October, 101' 



G LEANINGS 



BEE CULTURE 



793 



HEADS OF GRAirn£?f™iQ[rDIFFERENT FIELDS 



Powell 's Floor- Before a honey - flow 



Board Tin-Tray comes on bees do not 



Feeder anticipate the ap- 



proaching need for a 

 strong force of workers, but they wait until 

 the flow actually begins before the queen 

 becomes active, and generally the flow haw 

 ceased before the young bees are ready for 

 work. The colonies do not get the full ad 

 vantage of the flow because of the lack of 

 workers; on the other hand, there is an in- 

 creased lot of bees to consume the honey 

 gathered, and nothing useful for them to do. 

 The beekeeper who knows when to expect a 

 flow will begin feeding four to six weeks 

 before, if there' is that much time between 

 flows, or will feed enough to keep up brood- 

 rearing between flows that are not so far 

 apart. Last fall, or during the late summer, 

 I discovered one hive absolutely without 

 stores and turning out young bees as fast 

 as they were hatched. Seeing apparently 

 perfect young bees running away from the 

 hive caused me to investigate, and I dis- 

 covered that they were withoiit stores. I 

 immediately began feeding. The fall flow 

 was just sufficient to enable the bees ready 

 for it to " stock up ' ' for winter. Two 

 months later I discovered that the hive I 

 had fed was nearly twice as heavy as any 

 of the others, and it was in the poorest 

 condition at first. The timely feeding did 

 it. 



My feeder is a square tin pan made % 

 inch deep, the full width of bottom-board. 

 Across the back side is a quarter-inch 

 ' ' lip ' ' which slides under the back of the 

 hive to prevent syrup from running back 

 behind the pan and getting under it, wast- 

 ing the syrup and messing up things. I 

 bore a %-inch hole thru the back of the 

 hive and am ready for business. In any 

 kind of weather, day or night, I go to ;i 

 hive, remove the cork from the hole, insert 





a funnel and pour in as inucli syrup as I 

 want. After inserting tlis cork the bees of 

 other colonies are ignorant of what is go- 

 ing on. There is not a particle of waste, as 

 I fill the pan with wood excelsior which 

 holds up the bees, keeps them from falling 

 into the syrup, and enables them to get at 

 every particle of feed. The pan can be 

 slipped out or in from the front. The inside 

 edge of the back of the bottom-board should 

 be beveled and the lip of the pan bent to 

 fit the bevel. C. W. Powell. 



Joplin, Mo. 



Garbon-disulphide Will you please in- 



to Fumigate Comb form me if comb 



Honey honey can be well 



fumigated for wax- 

 moths when piled in stacks ten supers high 

 and well wrapped in blankets to confine the 

 fumes? I would also like to know the 

 amount of carbon-disulphide that should be 

 used for ten Danzenbaker supers. 



Clarkson, N. Y. Frank H. DeGraff. 



[Ordinarily we do not fumigate as many 

 as ten supers at a time, nltho we do not 



The same hives locat'ed on separate stands after the move. 



