GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



you do not happen on her majesty when 

 glancing ovei' the combs as you lift them 

 out to shake, don't waste time looking any 

 more for her; but shake away. Make very 

 sure, too, that your excluder is nailed se- 

 curely to the bottom edge of the hive-body 

 you use. Don't trust a framed excluder 

 loose. You will bump the body over the 

 edge, and your queen will be gone like a 

 flash. Out of my lot I lost only the one 

 whose antennae I painted over eleven weeks 

 ago. No branded queen but that one has 

 been superseded, so that the wing-branding 

 can be no detriment. 



Kihikihi, Waikato, N. Z. 



[We see great possibilities in "branding" 

 queens. A queen easily found at almost 

 any time ought to be much more valuable 

 than one not marked. 



Without having tried it ourselves, we 

 should think that red would be the most 

 conspicuous color that could be used, with 

 green, perhaps, a close second. — Ed.] 



THE EQUIPMENT OF A SMALL HONEY-HOUSE 



BY JOSEPH GRAY 



THE INTERNATIONAL AUTO WAGON FOR 

 OUT-APIARIES 



BY DANIEL DANIELSON 



A request was made in Gleanings some 

 time ago for ideas from beekeepers who 

 make a practice of running for extracted 

 honey with outyards, and who carry the 

 honey home in the combs before doing the 

 extracting. That is just what I am doing. 



I got an International auto wagon, as the 

 pictures show. I have four outyards lo- 

 cated from three to twelve miles from home. 

 I carry all my extra hives and supplies on 

 the auto to the outyards, and the honey 

 home in the combs, and the empty combs 

 back. 



Fig. 1 shows my home yard with a hand- 

 car on the track, myself sitting on it. 



Fig. 2 shows the truck loaded with hives 

 ready to start for the outyards. 



Fig. 3 shows the same velucle ready for 

 a pleasure-ride. 



I have done away with all hive numbers 

 and all book-keeping and records, as they 

 are time wasted. I use bricks, as the draw- 

 ing shows, and I find tliat they answer the 

 purpose veiy well. Something is needed to 

 hold the covers on any way, and two bricks 

 will do it in the strongest wind. When I 

 come to the yard, there the record of all the 

 hives is right before me. The bricks show 

 the condition the colony was in when looked 

 at last. I can not see nor find any thing 

 more handy. I have used this method for 

 ten or twelve years. 



Brush, Colo. 



In the ideal small honey-house there 

 should be a platform in the southwest cor- 

 ner of the building 18 inches or any other 

 height desired. Mount the extractor on it 

 with the gate over the tank below, and just 

 east of it, locate the uncapping-can. 



The tank is placed below the platform, 

 and a pit is dug in order to facilitate the 

 drawing of honey from the tank. The tank 

 has a division at the east end, with a one- 

 inch honeyway beneath it. By this gravity 

 process all the scum is left at the west end 

 of the tank, and the clean clear honey is 

 drawn off at the northeast side of the tank. 

 Quarter-inch screen wire over the tank, in 

 at least two sections, gives ready access to 

 the tank, and renders it mouse-proof. 

 Cheese-cloth on this screen forms the honey- 

 strainer and renders the tank bee-pi'oof. 



The honey is brought in through either 

 door, and one may choose between lifting 

 the supers or bending the back and lifting 

 the combs. No honey is handled heavier 

 than a comb until it is placed in the GO-lb. 

 cans. If a 3-ft. tank is not sufficient ca- 



A double-walled honey-extractor. The space between 

 the two cans is for water, and it takes the place 

 of the water-tank of a gasoline-engine. The water 

 gets hot enough to warm the honey so that it 

 strains easily. 



