1911 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



221 



Fred A. Parker, Lompoc, "Apiculture in 

 Santa Barbara Co." 



J. W. George, Imperial, "How I Make a 

 Crop of Extracted Honey." 



H. F. Mellen, Acton, "Comb Honey." 



Prof. Ralph Benton, State Normal, "Eu- 

 ropean and American Foul Brood." 



W. R. Wiggins, Los Angeles, "Fluctua- 

 tion of Market." 



A. Seligman, Los Angeles, "A Retail 

 Honey Trade." 



J. B. Neff, State University, " Codperative 

 Marketing." 



W. H. Allen, Santa Paula, "How a Man 

 of Small Means may go into the Bee Busi- 



T. O. Andrews, Corona, "A Ramble Ex- 

 tending Over Fifty Years." 



C. B. Messenger, California Cultivator, 

 "Selected." 



M. H. Mendleson, Ventura, " Suggestions 

 on Different Topics." 



C. P. Chadwick, "My Experience." 



E. D. Bullock, Redlands, "Flora of Cali- 

 fornia." 



J. M. Elliot, First Nat. Bank, "Honey as 

 Bank Security." 



J. W. Fence, Newhall, "Importance of a 

 Home Paper." 



The President's address was timely and 

 to the point, embodying many suggestions 

 which, if carried out, will be of great benefit 

 to the association. 



The old officers and executive board were 

 all reelected, and the time and place of next 

 meeting will be decided by the board. 



Glendora, Cal. 



WINTERING A SURPLUS OF QUEENS IN 

 ONE COLONY. 



The Plan a Success, 



BY G. W. JOICB. 



did better, crowned my success (?) by ac- 

 cepting six and wintering the same to per- 

 fection. All queens wintered thus have be- 

 come queens of successful colonies — in fact, 

 some of my best. These were all 1908 stock. 

 I have never tried the wintering of older 

 queens by this method until this winter. I 

 have eight old queens in one colony in the 

 cellar, four old queens and three young ones 

 in another colony, and some young ones (all 

 have been fertilized) in another. The win- 

 ter of 1909 I wintered eighteen queens in 

 three colonies. The queens are all in one 

 cluster, without any division-boards, just as 

 though they were ordinary workers. 



Montpelier, O. 



[We should be pleased to hear frona any 

 others who may have succeeded in winter- 

 ing surplus queens without giving each 

 queen a separate nucleus. With most bee- 

 keepers the plan has proved a failure. See 

 reply to A. B. Marchant, page 227. — Ed.] 



I have often thought what a blessing it 

 would be if bee-keepers could successfully 

 winter several laying queens in the same 

 colony for use the following season. This 

 thought has led me to try, and in a way I 

 have been successful. 



In the autumn of 1908 I had ten extra 

 laying queens which I wished to carry over 

 for the following season. I knew that a 

 trial was worth while. I didn't think that 

 I could winter them in any manner at all. 

 I selected two colonies of pure Italians 

 (leather-colored) , and tried the introduction 

 of my pets (queens) . I took the queen from 

 each of the two colonies, as I would if I were 

 going to supersede her, and began my at- 

 tempt of introducing 12 laying queens to 

 two queenless colonies. The queen from 

 No. 1 was introduced with five others to No. 

 2; i. e., the queens were all strangers to the 

 bees to which they were introduced. The 

 queen from No. 2, with five others, was in- 

 troduced to No. 1. 



No. 1 accepted five queens, and in the 

 spring of 1909 four were present, none the 

 worse for their (and my) experience. No. 2 



CARBOLIC ACID IN SPRAYING SOLUTIONS 

 WOULD HAVE NO EFFECT, 



BY B. C. AUTEN. 



Anent the discussion as to the use of car- 

 bolic acid in spraying solution to keep the 

 bees out of the poisoned blooms, as the rule 

 is universal not to spray when the tree is in 

 bloom, there shouldn't be any poisoned 

 bloom. 1 think 1 get all the spray-machine 

 and insecticide catalogs, or most of them; 

 and the official publications and all (that I 

 get) are positive in saying that trees should 

 not be sprayed when in bloom. I am afraid 

 you raise a smoke many times bigger than 

 the fire. A man who doesn't care for the 

 bees, and sprays during bloom, would not 

 put carbolic acid in his spray anyhow. The 

 other man can mend his manner of spray- 

 ing- 



As to the efficiency of the carbolic acid, 

 however, I am positive that it would be of 

 too little effect to pay for going to any trou- 

 ble. I have bees and I do spraying. I 

 keep my bees watered constantly by special 

 appliances, and they utilize my devices. 

 Nevertheless, though I keep a film of crude 

 carbolic acid over my water-storage tank, 

 the bees throng into it, cling to the sides, 

 and alight on every floating stick or uit of 

 scum, fall or are blown into the water, and 

 are drowned in most distressing numbers. 

 There is no stream or pond in the neighbor- 

 hood, or they would probably drink some- 

 where else; but, my tank being the largest 

 sheet of water in evidence, those bees which 

 have not learned my watering-places, when 

 they see the water in the tank they go for 

 it, not considering whether there may be 

 other water elsewhere. I do not think the 

 acid would be any better a deterrent in the 

 flowers where nectar is. 



MQreover, no odor, when exposed to the 

 air in as dilute a condition as the acid would 

 be in a spray, will persist for more than a 

 few hours at most. When a bee is right 



