[If the bees till the cells so completely with 

 honey that there is no air-space next to the 

 cappings the surface of the comb will have a 

 transpax'ent, watery appearance, or "greasy" 

 as you call it on the preceding page. It is 

 often stated that some Italians have this trait; 

 but have any data ever been collected which 

 would show that bees which cap the honey 

 watery are always hustlers? We should be 

 glad to hear from our readers on this point. 

 -Ed.] 



NINE YEARS OF SUCCESS. 



Bee-keeping in Connection with Farming. 



BY J. E. KLINE. 



I produce comb honey, and that only. 

 When the honey is taken oti I am careful to 

 see that the colonies are all right, with plenty 

 of stores, and then pack ready for winter. I 

 do not lose three per cent. 



I live near a county-seat of nearly ten 

 thousand inhabitants, and am well known 

 to the business men of the town. By treat- 



ing my customers courteously, and giving a 

 square deal, I have steadily built up a large 

 trade which now takes, to supply it, thou- 

 sands of pounds of purest and best honey 

 bees can produce. 



At present I am on a large farm, and am 

 giving my attention to both pursuits. I give 

 my bees the same care that 1 give to the rest 

 of the stock; but in the near future I expect 

 to give all my time to a largely increased 

 apiary. 



Indiana, Pa. 



SECTIONS PERFECTLY FILLED. 



How to Put in Full Sheets of Foundation 



Cut to a Fit. and yet Avoid Buckling ; 



How One Man has Worked Out the 



Problem. 



BY G. J. YODER. 



[We are reproducing, for the convenieDce of our 

 readers, the cuts we published at the time Mr. Yoder 

 described this originally in Gleanings for May 15, 

 1904.— Ed.] 



I was interested in the discussion in the 

 Jan. 15th issue, p. 82, on the subject of sec- 

 tions and full sheets of foundation, for I 

 think it is well for us to put forth every ef- 

 fort for the perfecting of this plan. If the 

 section is never so nice, and the tilling and 

 finishing imperfect, our profits will be great- 

 ly diminished. In the first place, it is un- 

 wise to attempt to fasten a full sheet of 



FIG. 1. — YODER's'pLAN OF FASTENING FULL SHEETS OF FOUNDATION ON THREE SIDES. 



