GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



the candidate can give 

 out orally that -which 

 he knows. A day is 

 arranged for his at- 

 tendance before the 

 Board of Examiners. 

 A paper is handed him 

 with a topic written 

 upon it. He is given 

 five minutes for "think 

 ing over the topic and 

 outline notes." Then 

 he re-enters the room 

 and gives a lecture 

 " extending to a quar- 

 ter of an hour." 



I have written these 

 notes on the British 

 system, without know- 

 ing Avhat counterpart 

 it has in America. Un- 

 doubtedly the reading- 

 up for these examina- 

 tions is of gi'eat use to 



the beekeeper, whether he takes them all or 

 not. It gives an incentive for a closer study 

 than most of us would take without it, and 



Vn outdoor colony weighing 30 pounds — tees, combs, and all. 



a profundity to the pleasures of beekeeping 

 that the mere practice of rule-of-thumb 

 methods can never give. 



Sheepscombe, Gloucestershire, Eng. 



BY T. DWIGHT WHITMAN 



As I was going to town on the street-car 

 with part of a hive on July 14, 1913, a 

 gentleman sitting on the other side of the 

 aisle asked me if I was a beekeeper; and on 



my replying that I was he told me that 

 there was a colony of bees in a small tree 

 oiDposite his residence that had been there 

 to his knowledge for three weeks, and had 



Getting ready to transfer the colony into a hive. 



