January, 1922 



GLEANINGS IN I? E E C U I- T U R K 



FROM THE FIELD OF EXPERIENCE 



used a push-in-tho-coinb cago, I boliovo tlu> 

 result would luivc been otherwise. 



When doing some requeening I brought 

 some of the old queens home with me, and 

 then decided to see how the "royal battle" 

 is pulled off. So I put two in the same cage 

 (there being three or four workers present). 

 They made two or three attempts at battle, 

 which seemed to me mild ones. I placed the 

 queens away for the night, and next morn- 

 ing both queens w^ere all right and apparent- 

 ly the best of friends. 



European foul brood is very prevalent in 

 this section and most "backlotters" have 

 bad cases o'f "cold feet." In short, the 

 situation, as I see it, is that bees can no 

 longer be successfully kept here except by 

 the man who is willing to make diligent ap- 

 plication and learn the game thoroly all the 

 way thru, and then allow no loose practices. 



Raymond, Wash. M. C. Osborne. 



SAVES A LOT OF LIFTING 



How Cable and Tackle are Used Above Long 

 Rows of Hives 



Mr. Swahn has his colonies arranged in 

 three long rows capable of holding about 50 

 colonies to the row. At the end of each row 

 he has had erected a telephone pole, with 

 a cable running the full length of the row. 

 He has constructed a carrier to run along 

 this cable, the release of which is controlled 

 by a rope fastened at the top. By merely 

 jerking and slightly twisting the rope he can 

 tighten it so that the carrier when lifted 



into the air will remain stationary. The 

 carrier is made something like a set of ice 

 tongs, with the lower part of suflicicnt 

 length to lift three or four hive-bodies. 



The big value of this piece of machinery 

 is in that he is able to lift all the supers at 

 one time, and leave them suspended in the 

 air while he goes thru the brood-chamber. 

 When he desires to put them back, all that 

 he has to do is to give the rope a pull and 

 lower the supers back upon the brood-cham- 

 ber. The carrier rides the cable so that he 

 can very easily shift it from one part of the 

 yard to another, and it can be detached 

 from one cable and placed on another in a 

 very few minutes. Because of the length 

 of the cable it necessarily sags to a more or 

 less extent in the middle, but this is taken 

 care of by an adjustable prop which can be 

 placfed at any position along the cable where 

 he desires it. H. F. Wilson. 



Madison, Wis. 



IT BOOSTS THE SALES 



Inexpensive Local Advertising Works Wonders in 

 Selling Honey 



We need only to step into any grocerj 

 store to see many instances of how adver- 

 tising is controlling not only the demand, 

 but also the price of many articles of every- 

 day use. While some large concerns are 

 spending large sums of money and are ac- 

 complishing a great deal toward increasing 

 the (kunand for honey. T believe that bee- 

 keepers everywhere will find themselves well 



Mr. .Swaliii 



:ij)i;uy arranged for liftiufr supers \>y t:uk1e and U-aviiig tlioiu susnendt'd in the air while tli? 

 broodcliainbers are beins examined. 



