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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



November, 1917 



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Honey-liouse and The accompanying il- 

 Hives are all lustration gives a view 



Home-made of our bee-house and 



workshop, also showing 

 a part of our apiary. The house is 12 x 24 

 X 8 feet, is built on concrete foundation, and 

 cost $114.14 for material. The work was 



done by myself, as I happen to be a car- 

 penter. The hives too are home-made, but 

 do not look much like the usual hives made 

 of dry-goods boxes. C. Klabuhn. 



Conneaut, Pa. 



Empty Super if Dr. C. C. Miller:— Sup- 



Above Gives Com- pose the main honey- 

 fort; Below, Pre- flow this summer 

 vents Eobbing should end about Aug. 

 1, as it frequently does 

 here, and all comb honey were removed from 

 the hive (Buckeye), how would it do to 

 place an empty super on the hive for an 

 air-space so the entrance might be con- 

 tracted to x^revent robbing? I should like 

 to leave the bees for two weeks at that 

 time, and I fear things might go wrong in 

 my absence. No doubt you could tell me of 

 a better scheme. J. H. Diebel. 

 Columbus, Ohio. 



If I get your idea, it is that during your 

 absence you want to leave the bees only a 

 small entrance, so they will easily protect 

 themselves against robbers, and lest there 

 should be any approach toward suffocation 

 you plan to put an empty super on top, so 

 as to give more air. 



If there is no robbing immediately before 

 your departure, with colonies reasonably 

 strong, it hardly seems possible there should 

 be any robbing, even with full entrance. 

 But suppose you do contract the entrance, 

 with no other precaution. If it becomes un- 

 comfortably warm there is nothing to pre- 

 vent the bees from coming out to sit in a 

 bunch at the entrance where it is more com- 

 fortable. Still, your empty super on top 

 would probably make it at least a little more 

 comfortable, and could do no harm. It is 

 just possible those bees might take it into 



their heads to store a little surplus while you 

 were gone, in which case the super would 

 come in handy. But while you 're about it, 

 if you are flush with empty supers why not 

 put one under as well as on top? Bobbers 

 are averse to crossing any confined space 

 where they cannot take to immediate flight 

 if attacked, and the empty super below 

 would tend to safety, even without any 

 smaller entrance. C. C. Miller. 



War Prices in 

 Denmark; Crop 

 About Thirty-two 

 Pounds per Colony 



For several years I liv- 

 ed in California and 

 kept bees as a side line, 

 until ill health caused 

 me to leave for Den- 

 mark. A year later my father died, leaving 

 me to look after his work, which included 

 the care of about thirty colonies. I am go- 

 ing into this work in a more extensive way 

 and am trying my best to make things move. 

 I am taking up American methods of bee- 

 keeping and have also started commercial 

 queen-rearing. 



No one here uses the Langstroth hive; 

 but in time they probably will, when they 

 find how much easier it is to handle. I have 

 twenty home-made ones now in use. In this 

 country we have to use the double-walled 

 hive, as the weather is very changeable in 

 the spring and early summer when brood- 

 rearing starts. 



In the past three years I have made a 



Papaya tree on the honey farm of U. Trista, Santa 

 C'hira, Cuba. See editorial. 



