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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Pig. 9. 



—Mr. HoUermann and his force of helpers. Reading from left to right: Warren Munroe, Closson 

 Scott, Glenelg Holtermann, Louise Holtermann, R. F. HoUermann, W. White, Walter Hull. 



and knives. They came, we saw, they con- 

 quered. One uncapper can readily do in 

 one hour what it required 11/2 hours to do 

 before, and then leave the comb in better 

 shape. More, for it tends to warm the hon- 

 ey in the comb, so that it extracts more 

 readily. The honey also, being warm, sep- 

 arates from the cappings more easily. 

 Again, where the honey has been taken off 

 the hive and away from the bees some time 

 previous to extracting, the honey is some- 

 what rewarmed. 



For new combs or, rather, combs which 

 are not strengthened by cocoons left by 

 hatching bees, the steam-heated knife is best 

 of all, and overcomes witli the greatest ease 

 difficulties of a real nature. Where the 

 combs have been used in the brood-chamber 

 the steam-heated knife can not melt the 

 cocoons ; but if the knife is kept sharp they 

 can be cut as before by the unhealed knife. 

 We do not expect to use the cold knife in 

 the future. 



THE HONEY-PUMP. 



With the intention of trying to reduce 

 labor in extracting, I conceived the idea of 

 pumping the honey from the extractor to 

 the tank. The pump I had formerly tried 

 did not work; and during the season of 

 1912 we ran all our lioney from the extract- 

 or into a pail and dumped it into tanks six 

 feet high. With one twelve-frame extractor 

 this kept one man fairly busy ; but since a 

 proper pump has been attached to the ex- 



tractor, and in a proper way, the pump 

 does this work without any danger of run- 

 ning over on the floor or dripping, and this 

 almost saves the labor of one man. These two 

 changes have proved a gxeat help to me in 

 extracting. 



We hope to have next season two twelve- 

 frame machines run by one engine side by 

 side, and expect to have our combs thor- 

 oughly dry when leaving the extractor, and 

 at the same time be able to extract readily 

 1200 lbs. per hour. 



Brantford, Canada. 



REQUEENING WITHOUT DEQUEENING 

 Some Interesting Facts 



BY ARTHUR C. MILLER 



" Eyes have they, but they see not; they 

 have ears, but they hear not." 



In Gleanings for Nov. 1, 1913, page 747, 

 near the top of the second column, appears 

 the following: " ' Why, the other day,' said 

 our Mr. Marchant, ' by error I introduced 

 by the smoke method a queen in a hive where 

 there was already a nice laying queen. 

 Would you believe it? they accepted the 

 introduced queen and killed their nice lay- 

 er! What do you think about that? ' " 



Evidently both Mr. Marchant and the 

 editor did not think along the leading line. 

 Right before their eyes, lay bare one of the 



