1894 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURK 



505 



the upper brood-chamber to a super. He 

 makes a lot of honey in this way; but the 

 brood gives trouble in using the bee-escapes. 

 I can not use the bee-escapes with one ten- 

 frame brood-chamber and one super, because 

 the brood-chamber will not hold all the bees, 

 and they will not get out of some supers in 

 three days. Dadants are successful with the 

 bee-escape because they use two shallow ex- 

 tracting-supers and such a large brood-chamber. 

 I am taking Mr. Root's advice, and trying a 

 few hives with larger brood-chambers. I have 

 Increased the depth of the ten-frame L. brood- 

 ■chamber so the frames are 133^ inches deep out- 

 side. I have also cut a few L. brood-chambers 

 •down, so the frames are 7 inches deep, outside 

 measure, and will use two sections for a brood- 

 xjhamber, and two for a super. I shall expect 

 these extra large brood-chambers to raise more 

 "bees, swarm less, and make more honey; but 

 whether the advantage will be great enough to 

 justify a change from a standard frame, remains 

 "to be seen. I think the large frames will pro- 

 duce a few more bees than the two-story seven- 

 inch frames; but every other advantage is on 

 the side of the seven-inch. 

 Fillmore, Cal. 



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CALIFORNIA ECHOES. 



By Rambler. 



Very good idea, Bro. Root— that fellow with 

 a smoker-head in your advertisements. Why 

 ■not get up a combined hat and smoker, and 

 work the bellows with the jaw? Men might 

 not make it work. Women would. 



Yes, friend Trego, I shall have to tie to Dr. 

 M.'s washing-recipe even if he does poke fun at 

 me. The reason is, that there's always more or 

 less of a five-gallon can of kerosene in my back 

 room, while that wash-a-line is far, far away. 



That's so, Dr. M. It may be that the old 

 "black comb has more of an aroma to it. If so. 

 It probably comes from the young bees' swad- 

 ■dling-clothes that are left in the cell. So if you 

 swallow a few raw larva3 it may enable you to 

 ^et my theory down. 



Mr. Geo. W. Brodbeck is rejoicing over some- 

 thing of a honey-yield this season, while the 

 rest of us are having a blue time of it. His 

 location is at such an elevation that he can 

 look down upon us in the valley. That eleva- 

 tion has had more of a rainfall, hence the bet- 

 ter yield. 



Bro. Hutchinson looks very nice in that bee- 

 veil and immaculate shirt-front, in the last 

 Revieiv; but let me tell you there are bees in 

 this country that would slide under that veil 

 and string by the score. I believe a card proper- 

 ly adjusted around the neck is safer and sim- 

 pler. 



A well - known Southern California bee- 

 Iceeper twice attended the mid-winter fair, and 



chaperoned, or was chaperoned by his wife and 

 a schoolma'am. He writes now that he would 

 not go again, even if his fare is paid both ways. 

 We can vividly imagine the poor fellow's con- 

 dition, and further comment is unnecessary. 



Mr. C. O. Perrine, the man noted in times 

 past as a honey-dealer, and who practiced 

 migratory bee-keeping up the Mississippi River 

 on H harge, is now a resident and land-owner 

 in Riverside, Cal.; and though the snows of 

 many winters whiten his head, he is still an 

 active business man. At present it is orange- 

 orchards and not bees. 



Migratory bee-keeping is practiced to some 

 extent this year. Many apiaries have been 

 moved to the vicinity of Riverside and the 

 orange orchards. There is a chance that too 

 many may move in and overstock the pasturage. 

 Atmospheric conditions are favorable for a 

 yield of orange honey. Foggy mornings pre- 

 vail, and that is the right condition. 



There is a great amount of maple syrup upon 

 the California market, in small tin cans. A 

 taste of it is enough to show that it is maple 

 only in name. That is where glucose comes in 

 again to rob an industry of good prices, and 

 bring discredit upon one of the most healthful 

 and palatable products of nature. But for all 

 that we have never heard that the producers 

 of pure maple products ever made much of a 

 fuss about it. 



TARIFF ON HONEY. 



A BOMB FROM A " FREE TRADER ;" AN INTER- 

 ESTING ARTICLE. 



By W. G. Hewes. 



On p. 314 your correspondent Mr. Elwood, of 

 New York, attacks that clause of the Wilson 

 bill which proposes to lower the duty on honey. 

 He seems fearful that, stored away in some cor- 

 ner of the earth, there is an immense amount of 

 honey only awaiting a reduction or abolition of 

 our tariff duties, to be dumped upon us in an 

 overwhelming flood. We are informed by Mr. 

 Elwood, that California and the South will es- 

 pecially suffer by this inundation. As to Cali- 

 fornia, I have noticed that the prices for our 

 product are governed entirely by our own sup- 

 ply. The price is bad when the season is good, 

 and the price is good when the season is bad. 



In one respect the abolition of tariff duties on 

 honey would be a Godsend to many California 

 apiarists, as the large area in virgin brush on 

 Mexican soil offers greater promise of success in 

 bee-keeping than do many of our own localities 

 where much of the honey-producing flora has 

 been destroyed in making room for orchards 

 and wheat-fields. It would be Americans, not 

 Mexicans, who would make the profits by keep- 

 ing bees on Mexican soil: for. while we have 

 many Mexicans in California, it is seldom that 



