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funiisli bees by the carload to Northern 

 buyers. We bought two carloads of bees of 

 him two years ago, and made a good thing 

 of it, and there is no reason why others may 

 not do the same. 



OUR WATERWORKS APIARY ; THOSE SWARMING 

 CARNIOLANS ; THE ASPINWALL NON- 

 SWARMING HIVE. 



The front cover design for this issue 

 shows our waterworks yard, located about 

 21/2 miles northeast of the home apiary. In 

 tlie background will be seen the Medina 

 waterworks pumj^ing station, and just in 

 front of it one of our portable takedown- 

 able apiary sheds, one of which we use at 

 each out-yard. 



It was at this yard that we have been 

 rearing Carniolans for the last two years, 

 and where we had such incessant swarming 

 in spite of all that we could do. The bees 

 originally were run for individual comb- 

 honey service, using shallow frames with 

 foundation starters, top and bottom, as ex- 

 plained elsewhere in this issue. Of (bourse 

 this would have a tendencj' to incite swarm- 

 ing, and we were finally compelled to use 

 drawn combs and extract. 



In the middle of the back row will be seen 

 a luve that is a little different from the rest. 

 This is an Aspinwall non-swarming hive. 

 Into this we put one of the strong Carnio- 

 lan colonies that had been swarming so 

 much. We naturally expected they would 

 do it again, but they did not. No, they 

 went right on storing comb honey, and did 

 not swarm the rest of the season ; and al- 

 though the season was half over they filled 

 some 70 odd sections with nice comb honey. 

 Later in the season the slatted dividers be- 

 came filled up with burr-combs. Those we 

 will show at another time. 



It will be noticed that the two trees in the 

 rear of the back row have the tops cut off. 

 The reason for this will be better under- 

 stood when we ^y that the Carniolan 

 swarms had an exasperating fashion of 

 going to the tops of those trees, some fifty 

 or sixty feet high. Ye editor got so dis- 

 gusted shinning up those trees that he final- 

 ly secured permission to cut the to]is oft", 

 with the result here shown. 



The low shrubbery along the side of the 

 road was also a favorite place foi- swarms. 

 From there it was much easier to hive them; 

 but in many cases they seemed to lake a 

 )>articular delight in settling on one of the 

 posts of the wire fence where it was a slow 

 and tedious operation to get them. 



This is a good location because it is along 

 the river; and during a period of drouth 

 this yard will yield honey when the others 

 may give only a scant supply. Down in 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



the flat, just back of the pumping-station, 

 a good growth of sweet clover will be found, 

 a picture of which we showed on the cover 

 of our issue for Aug. 15th. 



This yard, as will be seen, like all the rest 

 of them, is located on one of our stone 

 roads, so that at all times of the year or at 

 any time of the day they can be easily 

 reached by our motor truck, which will be 

 seen in the background, just in front of one 

 of the trees. This has been doing splendid 

 service in reaching our yards during the 

 jjast season. It not only carried men to and 

 from the yards, but enabled us to have a 

 central extracting plant at the home yard. 

 It has brought home 20,000 lbs. of honey 

 since the honey season was over, and it has 

 been used almost daily to carry honey to 

 Cleveland, where it is on sale at some of the 

 principal groceries and drugstores. 



GLEANINGS FOR 1914. 



As amiounced on another pag'e, we are 

 planning another series of special numbers 

 for 1914. The large number of post-card 

 votes which we received from our readers 

 indicated conclusively that the special-num- 

 ber feature is appreciated. The vote as it 

 stands is practically unanimous. 



We received many helpful suggestions 

 for the future, which we hope may be the 

 means of making the special numbers more 

 valuable than evei-. We wish that we might 

 take up in one year all of the subjects that 

 were suggested; but this would be impossi- 

 ble. We wish to take this occasion, how- 

 ever, to thank all of those who responded so 

 ))ronii)tly with their post-card votes, and 

 wiio gave such practical suggestions. These 

 ideas we shall bear in mind; and if it is the 

 (lasire of our readers to have the plan con- 

 tinued for 1915 we will try to utilize more 

 of the subjects mentioned at that time. 



We believe our scheme for 191-1 repre- 

 sents the wishes of the majority. Several 

 of the numbers we should like to mention 

 especially at this time. Much new material 

 has developed along the line of the value of 

 bees in orchards, and the fruit-men are 

 awaking to the fact to such an extent that 

 we believe the time will come very soon 

 when beekeepei-s living in fruit districts 

 need jiay no rent for out-apiaries. It is our 

 aim to have all of this new evidence, some 

 of which is exceedingly valuable, brought 

 together in one issue so tliat the beekeeper 

 may liave an oppoi'tunity of presenting the 

 facts in conci'ete form to the fruit-grower. 



There is always a call for material, espe- 

 cially for beginners. 1 u our March 1st issue, 

 " Beekeeping in Cities," we shall use con- 

 siderable matter of interest especially to 



