1907- 



AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



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hope to make must of necessity be 

 slow, and my experience in this mat- 

 ter is, that the difference in the yields 

 we notice in colonies, is more often 

 due to conditions than to the superior 

 stock. 



In shaking the bees off from their 

 combs and forming a new colony, so 

 to say, it does not matter so much 

 whether the bees are proportioned 

 properly as to age as when they are 

 left with all their brood. It seems 

 they adjust this matter among them- 

 selves. 



I have often observed that young 

 bees, 10 to I2 days old, make regular 

 trips to the fields and gather honey 

 and pollen. The rule is, they must be 

 from i6 to i8 days old, and the age 

 of a bee is largely governed by the 

 number of days she has been in the 

 field, not so much as what housework 

 she may have done or not done. I 

 kijow of.,no better way of testing dif- 

 ferent strains of bees than by the 

 above method. The brood combs can 

 be utilized for forming another colo- 

 ny of each. Give them a queen cell 

 or queen of the same respective stock 

 and compare the workings of these. 



Naples, N. Y. 



brim. The wire is about eight in- 

 ches wide at the widest part and 

 three inches at the narrowest. The 

 straight edge should preferably be 

 the selvedge of the cloth. To prevent 

 ravelling and the projecting of sharp 

 points of wire the other edges should 

 be folded or "'hemmed." To make a 

 straight and neat bend clamp the edge 

 between two boards and bend to a 

 right angle when it may be removed, 

 folded down with the fingers and 

 pounded flat. Treat all the cut edges 

 thus, folding a hem about one quarter 

 of an inch wide. These edges should 



THE LATHAM-MILLER BEE 

 VEIL. 



A Recent Device that Combines Near- 

 ly all Desirable Features and 

 Eliminates the Objectionable. 



.ARTHUR C. MILLER. 



THE NEW form of bee veil il- 

 lustrated herewith is Mr Allen 

 Latham's modification of the 

 one described by the writer in The 

 Bee-Keeper of February igo6. For 

 the benefit of our new subscribers the 

 method of making is repeated here. 

 The wire cloth is cut in the shape 

 shown and about two inches longer 

 than the dist-ance around your hat 



THE VEIL ROLLED. 



be bound by folding over them a piece 

 of wide tape or a strip of cloth about 

 a half-inch wide. Sew it on a sewing 

 machine using a stiff needle, coarse 

 thread and tight tension. It will not 

 harm the machine but will blunt the 

 needle. 



After the binding is on sew on in 

 the same way the strip of cloth which 

 serves as a skirt to the veil and is to 

 tuck under the coat. Make it amply 

 wide. To the upper edge of the wire 

 is sewn a similar but narrower strip 

 of cloth the outer edge of which 

 has a hem in it through which passes 



