NOVEMBKE, 1921 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



707 



HEADS OF GRAIN lg|B|[Q DIFFERENT FIELDS 



Why Not If the term "extract- 



Crystallized Honey? ed honey ' ' suggests 

 to the consumer some- 

 thing a little different from pure honey, as 

 mentioned in your editorial in October 

 Gleanings, how much worse are the words 

 granulated, sugared, or candied honey. Each 

 term carries a suggestion of granulated 

 sugar. Why not use the proper word already 

 coined for it, "crystallized" honey? A 

 change is easily brought about. 



Surely "pure crystallized honey" would 

 make a better impression on the mind of the 

 consumer than granulated or candied honey. 



I once suggested this in a short article to 

 the American Bee Journal, and I notice 

 Hoffman & Hauck have changed their ads 

 to "liquid" and "crystallized" honey. 



Audubon, Iowa. E. M. Cole. 



Paraffin for Mending Leaky sections can 

 Leaking Sections. be repaired by dip- 



ping a table knife 

 into melted paraflSn (not too hot), then ap- 

 plying it to the break by a downward mo- 

 tion until the break is covered by a thin 

 film of paraffin. Some irregular sections 

 can be cut straight with a hot knife and 

 then covered by paraffin in this way and sc 

 made marketable. Some breaks can be 

 stopped by dropping melted paraffin on 

 them. 



There is another use for paraffin in comb- 

 honey production, which we have employed 

 for two or three years. When supers are 

 filled with sections and the springs are in 

 place we apply melted (hot) paraffin with 

 'I brush on top of the sections, which makes 

 cleaning comb honey a pleasure instead of 

 a dread job as it used to be. If new supers 

 are painted with hot paraffin on the bot- 

 tom of the section holders or all over, it 

 does away with a lot of work at cleaning 

 time. Eudolf Miller. 



Fernley, Nev. 



When to Put Bees Wintering has not prov- 

 Into Cellar. ed to be much of a prob- 



lem, as I have a good 

 cellar underneath the house. The worst 

 thing to determine is when the bees have 

 had their last flight, as after that they are 

 ready to go into the cellar. I have guessed 

 wrong on the last flight more than once, but 

 last year I decided to wait and give them 

 just one more chance. After the supposed 

 last one which occurred in November, there 

 were a few days during the week when tht 

 bees did not venture out. But the following 

 Sunday was bright and sunny, and the little 

 fellows were out by the score enjoying the 

 warm rays. Oh, how I loved to see that last 

 flight! And it was the last one, for a few 

 days later there was something in the air. 



that spoke to my ears for the first time since 

 the warm season. So the bees went into the 

 cellar and came in just at the right time, it 

 seems, for there was no flying weather aft- 

 erwards. A. G. Sylvester. 

 Cokato, Minn. 



Removing Pollen In one of my articles 

 From Combs. published recently i n 



Gleanings the practice of 

 rendering into wax all combs clogged with 

 pollen was described. E. M. Cole of Audu- 

 bon, Iowa, immediately wrote me describ- 

 ing the following method of saving such 

 combs: 



' ' Using a hive-tool, I scrape the pollen- 

 filled cells down well into the pollen, taking 

 care not to injure the base of the cells. With 

 dry brittle comb, the cells may be broken 

 down until most of the pollen can be shaken 

 out. A minute or two is all the time it 

 takes, and I have had a comb of gummy 

 pollen cleaned out and pretty well drawn in 

 24 hours. I believe they dig out the pollen 

 because they cannot repair the cells until 

 they do." 



I told Mr. Cole we would test this method 

 and report results. We tested it on some- 

 thing like 30 combs. After scraping down 

 the pollen as described, we placed one or 

 two such combs in the middle of each brood- 

 nest needing space for the queen, right in 

 the height of the season. On the next 

 round nearly every one was filled with eggs 

 or young brood, the queen having accepted 

 them, if anything, better than she would 

 empty combs. This little "kink" should 

 be of great value to beekeepers, who are 

 sometimes "blessed" with an oversupply 

 of pollen. The time factor is less than that 

 required for rendering into wax. 



Georgetown, Ont. Morley Pettit. 



The Difference in I gave a hive with start- 

 Yield of Honey, ers, one inch, to a swarm 

 with a virgin queen on 

 August 8. The morning of August 9 I placed 

 them on the scales. In the evening of that 

 day they weighed five pounds more than in 

 the morning, but during the night they re- 

 duced it one pound. The next day they 

 gained five and a quarter pounds and re- 

 duced it at night three-quarters pound and 

 the next day five and a quarter pounds with 

 one pound reduction at night. I kept this 

 up until the comb was fully drawn when I 

 placed a super of drawn combs on the hive 

 and the same experiment was continued, but 

 the weights ran from ten pounds to twelve 

 and a half pounds per day, with one and a 

 half pounds to two pounds reduction at 

 night. Myron Pickering. 



Crane, Mont. 



