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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



November, 1917 



HEADS OF GRAIN 



FROM 



M DIFFERENT FIE LDS 



All Effective Way 

 to Get Kid of Any 

 Ants Living in 

 the Ground 



I notice in Gleanings, 

 February, page 131, 

 Mr. C. E. Fowler's 

 method o f trapping- 

 ants by means of a tub 

 containing a small amount of water. I 

 think T can give a better remedy than that, 

 especially for ants that den in the ground. 

 Trace the ants to their den by watching 

 the line going to and from the hive. Then 

 take a small funnel and pour a little kero- 

 sene oil into the den and close the hole. By 

 using a funnel one gets the oil in the right 

 spot with very little waste. The oil should 

 be poured in until it fills the hole. A cupful 

 is enough to destroy two or three dens. I 

 should be glad to have some of the beemen 

 try this method, as I have tried it success- 

 fully for three years. N. E. Davis. 

 Roxboro, N. C. 



Too ]\Iuch Air Our honey is warmed to 



Pumped Into 130 degrees, and then 



the Honey strained into a tank 



from which the pump 

 in the basement raises it 16 feet thru a pipe 

 that runs from the top of the extrac ting- 

 house to the honey-house where the honey is 

 run into two tanks, one upstairs for tilling 

 small pails, and one downstairs for filling 60- 

 pound cans. 



I tried first to run the pump all the time, 

 but the honey got cloudy from pumping so 

 much air with it. After that I allowed the 

 tank in the basement to fill up and stopped 

 the pump when it became empty. That 

 works all right, only I have to take care that 

 the honey does not get so cold that the pump 

 will not handle it. 



This year I had some 30,000 pounds of 

 honey, and have sold over half of it. I run 

 a regular mail-order honey business, and sell 

 almost entirely to consumers. As demands 

 are on the increase every year, I am never 

 worried about selling my honey. 



Brush, Co!o. Daniel Danielson. 



Bee Convention No 

 Place to Settle Be- 

 ginners ' Questions 



take. The place to 

 right at home. For 



Those who attend beo- 

 kee'pers' conventions 

 merely to learn are 

 making a big mis- 

 learn beekeeping is 

 what purpose do we 



ha\e all these extensive works on bees and 

 bee culture? Why are such journals as 

 Gleanings, American Bee Journal, Domestic 

 Bcekeepor, etc., issued? Why the bulletins 

 on this subject? Let the beginners partic- 

 ularly understand that these state and na- 

 tional conventions are not held for the pur- 

 pose of teaching them the "A B C of Bee 

 Culture, ' ' but for the purpose of acting. 



I would not overlook nor belittle the social 

 advantage afforded by our bee-meetings; 

 and a beekeeper may well spend monev and 

 time in travel in order to become acquainted 

 with others who are engaged in the same 

 ptursiiit with him. Surely attend if it is pos- 

 sible; but the time is too valuable to thrash 

 out beginners ' questions. No man can 

 afford to travel many miles to go to such 

 big conventions solely for the purpose of 

 learning. 



The Standard Oil Company may be able- 

 to map out a yearly program in a few hours, 

 but the beekeeping fraternity is not as for- 

 tunately situated; it has thousands of stock- 

 holders with a diversity of interests; they 

 are scattered over the whole of the United 

 States, and it is not a very simple matter to 

 map out a program for such a body. Fur- 

 thermore, should ever so good a program 

 be mapped out by those who take the lead, 

 the next thing would be to have the members 

 stand bj' it. This is where we fail, and al- 

 ways have failed. 



Local associations and county .societies 

 hold beekeepers' institutes for the purpose 

 of instructing beginners. Here any simple 

 question may be asked and answered, or 

 more complicated questions discussed, but 

 the state beekeepers' convention is not the 

 place for it. F. Greiner. 



Naples, N. Y. 



Diinielson's co'iib-meUer and wax-press. 



