JANUARY 15, 1916 



The lament of the drones. 



apiary, abundantly supplied with supers, 

 they are a delight to use, but have no place 

 in a huri'y-up job where supers are short. 



Where thin nectar has been stored in 

 sujoers, and the wire escape put on before it 

 is ripened, the heat of the colony and the 

 evaporation process going on below does 

 not seem to ripen it properly. 



After the rains, the bees in this locality 

 stored some thin nectar from a second 

 bloom of white clover. The buckwheat was 



out; and to keep it from mixing, and allow 

 the thin clover to ripen up, a wir6 escape- 

 board was put und'er the top, or second 

 super containing the thin stuff. This was 

 left on the hives for a couple of weeks : 

 Result, the only sour honey I ever had, and 

 I am glad there was only 200 lbs. of it. It 

 looks as if the presence of the bees on the 

 lioney were necessary to the proper ripen- 

 ing of it. 

 Orono, Ont. 



AS GLIMPSED THRU THE CAMERA 



Some Common and Uncommon Sights among the Bees 



BY H. H. ROOT 



During the last year we have been accu- 

 mulating quite a number of pictures that we 

 have taken of various subjects pertaining 

 to bees, only a few of which have appeared 

 on these pages. I propose to take up in a 

 series of articles one or two subjects at a 

 time, presenting the pictures and letting 

 them tell largely their own story. We all 

 like to look at pictures. If this were not 

 true the motion-picture shows would not 

 be so successful. 



Twenty years ago, only an occasional 

 beekeeper owned a camera. Now a very 

 large number own cameras or kodaks, and 

 the resulting half-lone engravings on the 

 pages of bee-journals are a great improve- 



ment over the invariable zinc etching from 

 a pen-drawing, or wood engTaving charac- 

 teristic of the time before the kodak, or 

 hand camera, i-evolutionized picture-taking. 



We are asked so many questions on 

 lihotography that perhaps a few general 

 remarks, first, concerning our equipment, 

 may not be out of place. 



For picture-making about home we pre- 

 fer gla.ss plates rather than films. They 

 cost but little over half as much, are some- 

 what more convenient to handle, and they 

 may be obtained in a variety of emulsions 

 suitable for all classes of work. There i'-: 

 no one .all-around plate suitable for all 

 kinds of pictures. We use Seed 23 plate 



