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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



November, 1917 



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leaving the upper hive until the brood all 

 hatches, cutting cells if necessary. Then 

 shake the bees in front of the lower hive, 

 keeping the combs to be used as a second 

 story the next j^ear. Would these combs be 

 reasonably free from honev and pollen ? 

 Lincoln City, Del. " C. A. Colell. 



The two stories are left only until time 

 for supers, when all are reduced to one 

 story (not ten-frame, as you say, but eight- 

 frame, altho it is possible that ten-frame 

 would be better for all the time) ; and 

 swarming practically never occurs until 

 there is only one story. Then the treatment 

 may be anj'- of the plans given, perhaps as 

 common as any being the "put-up" plan. 



The plan you propose would leave the 

 combs containing considerable pollen and 

 honey, the amount depending on how much 

 brood was present at the time of swarming; 

 for at that time the combs would be full, 

 and any cells not containing brood would 

 be filled with honey or pollen. Frankly, I 

 don 't believe your scheme to keep over these 

 combs without any bees on them would work 

 out ^■ery satisfactorily. C. C. Miller. 



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How the Bees Miss Euphemia M 'Isaac, 



Helped on the the owner and operator 



Fruit-Farm of the Cranford farm, 



near Benton Harbor, 

 Michigan, had a King apple-tree that would 

 not produce fruit. She sprayed it, scraped 

 its bark, trimmed its branches, but the King 

 simply kept on soldiering on the job, and 

 the owner was without any recompense 

 save that of its shading branches which 

 kept the sun from one end of the porch. 



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Miss M 'Isaac then turned to the last 

 resort. In proper season she located four 

 colonies of bees right under the tree, where- 

 upon the little workers fell to an immense 

 pollenization job. 



This year the tree seemed to make up for 

 its failure of other years. There seemed 

 to be an apple for each blossom, and Miss 

 M 'Isaac is giving most of the credit to 

 the bees. 



Miss M 'Isaac is a city-raised woman, 

 who with her sister left off nursing humans 

 in a city hospital to nurse soil into produc- 

 ing fruit in Michigan. Her success has been 

 pronounced. She now conducts an eleven- 

 acre place on a hilltop. In thirteen years 

 she has not had a crop failure. She keeps 

 about ten colonies of bees. They work on 

 fruit-bloom in the early season, and on buck- 

 wheat, which she ■ sows between the rows, 

 later on. J. L. Graff. 



Chicaco, 111. 



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Does the Public On reading the article 



Like the Darker by A. C. Miller on page 



Honeys? 600, August, we are 



not sure that we quite 

 agree. We have three grades of honey here 

 — the spring (or dandelion) honey, which 

 has a light-yellow color; the clover and al- 

 falfa, which is white, and the fall flow, a 

 mixture of clover and rabbit-brush. We try 

 our best to keep these thre~e grades separate, 

 extracting from the brood-nest about June 

 10 in preparation for our alfalfa flow; then 

 in July and August we extract in order to 

 be ready for our fall flow about Sept. 1. If 

 we did not do this, we should have a dark 

 honey thruout the season. We do not feed 



Miss M'Isaac's home and apiary. Ten colonies of bees are kept, principally for pollenizina; fiuit-blossoms. 



