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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



December, 1922 



HEADS OF GRAIN T I?PQM|[ B~DIFFERENT FIELDS 



Folly of We are having the priee- 



Cutting Prices, cutter with us again. One 

 large beekeeper is selling 

 honey at $1.50 per 10-pound pail at retail, 

 where it had been $2.00, and another in a 

 small town not far distant is reported retail- 

 ing comb honey at 20c per section. I had 

 been getting 40c per section but could not 

 sell any more as they told me I was too 

 high. I cannot sell extracted honey now 

 either, since they think I ought to sell it at 

 $1.50 per 10-pound pail, but I cannot see it 

 that way yet. I still am able to sell comb 

 honey through one of our stores at 35c per 

 section, but it moves rather slowly. 



I had only a little honey left but had 

 planned to buy and resell after disposing of 

 my crop, yet if I miist give 12c to 15c per 

 pound, pay freight, buy containers and re- 

 pack, I don't see where I can get out even, 

 to say nothing of pay for my trouble. 



The reason I wanted to do this was to 

 have a steady supply the year round, so as 

 to have the public accustomed to getting it 

 any time and thus create a better demand, 

 since anything constantly on the market 

 will eventually be used in larger quantities, 

 and so when I have more honey to sell in 

 the future I will have a market worked up 

 for it. But what's the use? Nie. Klein. 



Hudson Iowa. 



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An Experiment I have been experimenting 

 with American with brood diseases, and 

 Foul Brood. have some interesting re- 



sults. I first took a col- 

 ony having American foul brood in its 

 worst stage and set it on top of a healthy 

 colony above a screen. The colony below took 

 the disease (about 60 cells) in the first 50 

 days. Thinking that the germs fell down 

 through the screen, I tried it with the dis- 

 eased colony below with a screen over it, 

 then an empty hive-body, then another 

 screen, then the healthy colony above. I 

 found 50 to 60 cells of American foul brood 

 in 40 to 50 days. Charles S. Kinzie. 



Arlington, Calif. 



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How to See Inside of I have a glass top on 

 the Winter Cluster. almost every hive and 

 will soon have one on 

 every hive. The hive cover is 16^/1x20 

 inches and the glass is 14 x 16 inches. Over 

 the glass I always have a nice cushion or 

 two, sometimes three, for winter. The cush- 

 ions are about the size of an ordinary feath- 

 er pillow and about three inches thick. I 

 fill these with feathers or cat-tails that grow 

 in wet places. During cold weather the bees 

 under the glass look as if the pane of glass 

 were in the middle of the cluster and the 

 top hnlf of the cluster removed. There is 

 a ring of bees from one to two inches thick 

 all around the cluster tight against the glass 



(the glass being an inch above the top-bars 

 of the frames), and the inside is from % 

 inch to 1 inch below the glass, the bees gen- 

 tly moving over and under each other. The 

 outside bees move but little, though none 

 are asleep. 



Talk about interest in bees! It is great 

 fun to watch the inside of a cluster. 



Hamfnondton, N. J. C. E. Fowler. 



Honey in I made a mixture of different 

 Automobile kinds of honey and placed it 

 Badiators. in the refrigerator of an ice 

 cream company and below are 

 the results: 



Clover honey, one-half honey, one-half 

 water, froze solid at about 10 degrees above 

 zero. Clover honey, two-thirds honey, one- 

 third water, froze quite solid at 10 degrees 

 below zero. Fruit bloom and raspberry, two- 

 thirds honey, one-third water, froze at 10 

 below zero. Clover honey cappings, two- 

 tliirds honey, one-third water, that had been 

 through an Armstrong capping-melter, froze 

 at about zero. An extra-good quality of 

 buckwheat honey, two-thirds honey, one- 

 third water, did not freeze at 12 below 

 zero. In no case were the bottles broken. 



I am now using honey from the capping- 

 melter in the above proportions in my Ford 

 truck and it keeps the engine perfectly cool. 



Perhaps Gleanings could asist in getting 

 reports from others and help make a mar- 

 ket for a great quantity of honey for auto- 

 mobile radiators. Joseph E. Palmer. 



Markville, Ont. 



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Wintering in Heretofore it has been my 

 Two Stories, custom to reduce each colony 

 to one story in the fall; but 

 last year I decided to winter them in two 

 stories, leaving more than enough honey 

 for their needs. The expected result was 

 exceptionally strong colonies this spring; 

 and, as we had a heavy locust flow, prac- 

 tically three-fourths of the crop will con- 

 sist of this honey. However, after the lo- 

 cust bloom was over, the unwelcome honey- 

 dew made its appearance. 



Cincinnati, Ohio. Albin Platz. 



To Prevent Bees Every beekeeper 



Crawling Up Sleeve, knows how annoying 

 it is to have a bee 

 crawl up his sleeve and sting his arm, es- 

 pecially in the fall when the bees are cross. 

 To prevent it take a piece of cotton twine 

 10 inches long, tie a loop in one end, pass 

 the loop over the button at the wrist, fold 

 the wristband around snugly, wind the 

 string around it once and around the bot- 

 tom twice. It will stay till you take it 

 off, and no bee can crawl up vour wrist. 

 Plainfield, N. J. B. C. Whitney. 



