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GLEANINGS IN BEE CtTLtURE 



January, 1921 



HEADS "OF GRAIN I PpQlC S DIFFERENT FIELDS 



(lay or so she laid in them again, but no 

 brood came in those cells. So I concluded 

 the bees knew they could not keep these 

 eggs warm, and so did away with them. I 

 have lately read the statement by Dr. Phil- 

 lips that the bees eat the eggs of drone- 

 layers. 



I once had a queen that used to put two 

 to seven eggs in a cell, and yet everything 

 went along quite normally in the hive. 

 There were other hives that did better and 

 had more brood, so it looked to me as if 

 they destroyed those extra eggs, instead of 

 distributing them around in empty cells as 

 good bees are supposed to do. 



From these observations it seems that it 

 is quite likely that many a queen gets 

 blamed, when the workers are really to 

 blame for not making an effort to raise 

 brood from all the queen 's eggs. Of course, 

 if the queen is the mother of these bad 

 bees, she may be partially responsible for 

 their characteristics. But I think it is more 

 likely that conditions at the time, such as 

 the age of the nurse bees, amount of stores, 

 pollen, and all the general conditions that 

 make a good working force — these will de- 

 cide whether the eggs will be destroved or 

 not. Will H. Gray. 



Northlonsdale, B. C. 



Prominent 

 Australian 

 Apiarists. 



F. R. Beuhne has spent some 

 28 years of his life among 

 the bees, and his apiary is a 

 model of what an apiary 

 Situated in an orchard, it has 

 an extremely picturesque ajopearance and is 

 as neat and orderly in arrangement as it can 

 well be. The honey-house is most compactly 



should be. 



A picturesque apiary belonging to F. R. Beuhne 

 at Taoljorac, Victoria, Australia. 



arranged, as there is a place for everything 

 and everything is in its place. 



Mr. Beuhne was for many years president 

 of the Victorian Apiarists ' Association and 

 has been one of the main forces in holding 

 the association together. Besides being a 



good beekeeper he is also a first-class bot- 

 anist. His writings on the honey -producing 

 flora of Australia are most valuable and 

 should be in the hands of every beekeeper 

 in Australia, California, and other parts of 



Mr. Cutler's apiary and honey-house. 



the world where the eucalyptus is largely 

 grown. What comes from Mr. Beuhne 's pen 

 can be relied upon as coming from one who 

 has had a wide experience. 



Another successful apiarist is Herbert Cut- 

 ler, who gave up business in Melbourne to 

 take up beekeeping. His is another model 

 apiary. 



Have you ever noticed that beekeepers 

 with a bitsiness training are invariably suc- 

 cessful? They have been trained to those 

 systematic methods of working so essential 

 in the management of a large number of 

 colonies, and they appreciate the advantages 

 of attention to detail in marketing their 

 produce in an attractive and uniform style. 

 Mr. Cutler 's honey and wax always bring top 

 market price because the goods and packing 

 can be relied upon. 



Besides the home apiary Mr. Cutler has 

 several out-apiaries. He uses the modified 

 Heddon hive principally, tho he also has 

 some Langstroth hives. B. Blackbourn. 



Melbourne, Australia. 



Wax Last year in the June Journal 



Production, of the Franklin Institute there 

 was an interesting article by 

 Enoch Karrar, Ph.D., Research Department 

 of the Philadelphia United Gas Improve- 

 ment Company, on the efficiency of light 

 production in organisms. One part of it 

 throws some light on the production of wax. 

 He says that it has been found that 12 g. 

 of cane sugar will produce 1 g. of wax. At 

 another time, 24 g. of sugar produced 1 g. 

 of wax; but now comes the important point: 

 The energy content of sugar is 1860 calories 

 (Farmers' Bulletin No. 142 gives it as 1750: 

 calories of honey, 1420; maple sugar, 1250; 

 molasses, 1225), whereas beeswax is 9043 



