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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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ly as possible. I like to take off all sections 

 at the close of the white-clover honey-flow 

 and extract all sections not over one-half or 

 two-thirds full, and feed it back to the colo- 

 nies on which the sections nearly finished 

 have been congregated. Some uncapping 

 might be done to advantage before placing 

 these sections back on the nives to be sure of 

 having all the combs down to one level. 



Hull, Iowa. 



[We believe our correspondent is right in 

 using extra-thin instead of thin foundation. 

 The less of midrib we have in our comb 

 honey the better. — Ed.] 



EXTRACTED HONEY PRODUCTION. 



EIGHT QUEENS IN ONE BOX HIVE. 

 How the Bees Keep the Queens Apart 



BY M. D. TYLER. 



Last spring a neighbor asked me to see to 

 his bees, as he had two swarms that came 

 from one hive. He had put them into boxes, 

 and had nailed them up so that they could 

 not get out. He wanted me to transfer them 

 into new hives. He also wanted me to see 

 to the old colony, which was in a two-story 

 hive. This last was full of bees and brood 

 to the top, and yet the hive had but three 

 frames in it. It was hard to get the hive 

 apart, and then fit the combs in frames, but 

 I did. In taking out the combs I discover- 

 ed two queens on one card of brood, so I set 

 that comb to one side and watched them 

 while I worked. I soon discovered two more 

 queens, and I put a couple of them in a tum- 

 bler so I could take them home. It was not 

 half a minute before one of those queens was 

 killed by the other. This goes to show that 

 the workers keep the queens apart. If the 

 bees are taken off from a card of brood, leav- 

 ing the queens alone, they will come togeth- 

 er like two bulldogs, and fight to the death. 

 It takes only a quarter of a minute. When 

 I cleaned out the upper story I found two 

 more queens, which, with the two that 

 swarmed out the day before, made eight lay- 

 ing queens in the one hive. 



It is all "bosh" to think that two queens 

 can exist in one hive in peace unless they 

 are protected by the bees or by some other 

 means. It ia the workers that keep the 

 queens apart. 



I have worked with bees for sixty years. 

 A few years ago I transferred 400 colonies 

 for farmers from old box hives into new 

 ones in one season. I think I am the cham- 

 pion transferer. 



Seville, O. 



[Our correspondent is a veteran in the bus- 

 iness of selling honey. He is never so de- 

 lighted as when he can get a crowd of men 

 to arguing with him and asking him ques- 

 tions about bees, for he says at such a time 

 he always manages to sell a good lot of hon- 

 ey to each one. 



It is a good plan for one who understands 

 transferring to make a business of doing it 

 for his neighbors who may not have had 

 much experience. — Ec] 



The Locality and Methods Whereby Large 

 Quantities of a Superior Article may be 

 Secured in a Leisurely Fashion at a Low 

 Cost ; How to Choose a Raspberry Loca- 

 tion. 



BY W. Z HUTCHINSON. 



[A short time ago Mr. W. Z. Hutchinson, editor of 

 the Bee-keevers' Heview, while visiting us, asked if we 

 would like to get a series of articles detailing his ex- 

 perience in producing extracted honey in Northern 

 Michigan. He added that he had secured a large 

 number of fine photos, and if we cared to have the set 

 he would go to work Immediately on the copy and 

 submit it for our approval. He remarked that, while 

 it might seem a little odd, perhaps, for the editor of 

 one paper to write for another, yet, owing to a lack of 

 space in his own journal, he had been able to give 

 only a brief account of his work, and he thought that 

 perhaps Gleanings would like a more complete 

 write-up, brought clear up to date. We assured him 

 that we should be most happy to have him furnish us 

 the manuscript and the photos, as we were sure the 

 former would be very interesting reading ; and the 

 latter — well, the editor of the Bee-keepers' Review 

 knows how to make them. The articles have been 

 received, and, as might be expected, they are interest- 

 ing as well as valuable —" good stuff" a newspaper 

 editor would say. We take pleasure, therefore, in 

 presenting the first Installment. 



The photos in this issue represent, apparently, only 

 a dreary waste— briers and dead trees— indicative of 

 the fact that many a desert or bleak mountain-side 

 contains, buried beneath it, untold wealth. In this 

 case the wealth is in sight, but it takes a trained eye 

 to see it. There are thousands of places in the Unit- 

 ed States to-day which are supposed to be only barren 

 wastes, useful neither to man nor beast. But how 

 often have we seen those same wastes yield up their 

 treasures (honey) to some bright genius who had 

 eyes to see what others could not. Mr. Hutchinson 

 tells how to judge a raspberry location.— Ed.] 



The time was when extracted honey was 

 of slow sale at a low price. It may not be 

 worth while here to discuss the reasons why, 

 but we can all rejoice in the fact that ex- 

 tracted honey has become a staple product, 

 with sure and quick sales at a fair price. 

 With the right kind of locality, sufiicient 

 number of colonies, and the adoption of 

 proper methods, an experienced bee-keeper 

 can make a good living — yes, more than that 

 — put money in the bank by producing ex- 

 tracted honey and nothing else. 



Every successful bee-keeper eventually 

 develops a system peculiarly fitted to himself 

 and his environments. While I have been 

 managing out-apiaries and producing honey 

 on a large scale for only two years, I have 

 developed a system that seems to me unusu- 

 ally good — one that might be followed with 

 profit in many parts of the country. I 

 have written about it in the Review in a des- 

 ultory way. but now I propose to put it to- 

 gether in a consecutive way, and lay it be- 

 fore the larger class of readers that I can 

 reach through these columns. 



FINDING THE LOCATION— SOMETHING ABODT 

 NORTHERN MICHIGAN. 



The foundation of success in bee-keeping 

 specialty is the location. Unless a man has 

 the proper location he had better relinquish 

 bee-keeping as a specialty or else seek the 

 right location. I did the latter. I went to 

 the wild red-raspberry region of Northern 

 Michigan. I think I can safely say that the 



