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push both sliding doors together and the en- 

 trance is closed. In the early spring Avhen 

 the colonics begin to breed up, contrtict 



the entrance with a simple push and the 

 job is done. During the honey flow the 



entrance can be widened to full widtli by 

 pulling both doors out. 



To the queen-breeder especially, a device 

 of this kind for a nucleus hive is a blessing, 

 for many times the entrance to the nucleus 

 must be contracted or closed entirely, and if 

 one has 750 sufh nuclei to go over each 

 (lay, as Mr. J. P. Moore and I have, the 

 importance of this matter is evident. When 

 forming nuclei the entrance of each one 

 must be closed and left closed for a short 

 time. That procedure ordinarily calls for 

 blocks to be nailed on and taken off. Then, 

 as in case of a full colony, there is robbing 

 to contend with and the block or grass has 

 to be iDroduced again. Most of all, when 

 caging a queen or examining a n.ucleus for 

 a queen during a time of honey deartli, 

 there will be a hundred robbers around in 

 no time. It has always been our jolan lo 

 stuff tlie entrance with grass, but there is 

 no need of this now, when with a slight push 

 of our fingers we can extract or close the 

 entrance. 



Morgan, Ky. 



NOTES FROM INDIANA 



BY S. H. BURTON 



LITTLE WHITE CLOVER. 



We cannot possibly expect a white-clover 

 crop for two years, as last year's drouth 

 killed out most of it, and this year finished 

 up the young plants that came from the 

 seed. I have searched diligently for a white- 

 clover blossom this summer, and the only 

 ones I have seen were on a well-kept lawn 

 in town. It will be quite a while before 

 southern Indiana produces another whiie- 

 clover honey crop. 



MORE THAN A CARLOAD OF HONEY FROM 

 DAVIESS COUNTY. 



This county is looking up in the bee busi- 

 ness. One hardware dealer in town advised 

 me that he had sold 17,000 sections up lo 

 Aug. 1. If we take into account what bee- 

 keepers order for theniselves and what is 

 sold by other firms this county (Daviess) 

 produces more than a carload of comb hon- 

 ey yearly. 



TEN COLONIES SOLD FOR POLLINATING PUR- 

 POSES. 



This spring we sold to the Illinois Exper- 

 riment Station ten colonies of bees for pol- 

 linating purposes in their apple-orchard at 

 Flora, 111. Prof. W. A. Ruth, in charge of 

 this station, reports excellent results from 

 having the bees in the orchard. A numbei- 

 of exj)eriments were tried, such as tying 

 netting over trees to exclude the bees, mov- 

 ing the hives to different parts of tlie or- 



chard and observing if the trees nearest the 

 hives set more fruit than those further 

 away. They will issue a bulletin soon which, 

 I i^resume, will furnish some valuable data 

 on the relation of bees to fruit. 



GOOD L/VTE PLOW. 



After poplar ceased blooming, the bees 

 never "turned a wheel" till Aug. 8, when 

 our fall flow started in good earnest, and I 

 have been on tlie jump ever since, trying 

 to supply the colonies at our outyards with 

 empty supers. One yard I have in the river 

 bottoms filled the supers to overflowing in 

 ten days from what is locally known as 

 Bluevine. I am unable to classify it botani- 

 cally, but will say that it is a great yielder 

 of water-white honey that is hard to distin- 

 guish from white clover. This vine resem- 

 bles a sweet-potato vine in appearance, and 

 is very prolific in river-bottom corntields, 

 having a small white flower resembling a 

 miniature morning-glory blossom. 



Fall aster and goldenrod are very abun- 

 dant in this locality ; and if I could get the 

 bees to separate the honey and store all 

 goldenrod in the super and all the aster in 

 the brood-chamber it would save a lot of 

 work at sorting time. Fortunately the aster 

 Idooms a little ahead of the goldenrod, 

 which prevents a great deal of blending of 

 these two flavors. 



Washington, Ind. 



