1909 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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cases and cans for sale, which he never allowed 

 us a copper for, and has received a tare of 1 8 lbs. , 

 so he may not pay for the case and cans. " 



Yes, the weight of cases in cans is deducted 

 when the honey is sold. One reason for this is 

 that the cases vary in weight (as do the cans to 

 some degree). We have cases that look quite 

 similar, but they vary from 9 to 13 lbs. in weight, 

 resulting from being of a different kind of wood, 

 and different thickness, and because of center 

 boards and non-center boaids. The final pur- 

 chaser who empties the cases and cans finds that 

 there is a possibility of their getting something 

 for them; and while he as a rule does not want 

 them refilled with honey, he does not want 

 to lose the opportunity of getting what he can 

 out of them to help cheapen the cost of the hon- 

 ey. Now, were it not for the cupidity of the 

 honey-producer he would not be able to sell them, 

 as there is but little other use that the can suit- 

 able for honey can be put to. 



Some people who would not like to have their 

 names mentioned make a practice of buying these 

 old cans and cases, and using them for honey, 

 and selling them at a profit to their fellow honey- 

 producers. R. A. Burnett. 



Chicago, 111. 



IMPERIAL VALLEY BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



AND ITS NEW WAREHOUSE FOR THE 



STORACE OF HONEY AND SUPPLIES 



The Imperial Valley bee-keepers held their 

 monthly meeting March 27. Directors' meeting 

 was held at 10 a. m. J. B. Whittaker, of El 

 Centro, was chosen for secretary and general 

 manager for this year.- Stockholders' meeting 

 was held at 2 p. m., same day. livery one ex- 

 pressed himself as being well pleased with the 

 new warehouse, which was just finished, all but 

 painting and the placing of scales. The ware- 

 house is owned by the association, and is all 

 paid for, and will be used exclusively for storing 

 honey and bee-supplies. There was not a ware- 

 house in the valley where we could store honey 

 last year. Had it been an off year for prices we 

 would have been badly handicapped. However, 

 this year we shall be in position so that we shall 

 not be obliged to sell at any old price. 



Foul brood Inspector A B. Bland reported 

 four colonies affected with foul brood which he 

 treated a la McEvoy out of 1500 inspected. We 

 are determined not to allow it a foothold here. 

 All bees coming in will be inspected on arrival. 



J. W. George. 



Imperial, Cal., March 29. 



TROUBLE WITH BEES STINGING STOCK. 



I have kept bees for years. I have 70 colonies 

 in a yard that joins near a corner of a man's 

 field, but is not near any house or any one else's 

 land. Now, this man who owns the lot that cor- 

 ners on my bee-yard says that I must not put my 

 bees there this year. Now, can he stop me.? 

 Two or three of the bees stung his men when 

 they were nt work last summer. You must know 

 whether I have a right to put them there or not. 



Troy, N. Y. Geo. H. Pollock. 



[We would advise you, under the circum- 

 stances, to put your bees in some other location 

 — especially if you can do this conveniently. It 

 sometimes happens that, when a bee-yard is lo- 



cated close to a pasture, stock will get near the 

 line fence or next to the bees, and right in their 

 flight. If this occurs when the bees are a little 

 cross, or when there is a heavy flight to the fields 

 for honey, the stock are likely to get stung. In 

 one case in particular of this character a bee-keep- 

 er was sued for heavy damages, and the jury 

 awarded a verdict against him in the sum of sev- 

 en or eight hundred dollars. While you have a 

 right to put your bees on your own property, yet 

 when that property of yours interferes with the 

 property of another, the aggrieved party may be- 

 gin an action for damages. 



We take it that you could, just as well as not, 

 move your bees further away from the line fence. 

 If you could put them some three or four hun- 

 dred feet away, or, better still, if you could place 

 them behind a hedge fence or clump of bushes so 

 that the bees would have to rise in their flight 

 some twelve cr fifteen feet above ground when 

 leaving the immediate vicinity of the hive, and 

 thus be out of the direct range of any stock close 

 to the ground, you would avoid trouble to a great 

 extent. 



As a general thing, bees can be located near a 

 line fence year in and year out without any diffi- 

 culty. Any neighbor kindly disposed will be 

 willing to put up with a little inconvenience at 

 certain seasons of the year, especially if he is 

 " sweetened up " with some nice honey every now 

 and then. We have one large yard located near 

 a line fence and right next to a meadow. A team 

 of horses pulling a mowing-machine was stung a 

 number of times; but our neighbor was a reason- 

 able and a kindly man, and we told him that, 

 whenever he had to do any mowing again in that 

 field, if he would let us know we would send our 

 own man and team down and assume our own 

 risk in the mowing. — Ed.] 



to GET rid of pollen-clogged COMBS. 



On page 38, Jan. 1, T. E. Diener, asks what 

 to do with combs packed with pollen. As my 

 bees for a while after the white-clover harvest stop 

 breeding almost entirely they soon have these 

 brood-combs packed with pollen. I take out 

 one or two combs, generally the two outside ones, 

 and then take two out of the center, and put them 

 on the outside and put in the center two frames 

 with full sheets of foundation. The bees soon 

 draw out this foundation into nice white comb, 

 and the queen takes possession of these at once. 

 While rearing the brood in these combs the bets 

 use up considerable of the pollen in the adjoining 

 combs, which gives more room for the queen to 

 lay. By the time the honey harvest in the fall 

 begins, the hive is again filled with young bees 

 ready for work, and combs full of brood. The 

 pollen-packed combs 1 give to nuclei with young 

 queens that are not occupying a full set of combs. 

 'Lhey use up the pollen in these combs. 



Augusta, Mo. H. Stock. 



STORM-DOORS DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD. 



In regard to storm-doors over the entrances, 

 page 96, Feb. 15, I have tried these doois for six 

 years at intervals, and find they do more harm 

 than good, as a rule. Gienwood Beard. 



Magnetic Springs, Ohio, Match 4. 



[This has been our experience. — Ed.] 



