Jan. 4, 1900. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



11 



Root's Column 



GLEANINGS IN BEE-CULTURE. 



Our NEW YEAR'S NUMIiER is not beliind 

 those that have lately appeared. Ainoiij,' ttie 

 special features is an illustrated poem by Alice 

 Lena Cole, from the Century Magazine: also 

 SUB-EARTH VENTILATION AND OUT- 

 DOOR WINTERINC. 

 COLORADO AS A liEE-COUNTRY. 

 SUPPLIES FROM THE STANDPOINT OF 



COLORADO BEE-KEEPERS. 

 SUPERIOR BREEDINd-QUEENS, by J. F. 



A1cInt%'Re, of California. 

 TALL SECTIONS, Etc., by J. E. Ckanu, of 



Vertnont. 

 A VISIT TO A CUBAN APIARY. 



G. M. Doolittle, of New York, will continue, 

 as heretofore, to g'ive us the best from his pen 

 oa "Answers to Seasonable Ouestions." The 

 illustrations will be of the same hiyh order as 

 in the past. 



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TUB ABC OF BEK-CULTURE. the only ency- 

 clopedia on bees, has already been described in this 

 column. About 2.finn copies of the last edition have 

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Watdi for our announcement in this column next 

 week. 



THE. fl. I. ROOT GO., 



MEDINA, OHIO. 



placed in wooden butter-dishes, and sold 

 for chunk honey. The rest we put into a 

 large cbeeaecloth liag and then suspended 

 it over a tub. It hung thus over night, and 

 the next morning tlie liquid portion of the 

 honey had all run out, leaving practically 

 nothing but dry combs anil pieties of combs 

 in the sack. i)l course, it there had been 

 sealed honey it would not have drained; 

 but that to which 1 refer was so badly 

 smasht there were no cappings over the 

 cells. The particles of wax floated on the 

 surface of the honey, leaving the clear 

 liquid portion of it to settle at the bottom, 

 and strain thru the cheese cloth. In the 

 morning, we had a bag of dry bits of 

 comb, or almost dry, and a tub of clear ex- 

 tracted honey.— Gleanings in Bee-Culture. 



llo>v «l«> Wwriii!. 4ael Into Mc<-- 



lioits V — When worms are found on sec- 

 tions of honey that are sealed up tight im- 

 mediately upon being taken from the hive, 

 it is said the bees carried the eggs there on 

 their feet. Does that look reasonable ? 

 Are the eggs in places where the feet would 

 touch them ? Would they stick to the feet ? 

 Pull the head off a moth, and almost im- 

 mediately it begins to feel around with its 

 ovipositor for an angle or a crack, not lay- 

 ing till it finds one. Are not the little worms 

 on the sections first found at an angle ? 

 Considering what an artful dodger the 

 moth is, how swift in its movements, and 

 how constantly trying to get into a hive, is 

 it not more reasonable to suppose that it 

 has dodged its way thru the hive and made 

 its way into the super ? — Gleanings in Bee- 

 Culture. 



OJetling' tJnlinislit Sections 

 <,'I«-aii»'«I irp.— D. W. Heise says in the 

 Canadian Bee Journal: 



■ What I have found the most rapid plan 

 of getting such cleaned up. is to set the su- 

 pers containing the sections or frames right 

 out in the open, ' with certain precautions,' 

 and let the bees rush into them pell-mell. 

 The precautions are. place the combs or sec- 

 tions at least IJo inches apart in the supers, 

 place the supers about 100 yards from the 

 hives about 4 o'clock p.m., and then only as 

 many as you think the bees will clean up 

 that day. Don't remove those cleaned su- 

 pers until you replace them with others at 

 4 p.m. of the following day, and so on until 

 all have been treated by the bees. After all 

 are clean don't remove the empties sud- 

 denly, but gradually decrease them day by 

 day until the last one disappears, and you 

 will find the whole job expeditiously com- 

 pleted without any violence having been 

 done to the most delicate comb, unless per- 

 chance some should contain candied honey. 

 Neither will you find any robbing, nor ex- 

 citement after the job is completed. The 

 only thing that bee-keepers have to fear by 

 any of the ' let at plans,' is the spreading of 

 disease. If any of the deadly germs should 

 be lurking in the honey, and it is for this 

 reason that I would strongly advocate set- 

 ting out along towards evening, thereby de- 

 creasing the chances of bees coming from 

 other apiaries. As to the theory of ' once a 

 robber always a robber,' I take no stock in 

 that whatever." 



Colonicis Uifler as to kindK ol 

 Honey an<l %)'ax. — Speaking as to 

 this, W. Hessel Hall says in the Australian 

 Agriculturist: 



"If clover and dandelion are both out and 

 secreting honey at the same time, the bees 

 do not flit from one to the other, but the 

 bee that starts to work on clover continues 

 to visit clover as long as the supply of clo- 

 ver honey lasts; and the bee that starts on 

 dandelion, sticks to dandelion. The legs of 

 the one will always be found covered with 

 the dull greenish pollen of the clover, and 

 the legs of the other with the bright yellow 

 of the dandelion. This peculiarity usually 

 applies to the hive as well as to the individ- 

 ual bee, and it is quite a common thing in 

 the apiary to find one hive filled with one 

 type of honey, another alongside it filled 

 with a totally different honey, and a third 

 with yet another kind, all gathered within 

 the same period. Indeed, the preference 



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