1904 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



707 



a piece of wire cloth ag-ainstthe front of the 

 hi/e or super, and blocks against the wire 

 cloth. Bees will climb up the groove, and 

 fly away. They or others coming about 

 can not get in or choke the entrance. Every 

 bee will be out in a few hours. 



If the entrance in the bottom-board and 

 blocks car) not be used, tack wire cloth to 

 the front of the hive, seeing that bottom and 

 •side edges are bee proof. 



William J. Phillips. 



Moouta, South Australia. 



[This hive-tool, doubtless, will prove very 

 excellent; but usually I prefer something 

 smaller that can be held in the hand all 

 the while when one is workirg with bees 

 and combs. An all purpose tool is some- 

 times too much of a good thing. 



The bee-escape will work satisfactorily 



when robbers are not bad; but you may 

 rest assured it would not take verj' long 

 for them to find their way down through it 

 into the hive or super. — Ed.] 



pearklight; the ranchmen and the 

 bees; a correction. 



On page 588, June 15, I see a statement 

 that is very misleading to one who knows 

 any thing of the circumstances. The fact 

 of the case is, they did go around to see if 

 the ranchmen would dispose of their bees, 

 and found some 500 colonies. They did not 

 buy any, and none have been removed from 

 the valley, and we have but little blight to 

 speak of. Now, if we were to try the re- 

 moval of the bees from the valley it would 

 be a big undertaking, as the cedars on the 

 sides of the mountains are full of wild bees, 

 and it would be hard to get all of them. I 

 think that this season will prove to the 

 ranchmen it is not the bees that spread the 

 blight, and they will have to look for some 

 other cause. B. F. Cowgill. 



Paonia, Col., June 27. 



BEES poisoned BY SPRAYING; BEE- STINGS 

 IN A queen's body. 



During the fruit-bloom the Omaha bee- 

 keepers suffered severe losses on account of 



This stack of alfalfa hay is some 600 ft. lone: and as high as inen and machinery can make it. 

 over 900 feet long. It is on the Reservation farm near I,ovelocks, Nevada. 



There is one here 



