1900 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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adjust it to fit. I find it more convenient than 

 catching her by the wing or leg. A. B. C. 



Morris X Roads, Pa., Aug. 16. 



[I think I should prefer to use my fingers. 

 — Kd ] 



CUBAN BEEKEEPIXG. 



BY HARRY HOWE 



October 3d I landed in Cuba from my trip 

 up home, and began to ask questions of the 

 bee - keepers. There had been very many 

 changes. Some had increased, some had lost. 



had plenty of rain, and the vines have made 

 a good growth. My own prospects are not so 

 good. Owing to sickness I could not attend 

 to the bees, and so lost considerable during 

 the summer. This was also partly due to 

 making increase too late in the spring. I did 

 not get my new hives from the States in time 

 to make the increase when it ought to have 

 been done. Now, however. I have plenty of 

 supplies, and am again able to work, and it 

 will not be long before I shall have things 

 moving again. 



At present I am " batching " it in a palm 

 house. It is a lonesome way of doing, but I 



West. Wright. Ste\ens. Stuart. 



THE FOUL-BROOD INSPECTORS OF NEW YORK STATE. — SEE EDITORIALS. 



but all were sure that '' next year " they would 

 get that big crop. 



Foul brood is spreading. One of my neigh- 

 bors fed some bad honey by mistake, and went 

 from 250 to 125 in two months. Another went 

 from 100 to 10 in the same time. My nearest 

 neighbor lost 300 out of 700, and so it goes. 

 Another neighbor brought 27 from Ftorida in 

 April, and now has 75 strong colonies ready 

 for the harvest. 



Prospects are good for a crop. We have 



hope to have another bee-keeper with me dur- 

 ing the winter. 



I have a big banana-patch, and shall also 

 have all kinds of garden truck all winter, so 

 it is not so bad as it might seem. Fried ripe 

 bananas are about as nice as one can ask for. 



There is a difference in location even here. 

 My outyard is in very much better condition 

 than the home one, yet it was made last June 

 from a lot of the poorest nuclei that I had 

 here, and has had scarcely any attention since. 



