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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Dec. I 



brood-chamber hives, it is rather difficult to 

 examine the lower section while the pack- 

 ing is on; but this is about the only bad fea- 

 ture that I can see. 



My hive stands or foundations are shown 

 under all of the hives; but the construction 

 that I now prefer is the one shown in the 

 second illustration. Instead of a second pair 

 of 2x4's just under the hive bottom-boards, 

 I now use two more pieces of inch material 

 laid flat on the other two as shown I let 

 this whole hive-stand rest on pieces of 

 bricks at each corner. These stands are 

 cheap, since there is no need of accuracy, 

 and they do not quickly rot out. 



Odon. Ind. 



" PAULO WNIA IMPERIALIS." A "HIGH- 

 PRESSURE" TREE. 



FIELD MEETING OF MASSACHUSETTS 

 BEE-KEEPERS. 



BY E. C. BRITTON. 



The Massachusetts Society of Bee-keepers 

 held the most successful field day in its his- 

 tory at the bee bungalow of Henry W. Brit- 

 ton, atStoughton, Mass., Aug. 7. There were 

 150 present, and 30 new members were add- 

 ed to the Society. It was voted to make 

 the dues one dollar per year. 



Mrs. G. A. Everbeck, of Winthrop Center, 

 won the prize, a fancy queen, for the best 

 section of honey. Britton Brothers played 

 two selections on cornet and trombone; Dr. 

 Stone, Professor of Botany at the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural College, spoke on the sub- 

 ject of honey-plants, and identifipd as many 

 as he could of thosecontributedbythe visitors. 

 -*A vote of thanks was extended to Mr. 

 Britton for his hospitality. 



Canton, Mass. 



BY A. I. ROOT. 



Last year I had a paulownia that had stood 

 the previous winter, and put out a great lot 

 of branches. Had it wmtered safely we 

 should have had quite a lot of blossoms, and 

 very likely considerable honey, as it is a 

 honey-plant. When I got back from Florida 

 I decided that the entire tree was 0. K., and 

 I was watching to see the buds start out and 

 blossom. Every thing seemed to be going 

 all right until in May, when the buds or lit- 

 tle leaves seemed to come to a standstill. 

 I looked around the roots, and saw that a lot 

 of shoots were coming on with great vigor, 

 I made haste to cut them off clear below the 

 surface of the ground, hoping to turn the 

 growth into the upright tree; but more shoots 

 kept starting out. The tree had evidently 

 decided to abandon the old trunk and start 

 anew from the ground. It made me think of 

 my sitting hens when I am trying to make 

 them adopt my program instead of their own. 

 The tree, in spite of me, seemed to be "of 

 the same opinion still," and I finally gave 

 up to it by cutting out the old trunk and let- 

 ting it have its own way in growing a new 

 one. I felt like the man who ordered his dog 

 outdoors. When doggie sneaked off under 

 the bed his master said, "Well, go under the 

 bed if you wish to — just so you obey orders." 

 My tree "obeyed orders," and the picture 

 that Huber has taken shows what it was in 

 the middle of October. Several years ago a 

 leaf from this tree was so wide that, when a 

 yardstick was laid across it, there was an 

 inch or two of the leaf projecting beyond the 

 yardstick. Now, this paulownia is one off 



FIELD MEETING OF THE MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY OF BEE-KEEPERS. 

 At this meeting there were 150 in attendance, and 30 new members were enrolled. 



