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gan controlled Ihe business, for it takes a 

 lot of cash to pay for carloads of honey and 

 bee-supplies; and unless the manager of 

 the institution has a bank his usefulness will 

 be limited, and big dividends will not be 

 likely to accumulate. 



A MELON STORY. 



A small boy who was given a dime to buy 

 a melon met a farmer who had two large 

 melons in his wagon. '' Say, mister," the 

 boy asked, " how much do you want for one 

 of those melons'?" 



" Well, kid, I sold all the rest for 25 cts. 

 each; but if you want one I will let you 

 have it for 15 cts., or both for a quarter." 



" Couldn't you let me have one for a 



dime?" tlie youngster asked hopefully; but 

 the farmer drove on. 



Soon meeting a bunch of big boys the 

 farmer sold the two melons for a quarter. 

 The small boy, not belonging to the " gang," 

 had to be -contented watching the big boys 

 fight for the core. 



Usually, this is just the Avay the beekeep- 

 ers will do — let ihe jobbers come in and get 

 the core and then cuss the manager. A co- 

 operative concern must be supported by its 

 members. They must co-operate in every 

 way. There is very little danger of the 

 manager looting the treasury if no money 

 goes in to run the business. 



Kansas City, Mo. 



BEE -HIVE RECORDS 



BY G. E. FOWLER 



Intending to write about hive-records I 

 looked up the indexes of the last two years 

 of Gleanings and found so many articles 

 on the subject that I felt discouraged; but 

 after reading them over my courage came 

 back. 



On page 224, March 15, 1915, Doolittle 

 gives a whole page on the subject, and 

 winds up by saying that he likes a board 

 best, using " brief signs," but does not 

 say what the brief 

 signs are. Then there 

 is Richardson's plan, 

 page 510, June 15. He 

 has a slip for every 

 hive, and every visit. 

 This seems too clumsy 

 altogether. The Mcln- 

 tyre system, page 711, 

 Sept. 15, 1914, gives 

 too little room for re- 

 marks, allowing only 

 one line per hive. 

 Many make the rec- 

 ords on the tops and 

 sides of hives; others 

 merely use pins, nails, 

 bricks, clods of earth, 

 and painted strips of 

 tin, most of which give 

 no record whatever, 

 but merely an indica- 

 tion of the present condition of the hive. 



My idea of a record is something that will 

 give the past history of the hive, set down 

 at the time of each visit, that can be saved 

 for years. The illustration shows my year's 

 record for hive 47. The first column gives 

 the date of my visit; the second, the condi- 

 tion of the queen, and the number of pounds 



of bees. The figure 14 at the top of the 

 column means that the queen was a 1914 

 queen; the m indicates the name of the 

 breeder. 



The second illustration is merely a key to 

 the signs used in the queen column. 

 means no queen; ], eggs; 2, larvse; 3, cap- 

 ped; 4, hatching; 5, egg in queen-cell; 6, 

 grub in queen-cell; 7, queen-cell capped; 8, 

 queen hatched (virgin); 9, laying queen; 



%n.i&f Siqm lUecf 



O JVo ^.ueen 



£^as 



^ a . 



3 Capped. 



~y~/Q /ch incf 



^,99^ 



Ce// 



y Ca.npec/ 



8 //a/c/jgc/ C ^{ro/rv^ 



9 ^ay/ncr ^,ueen. 



•^ S:>rone 



W Aquino Ic/nrker 



IP tit in 



C/ciken Qui 



X ^^clur/pr (4 Col. ) 



Shallow Super. 



9 with a line thru it. drone-layer; W, lay- 

 ing workers; x, xx, xxx, quality of queen. 

 A square means ipxd in; therefore figure one 

 inside a square means eggs given. 



Tlio third column of the record registers 

 the fiaraes of brood and honey (put in and 

 out — ^remarks — where from). 



The fourth column records the hives and 



