GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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DemnnstratiuK )/ee» lu u buiuli ul' liitih seliuol teaihers. 



Ky. Ml". James Speed, editor of Farm and 

 Family, gave a talk on sweet clover. Then 

 I invited them to visit my ai3iai*y. After 

 being with me about fifteen minntes they 

 went on to the next school. 



Mr. Speed was very much interested in 

 my scales, which consists of a steel shaft 

 resting on a pivot fastened to a tree, Avith 

 a hive on one end and a weight on the 

 other. The shaft has 1-lb. notches on it, 



which enables me to kesp tab on my apiary. 

 A tin bucket with a brick in it answers for 

 a weight. The scales may be seen just be- 

 yond the extractor, in the picture. 



The small hives in the foregTound are my 

 queen-mating nuclei. They have a division 

 in the center, with an entrance at each end. 

 T use full-sized Hoffman frames. I can 

 leave my queens in them all the season if I 

 don't have a demand for them. 



Horse Cave, Ky. 



POSTER-STAMP IDEA FOR INCITING THE HONEY APPETITE 



BY .JOHN R. POMEROY 



I think if Walter S. Ponder has had 

 diflieulty in getting some one to pay atten- 

 tion to Ins letters before, he has struck a 

 chord in the Feb. 15th issue, page 151, that 

 ought to stir every beekeeper who is inter- 

 ested in getting a better market and better 

 prices for his iDroduets. I am in the adver- 

 tising business, and I have been cudgeling 

 my brain for some solution to the question 

 of raising money for advertising honey, and 

 I must confess this scheme of Mr. Pouder's 

 looks good to me. 



While 1 agree with him that the clover 

 head does not make an especially pleasing 

 picture for tliis purpose, still I would not 

 be in favor of a non-honey-producing flower 

 for an engraving of the kind. SujDpose we 

 offer a premium to Gleanings'' readers for 

 suggestions. We ought to get something 

 pretty good somewhere among all this gTay 

 matter. For that matter, nearly all the 

 large engraving houses will now furnish 

 sketches for poster stamps as Avell as make 

 up the finished plates to work from. By all 



