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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



bees a new set of starters to work on, and 

 put the empty super back on again, thus 

 covering up the combs that the bees have 

 made. By this plan I can shake a doz?n 

 colonies in the same time that would be re- 

 quired to shake one having starters in 

 frames, and none of the bees have a chance 

 to eat any of the diseased honey, for it is 

 out of the Avay before they know what has 

 happened. 



In the evening or early morning one can 

 make the rounds again, scrape off the combs 

 on the upper side of the covers and dispose 

 of them. 



At the end of the second period of four 

 days the bees can be shaken once more, this 

 time into their new hive on frames of full 

 sheets of foundation or combs, with or with- 

 out brood, and all disease is gone. 



The boxes used to shake the bees into can 

 be cleaned out and used again, if necessary. 

 I f one desired to use wired starters to pre- 

 vent any combs from breaking, this could 

 be easily accomplished by nailing cleats or 

 ends on the shaking cover the proper dis- 

 tance apart just to fit inside the box when 

 the cover is in position, said cleats to sup- 

 port the wire. However, this would make 

 more work, and it would be harder to put 

 on the starters and also harder to clean off 

 the combs. With the small amount of comb 

 built it is not very heavy, and the danger 

 of breakage is not great. 



San Jose, Cal. 



THAT SNOW BLIZZARD AT MEDINA, NOV. 9, 10 



Loading that Car of Bees for Florida 



BY E. R. ROOT 



On Sunday, Nov. 9, as already reported 

 in these columns, we had a blizzard of wind 

 and snow that exceeded any thing we had 

 had for the time of year in the memory of 

 the oldest inhabitant. The front cover page 

 of this issue shows a small section of our 

 apiai'y, house-apiary in the background, the 

 evergreens for windbreaks, and the barn in 

 the rear. The little mounds of snow show 

 where the hives were buried. Notwithstand- 

 ing the apiary was thoroughly protected by 

 windbreaks from the evergreens that are 

 supposed to eliminate all driftings of snow, 

 it will be seen the hives were clear out of 

 sight. 



The accompanying engravings will show 

 the difficulties under which we labored in 

 order to get our bees out of the snow and 

 loaded on to the car that was to take them 

 to Florida. In some cases (see Figs. 1 and 

 2) the men had to work up to their waists 

 in shoveling out the damp heavy snow that 



P:g 1. — Hunting bees — not in the woods, but in 

 the snow. Standing waist deep, a big cake of snow 

 was tirst removed, exposing the top of the hive. 



completely enveloped the hives. In another 

 view (Fig. 5) will be seen the men loading 

 the hives on a low-wlieeled wagon with wide 

 tires. It was impossible to use any sled or 

 bobs on account of the depth of snow, and 

 from the further fact that the runners would 



Pig. 2. — Lifting up the hive through three feet of 

 snow. 



