1908 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE, 



449 



little cost, and but little attention would be 

 required from the bee-keeper. Just have the 

 machine made with a thermostat, and also 

 supplied with a thermometer, as our modern 

 incubator:* are arranged, only the egg cham- 

 ber (which would be our honey-chamber) 

 should be about twenty inches deep. It 

 would probably be good to have doors on 

 both sides so that the honey-cans might be 

 more easily put in and removed. There 

 should ailso be double doors, the outside one 

 of wood, while the inside one- would be of 

 glass; and the doors should either work side- 

 wise or upward, so as to be more out of the 

 way. The size of the machine will have to 

 depend on the quantity of the honey to be 

 liquefied; but a machine taking eight or 

 twelve 60-lb. cans would be large enough for 

 the average bee-keeper. This machine would 

 probably require a little larger lamp than an 

 incubator of the same dimensions; but if hon- 

 ey will liquefy within 24 hours at q, temper- 

 ature of 1U0° it surely will consume otit very 

 little oil compared with the labor saved; and 

 I think an even temperature of 110 or prob- 

 ably 126° would not spoil the tiavor of the 

 honey. 1 do not think it necessary to have 

 the caps of the honey-cans removed. 

 New Braunfels, Tex. W. C'. Conkads. 



[We have already been experimenting 

 somewhat along these lines. See editorial 

 on this subject elsewhere. — Ed.] 



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PAINTING THE EDGKS OF HIVK-BODIES. 



In the painting of hive-bodies and supers I 

 wonder how many bee-keepers paint the 

 edges as well as the sides. If you have not 

 tried this, try it and see what a difference it 

 makes when you come to clean them. The 

 unpainted edges well coated with propolis 

 are next to impossible to clean, while with ' 

 the painted edges it is a very easy matter, as 

 the propolis can not penetrate the wood It 

 is also important that the edges of hive- 

 bodies resting on the bottom-boards be well 

 painted, as they are nearest the ground, and 

 the unpainted surface would soon tui'n black 

 and decay. It will pay to paint the floors of 

 the bottom-boards and the under side of the 

 roofs; in fact, the hive should be completely 

 covered with paint excepting only the inside 

 walls. Use nothing but the best grades of 

 pure white lead and oil. Keep the hives 

 well covered with paint, and there is no rea- 

 son why they should not last a lifetime. 



Nisbet, Pa. Gkant Stanley. 



[Our correspondent is entirely right. When 

 we paint, let us make a thorough job. We 

 find it pays. — Ed.] 



queens superseded on the doolittle 

 non-sw^arming plan. 

 I have had this experience so far with the 

 Doolittle non-swarming plan. If the colonies 

 are not extra strong, or if the queen is poor, 

 the bees will supersede their queens. In 

 fact, they nearly all superseded their queens 



for me. The Doolittle plan will work, but Ic^.ti t 

 think the swarming should be done just at v(|^''n 

 the commencement of a good flow, and the V v' jj.' 

 colonies must be very strong ,/ 1* v ', 



Sunnyside, Wash S. K. Clover. • i' ■■ 



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I came not to seed peace but a sword.— Matt. 10:34. 



O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of 

 the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou 

 not cease to pervert the ways of the Lord?— Acts 13 : 10. 



Some time ago I was speaking here in 

 these Home Papers of the wonderful discov- 

 eries that were coming so thick, and I said 

 it almost made one stand still and wonder 

 what great tbing was coming next. What 

 new and startling gift had God in store for 

 us that should shake and astonish the world? 

 A bright and successful young farmer, a good 

 spiritual man, stopped me in the road a few 

 days after and asked if I did not have faith 

 to believe the next great thing would be 

 somewhere along in the line of spiritual or 

 moral reforms. So far radium, wireless te- 

 legraphy, flying-machines, etc., seemed to 

 have little bearing in the way of rebuking 

 sin and crime. I confessed to him I had 

 been feeling a little sad to think these' new 

 discoveries had, so far, so little bearing on 

 uplifting the morals of the world that we 

 might almost doubt that they came from the 

 hand of God — moving pictures, for instance. 

 My friend (Adam Lister, Medina, O. ), how- 

 ever, declared it as his belief that the next 

 great thing to shake and astonish the world 

 would be along in the line of spiritual things, 

 and possibly something that would reprove 

 and rebuke sinful humanity. 



About the same time a good friend from 

 away off on the Pacific coast wrote me some- 

 thing as follows: 



Brother Boot:— You wonder what great thing is 

 coming next. Well, I am glad to be able to tell you. 

 The Lord Jesus Christ is coming soon to receive his 

 people and to "rebuke the devourer.'* Shall we not 

 all make haste and be ready to receive him? 



Well, this thing has been on my mind ever 

 since the suggestion came from these two 

 friends; but I must confess I was so dull, and 

 had so little faith, I did not recognize that 

 the Loid Jesus Christ had come until I saw 

 in the daily papers that our beloved Ohio 

 had, by an overwhelming majority in both 

 House and Senate, passed the county local- 

 option law. I knew we had been sending 

 some good men to make our laws and to rep- 

 resent i he people; but after witnessing defeat 

 after defeat by the rum power in the years 

 that are passed, it was one of my greatest 



*I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes. and he 

 shall not destroy the fruits of your ground.— Mal. 3 : 10. 



