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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



March, 1920 



HEADS OF GRAINl Pj 



To Convert a Hoff- 

 man into a 

 Jumljo Frame, 



Take two sticks of 

 wood % X %, and one 

 2% and the other 3 

 inches long. Make a 

 V-shaped cut in shorter piece as shown in 

 the cut. Nail them together. Pierce two 

 holes, one at the bottom of the V-shaped 

 cut thru the longer piece, and the other thru 

 both pieces midway down. To set in place, 

 take the bottom-bar off the frame. Adjust 

 a block in each groove, with the longer piece 

 turned in, which will give a smooth surface 

 outside, driving two nails in each. Eeplace 



Showing the extension piece separate and after to- 

 in? attached to the end-bar. 



the bottom-bar. Wire the added piece thru 

 the holes previously made, and imbed a two- 

 inch piece of foundation in wires extending 

 1/4 inch above the upper wire, which the 

 bees will connect in a short time. The end 

 piece may be made of one piece, which any 

 supply house will furnish on order. It will 

 be necessary to have a rim for the hives 

 2% inches deep for either single or double- 

 walled hives. 



If it is desired to have li/^-inch spacing 

 instead of 1%, take a metal spacer and di- 

 vide it in halves. Nail them on the frame 

 on opposite diagonal corners, which will 

 give nine frames to a ten-frame hive. 



Medina, O. J. E. Thompson. 



Need of Repellent 

 Sprays. 



Some years ago I in- 

 sisted that a repellent 

 of some kind should 

 be added to spray material so that poisoned 

 blossoms would not be visited by bees, and 

 possibly ])oisoned branches and sods under 

 trees would not be molested by cattle, sheep, 

 or poultry. The effort to ignore the spray- 



DIFFERENT FIELDS 



poison question is not solving the question 

 at all in the interest of beekeeping. A good, 

 loud, healthy roar from the beekeepers 

 would set our experiment stations to work 

 to find the remedy needed. The clover- 

 honey flow has sharply declined with the ad- 

 vent of spraying, and there is not yet as 

 thoro spraying as there will be in the future. 

 My beekeeping has been at a standstill for 

 several years, due to the uncertainty of both 

 the crop and the business itself. The or- 

 chard business, however, is growing exten- 

 sively. In fact, the man who can not pro- 

 duce one or two or more cars of apples is 

 not considered in the business. A proper 

 repellent added to or instead of poison, 

 when i^roved successful and when required 

 of the orchardist, would greatly benefit bee- 

 keeping. C. H. Cargo. 

 Bladen, 0. 



:30 ^ ac: 



Fowler's Reply to Let Dr. Miller read, 

 Dr. Miller. on page 19, lines 3 and 



4 of my article, ' ' I 

 hope to prove that to let the drones take 

 care of themselves is a fallacy;" and then 

 read in his article of June, middle of last 

 column, page 369, '"Well, if we are not 

 to rear drones from the best queen, what 

 are we to do about drones? Don't do any- 

 thing." He will then see that I was simply 

 trying to prove to him by figures that to 

 do nothing about the drones is a fallacy. 



My mind is still at sea to know how the 

 Doctor or anyone else can "breed from the 

 best" and "don't do anything" about the 

 drones. C. E. Fowler. 



Hammonton, N. J. 



Keeps His Bees I am a beginner with a 



in the Attic. year 's experience, but 



I feel that I have been 

 fairly successful, as I obtained last year 

 100 povmds of surplus from two hives in a 

 year of almost total failure for the vicinity 

 of Portland. I divided one hive in August 

 for increase, and these are my very best 

 colonies this year, due to young queens and 

 stimulative feeding to increase brood-rear- 

 ing. We had an ideal spring in 1919. On 

 April 15 one hive had 12 frames of brood 

 and the others 8 and 10, and I secured 35 

 pounds of surplus from fruit blossom from 

 the three colonies, and increased to four 

 strong colonies. 



I like fall division for this locality, after 

 the main crop; and as we have only a slight 

 fall flow — just enough to build up colonies, 

 running to the first of October — they build 

 up nicely for winter with the help of a quart 

 of thin syrup. 



My apiary of four hives is in my attic and 

 third-story room, owing to lack of yard 

 space. Next year I expect to start an out- 

 apiary. While single-walled hives are suf- 



