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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Back-lot apiary in St. Paul, Minn., that produced from 18 colonies, spring count, over 1400 pounds of 



comb and extracted honey. 



100. Part of the colonies that lived through 

 the winter were weak in the spring; but 

 the strong ones have stored beautiful honey 

 from the white clover. 



My honey-house and work-shoi^ is 16x24, 

 all in one room. It stands on cement posts 

 2 ft. high, 18 inches square at the ground, 

 and 12 inches square at the top. There 

 is also one large post under the center 

 where the circular saw stands. The sills 

 are 8x8 sawed timber, with one cross-sill in 

 the center. The studding is 2x4 and 12 ft. 

 high. The siding is matched, and has two 

 coats of white lead and oil. The walls inside 

 are sheeted with matched flooring. The 

 chimney extends down into the lower room. 



The work-bench is by the four windows. 

 As I work I can see all the beeyard. The 

 windoAvs hang on hinges at the top, and 

 fold up out of the way. 



I have two doors on the end of the 

 building, and in getting supers ready for 

 the bees I pile them in the left-hand door- 

 way, and from there on to the wheelbarrow 

 for the yard. Also in extracting, the frames 

 are brought in at that door. The cement 

 walk leads up to the right-hand door. By 

 this arrangement I save lots of steps in 

 a season. On the screen-doors the screen 

 extends up 6 inches, with % strips of wood 

 to form bee-escapes; also outside the win- 

 dows, the screen extends up to form bee- 

 escapes. 



The upper room has a window at each 



end, and I open these in the spring and 

 feed the bees ground meal. I also hang 

 frames of honey from the rafters. The 

 bees soon find their way to it, and do 

 not bother in the lower story where I am 

 at work. The material for the building cost 

 me about $200, and I did nearly all the 

 A\'ork myself. 



Bellevue, Mich., July 21. 



A LETTER CARRIER'S BACK-LOT APIARY 



BY L. E. GAYLORD 



I am sending a i>hoto of my yard in 

 the back end of my city lot. I had 18 

 stands, spring count. I have 44 now. 1 

 took off 60 gallons of clover honey and 

 700 sections. I am a letter-carrier here. 



St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 21. 



BULK-COMB-HONEY PRODUCTION IN CON- 

 NECTION WITH MIGRATORY BEEKEEPING 



BY J. J. WILDER 



In a previous article I endeavored to' 

 answer one of the greatest objections to 

 bulk-comb-honey production in the North 

 by mentioning the use of a non-granulat- 

 iiig extracted honey for packing the comb 

 honey. In thig article I wish to mention 

 another w^y in which the same result may 

 jbe obtained— thQ,t jg, by migi-atory bee- 



