Deckmber, 1922 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



795 



"HEADS OF GRAINl PP&iQ a DIFFERENT FIELDS 



Pig. 1.— Pilling ten-pound pails with hut syrup for outyard feeding. See Editorials. 



Pig. 2. — Loading pails of syrup on a light Ford truck which is driven to the outyards and down 

 between the rows of hives, and then unloaded from hive to hive. 



Pig. 3. — Ten -^pound feeder pails turned upside down over the hole in the super-cover board before 

 the colonies are iinally packed for winter. 



Pig. 4. — In order to make the ten-pound pails work satisfactorily as feeders it is important to have 

 only about thirty holes in the cover, each a scant 1/16 of an inch in diameter. If the holes are too lirga. 

 or if there are too many of them, the syrup will run out so freely as to cause a smear on the super- 

 covers, resulting in robbing as shown in the pail at the left. j , j r 



Pig, 5. — All the weak colonies at Medina are brought home from the outyard, and placed, for tha 

 ])urpose of feeding and uniting, in pairs. After uniting they are put into the cellar. 



Pig. 6. — Small truck readv to take the bees into the A. I. Root Company s 500colony cellar. 



Pig. 7. — It is getting to he more and more the custom in California to winter in two-story hives. 

 The upper storv is usually filled with good honey stores, when the bees are ready for winter. 



Pig 8 — A small loggum apiarv in North Carolina. Old beekeepeers using these gums say that 

 hollow logs with thick walls like those here shown are much better for wintering than the ordinary box 

 hive made of thin lumber, and no doubt they are right. 



