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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



November 



lu iny case I have a yard at Dan by , 

 21 miles south.- There is only one lot 

 o| forty between there and Ithaca, 7 

 miles. There is no buckwheat to speak 

 of for about 3 miles south of Ithaca, 

 on the Dan by road, which made it 

 necessary to locate at least 4 miles 

 south of there. This gave me a space 

 of about six square miles in which to 

 locate. 



' Now came the immediate location. 

 Up to this time I could work by the 

 map. The field work came next. This 

 consisted first of riding over every 

 mile of road in the required limits. 

 There were several conditions that had 

 to be met. The yard must be shelter-' 

 ed from the wind, in a valley, in pref- 

 erence to uplands. It must be back 

 from the read, where the bees could 

 not bother passing teams, yet it must 

 be easy to reach to work. The more 

 secluded the spot the better it would 

 please me. I have no fears of any one 

 disturbing the bees or stealing the 

 honey. So far as I know no one has 

 ever taken a pound of my honey. I 

 artways make it a point to give every 

 one who comes along all he can eat. 

 People soon ceme to know that if they 

 want some honey all they have to do 

 is to get in sight when I am there. 

 This is the plan followed by Mr, W. ' 

 L. Coggshall with equal success. 



The place finally chosen is on the 

 northeast side of a valley. There was 

 an empty house still in good condition 

 that I rented for a honey house out of 

 sight of the road. The front yard is 

 so grown up with trees that the bees 

 have -to rise away above the road to 

 get out that way. The bees are in the 

 shade about half the afternoon, which 

 seems to be a'good thing, at least dur-, 

 iug hot weather. ' It is only about 3 



miles down the valley from my Danby 

 yard. 



As it stands my three yards are all 

 near empty houses, and far enough 

 from neighbors so that there is no 

 complaint of the bees disturbing any 

 one. Mr. Coggshall has located three 

 new yards this season, the plan pur- 

 sued in each case being much the 

 same. One of his locations was pick- 

 ed out two or three years ago, but was* 

 not secured until last winter. It is in 

 the midst of a twenty-acre basswood 

 orchard. 



West Groton, N. Y. 



(From Canadian Bee Journal. 



CLEANSING POLLENIZED BKOOD- 

 OOMBS. 



BY F. A. GEMMILL, 



As a rule nearly all apiarists sooner 

 or later find themselves supplied with 

 a super-abundance of brood-combs, 

 containing more or less pollen, the 

 quality or quantity being such that it 

 is not desirable to again return them 

 to the bees. To those who may 

 desire such combs relieved of their 

 contents, I may here state that I have 

 succeeded to my heart's content, and 

 herewith give the method so that oth- 

 ers having the same facilities may fol- 

 low that practiced by myself. 



The generally adopted plan hereto- 

 fore used was to first soak the combs 

 in water for a few days, and then 

 throw out the Avater-soaked pollen by 

 means of the honey extractor. In 

 order to force the air out of the cells 

 so that the water would find its way 

 to the bottom, the combs were held 

 over some large vessel (I used a large 

 uncapping can), while yet another ves^^ 

 • sel containing a quantity of water was 



