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beginning to think tliat the text-books were 

 all right. Jan. 25 was quite mild, and a 

 few bees were flying at most of the hives ; 

 bnt I noticed the boiled-honey colony was 

 verj' quiet, with no bees dead or alive 

 around the entrance. A tap on the hive 

 brought no response, and so, sure enough, 

 they were gone. Taking off the packing 

 I found all the bees of this strong colony 

 were dead, and lying all over the bottom of 

 the hive. It did not look like an ordinary 

 ca.=e of dysentery, but the bees' bodies were 

 distended a great deal, and the cappings 



had been opened all over the combs just as 

 tho the poor things were trying to get better 

 food than was available. I do not know 

 how long they had been dead, but it looked 

 as tho this strong colony without a flight 

 had not been able to live more than three 

 montks at the most on the only diet avail- 

 able. Yes, I am now fully convinced that 

 boiled honey will kill bees in the winter. 

 If you do not believe it, try for yourself, 

 and don't risk more than one colony in the 

 experiment. 



Markham, Ont., Can. 



AS GLIMPSED THRU THE CAMERA 



Some Experiments with Portable Extracting Outfits 



BY H. H. ROOT 



In former years we have nearly always 

 extracted all of our honey at the home yard 

 in a convenient estraeting-room, hauling in 

 the combs from our six or seven yards 

 around Medina. This year, however, our 

 extraeting-room was being used for other 

 purposes; and while we had another place 

 that we could have used we decided to as- 

 semble a portable outfit that we could haul 

 from yard to yard. At most of the yards 

 we have small buildings in which to put the 

 outfit ; but at one of the yards, a new one, 

 there was no building. As honey was com- 

 ing in rapidly, however, we decided to ex- 



tract right out of doors in an orchard, 

 knowing that the bees would not bother 

 very much. 



Extracting out of doors is ordinarily bad 

 practice, even during a honey-flow, for in 

 most localities the weather cannot be relied 

 upon absolutely, and a sudden shower is 

 not particularly good for an extraeting-out- 

 fit. Furthermore, conditions of the weather 

 or atmosphere may change enough to stop 

 the honey-flow, and then it does not take 

 long for the bees to discover what has been 

 going on right under their noses. 



With a portable outfit, especially a power 



The plDtform witli extractor, engine, tank, wheelbarrow, anrl Die w liolc outfit, in fiut, loaded on the truck. 



