1894 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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•und evident. The disadvantages are not so 

 evident, and I should like to know what they 

 are. William R. Lazenby. 



Columbus, O., Sept. 3. 



[1. While learning to ride, it usually takes 

 about all the beginner's attention to keep his 

 seat and stay in the road; but in a very little 

 time it becomes a sort of involuntary work, like 

 walking; and the most of my work for Glean- 

 ings is planned while riding. In fact, I some- 

 times go into a deep study over some problem, 

 and ride miles without noticing very much of 

 the country 1 am going through, unless some- 

 thing unusual wakes me up. 



2. The use of tlie wheel certainly makes one 

 feel more like walking; and I often enjoy walk- 

 ing beside my wheel, up a long hill, as a change. 

 When I overtake a friend who goes along with 

 me for a piece. I usually walk, for it is difficult 

 to ride the wheel slow enough to keep pace 

 with one on foot. I enjoy walking for a change, 

 and afterward I enjoy the wheel again for a 

 change. 



3. I always sit upright, unless it is during a 

 high wind or when climbing a long steep hill. 

 While the bent-over position is certainly very 

 much of a notion, there are some circumstances 

 in favor of it when one wishes to make the 

 greatest speed possible. The principal one is 

 that to which I have already alluded, offering 

 less resistance to the air. especially when the 

 wind is against you. I do not know how any 

 one can, from choice, adopt a bent-over posture 

 any more in riding than he would in walking 

 or sitting down. So far as my observation goes, 

 it is mostly the boys who ride bent over, and 

 those who seem to ride only to make great 

 speed. Where one rides for the pleasure of it, 

 to see the country and to study nature, as I do. 

 he certainly will prefer to sit upright.— A. I. R.] 



Since I have discarded that editorial " we," 

 somehow I feel more natural. 



It is reported that foul brood is raging badly 

 in Hunterdon Co., N. J. By the way, localities 

 where foul brood is prevalent should be known, 

 it seems to me. 



Reports are beginning to agree that the 

 most effective remedy for the cure of bee-paral- 

 ysis is the removal of the queen. In the worst 

 cases, nothing seems to do any good. 



bee-keeping in ONTARIO. 



For at least once, the bee-keepers have a fair 

 show at the hands of the press. The Toronto 

 Globe for Aug. 2.") devotes about two pages to 

 honey and bees, illustrated by over a dozen 

 large and fine views. Among those represent- 

 ing bee-men we notice those of A. Pickett, R. 

 F. Holtermann, Wm. Mch^voy, Wm. Couse, and 

 Martin Emigh. The subject-matter treats of 

 the number of hives in Canada and other coun- 

 tries; honey— its source and peculiarities; how 

 to secure it; hives and their construction, etc. 



The remarks on fertilization, with illustrations, 

 are excellent. I am glad to see this new de- 

 parture, not only in journalism, but on the part 

 of the bee-keepers themselves, in rendering 

 such matter available to our large dailies. Are 

 not the bee-men themselves to blame in not 

 furnishing more apicultural facts to their local 

 papers instead of confining them to the bee- 

 journals? Let the good work goon; and I am 

 not at all sorry that our Canadian friends have 

 "set the initiative." 



PERCOLATOR FEEDERS; MAKING SYRUP IN 



LARGE PERCOLATOR CANS, SYRUP TO BE 



FED IN THI-; ORDINARY WAY. 



We have been continuing in the use of the 

 crock percolator, as described on page 769. 

 They are still working nicely; but to test this 

 plan further, we have been trying it with dif- 

 ferent kinds of receptacles. Where we desire 

 to feed the colony up with one feed, or. at most, 

 with two, the two-gallon crock is a little too 

 large and unwieldy to be handled easily, for 

 the crock itself forms no inconsiderable part of 

 the weight. Looking over our counter store, 

 my eyes lit upon some sap-pails.* "There." 

 said I. " here is just the thing." These were 

 filled with sugar and water, half and half, and 

 then a shallow cake-pan was set over, with 

 three or four thicknesses of cheese-cloth be- 

 tween. The whole was then inverted. But 

 the flaring edge of the cake-pan fitted so close 

 to the rim of the pail that it took the bees five 

 or six days to get the feed out. This would be 

 all right ordinarily; but as it was getting to be 

 a little late we desired to feed a little more 

 rapidly. Instead of the cake-pan we finally 

 substituted square pine board's X thick, just 

 large enough to cover the pail. These would 

 warp enough to let the air through the cloth, 

 and consequently the feed would run out the 

 more rapidly. These the bees empty in from 

 one to two days, and are then ready for an- 

 other feed. The fact that the board is warped 

 a trifle does no harm: but it should be 'stated 

 that the crocks or pails, whichever are used 

 should be filled level full of sugar and water, 

 otherwise the slight amount of air will allow 

 some of the water to run out before it has in- 

 corporated the requisite amount of sugar. 



COLD-WATER SYRUP; B. TAYL0R"S PLAN. 



Well, it was getting so late that we thought 

 it inadvisable to continue the percolator feed- 

 ers on the hives much longer, inasmuch as the 

 syrup as fed was in the proportion of half 

 sugar and half water— too thin for late feeding. 

 Disliking to make syrup in the old-fashioned 

 way (heating it and stirring it an hour or two 

 to get the sugar thoroughly dissolved), I 

 thought I would try the percolator plan, as it 

 was said this syrup would not granulate, and 

 would be of the proper consistency for late 



*0f course, those witli holes near the top rim for 

 the sap-spile will not answer. 



