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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Moving 56 colonies by auto truck in Louisiana. 



but we made the trip successfully, and the 

 bees soon settled down to work. 



Although it was in the latter part of 

 Sejitember we hauled the honey also in this 

 truck. There were two loads of over 5000 

 lbs. each. This honey was so thick that it 

 would hardly run through a large molasses- 

 faucet, even with a hole in the top for air. 

 I had an old valve from an automobile tire 

 that just fitted in the air-hole, so I took the 

 air-pump and pumjDed in a jDressure of air, 

 and in this way the honey was forced out 

 as fast as it could be handled. The honey is 

 so thick that a chicken nearly full-grown 

 which jumped into a pan partly full of dirty 



honey could not get out, although only her 

 feet were covered. 



A good way to paste labels, that beats a 

 brush all hollow, is to take a plate of win- 

 dow glass and put a small spoonful of paste 

 on it. Place a label on the paste and draw 

 it along the glass and over the edge, which 

 scrapes o& all surplus paste, and makes the 

 label adhere tightly. Several labels can be 

 pasted with each little dip of paste, and as 

 quickly as one can draw the labels over the 

 glass, for the pressure holds the label tight 

 to the glass as it is drawn. 



Marshall, Mich. 



SHUTTING OUT THE OLD FIELD BEES BEFORE MOVING 



BY THEO. LEE 



The plan of shipping bees to the South 

 for wintering and for increase has been 

 tried by a few Utah beekeepers. A North- 

 ern Utah beeman wintered some of his bees 

 in Southern Nevada in the wnnter of 1912, 

 and shipped them back in mid-summer. 



1913. In shipping them back home, how- 

 ever, this beeman did one thing which it 

 seemed to me is especially worth recording. 

 Empty supers with wire gauze were nailed 

 on the top and bottom of each hive. The 

 bottom supers were nailed on in mid-day 



