May, 1921 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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period these newly formed colonies are set 

 outdoors the night before, when they will 

 be ready to defend their entrances and 

 maintain their identity. In this way he 

 saves all the bees that arrive in good order. 

 He avoids the uproar of robbing and saves 

 the queen. 



There! do you get that thousanddollar 

 trick? And don't you see it will not take 

 many shipments like this to save the thou- 

 sand dollars? 



Doubtless there are receivers of bees in 

 package form who do not winter in cellars. 

 I believe it would pay such to use the house 

 cellar after making it dark, and carry out 

 Mr. Caraway's plan, for it will work as well 

 on one package as on a hundred. 



Mr. Caraway says that his experience has 

 shown repeatedly that a package of three 

 pounds of bees and a queen, if it arrives in 

 good order, is in every respect equal to an 

 average colony wintered in the cellar. In 

 some cases the package bees are cheaper, if 

 cost of stores, care of moving into and out 

 of the cellar, etc., are taken into considera- 

 tion. 



It is not always "smooth sailing" in Wy- 

 oming, as will be seen by the class of roads 

 that are encountered. (Excuse the mixup 

 in the figure of speech.) The machines get 

 mired in the soil, for there are no roads 

 there. He and his men have had numerous 

 occasions to dig their machine out of the 

 mud, as one of the illustrations will testify. 



Another difiiculty is the extreme cold, the 

 mercury at times going down to 40 degrees 

 below zero; and, strangely enough, it is ex- 

 cessively hot there during the summer. 



In regard to cellars Mr. Caraway believes, 

 with the writer, that they should be rela- 

 tively long in proportion to their width in 

 order to get a large amount of exposure to 

 Mother Earth. His cellars are 8 feet wide 

 by 50 feet long, well under ground, clear 

 below any possible freezing. He finds the 

 temperature of 45 degrees is correct. 



He likewise prefers colonies in Jumbo 

 hives, as he says it is clear that they swarm 

 less, and come out in the spring much l)etter 



than those in the standaid Langstroth 

 hives. 



Probably, if the truth were told, Mr. Car- 

 away went north because he could get some 

 good hunting by so doing. He has some 

 wonderful trophies that he secured after 



B. M. Caraway and his helpers and truck witli a 



Uiad of bees ready to start for an outyard — Mr. 



Caraway at the wlieel. 



the bee work was over. It is hard to un- 

 derstand how a good beekeeper could leave 

 the balmy Southland for the cold, cold 

 North, where the temperature goes 40 below 

 zero in winter and then turns to boiling hot 

 in the summer. 



GRANULATION IN COMB HONEY 



The Probable Cause of It ana a 

 Suggestion as to How This Granu- 

 lation Can be cAuoided 



By J. E. Crane 



AXT-tHY honev 

 yy in fijled 

 sec t i o n s 

 will granulate 

 more quickly, if 

 the sections con- 

 tain comb drawn 

 out the previous 

 year, than if the 

 combs are diawn 



from foundation the current season, is a 

 question that seems somewhat difficult to 

 explain, yet the subject is one of considersi 

 hie importance to producers of comb honey. 

 By the 15th of June clover is usually 

 coming into bloom, everything looks prom- 

 ising, and hundreds of supers go on to our 



hives. Then, per- 

 haps, hot dry 

 weather sets in, 

 and by the time 

 the supers are 

 half full the ilow 

 of honey fails, 

 and, instead of 

 some thousands 

 of salable sec- 

 tions, we have thousands of sections from 

 one-fourth to three-fourths full, with only 

 a small number fit for the market. Or it 

 may be that the close of a fairly success- 

 ful season catches us with a large number 

 of unfinished sections. A part of these 

 may be used profitably as bait sectiona; but. 



