GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



any dripping of honey and wax. Between 

 the handles there is room for a tool-box. 



HELPING OUT THE BEE-ESCAPE. 



To hasten the work of the escape-boards 

 I put them on about four or five o'clock in 

 the afternoon ; and then a little later, just 

 before dark, I remove the covers of the 



supers for a few minutes to let the bees out, 

 at the same time blowing a little smoke in 

 the top of the super. When the covers are 

 replaced, so many of the bees have escaped 

 that the few remaining are surely out by 

 the next morning. 

 Lakeside, Cal. 



FORDING" COMB HONEY OUTYARDS 



BY H. 0. CRAMPTON 



My honey-house was used by the federal 

 soldiers during the Civil War as a store- 

 room and supply-house, and was the scene 

 of much fighting, so the old citizens here 

 tell me. 



year. Tt is just coming in bloom now, May 

 22, and the bees will be working on it well 

 in about a week if the rains don't come 

 about that time. 



I use a Foi'd to visit my out-apiaries. I 



Historical honey-house used by H. O. Crampton, Columbus, Miss. During the Civil War the building was 



used by the soldiers as a supply station. 



The bees shown in the picture are to be 

 transferred to an outyard, having been 

 brought to town temporarily until a better 

 location could be found. Melilotus is our 

 main honey-plant, and it looks fine this 



am working only for comb honey this sea- 

 son. My helper and I do all the work at 

 the yards. I have 84 supers with half sheets 

 of foundation to take to one yard. 

 Columbus, Miss. 



BEE- CLUBS FOR SAN FRANCISCO BOYS 



BY RALPH R. BENT 



For the past few years considerable work 

 has been done by the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture and the University of 

 California in organizing agricultural clubs 



for boys about the state. Every country 

 boy has the opportunity of growing his acre 

 of corn or raising his litter of pigs. But 

 with the city boy it is different. It is im- 



