November, 1917 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



863 



HEADS OF GRAIN M tel i Q a DIFFERENT FIELDS 



Awakening 

 Interest in West 

 Viroinia 



We have just had an- 

 other proof of the in- 

 creasing general inter- 

 est in beekeeping that 

 has been lately developing thruout the coun- 

 try. At the annual field meet of the Pan- 

 handle Beekeepers' Association held Aug. 

 22 at Triadelphia, W. Va., the Department of 

 Agriculture of West Virginia considered it 

 wortli while to have a " movie-man," N. E. 

 Mehrie, of Charleston, W. Va., attend the 

 m.eet and make a film of the doings. Chas. 

 A. Reese, assistant entomologist, of West 

 Virginia Dep 't of Agriculture, was instru- 

 mental in obtaining these pictures, which we 

 understand are now being used in the central 

 ])art of the state. They were taken solely 

 for educational purposes, and are to be 

 shown in the theaters wherever desired by 

 the local beekeepers' associations. 



We had a very profitable time at the 

 meeting. Not all the speakers were there, 

 but all of the inspectors were present and 

 each one gave sn interesting talk. 



Elm Grove, W. Va. Will C. Griffith. 



A Suggested Vari- 

 ation of the "Put- 

 up Plan," for 

 Swarm Control 



Dr. C. C. Miller:— In 

 case of swarming with 

 the two - story plan, 

 when do you usually 

 have the swarming — 

 before or after reducing to one story? How 

 do you usually treat them? If more than 

 one way, please give the most common one. 

 I suppose that all the different ways in 

 "Fifty Years" refer to using only one ten- 

 frame body, not to two eight-frame stories 

 for brood-chambers. How would the follow- 

 ing modification of your "put-up" plan 

 work, when using two eight-frame brood- 

 chambers? When the swarm issues (clipped 

 queen), or several days later, shake the bees 

 off the frames of sealed brood in front of 

 the Ijives, putting these frames and queen 

 with a few bees in a hive above the cover 

 of the other hive, which will have the un- 

 sealed brood, nearly all the bees, and supers. 

 Put the combs of honey or pollen in either 

 hive, according to the amount of sealed or 

 unsealed brood and of course cut all of the 

 queen-cells. In a week, put down the queen, 



West Virginia beekeepers getting in the limelight. 

 the Panhandle field-meeting Aug. 22. 



A "movie man" was engaged to take pictures at 



