Gleanings in Bee Culture 



R. O. Dickson's poultry-yard, La Ilarpe. 111., showing brooder-coops used as winter cases, for 55 single- 

 walled hives of bees. Chicks occupy the coops in the summer in connection with Cypher hovers. 



the millers from getting the upper hand of 

 several weak colonies. 



I winter my colonies on the summer 

 stands, but I use winter cases packed with 

 shavings. I do not remove these cases now, 

 but leave them on all summer, as I have 



found this advisable on account of the sud- 

 den changes of weather which we have. 

 When preparing for winter, I cut and fit 

 several thicknesses of building-paper and 

 place them over the top of the hive-cover. 

 Edison, Ohio. 



SKUNK CAUGHT AFTER HE HAD KILLED 16 man returned to his room to get his shot- 

 CHICKENS. gun. On his return, a minute or so later, 



the skunk was gone. The rascal had al- 



BY w. A. PRYAL. ready killed a good sized young chicken, 



and would have carried it off, but he could 

 not get it through the fence. 



Every night after this, ladders were re- 

 mov ed so that skunks could not climb to 

 the roosts, and the younger chickens in 



A couple of years ago some skunks began 

 nocturnal visits to my chicken-yard. It 

 was in the fall of 1910 (in September, I 

 think) that I noticed that the young roost- 

 ing chickens in one of 

 the poultry-houses 

 seemed disinclined to 

 lake to their roosts 

 V hen night came on. 

 They seemed to prefer 

 to go into the house 

 with the older stock or 

 else take to the tall 

 trees. Then, a few days 

 later, my man George 

 heard a commotion in 

 the chicken-yard one 

 night, and on investi- 

 gating the cause of the 

 ilislurbance he found 

 a --kunk trying to make 

 his exit from the yard 

 through the meshes 

 of the wire netting. 

 Not wishing to attack 

 the animal, without a 

 suitable weapon, the 



A skunk caught in a steel trap, and some ul his victims of the night before. 



