August, 1921 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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HEAD S OF G RAIlSnOMgffl DIFFERENT FjEjLDS 



Several Wait two days after removing the 

 Timely old queen before introducing ripe 

 Hints. queen-cells. Fifteen days later 

 look for eggs. 



Bees that are to he united with another 

 colony should have their queen killed two 

 days previous. 



Xail two pieces on the escape-board to 

 guide bees to the escape; the super will be 

 free of bees much sooner tlian without the 

 guides. 



The young virgin cjueeu not long from her 

 cell does the piping. Her note is higher 

 tlian the queen qualiking in her cell. 



East Avon, N. Y. A. C. Gilbert. 



Catching Queens 

 With Tanglefoot. 



After having had con- 

 siderable trouble in 

 catching a queen to clip 

 her wings I now get her legs tangled in 

 honey to prevent her from chasing from 

 one end to the other of the frame, which is 

 very irritating to the bees. I have some 

 honey in a small bottle ready to pour over 

 her, and find it a very good and simple way 

 to handle queens to clij) their wings. An- 

 other advantage of covering them with hon- 

 ey is that it avoids leaving the scent on the 

 fingers, and so assures their safety in plac- 

 ing them back on the frames. 



Fall Eiver, Mass. Delphis A. Lagasse. 



Removing Escort I do not know whether it 

 Bees When ever occurred to you that 



Introducing. escort bees with their 



queen may cause some dis- 

 turbance when attempting to introduce. 

 Rarely, indeed, have I ever seen an escort 

 worker left even when the queen is accepted; 

 so by removing tliem before introducing we 

 eliminate that danger. With the success 

 we have had in introducing queens without 

 escorts is it not possible that tlie bees will 

 be more ready to accejit a queen if there are 

 no strangers with her? E. J. Ladd. 



Portland, Ore. 



Value of Shade If the beekeeper only 

 for Bees. knew what it costs to leave 



his bees out in the hot 

 summer sun without shade-boards, also the 

 risk he runs from the combs melting down, 

 he would use shade-boards on every hive. 



I make my shade-boards from four shakes 

 bound at each end and in the middle bv 

 lath. 



Only a few years ago thousands of colo- 

 nies of bees were destroyed in southern 

 California from heat, and beekeepers should 

 be prepared to meet this condition at any 

 time, for Nature has a way of repeating her- 

 self every few years. A. E. Lusher. 



Pomona, Calif. 



Requeening With Two years ago, during 

 Virgin Queens. the honey flow I killed 



my old queens in the aft- 

 ernoon, snuiked in young ones about dusk, 

 and had SO per cent accepted. The past 

 season the flow was very light, and I tried 

 the same method, but it was almost an utter 

 failure. T noticed in Gleanings a method 

 in whicli the queen was caged on top of the 

 brood-frames for 24 hours, then removed, 

 and a young queen put in the same place, 

 with the cage plugged with candy. I tried 

 this method for the remainder of the season 

 and never had a failure. I used a wire 

 cage, three-eighths of an inch thick, laid 

 fhit over a space between frames under the 

 excluder. In some cases the bees built cells 

 and capped them, the young queen laying 

 all around them, but these were all de- 

 stroyed by the bees before time to emerge. 

 I shall certainly continue to use this method 

 unless the bees act differently the coming 

 season. Thomas Martin. 



Wanstead, Ontario. 



Simplified My apiary of .56 colonies is 



Management, located on the banks of the 

 Canadian River six miles 

 from where I live. Last year these colo- 

 nies produced an average of 55 pounds per 

 colony, so it will be seen that production 

 here is not large but it is reasonably de- 

 pendable. We give no winter protection, 

 usually leave one deep super on with plenty 

 of stores in it, and in the spring the hives 



are lioiling over before tlie honey flow be- 

 gins, whicli is from alfalfa and sweet clo- 

 ver. The alfalfa honey flow begins early 

 in June and all is over by the middle of 

 September. 



In the spring as the bees need room we 

 just add those deep supers and let them 

 ramble. We clip all queens in the spring 

 and visit the bees once or twice a week. 

 When the season is over we extract once 

 for all, this usually being done in October. 



We sell all of the lioney here in fruit 

 jars and ten-pound friction pails. 



Choctaw, Okla. Eugene Couch. 



