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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



the crop is liarvested if they have i^lenty 

 of stores. 



The most valuable bees are those that 

 have not been more or less worn out by 



dysentery brought on by poor stores or 

 excessive eating to maintain the required 

 heat. 



Randolph, N. Y. 



NEWSPAPERS AND TELESCOPING COVERS FOR WINTER PROTECTION 



BY P. R. S. BOND 



The photograph shows the bees in my 

 back yard. They are facing the south, and 

 are just behind a hen-house which is nearly 



super-cover; then a super filled full of 

 folded news]:)apers. This was covered with 

 another super-cover, and the five thicknesses 



BdiuI's hacklut apiaix m 



■1 qiiai h-rs. Worcester, Mas 



20 feet long. This was taken in the spring, 

 showing the hives just as they wintered. 

 The paper Avrapping under the covers can 

 be seen on some. Over the body was the 



of wrapi^ing-paper were folded over the 

 whole, and covered with the telescope cover 

 pressed on. Every colony came out strong. 

 Worcester, Mass., June 6. 



IN THE HIVES BUT NOT IN THE CANS 



BY F. GREINER 



When I read the editorial, Aug. 1, in 

 which special mention is made of the Mc- 

 Intyre plan of obtaining all the honey from 

 cappings, I expected to find sometliing 

 more satisfying than I did. The heading of 

 the article is misleading to begin with. It 

 is a misnomer, for you don't obtain the 

 honey at all except that which drains from 

 said capping^ in the uncapping-box. I am 

 here reminded of the sailor boy who drop- 

 ped the captain's golden drinking-cup 

 overboard by accident; then, in his conster- 

 nation, came to the captain and asked him 



if he eonsidei'ed a thing lost when he knew 

 where it was, to Avhich the unsuspicious 

 captain replied : "You little dunce you, how 

 can anything be lost when one knows where 

 it is? " The cunning little fellow then said, 

 " Well, tlien, the captain's drinking-cup is 

 not lost, tho it is on the bottom of the sea." 



It is a good deal so with the honey the 

 bees extract from the cappings by the Mc- 

 Intyre plan. It is in the hive but not in 

 the sixty-pound can. 



It seems to me the Mclntyre plan has no 

 advantage over our long-piactieed plan of 



