GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



N. Schnettlcr's 225-colony 

 lip for wiutei' losses. 



apiary at Valders, Wis. Mr. Schnettler allows only enough increase. to make 



lumber with %-inch strip on the sides and 

 back for the hive to rest on, so that there 

 is a %-inch entrance. I have contracting- 

 cleats to close this space to % x 7, or % x 2. 

 I use ten-frame hives because the brood- 

 chambers will then always have some honey 

 in the outside combs. When a super is 

 taken off from an eight-fraBK hive, some- 

 times there is not a pound o^ honey left in 

 the brood-chamber. This ishwhy I prefer 

 the larger hive. 



MY CELLAR. 



I keep all of my bees in a cellar during 

 the winter, the dimensions of which are 

 13 X 41, and 7 feet high. The walls are 

 stone, 2 ft. thick; 2x4 's laid flat are spiked 

 to the wall, the wall is then lathed and 

 plastered, as is also the ceiling. 



The floor is made of small cement tiles 

 laid close together on ground made perfect- 

 ly level. A one-inch coat of concrete over 

 the tile makes the driest floor possible, and 

 that is what the bees want — a dry and well- 

 ventilated cellar. 



For ventilation I have a six-inch galvan- 

 ized pipe at each end of the cellar, the 

 one on the east side coming down to within 

 one foot from the floor, and the one on tlie 

 west side about two feet from the ceiling. 

 Each pipe runs up thru two elbows and on 

 thru the roof, the one on the east side hav- 



ing a lialf-cover that always turns with the 

 v/ind, and the one on the west side with a 

 wiudeatch that always faces the wind. I 

 have the inlet pipe on the west side, be- 

 cai;se we have the most wind from that di- 

 rection. By this plan the foul air is forced 

 out on the east. I have a line 180 feet 

 long running east and west that I use to 

 carry the bees in and out of the eellai'. I 

 usually put them in during the latter part 

 of November and take them out in the first 

 part of April. I always bring them out in 

 the night. 



I produce extracted honey mostly. I 

 have a jaower extractor, and it is fun to 

 Avatch it run instead of being obliged to 

 run it by hand. 



The little Ford shown in the picture is 

 my honey-peddler. There is nothing handi- 

 er about an apiary than a little ear for 

 delivering honey. I made a platform that 

 fi.ts on top of the rear seat when the cushion 

 is removed, extending over to the front 

 seat. Two screws hold it in place. I can 

 carry fifty 10-lb. pails or even the large 

 cases of honey. When I receive a tele- 

 phone order for honey I can deliver it very 

 often inside of twenty minutes. I bought 

 the ear in 1913, and it runs better than 

 when I first got it. 



Valders, Wis. 



NOTES FROM GERMANY 



BY J. A. HEBERLE, B. S. 



THE QUEEN-EXCLUDER. 



The advance beekeeping has made in less 

 than a century — in fact, the ditference be- 

 tween ancient and up-to-date methods — is 



chiefly due to four inventions — the movable 

 frame, Ihe extractor, comb foundation, and 

 the queen-excluding board. The value and 

 the merit of the three first inventions have 



