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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Eighteen colonies owned by the Plintstone Farm, Dalton, Mass., that are kept to pollenize 3000 trees. 



BEES A GREAT HELP IN A 3000 -TREE ORCHARD 



BY RALPH ELY 



We have an orchard here at Flintstone of 

 about 3000 young trees, and in connection 

 with this we are interested in beekeeping, as 

 bees are essential to the success of the 

 orchard. We now have about eighteen 

 colonies which did extremely well this year, 

 as there was a fine flow of honey. 



We believe that the size of our apple 

 crop this year was due in a great measure 

 to our bees. We note in our vicinity that 



the fruit did not set according to the 

 amount of bloom, and hence we believe that 

 bees are one of the essential factors in suc- 

 cessful fruit-growing. 



We are running to the leather and Golden 

 Italian, and find that the Goldens, particu- 

 larly, give us a great amount of honey, at 

 the same time showing very little inclina- 

 tion to swarm. 



Dalton, Ma.ss. 



A SIMPLE METHOD OF FEEDL^G WITHOUT EXPENSIVE EQUIPMENT 



BY L. 0. LE MAY 



I have had so many inquiries asking for 

 more information on my article published 

 Nov. 1, 1914, that I feel prompted to write 

 a further article on my experience in feed- 

 ing. The method that I outlined in 1914 is 

 the most satisfactory of any plan that I 

 have tried for cold-weather feeding; but to 

 have it work properly the colonies should 

 be prepared for it in the fall. 



For feeding in milder weather to stimu- 

 late brood-rearing, storing up in the fall, 

 etc., I have a method that works better than 

 anything else I have tried. I take a super- 

 cover and bore four or five holes 1 or 1%^ 

 inches in diameter far enough apart to 

 admit ])lacing the Mason- jar feeders, men- 

 tioned below, over them without crowding, 

 and yet not too far away from the center of 



the hive. Over each of these holes I place 

 a quart Mason jar with a perforated cover 

 such as is used with the Boardman feeders, 

 with a strij) of tin soldered around the top 

 or cap so as to raise it about 5-16 inch above 

 the hole, allowing access to all the holes in 

 the feeder. I have also used empty Criseo 

 cans. By punching the cover full of small 

 holes it makes a first-class feeder for this 

 purpose. Another full-depth super must 

 be placed on top of the super-cover and 

 feeders with the hive-cover over that. For 

 stimulating brood-rearing, all the holes in 

 the feeder but two or three should be 

 stopped up. One feeder for brood-rearing 

 is enough, bnt for supplying winter stores 

 as many may be used as clesired. 



This method works very well, and does 



