GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



FlCi. 2. — The apiary before tlie hives were prepared for shipment. 



water, we struck fairly cool and moist 

 weather, and did not use half of the suiDply. 

 but that was better than not having half 

 enouijh. Not a comb was broken nor a 

 pint of bees lost, neither did any larvae die, 

 so far as we could see. 



Picture number 2 shows part of the yard 

 before the bees were prepared for shipment. 



Fig. 3 shows the bees in their new loca- 

 tion, four rows Avith GO in each row. To 

 llie north of the two houses are 120 colonies 

 (hat wintered on th.e spot — a few of the 

 liives being seen in the distance. Every 

 h.ive rests on broken rocks taken from ledge 

 that shows in the distarce. 



Was I tired after the ti'ip"? Yes; ard 

 yet after all I can not say but that the work 

 was pleasant, owing to every thing going 

 so nicely; and while I am not looking for a 

 sleady job in moving bees by train, never- 

 theless 1 would not view with any great 

 alarm the prospect of moving another car- 

 load some time. It means a lot of careful 

 ])lanning and always being sure that all is 

 right. In this job. above all others, it does 

 not pay to trust too much to luck. With 

 all our careful survey of hives to s e that 

 I here were no holes for bees to escape, now 

 and then a wormhole or other small opening- 

 would let out a bee or two. A roll of cotton 

 batting at each wagon while loading, and, 

 later on, in each car, Avas a ready and 

 handy way of stopping up such leaks, and 

 I do not think that a man outside of my 

 assistant and myself was stung during all 

 the work in the yard and at the cars. 



Mt. Jov, Onl.," Canada. 



AUSTRALIAN NOTES 

 Kerosene-Cans Prohibited for Putting up Honey 



BY F. R. BEUIINE 



In endorsing the statement of Mr. W. 

 Barnes, p. 705, Nov. 1, made in refutation 

 of one by Mr. M. Shallard, p. 455, Ji ly 

 15, that " Practically the whole crop of 

 Australian honey is put up in second-hand 

 kerosene-cans," I wish to add that the use 

 of any other than new honey-tins is pro- 

 hibited in the State of Victoria by the 

 Board of Health regulations gazetted Oct. 

 9, 1912. Aftei' the close of the present sea- 

 son this I'egulation will be strictly enforced. 



QUEENS LAYING ABOVE THE BROOD-XEST. 



Mr. M. Shallard, p. 798, Dec. 15, 1912. 

 says that a good strain of Italians will not 

 lay above the brood-nest. Well, I know 

 a few good beekeepers in this part of Aus- 

 tralia ; and out of the lot I have heard of. 

 there is only one other who Avants the queen 

 to be confined to one set of combs. I fol- 

 low the example of most beekeepers by 

 pinchin.g the head of every queen Avhich 

 does not put brood into tAvo stories in 

 spring. One can not secure a strong enough 

 Avorker force from one set of brood-combs 

 (Langstroth) to get the best returns. In 

 the apiaries giA'ing the highest yield, hives 

 are tiei"ed uji three and four stories higli 

 Avithout a queen-excluder. In a letter re- 

 ceived Feb. 1 from Mr. Ballinger, Avho is 

 running an apiary on shares Avith me, the 

 yield of one four-story hive for the month 

 of -Tanuai'A- is aiven : Extracted, .Tan. 7, SO 



