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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



December, 1922 



HEADS OF GRAIN I £?PQMl[yDIFF ERENT FIELDS 



Nectar Secretion Here is a picture of the 

 at High Altitudes. San Francisco peaks 

 near where my bees are 

 located and close to Flagstaff, Arizona. The 

 highest point is a little over 12,000 feet 

 above sea level or nearly 2^/^ miles high. The 

 snow stays on the tops the year round, and 

 in places it is 30 feet deep. The bees make 

 much more honey around the mountains 

 than they do on the plains, for at this alti- 

 tude the atmosphere is so cool that when 

 the wind blows the clouds against the 

 mountains the cool air causes the water to 

 form in drops, thus bringing rain. I have 

 noticed that it rains much more around the 

 mountains than on the plains. These show- 

 ers and the lower temperature cause the nec- 



red and dark-pink book, but did not touch 

 any of the others, although there are bright- 

 blue, green and brown books. I also no- 

 ticed that bees went to the bookcase fly- 

 ing up and do^vn the glass. Here, of course, 

 I could not see any picking out of any 

 particular color; but it remained consider- 

 ably longer at the bookcase than at any 

 other piece of furniture in the room. If the 

 bee, to all appearances, is able to distinguish 

 the colors of books, then it is surely also 

 able to distinguish the colors of flowers, 

 which, I understand, has been disputed. I 

 had plenty of time to follow the doings of 

 the bee, I am sorry to say, having been down 

 for five weeks from a broken leg. 



St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. Axel Hoist. 



Winter scene in Arizona. San Francisco peaks in the distance. The richest bee-trees were found at 



higher altitudes on the mountain slopes. 



tar to rise in the bloom in great quantity. 

 The closer to those foothills, the more nec- 

 tar there is in the bloom. I know this by 

 finding bee-trees. Some I found at an ele- 

 vation of over 10,000 feet were the richest 

 of all. One had 22 gallons of comb honey 

 which weighed 220 pounds. 



Flagstaff, Ariz. S. M. Campbell. 



Bees Distinguish We received two nuclei 

 Colors. of bees from Missouri, 



and had them placed in 

 side the house to have them sent out into 

 the country during the cool of the night. 

 One of the boxes started to leak a few bees 

 which were soon flitting around in the house, 

 nosing all about. I noticed that one bee 

 went to a bookstand where I have some 

 l)ooks standing and lying, and it struck me 

 that the bee went distinctly to each single 



Large Yields in There is a Methodist preaeh- 

 South Dakota, er up in South Dakota who 

 takes his recreation in bee- 

 keeping and has a lot of fun out of it. Not 

 long ago he was driving home from seeing 

 a sick man. and ran into a swarm of bees. 

 The bees covered the car and were all over 

 the preacher. He stopped his car as soon as 

 he could, and watched the bees. He saw that 

 it was a very large swarm and decided to 

 follow them. They soon settled on a tree.- 

 He went to the home of the owner of the 

 land and told his wife about the bees. She 

 threw up her hands and shouted at him: 

 "Take them away, I don't want them at 

 all!" The preacher told her to see that no 

 one got the swarm, while he went to town 

 for a hive. 



Thnt swarm was too big for the hive. He 

 took a bceman out with him the second trip, 

 and botli of them decided to put on another 



