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fti FROM THE FIELD OF EXPERIENCE 



bees do not. seem to notice the change. This 

 would not be the case should we give just 

 the cell. It goes without saying that tlic 

 whole niu'leus miglit be united with the col 

 ony to be requeened, and such a procedure 

 would indeed be the one to be preferred it' 

 we have no further iise for it. 



When it is the plan t(» continue such nu- 

 clei, provision should have been made to 

 have other queen-cells ready at this time. 

 The comb from the requeened colony, be it 

 a brood or a honey comb, then takes the 

 place of the brood-comb removed from the 

 nucleus; the cell is given in a protector, or 

 48 hours later without the protector. Thus 

 several queens may be reared or mated from 

 each nucleus. When queens thus reared are 

 to be used in distant yards the introduction 

 must be by a different method, or the same 

 as is being practiced with queens shipped 

 thru the mails. F. Greiner. 



Naples, N. Y. 



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NEW KIND BULK COMB HONEY 



Produced Without Destroying the Combs Which 

 are Used Again 



I was much interested in the description, 

 page 28, January Gleanings, of the Bedell 

 capping press, for the extensive beekeeper. 

 I think it will prove a great labor-saver. I 

 have another quite different plan which I 

 have been using in a small way for several 

 years, and which I have not seen advocated 

 in Gleanings. 



When extracting the "fat," thick, nice 

 combs are set aside until enough of them 

 are secured to make a special job of hand- 

 ling them. After trimming off the burrs 



and other objectionable parts with a sharj) 

 knife, cut the cappings along each end-bar 

 on both sides, and along the top-bar on both 

 .sides. Tlu^n stand the frame, bottom up, on 

 a broad board, with cleats nailed around 

 the edges to liold any honey drippings. Then 

 with a shar}> knife cut right down beside 

 the bottom-bar to the top-bar, inclining the 

 frame so the thick slab of honey will fall 

 over on the board, capping side down, cut- 

 ting the comb as close to the foundation as 

 is safe without cutting it. The frames are 

 then set aside to drain until enough are se- 

 cured to fill the extractor, when what honej' 

 remains is thrown out. 



The slabs of honey are then cut up into 

 squares of suitable size to handle with a 

 pancake turner, when they are put into 

 buckets, capping surface up. When the 

 bucket is nearly full cover all with ex- 

 tracted honey, seal the bucket, and there 

 you have several pounds of the finest comb 

 honey ever produced. It has no tough mid- 

 rib, or burrs as is often the case with sec- 

 tion honey, and the canned slices retain 

 all the delicate aroma of the comb. Of 

 course it may be called a "mussy mess," 

 but to my notion it is the finest-eating 

 honey produced. My friends and neighbors 

 never complain of its "mussiness" when 

 presented with a sample for their tables. 

 Mentone, Ala. Dr. C. F. Parker. 



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MEETING THEIR WATERLOO 



Black and Hybrid Bees Being Wiped Out in Pacific 

 Northwest 



Slicing oil' slabs of honey to be sold ii.s bulk comb 

 hnnoy. 'I'lip thin comb or midril) is then pnt thru 

 tlie e-xtractor and returned to the bees to be refilled. 



There are two ranges of mountains be- 

 tween the coast line and the interior. The 

 coast range of mountains divides tlie coast 

 proper from the valleys that extend to the 

 Cascade Mountains, and east of the Cas- 

 cade Mountains lies the interior country — 

 a vast empire largely given over to produc- 

 ing alfalfa, grain, and stock. The alfalfa 

 regions support thousands of colonies of 

 bees that produce honey by the carload. 

 The climate west of the Cascade Range is 

 more humid and equable, and as one ap- 

 proaches the coast humidit}^ increases and 

 the temperature is more even, extremes be- 

 ing rarely known. If it were not for the 

 rain that generall.y prevails in the sj)ring 

 months, the coast counties and valleys clear 

 to the Cascade Range would be ideal for 

 bees, but weather conditions are such that 

 sometimes bees cannot fly to advantage. 

 When we do have a few days without rain- 

 fall, considerable su])plies are gathered and 

 colonies build up rapidly. 



But here's the rul): Just as soon .as 

 brood-rearing comnu'nces in earnest we look 

 for foul brood, and we generally find some, 



