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Our Neighbors' Fields 



By E. G. Baldwin 



April, 1917 



DOTE on 

 metal cov- 

 ers." C. E. 

 Morgan, in 

 Western Honey 

 Bee. [So do we. 

 — E. G. B.] 



" Two sizes of frames in a beeyard is a 

 nuisance." — J. E. Crane, in Domestic Bee- 

 keeper. 



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. '' Honey will clarify and evaporate much 

 more rapidly in a shallow tank. Less 

 metal is required in the manufacture. Your 

 cover can be made of matched ceiling or 

 other light wood." — Editor Bixby, in West- 

 ern Honey Bee. 



"The best time of all to reqneen is early 

 in the sj^ring." — F. M. Perry, Bradentown, 

 Florida, in American Bee Journal [Good. 

 But tell us where you get your young queens 

 so early, friend Peri-y. — E. G. B.] 

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" If the small producer will continue to 

 ruin the market by not giving the ques- 

 tion [of marketing, E. G. B.] any thought, 

 and just sell for what he can get, he is 

 not deserving of the assistance of the ex- 

 pert producers." — Ira D. Bartlett, in Do- 

 mestic Beekeeper. 



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" The beekeepers need a strong national 

 organization. The present association has 

 survived numerous storms that have threat- 

 ened to wreck it, and it is to be hoped 

 that under the leadership of Professor 

 Jager it will profit by the mistakes of the 

 past and gain a new lease of life." — Frank 

 C. Pellett, in American Bee Journal. 



" Tlie colder the outside air, the smaller 

 and warmer the cluster. Tlie warmer the 

 outside air, the larger the cluster, till the 

 air outside is 57 degi'ees, wlieii. presto! 

 change! there is no cluster, the bees are 

 scattered all thru the hive, and summer has 

 come to the bees. This will happen on 

 any Avarm day in the winter. A few hours 

 of warmth will do it." — C. E. Fowler, in 

 American Bee Journal. [Wonder if this is 

 not the reason we find bees ilying in the win- 

 ter any time the temperature rises to about 

 57 degrees. The moment the cluster breaks 

 up, out come the bees. — E. G. B.] 



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Floyd INIarkham, in I lie Dnmesiic Bee- 

 keeper, says : All colonies run for comb 

 honey were reduced to nine frames, and a 

 division-board put in on each side, when the 



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first super was 

 put on , I believe 

 this open pass- 

 age at each side 

 of the brood-nest 

 has something to 

 do with getting 

 tiie honey at the 

 sides of the su- 

 per [that is, getting the bees to store honey 

 in the outside rows of sections. — E. G. B.] 

 Another reason is that this passage, about 

 half an inch wide, reaching from floor to 

 cover, even when the supers are tiered up 

 on the hive, affords better ventilation in 

 hot weather." [Why not combine the two 

 ideas?— E. G. B.] 



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" When we remember that not more than 

 one beekeeper in five ever takes or reads 

 a bee-journal of any kind, we need not be 

 surprised at the ignorance that broods over 

 the beekeeping world." — J. E. Crane, in 

 Domestic Beekeeper. 



KINK FOR KEEPING BOTTOMS OF SECTIONS 

 CLEAN. 



" We have found a honey-board to cover 

 the entire surface of the brood-chamber, 

 with no entrance thru it, but two slots on 

 each side for the bees to carry the honey 

 up into the super an advantage. This 

 board covers all the center of the brood- 

 chamber, where bits of dirty wax are liable 

 to be can-ied up and mixed with the cap- 

 pings of the sections, and injure their ap- 

 pearance. It should not be put on till 

 work in sections has well begun, after 

 wliich it does not seem to keep bees from 

 storing in the sections." — J. E. Crane, in 

 Domestic Beekeeper.* 



STATE EXPERIMENT APIARY IN TEXAS. 



"Mr. B. Youngblood, director of the Ex- 

 periment Station, has signified his inten- 

 tion to provide, in his forthcoming estimates 

 of needed appropriations, for the estab- 

 lishment of an experimental apiary for the 

 study of pi'actieal beekeeping methods in 

 Texas. . . . It is not contemplated to 

 compete in any way with the work of Dr. 

 Phillii3s at Washington; we do not want to 

 do the same class of work that is carried on 

 there. What we want in Texas is practical 

 work." — E. G. LeStourgeon, in Bee Item. 

 [Every state should have its own experi- 

 mental apiary, and station as well. There 

 are local conditions, local needs, local ques- 

 tions that only a home station can handle. 

 Every state is, in a way, a law unto itself. 

 We shall welcome the day when every state 

 in the Union not only contemplates lint has 

 its own apiary and yards. — E. G. B.] 



* See page 190, February number. 



