GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



One of Daniel Danielson's oiityards showing protection of roofing' paper. 



Sometimes I make an entrance in the 

 back part between the stories for ventila- 

 tion, and they thus get a laying queen in 

 the upper story. If so, I put the old queen 

 on the new stand and put the young queen 

 down, and that ends all swarming. 



1 don't see how any one can run outyards 

 for comb honey unless he visits and over- 

 hauls them at least once a week. To keep 

 bees from swarming, plenty of room is 

 needed in the brood-nest and super, and 

 that is a hard problem in comb honey. 



Brush, Col. 



PRODUCING COMB HONEY IN OUT-APIARIES 



Disease Broke up the Celebrated Let-alone System 



BY ALLEN LATHAM 



The statement on page 218, that " Allen 

 Latham holds the imaginary cup for oper- 

 ating bees on the let-alone plan " needs a 

 correction in tense. Put held for holds and 

 the truth will be better observed. Before 

 foul brood struck this locality this plan of 

 keeping bees was carried on for several 

 years with marked success. One year in 

 particular I produced a honey crop which 

 netted me over $60 per day for time actu- 

 ally on the job. This was done with bees 

 having a strong admixture of black blood. 

 European foul brood came, and at once dif- 

 ficulties piled up. Italians will swarm where 

 the blacks will work contentedly ; but the 

 blacks succumb to the disease. It was ab- 

 solutely essential that yellow blood be put 

 into the place of the black, but this was 

 done at great expense in the economy of 

 the let-alone system. 



Formerly only about one-fifth of swarm- 

 ing took place, and one could well afford to 

 run bees on the jolan, allowing in advance 



a loss of one-fifth the crop. With the Ital- 

 ians the swarming jumped right up to nine- 

 ty or more per cent. To prevent this the 

 apiaries had to be visited several times 

 prior to and during the honey-flow. Even 

 with much added labor the crop was cut 

 down and the cost of operation tremen- 

 dously run up. 



It begins to look here as if the disease 

 had spent its force. If I can again gO' on 

 with black blood I may regain the lost im- 

 aginary cup. In the mean time I am at 

 work upon the problem of succeeding with 

 yellow stock. If I ever solve the problem 

 I will announce the fact. 



The foregoing paragraphs concern the 

 production of chunk and strained honey. 

 During the last two years, seeing that I had 

 to make visits to my out-apiaries frequently, 

 I thought I would try section-honey pro- 

 duction. My efforts have been fairly suc- 

 cessful, and I will give some suggestions as 

 to swarm control. There is nothing new in 



