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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 15 



HOW TO KEEP POULTRY IN TOWN OR CITY WITHOUT ANNOYING THE NEIGHBORS. SEE P. 647 



Story of the double hive, first removing it from 

 the top story in which the svrarm was clustered. 

 I saw the queen in transferring to the hive, which 

 was done in a warm room. 

 Williamsfield, O. 



EXTRACTED -HONEY PRODUCTION. 



The Locality and Methods Whereby Large 

 Quantities of a Superior Article may be 

 Secured in a Leisurely Fashion at a Low 

 Cost; How to Control Swarming Avith 

 a Minimum of Labor. 



BY W. Z. HUTCHINSON. 



Continued from last issue. 

 [The second installment of this series is particularly season- 

 able and valuable, and we hope every extracted-honey producer 

 wiil give it a careful reading. The scheme of having combs 

 enough for the season, and extract after the honey-tiow at our 

 leisure, while not new is attractive, because it enables one to 

 control swarming, and at the same time perform all the labor 

 himself. When one considers that hired help is often wasteful 

 and incompetent, and good help hard and sometimes impossible to 

 get (worse yet, the cost of the help will, not infrequently, absorb 

 all the profit)^ this plan looks good, to say the least. The whole 

 thing is told so simply and clearly that any one can take jt in 

 easily. — Ed.] 



I would not advise any one to pull up stakes, 

 leave his present location, and move to Northern 

 Michigan without first going there in person, and 

 investigating. To go there and establish a home 

 and an apiary, or a series of them, will require a 



lot of enthusiasm and grit, patience and perse- 

 verance, and time and money. If I had not had 

 a fair stock of the first two I would never have 

 attempted it. 



However, I am happy to say that the success of 

 my plan is not dependent upon a location in the 

 raspberry region. It will work equally well in 

 a clover region, but the clover is much more un- 

 certain — likely to winter-kill, or the nectar secre- 

 tion may be wiped out by drouth, rain, or cold 

 weather. 



THE PLAN IN A NUTSHELL; HOW ONE MAN CAN 



LOOK AFTER FIVE OR SI.X APIARIES, EVEN 



DURING THE HONEY-FLOW. 



I will first briefly outline the plan; then, as I 

 go back and give details, the reader can the more 

 readily see the " reasons why. " In the first place 

 there must be an abundance of empty combs and 

 supers — enough to hold all of a possible crop — so 

 that the bee-keeper can put on supers of comb at 

 any time with no hesitancy — just as though the 

 supply were limitless. Of course, these combs 

 and supers cost something; but they have to be 

 bought only once, so that their real cost is only 

 the interest on the money. There is no attempt 

 whatever to extract the honey during the harvest. 

 All of this hustle and bustle and hurry and wor- 

 ry to extract in time to give the bees room during 

 the harvest is done away with. If a colony or a 

 whole apiary needs more room, simply give more 

 supers of comb. This is a quick operation. One 



