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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



May, 1917 



One of the ten-year-old apple-trees that helped 

 produce those tive carloads of apples. 



ied principles that have of late years proven 

 to be safe and reliable, by exhaustive experi- 

 ments at the Bureau of Entomology, Wash- 

 ington, D. C, it is not hard to discover why 

 Mr. Baldridge has not only been successful 

 in his wintering,* but has with it secured 

 enormous crops of honey. 



* During the past winter he wintered 180 colo- 

 nies at two of his yards in these hives without 

 the loss of a single one. His total loss from all 

 causes the past winter was 14 out of 447 colonies 

 fall count. 



The lower story takes ten frames, and the 

 upper foui'teen. The lower story has four 

 inches of packing on the sides, two on the 

 ends, and the upper story has two inches 

 of packing all around. 



A. I. Root always believed in a warm 

 super as well as a warm brood-nest; and 



Mr. Baldridge's tractor hauling a load of hay. 



Mr. Baldridge says A. I. R. was right. It 

 is possible that this old reliable chaff hive 

 may be resurrected. The only objection to 

 it is its expense. " But," said Mr. Bald- 

 ridge, " when you divide that expense up by 

 25 years of service, it is merely nominal. 

 The work of putting the bees up for winter 

 is practically nothing." 



HOW HE DOES SO MUCH WITHOUT BREAKING 

 DOWN. 



We asked him how he managed to run a 

 series of fruit-orchards comprising 49 acres, 

 a 175-acre farm, and 450 colonies of bees, 

 without breaking down under the strain of 

 the work. His reply is worth repeating: 



" I have a son, a young man who divides 



One of Baldridge's apiaries where he still uses the old two-story Root chaff hives that have given such 



good results in wintering. 



