152 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



SELECTED ARTICLES 



AND EDITORIAL COMMENTS 



Remedy for the Bee Moth. 

 Bert H. blasters, Edison. Ohio, found that by putting eighty 

 Indian runner ducks in his bee yard that they made short work of 

 the moths flying around. To those of you who have ducks as well 

 as bees the suggestion is worth remembering. — Glcaiiiiii;;s. 



Cost of Honey Production. 



Wesley Foster states that it takes him about twenty-fi\e days 

 per year to handle one hundred colonies. He figures that at this 

 rate, one man should be able to care for some five to six hundred 

 colonies of bees without any help. He believes that if half of us 

 could get at the cost of producing and introduce more systematic 

 methods, we would probably be able to care for twice as many 

 colonies as we now think possible. This we read in the American 

 Bc'^ Journal. 



Double Super With the Excluder Between for Finding Queens. 

 Take two supers, place a queen excluder between, fasten well 

 together with shipping staples and. according to H. Harley Selwyn 

 in Gleanings, you have an excellent arrangement for finding black 

 queens. Put this arrangement on the ground in front of the hive, 

 take out each frame and, after giving a hasty glance for the queen, 

 if not found, shake the bees in the prepared super; repeat this per- 

 formance until all frames have been shaken when, by smoking the 

 bees the cluster will rapidly go below the excluder and the queen 

 will be found with the drones above trying to get below. 



Honey Crop Reports. 



At the close of a splendid article in Gleanings on the above 

 subject, \\'eslev hOster savs: ""There is no'.hing more necessary for 

 the .stability of the honey market than accurate reports, and a central 

 head to direct the distribution of the car load shipments of honey. 

 The West is big and its product so large that something will have 

 to be done to hold things steady. This is a need that the new 

 National Association can supi)ly." To all of which we say '"Amen. " 



