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Heads of Grain From Different Fields 



THE BACKLOT BUZZER. 



BY ,T. H. DOXAHEY 



" WJi'-'i-f. ivhi'Vi' did tlie bee stiii;/ iioii ? " .laid little 

 Aral cUn''< ni-aUirr, who was trj/iny to -stop Iter dain/h- 

 trr'f: tears. " ]\'hif. the Itee stunyed me. rijilit, riiilit 

 d'd-otvii III Ihc I'risliyterian chitrcti .' " 



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 The Beekeeper's Faith. ■ 



P,V (JRACK ALLLX 



Disniayod by the visionless faces 



Of town, he came back to his bees. 

 "Could they know but your rapture of huin- 

 niinji' 



And quiet of shadowy trees! 

 But a dawn shall yet l)reak when all peojde 



Sha'l answer an ultimate need 

 By divincuess of dream that forever 



Begets a tereneness of deed. 

 Then men rhall be all nobleminded, 



Their petty, mean gods jnit away; 

 Then women, full-grown and large-natiired, 



Shall justify faiths of today; 

 Then cities: shall fall out of fashion, 



While cut in the cool of the trees 

 With their books and theii' thoughts living 

 gently, 



More men shall lu' keepers o!' bees.'' 



Don't Let the Bees Clean up Cappings; Press 

 the Honey Out. 



As to the advice to let the bees c!e;iii up 

 the cajijiiiigs, 1 should like to repeat i'iiii<di 's 

 ad\'ice to those about to m:irr\-"-' ' l>on 't . ' ' 



Any cleaning-up by bees is always danger- 

 ous. 



T']very1)odv chinks his own plan the best. 

 This is mine. 1 have an uncajiping-can wide 

 cncugh to holil the Langstroth frame, and 

 six feet long. At one time I ran the cap- 

 l)ings thru the solar extractor, but I burned 

 the honey. Now I put the cappings in the 

 wax-jjress and press out all the honey, and 

 it is as good as any. I have a German Avax- 

 press, and use a jack for pressure with an 

 iron rod one inch thick and three feet long- 

 as a lever. As T could not make a box 

 strong enough to stand this pressure T got 

 n'v b'acksnnth to make a band out of an 

 o'd wagon-tire and fit it around the box 

 about one inch from the bottom of the box| 

 This makes the box so strong I can have a 

 couple of half -inch holes above the band to 

 let the honey run out freely. I leave the 

 cappings as long as possible in the press. 

 The cakes when taken out of the press are 

 laid aside until we have time to melt them. 

 Thei-e is no honey in them worth bothering 

 al)out. as I have found by putting some of 

 them thru the solar. 



To turn these cakes into wax I fill up an 

 ordinary wash-boiler M'ith as many cakes 

 well broken up as the boiler will hold, then 

 cover with water and bring to a boil to 

 Tnake sure the wax is all melted. I leave it 

 in the boiler until cool, 'and all the wax will 

 be on top. The last cake I had weighed 27 

 lbs. All my wax finally goes thru one of 

 the D. A. Jones steam wax-extractors. 



Islington, Ont., Ca. J. S. Evans. 



How I'snT Pees it Take to Become an Ex- 

 pert Bsekeeper? A Bunch of Questions. 



Five or six years ago a beekeeper told u\v 

 It would take ten years to learn the business. 

 At that time I thought he was crazy. T have 

 studied books on bees for the last year: have 

 read the A B C of Bee Culture some three or 

 four times, and many other books. Last 

 spring I bought four hives of bees, and now 

 I feel very much "at sea." T now have 13 

 colonies, counting the nuclei. 



1. I found a comb a few days ago with 

 dead brood. Some are of a slimy mass, and 

 some have the shape of the nymph. It does 

 not rope, and is white. Uo the larvfB ever 

 die from natural causes? oi- is it European 

 foul brood f 



2. In making uuclei about May 10. how 

 would it do to i)ut two fi'ames of bees and 

 l)rood with (jueen-cell on each side of a 

 screen division-board in a ten-frame Buck- 

 eye hive, and have one entrance^ at the south- 

 west corner and the otlnT at the northeast 

 corner? At the tinii' of di\ ision give each 

 sl<le one fiame of scaled brood and one 

 frame of honey on the outside; tiien in ten 

 or twelve days give each another frame of 

 sealed brood. If aii\tliing liappened to the 

 (Miccn on citliiM- side, rrinoxc the di\-isi()n- 



