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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



James S. Johnson in !:is apiary, Langnau, Kj-. 



cut just as the seed ripened, before it let 

 loose from the plant. The hay was then 

 hauled to the barn to be thrashed out later. 

 An average plant has about 1000 seed-re- 

 ceptaclos, with about 40 seeds each, making 

 40,000 seeds to the average plant. The seeds 

 are attached to a downy substance which 

 carries them in the wind to adjacent lands 

 where they lie in the ground until the fol- 

 lowing fall when they come up and bloom 

 the next year. Last June, when transplant- 

 ing some strawberry-plants I found the 

 young aster plants just large enough to tell 

 what they were. They will gTow some all 

 through winter, and make good for the next 

 year. This plant grows in out-of-the-way 

 places also, and around fence-corrers, 

 stones, and trees, or any place where a plant 



can get hold. It may be seen in the bottom 

 lands and up mountain sides as far as culti- 

 vation extends. 



Picture No. 2 is a view of part of my 

 apiary, taken Oct. 17, showing a brood- 

 frame as the honey was being sealed. This 

 frame came from a nucleus formed with 

 three frames August 1. It stored 40 lbs. of 

 the yellow goods for winter. It has a fine 

 young queen, and her bees are hustlers. 

 This nucleus was made of two frames of 

 brood and one of honey. The frame of hon- 

 ey was placed third from the hive wall. 

 Five frames of full sheets of foundation 

 and about half a gallon of bees and a ripe 

 cell were added. Back of me and to my 

 right is the hive on scales. 



Langnau, Ky. 



QUEENS, LIKE HENS, SHOULD NOT BE KEPT OVER TWO YEARS 



BY A. C. GILBERT 



The great loss, especially to beekeepers 

 who keep less than 75 colonies of bees in 

 one apiary by tolerating queens that are 

 three years old and over, I think is greatly 

 underestimated by some. It is no great task 

 to save enough choice queens to requeen 



half of the colonies in an apiary each year, 

 and at the present time there are plenty of 

 queen-breeders who can be depended on to 

 furnish superior queens. When the time 

 comes to super the colonies, the rousing big 

 ones will be found to be headed by a young 



