Fkbri'ARV, 1932 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUKE 



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HEADS OF GRAIN tt ^PQ^OTDIFFERENT FIELDS 



Large Hives in We are trying out two 

 New Mexico. yards of the large hives 

 shown in the accompanying 

 picture. They hold 12 frames, but we use 

 only 11 in the brood-chamber and 10 in the 

 super. The colonies in these hives for the 

 last two years (the length of time we have 

 been running them) have produced more 

 than twice as much honey per colony as 

 those in eight-frame hives. The picture of 



Hives with one, two and three entrances. 



the one row shows where we have been 

 making tests with one, two and three en- 

 trances during the heavy honey flow. The 

 picture was taken just after the top en- 

 trances were closed. I could see no difference 

 in the ones that had three entrances and the 

 ones that had one good large one. In the 

 picture of the yard the small hives are a 

 part of my mating nucleus yard. The Eio 

 Grande Kiver is just across the valley and 

 runs around the foot of the hills in the dis- 

 tance. J. W. Powell. 

 Mesilla Park, N. M. 



To Clean Pollen I noticed an article in No- 

 Clogged Combs, vember issue of Gleanings 

 in regard to getting the 

 bees to remove pollen from brood-combs. I 

 have tried scraping the cells with the hive- 

 tool as recommended, and it worked. I have 

 also tried shaving the cells with a sharp 

 knife or an uncapping-knifc and that worked 

 well, too. The best plan I have ever tried 

 where the pollen was old and dry was to fill 

 the cells with water and let the combs soak 

 a day or two. The water will soften the pol- 

 len, and it can be rinsed out. I have never 

 had to melt up any combs on account of 

 their being clogged with pollen. 



Homedale, Idaho. A. N. Norton. 



Who Is There is a pestilential fellow, 



This Man? who is trying to ruin my 

 chances, for successful beekeep- 

 ing (and yours, too). In every state which 

 I have visited, he has been at work before 

 me, blasting my chances and the chances of 

 countless otiiers, and, never tiring, persists 

 at his abominable work, heartlessly taking 

 opportunity for education, travel, and all 

 the better things of life, even bread and but- 

 ter itself, from me and my family, and from 

 yours. 



Who is this man who skulks on the trail 

 of every beekeeper who seeks to do well by 

 himself, his family, his local community, his 

 nation and the world? 



Eegardless of cost of production and a 

 fair income to the producer, tho usually a 

 producer himself, he is the man who cuts 

 the price. E. F. Atwater. 



Meridian. Idaho. 



An apiary of big hives in New Mexico belonging to J. \V. Powell. 



