Dkcember, 192i 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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HEADS OF GRAIN t DJ^iO TDIFFERENT FIELDS 



hive-body. That proved too small, so a su- 

 per was put on, to make room for all the 

 bees to get inside of the hive. 



Of course everybody knows that when a 

 man starts to raising chickens or strawber- 

 ries, or goes fishing or hunting, or raises 

 bees, he is immediately classed among the 

 world's greatest liars. But the writer will 

 vouch for the truthfulness of the amount 

 of hive room required to put the bees of 

 that big swarm inside. It may be that 

 there were two or three swarms united to 

 make the big swarm, but the preacher suc- 

 cessfully got them inside. Then the fun of 

 putting supers on began. That swarm made 

 320 filled sections of comb honey, 71 pounds 

 of extracted honey, and is going into win- 

 ter quarters with plenty of stores for the 

 winter. Chad Dixie. 



How Bees Use The following interesting in- 

 Their Wings. formation appears in an ar- 

 ticle, "Marvelous Secrets 

 Revealed by the Microscope," by Richard 

 Kent in the October issue of The American 

 Magazine, page 46, third column, next to 

 last paragraph: 



"How many wings has a bee? Four. But 

 how many wings has a bee when it flies? 

 Under the microscope we see that the bee 

 has a clever device for uniting its front 

 and hind wings during flight. On the front 

 edge of the hind wings, the microscope 

 shows us a row of tiny hooks; and when a 

 bee starts to fly it hooks these wings to a 

 ridge on the hind edge of the fore wings, so 

 that, for flying purposes, the bee really 

 seems to have but two wings." 



Chicago, 111. Geo. J. Griessenauer. 



Skyscrapers in an We are having another 

 Australian Desert, droughty season in Aus- 

 tralia, yet honey and 

 wax arc very low on the market on account 

 of the importation of a cheap article or sub- 

 stitutes from abroad. The beekeepers real- 

 ize the seriousness of the situation and are 

 trying to amalgamate into a co-operative so- 

 ciety or at least are trying to work together 



Not so high as some North Dakota skyscrapers, 

 but these are in a desert. A spider is induced to 

 make its home in each of the tins on top of the 

 posts supporting the hives as protection against 

 ants. 



witli a powerful co-operative association 

 here, the Coastal Farmers' Co-operative 

 Company. Being only a side liner and re- 

 siding in the desert part of New South 

 Wales, where beekeeping cdn be carried 

 on only as a hobby, I take great pride in my 

 skyscraper which is shown in the illustra- 

 tion. Think of skyscrapers in a desert, 

 where herbage is rarely seen, where there 

 are no rivers, no springs nor wells, but only 

 rain water collected by artificial means! 



A. Volkofsky. 

 Olins, Wilcannia Rd., Cobar, N. S. W. 



A small artificial lake for cdlkiiiii 



i.uii .'. ,UiT ill a deiu'rt region 

 Mr. Vulkofsky's water supply. 



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