GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



NoVEJfBER, 1920 



HEADS OF GRAIN TPPQmIGQ DIFFERENT FIELDS 



Four Colonies From ;tbout the first of 

 from One Bee tlie year I stimulated 

 Tree. lightly a colony of bees 



in a bee-tree; and, by ob- 

 serving closely, I timed quite accurately the 

 cutting of the large spruce tree before the 

 bees were ready to swarm. When the tree 

 fell the combs collapsed, and the honey 

 poured from the knot-hole entrance and 

 ran down thru the marsh grass some 10 

 feet into the salt water of the Tacific. 

 Upon opening the tree I found a large cav- 

 ity which was full of bees, comb, and honey. 

 I obtained about 40 pounds of honey and 

 several frames of comb containing queen- 

 cells and brood in all stages, ancl enough 

 bees _ for four 8-frame hives. 



I gave the mother queen to one, an Ital- 

 ian to another, and to the other two the 

 brood from which they drew 56 perfect 

 queen-ee.lls, there being 30 good ones on a 

 single comb. I put in division-boards and 

 put on excluders and supers of drawn 

 combs. I also made a brooder for the 

 queen-cells, and by dividing and grafting 

 I obtained queens galore. Immediately af- 

 ter getting my bees I was offered $10 per 

 colony. Perhaps I did not proceed in an 

 exactly'' orthodox way, but I made it work 

 just the same. 



Eaymond, Wash. M. C. Osborne. 



Q i =30^c« aa 



Bees Kept in I keep my bees right in 



Town for tlie village of Dolgevillc 



Twenty Years. on the bank of the East 

 ('iinnda Creek. I have 

 kept my l)ces there for the last 18 or 20 



years without any trouble to anyone. I 

 have an up-to-chite outfit. In fact, I have 

 to have such, for I have been in the meat- 

 market business for the last 20 or 22 years 

 and keep the bees as a sideline, and, there- 

 fore, don't have much time to spend on 

 them. So I find an up-to-date equipment 

 very important. K. C. Ortlieb. 



Dolgeville, N. Y. 



A Queen In a letter received from 



Travels for 65 Arcadio Davalos, Zam- 

 Days. ora, Michoacan, Mexico, 



under date of Sept. 23, is 

 the following: 



"Only three dajs ago I received the two 

 Italian queens Avhich you sent nie on July 

 17. One arrived alive, at which I was 

 greatly astonished. ' ' 



These queens were sent by mail in the 

 ordinary Benton cage, and were 65 days in 

 transit. Going as they did thru the most 

 tropical part of this continent, and at the 

 hottest time of the year, I consider this a 

 most remarkable record. 



Medina, Ohio. M. T. Pritchard. 



30 ^ PC 



Advocates TJie Pearson method of 



Pearson Method u s i iig shallow frames 

 Swarm Control, with foundation starters 

 imder the brood - cham- 

 ber for swarm j)revention (June Gleanings. 

 1919) seemed so reasonable I decided last 

 sjjring to give it a trial. I arranged seven 

 hives accordinsr to directions, and the re- 



Mr. Ortliob's town apiary 



