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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Ai-orsT, 1920 



HEAPS OF G RAIN I P^ Q fl DIFFERENT PIETDSir) 



My Experience I do not feel that I 



With Aluminum know a gi-eat deal about 

 Combs. the aluminum combs, as 



I used them only last 

 season when I had only the one set 

 of ten combs. It was a very poor 

 season to try them, as the honey flows 

 were very scant here except the fall flow, 

 and then the bee force was much below 

 what it should have been at this time of 

 the season. In a fairly populous colony 

 during the fall flow I had one alumi- 

 num comb that was filled solid with honey 

 and completely capped. Another of these 

 combs in the early summer was put with a 

 new swarm and this colony filled it solid 

 with brood over and over; these two combs 

 were in the hives with wax combs and the 

 bees seemed to take to them as well as to 

 the wax combs. 



But I had other colonies I did not suc- 

 ceed in getting to use these combs, altho 

 it may have been a lack of bee force and 

 not enough nectar coming in. I had one 

 colonj^ of which the queen seemed to accept 

 the combs all right, but the bees did not. 

 One day I would find eggs in the cells; 

 then I would look, thinking to find brood 

 pretty well advanced, but would find noth- 

 ing save the empty cells. The eggs would 

 be removed. Another little experience I 

 had with the aluminum comb was this. T 

 had a colony that stood out in the sun, 

 without any protection in the way of shade, 

 and in this hive I had an aluminum comb 

 well filled witli biood. The exces- 



sive heat killed the brood except what was 

 in the wax combs. I then took the comb to 

 n hive that had shade, and no brood died 

 a ter that. Of course, if the hive in the sun 

 had been protected as it should have been, 

 I do not think any of the brood would have 

 died. 



I wish to give the combs another trial this 

 year, making an impartial test with the wax 

 combs. E. S. McElhaney. 



Mt. Vernon, Ind. 



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Lusher 's In Gleanings for July, 



Latest 1919, page 422, I gave a 



Extracting-Tent. picture of an extra ct- 

 ing-tent in the midst 

 of a 400-colony apiary belonging to 

 A. E. Lusher of Pasadena, Calif. I 

 now have pleasure in presenting two 

 views of a new and modified bee-tent 

 which he at present uses. Unlike most bee- 

 keepers of California he does not make use 

 of an extracting wagon nor a permanent 

 building for extracting at each 3'ard, but 

 uses, rather, a portable outfit made up of 

 canvas and mosquito netting — something 

 that he can fold up in a small compass, load 

 it on the wagon with his extraeting-outfit, 

 erect it on arrival at the outyard, and then 

 begin operations. Mr. Lusher is known as 

 one of tli-^ most extensive honey-producers 

 of sage and orange honey in California. The 

 last I knew he had about 1,800 colonies. He 

 is one of the beekeepers in that State who 



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