OCTOBKR, 1917 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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HEAD S ~OF G RAINlPpReMM DIFFERENT FIELDS 



Caged Bees and I ordered some young 

 Queen Murdered queens to replace some 

 l)y Ants. that were lost in swarm- 



ing. The queens arrived 

 o. k. Two were placed in the hives at once. 

 I placed one queen-cage containing the queen 

 and bees on m^' writing-desk in my house. 



The next morning the queen-cage was 

 completely alive with tiny ants! They were 

 so small that they could hardly be seen with 

 the naked eye. The ants do not bother 

 sweets, neither do they work at daylight. 

 But they seem to come from nowhere, and 

 by the millions. I placed the empty cage 

 back among the ants, but not one would stay 

 on the cage or the bee food. I then placed 

 the dead bees beside the cage and the ants 

 piled on them by the hundreds. Grease is 

 what they like, and I am sure now that they 

 like bees. W. H. Worden. 



Brookings, S. D. 



Combs of Unsealed 

 Honey; Are They 

 Fit to Extract? 



Please tell me what to 

 do with extracting- 

 frames about half full 

 of honey. This is my 

 first year 's experience with extracted honey, 

 and a very poor season too. I have so many 

 frames about half full I thought there might 

 be a way I could give them to one hive and 

 get it in the frames sealed up so it can be 

 extracted. Selah M. Shuey. 



Germantown, O. 



[If unsealed honey* is left on the hives 

 long enough it will become thick and well 

 ripened. We have yften extracted much 

 honey and found no difference in body or 

 flavor. Some beekeepers do feed back honey 

 in order to get their sections finished; but 

 for extracted honey that has remained on 

 the hives as long as yours we see no object 

 in all this extra labor. — Ed.] 



THE BACK-LOT BUZZER 



BY J. H. DONAHEY. 



The lineman, who tried to get the honey out of the big oak tree on Uncle Benny Sourweed'n farm, said 

 he was an expert at tree climbin', but he didn't know much about bees. 

 The Doctor says the swellin' will all be gone in about three days. 



