1888 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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1 prefer a light-weight summer hat, with a light 

 airy bee-veil properly fitted to it. L. C. Root. 



I prefer the cloth hat sold by A. I. Root last sea- 

 son to any thing else I ever tried. 



James A. Green. 

 I have always used a light straw or chip hat, with 

 black tarlatan sewed to the rim. It is very good. 



A. J. Cook. 

 I like a good straw hat with a rim stiff enough to 

 carry a veil, if I should want a veil; but I seldom 

 use one. E.France. 



Use a light-weight, broad-rim stiff linen hat, with 

 a ventilator around the head part, and you will 

 never want a felt hat again. Paui^ L. Viallon. 



1. A light chip hat with a brusstls-net veil all 

 around it, sewed to the ritn. 3. I will take the light- 

 weight summer hat every time. 



G. M. DOOLITTLE. 



1. Root's twenty-cent cloth hat, with a bee-veil. 2. 

 I'd like to ask that "feller" if he "considers a 

 light- !t'6i{//it summer " coat " as cool as a light-co!or- 

 ed felt " coat. Db. A. B. Mason. 



I use a light colored straw hat, with a black all- 

 bobinet veil sewed to the outer edge of the rim. 

 I keep it in the bcc-house, and change hats when I 

 wish to wear a veil. James Heddon. 



I usuallj' wear an ordinary straw hat. The light- 

 weights do not protect one from the sun as they 

 should; and putting in burdock leaves and greens 

 and things is unsatisfactory. E. E. Hastv. 



I use .5-cent hats, also Root's light hat. I think I 

 prefer the latter, but the women prefer the .5cent 

 hats, because they droop. As I work mostly under 

 the shade of trees, I like the light-weight hat. In 

 the sun it might be different. C. C. Miller. 



I use a white linen hood, with wire screen for 

 face. Somehow I never could get accustomed to a 

 hat and veil, nor do I think them as cool or com- 

 fortable as my hood. You would laugh to see it, 

 but your laugh could not induce me to change. 



Geo. Grimm. 



I use a light straw or linen hat, with a bobinet 

 sack, having both ends ojien, made just large 

 enough to come down over or around the hat rim. 

 A puckering-string in the upper end enables me to 

 draw it neatly around the crown ; the lower end is 

 tucked under the vest. I cut a hole immediately in 

 front of the face, and insert a piece of brussels net. 



R. Wilkin. 



I have had no experience with either kind of hat 

 mentioned. I am very much subject to headache, 

 caused by eye troubles, and am obliged to use as 

 light cool head-covering as I can find. For several 

 years past my wife has braided my hats from Flori- 

 da palmetto leaves, which suits me the best of any 

 thing I have yet used. She has also made the com- 

 mon every-day hats used by both of us for several 

 years past. O. O. Poppleton. 



Some of the answers are (luite amusing. 

 Our friend George Grimm wears a linen 

 hood, and persists in it, even thougli it does 

 attract attention. I w as rather inclined to 

 think that friend Grimm would be one of 

 the last to make himself conspicuous. 

 Friend C. C. Miller works mostly in the 

 shade of trees, and from his foregoing re- 

 marks we presume the women-folks with 



the five-cent hats have to attend to the 

 hives that are out in the sun. Perhaps in 

 his answer he came pretty near letting the 

 cat out of the bag, though he did not intend 

 to let it get out. As for myself, I can not 

 afiord to have two hats — that is, during week 

 days. If I do, I am sure to have the wrong 

 hat at the wrong time. 



Question No. 12.-1. Do bees ever store water in 

 their combs? 2. If so, at what time of the year? 



No. 



No. 



I think never. 



I do not know. 



Dadant & Son. 



Geo. Grimm. 



R. Wilkin. 



O. O. Poppleton. 



Posssibly, in February. Mrs. L. Harrison. 



I think not, except as they mix it with the honey. 



H. R. BOARDMAN. 



If bees store pure water in their cells at any time, 

 I never saw it. Chas. F. Muth. 



I have never known mine to; but I have had 

 them store nectar nearly as thin as water. 



James Heddon. 

 They store something that is pretty near water, 

 but I don't know that they store pure water. 



P. H. Elwood. 

 I don't know. They gather water all the season, 

 but I never could find out if they sforect any of it. 

 Paul L. Viallon. 

 I believe I never caught them at it, but I believe 

 they do. If they don't, I wonder what they do with 

 what they gather. Dr. A. B. Mason. 



Bees carry a good deal of water when they are 

 breeding fast. I have never seen water stored in 

 the combs as honey is. E. France. 



I have found what to all appearances was water 

 stored in the combs in small quantities. This was 

 in early summer. It did not remain long. 



James A. Green. 



Bees carry water to their hives only as they de- 

 sire to use it to dilute or thin their honey. They 

 are known to carry it most freely during the early 

 spring. L. C. Root. 



All I know about it is, that they carry a good 

 deal of water into the hive, especially in the spring, 

 but I doubt if it is ever stored as clear water in the 

 combs. C. C. Miller. 



The impression that bees store water probably 

 comes from finding lots of it in their combs in 

 spring. It is water of condensation. I do not be- 

 lieve their ever store it. E. E. Hasty. 



1. This is a mooted question; but whether stored 

 or not, I think water is one of the essentials for 

 brood-rearing. 3. If ever stored, it is in early 

 spring, when a chance to fly out and get it at plea- 

 sure is not f\illy assured. G. M. Dooi-ittle. 



I have never caught them at it. I am skeptical on 

 the whole water business. If water is so necessary, 

 how can bees keep breeding a week at a time dur- 

 ing rains and cold days, and feed the brood? It 

 seems to me that the water must be for bees hard 

 at work on the wing. A. J. Cook. 



Well, now, friends, I am very glad to be 

 able to saytliat I have seen bees carry water 

 and store it in tlieir combs. It was a little 

 nucleus, lu)vvever, inside of a greenhouse or 



