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Gleanings in bee culture 



16 prepared cell-cups and put a piece the 

 size ot a grain of wheat into each cup, jar- 

 ring the royal jelly into the bottom; then 

 with a proper instrument (Mr. Elliott lias 

 one that he made for himself), put upon the 

 jelly till' very smallest larva. Suspend the 

 cell cups in the holes in the top-bar when 

 readj', and insert them in one of the three 

 spaces in the queenless colony. . Do likewise 

 with the second and third frames. Leave the 

 cells uiitii next day in the fox'enoon. Use 

 but little smoke when examining. It will 

 be found that the bees have accej^ted two 

 cells out of three. Remove those not used. 

 Now, this colony has cost too much for 

 one batch of queen-cells; therefore remove 

 these cell cups and place them in the upper 

 story of a strong colony, making sure that 

 there is some other brood above, and also 

 provide a comb of larvae. Give the cell cups 



to a colony with lots of young bees. The 

 queenless colony can start a batch of cells 

 three times. 



The argument that queens from cells 

 reared for swarming are better is, in Mr. 

 Elliott's estimation, faulty. The queen-cells 

 almost invariably come from colonies which, 

 on the face of it, can not be as carefully 

 selected, and there is always the swarming 

 impulse in connection therewith. 



Mr. Morley Pettit, 0. A. C, Guelph, gave 

 an address upon the subject of marketmg 

 honey. He advocated the development of 

 the home market, a good article, and fair 

 margins for the retailer. 



There was a pretty strong feeling mani- 

 fested in the meeting that Ontario is pro- 

 ducing about all the honey the Canadian 

 market can talce undex present conditions. 



Brantford, Ont. 



THE INTRODUCTION OF MODERN METHODS IN SPAIN 



BY OTTO HOLLANDER 



According to the Gaceta Apicola de Es- 

 paria of January, 1914, the Beekeepers' 

 Association of Spain at its last annual 

 meeting resolved to give a course of lectures 

 in the various agricultural colleges and 

 experimental stations of Spain, and to so- 

 licit the aid of the Government and of the 

 various counties with this end in view. 



This society has been doing excellent 

 Avork for a number of years in that country, 

 which is so well adapted to beekeeping by 

 virtue of its mild climate and the variety 

 of its flora; and through its organ, the 

 aforementioned Gaceta Apicola de Espana, 

 it is working very hard to convince the 

 majority of the beekeepers of Spain of the 

 advantages of the modern movable-frame 

 hive over tlie old-style fixed-frame hive. 



The average American beekeeper can 

 hardly understand why it should be neces- 

 sary that any society or paper should have 

 to extol the virtues of the movable-frame 

 liive; but it seems that there are as yet a 

 good many farmers, and beekeepers as well, 

 in some of the European countries Avho are 

 slow to accept new ideas, and who still cling 

 tenaciously to the old box hive of their 

 forefathers. 



In looking through these Spanish bee- 

 papers one is rather amused to iind that 

 " honey produced in movable-frame hives " 

 should be specially advertised, and. in fact, 

 quoted separately, bringing, of course, a 

 much higher price than the other. The fol- 

 lowing quotations ai'e taken from the last 

 number of the bee-paper mentioned: 



Honey from movable-frame hives (miel 

 movilista), 1st class, 100 to 110 pesetas per 

 100 kilos. 



Honey from movable-frame hives (miel 

 movilista), 2d class, 70 to 85 pesetas per 

 100 kilos. 



Honey from fixed-frame hives (mielfijis-. 

 ta), 50 to 60 pesetas per 100 kilos. 



The prices thus range from $6.10 to $9.60 

 per 100 pounds for the former, and from 

 $4..'?0 to $5.25 per 100 pounds for the latter. 



Mr. Joaquin Layret is at the present time 

 the President of the Spanisli Beekeepei's' 

 Association, ably assisted by the Secretarv, 

 Mr. Santiago Baldo, and one can not but 

 hope that their intelligent propaganda may 

 be crowned with success. 



[Gleanings is heartily in sympathy with 

 the efforts of this association, as well as 

 those of its Spanish colleague Gaceta Api- 

 cola de Esparia, and we wish our brethren 

 across the sea the best of success in spread- 

 ing the " gospel of modern beekeeping." — 

 Ed.] 



Smoke Method of Introducing Used 30 Years Ago 



About thirty years ago I practiced the smoke 

 method of introducing with this variation: I would 

 smoke the bees and then take a frame from the 

 center, with adhering bees, and shake them in front 

 of the hive and drop the queen down among them; 

 and after they had run in I smoked them again. 

 My idea was to make it appear to the bees as if a 

 swarm were returning with a queen, and I found it 

 very successful ; but as I have generally bought my 

 queens I followed the plan given for introduction, 

 and have nearly always had good success. 



Hoopeston, 111., Jan. 14. G. T. WiLHS. 



