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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



June 1 



.UMUj LAI L.N i;V MICE IN THE SPRING. 

 See preceding page. 



into the hive, doing the same above on the 

 iiive-body. But any of the bees of the hive be- 

 ing robbed, in returning make a straight dive 

 and go into the entrance clear of the paint, and 

 in a short time every thing will be quiet. I 

 know I have saved a great many colonies by this 

 method on my territory; and I think it will work 

 elsewhere as well. 

 Nordhoff, Cal. 



[Prof. H. A. Surface, zoologist, in the employ 

 of the Agricultural Department of Pennsylvania, 

 conducted some experiments in the use of paint 

 to discourage robbers that were hanging around 

 the hives, and his experience was about the same 

 as yours. We may say that plain turpentine 

 will answer almost as well; and a solution of 

 carbolic acid and water painted on would also be 

 nearly as effective. There would be one objec- 

 tion to the use of paint; and that is, that the 

 cracks of the hive might get too many coats, 

 giving it a rather bad appearance. 



It may be said that robbers should not be al- 

 lowed to pry around the cracks of a hive; or, 

 rather, we should say they should not be permit- 

 ted to get into this bad habit. Where robbing 

 is rampant, hives should be opened only while it 

 is rainy or growing dark; or, better still, the op- 

 erator should get inside of a cage to handle the 

 hive during the day. If hive after hive is opened 

 during the robbing season, and two or three hun- 

 dred bees are allowed to pounce down on the 

 combs while the colony is opened up, conditions 

 will get so bad as to make work intolerable, with 

 the result that there will be hundreds if not thou- 



FOR WHICH WILL YOU VOTE ON ELECTION DAY ? 



Whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone 

 were hanged about hla neck, and that he were drowned In the depth of the sea.— Matt. 18: 6. 



VOTE AS VOL WUULU HAVE YOUR 

 BOY BECOME. 



You may vote to license saloons to make a 

 drunkard of my boy, but I will never vote to 

 license saloons to make a drunkard oi your boy. 



TllK MILLS THAT GRIND. 

 The ginmill can no more run without boys 

 than a sawmill can run without logs or a flour- 

 ing-mill without grain. The only question is, 

 whose boy shall it be, your boy or mine, our 

 boy or our neighbor's. — See Temperance Column. 



