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Gleanings in Bee Culture 



Bees and chickens in the same back lot, Detroit, Mich. 



anapolis fed their bees, and I predict there 

 will be more dead bees in this county next 

 spring than have ever been known to die in 

 any one winter. In fact, I now know of sev- 

 eral colonies already dead, whose owners 

 would not feed. If mine don't all die I ex- 

 pect to jiick up a lot of empty combs in the 

 spring. 



I am combining the pigeon business with 

 my little apiary. I keep both as a diversion 

 from my regular business, and have a com- 

 petent man to assist me. 



While my bees are sleeping, my pigeons 

 are making me nice money in the way of 

 squabs and breeders. I have just sent a 

 $175 order to California, so I can not see why 

 the bee and pigeon business will not go to- 

 gether nicely. 



South port, Ind., Nov. 24. 



BEE-KEEPING AND POULTRY-RAISING IN A 

 CITY. 



BY L. LIST. 



The regular readers of Gleanings need 

 not be told that bees may be successfully 

 kept in the city. They have often read 

 about it, and some have tried it themselves. 

 There are two points of interest, however, 

 in the accompanying picture. In the first 

 place, it shows that bees and poultry may 

 well go together. One of the regular con- 

 tributors of Gleanings recently stated that 

 his Rhode Island Reds proved to be a nui- 



sance in the bee-yard. Our White I^eg- 

 horns never molested the bees in any way, 

 but, on the contrary, treated them with 

 marked respect. 



Another fact worth mentioning in regard 

 to the photograph is this: Our bees stand 

 within six inches of our church school, 

 which is attended by over 200 children. 

 There has never been the slightest com- 

 plaint. There are no windows on the south 

 side of the building, and the bees have their 

 flight in that direction. Even if there were 

 windows, I would not be afraid of trouble, 

 because bees are not nearly as vindictive as 

 commonly supposed. 



For four years this apiary has been run 

 for extracted honey, and there has not been 

 a single swarm during this time. Plenty 

 of super-room and bottom ventilation kept 

 back the swarming fever. I may add that 

 this photo was taken in the prosperous sea- 

 son of 1910, and not in the poor one of 1911. 

 You will notice that most of the supers are 

 of the shallow kind; and I would advise the 

 novice who is keeping just a few bees and 

 runs for extracted honey to give them a fair 

 trial. I have followed the advice of the gen- 

 tleman from Texas, Mr. L. H. Scholl, and 

 have never regretted it. The deep supers 

 may be better for the owner of many col- 

 onies, because a given amount of honey 

 may be more quickly extracted; but for the 

 man with few colonies the shallow ones are 

 ideal, because they are more easily han- 

 dled, and do away with the heavy strain on 

 the back. 



Detroit, Mich. 



