1906 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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ly. To make the plan a success there must 

 be plenty of wild bees or else some old-time 

 bee-keepers who are so careless as to let 

 their swarms go.— Ed.] 



queen-breeders' catalog. 



Inquiries frequently come to this office 

 for the names of queen- breeders of various 

 races and strains of bees; and, in order that 

 reliable information may be given, I am 

 preparing, in co-operation with the Amer- 

 ican Breeders' Association, a catalog of 

 queen- breeders. 



There is a catalog of considerable size in 

 this office; but, in order that no queen- 

 breeder of any importance be omitted, I 

 v/ould respectfully request all breeders, 

 having one hundred or more queens for sale 

 annually to the general public, who see this 

 notice, to send me the following informa- 

 tion as accurately as possible: Races bred; 

 annual output of each race, and number of 

 mating-yards. For my personal informa- 

 tion I should be glad to learn the method of 

 queen-rearing used, the number of breed- 

 ing-queens of each race used, and the num- 

 ber of colonies in each yard from which 

 drones are allowed to fly. 



Hereafter all persons requesting informa- 

 tion concerning dealers in any strain will be 

 given the names of the four dealers nearest 

 to the address of the inquirer. This will, I 

 believe, be a fair way of giving the informa- 

 tion without favoring any breeders, and will 

 repay the breeders for their trouble in an- 

 swering these questions. 



E. F. Phillips, 

 Acting in Charge of Apicultui'e. 



Washington, D. C, Jan. 8. 



THE SMALL BABY NUCLEI UNSATISFACTORY. 



I read your article on baby nuclei, pages 

 1243 and 1244, and found it to correspord 

 a good deal with my experience, although 

 a good deal of the trouble described I 

 blame on robbery and exposure of those lit- 

 tle things to all kinds of weather. I think 

 that this season I shall overcome robbery as 

 well as exposure. The entrance has been 

 too large for so few bees to defend it. I 

 cut the entrance down to two J-inch round 

 holes |-inch apart. I placed above the 

 holes a little piece of wood, or flap, so 

 that I can close up one or both of these 

 holes, as it might be deemed necessary. 

 The exposure I overcame by setting the nu- 

 clei in a small jacket hive, open in the 

 front, C. H. W.' Weber. 



Cincinnati, 0., Dec. 11. 



SHIPPING FRAMES OF BROOD AND BEES FROM 

 THE SOUTH. 



Several years ago a friend of mine in the 

 South sent me some frames of brood obtained 

 by placing one comb in a hive on the sa.aie 

 day so as to have it all hatch as nearly as 

 possible at the same time, sending them to 

 rne so as to reach me a day or so before the 

 brood was due to hatch, which was about the 



time my bees were taken from the cellar. 

 There were just bees enough sent with the 

 brood to keep it warm ; and when it reached 

 me I put one frame of the brood in each of 

 my colonies of bees, which at that time had 

 just been taken from my cellar. Talk about 

 bees booming, those stocks not only had the 

 bees that hatched from the brood given 

 them, but they seemed to raise tv/ice the 

 brood in the next four weeks that the others 

 did in the same yard. They had young bees 

 to nurse the brood at a time when they 

 otherwise would have been destitute of them 

 and at a time when in the whole season they 

 need them the most. Instead of the inevit- 

 able "spring dwindhng" it was a case of 

 spring booming. 



Well, why did I not try it again? I just 

 didn't, that is all. I had other irons in the 

 fire, and neglected to do so; but I have 

 thought about it every spring, and am satis- 

 fied that it could be done to advantage. 

 Now for a little free advertising. Who is 

 the one in the South to furnish us frames of 

 brood? D. S. Hall. 



South Cabot, Vt. 



[We are glad to give space to this, even 

 if it does savor of free advertising for some 

 one in the South. A good frame of hatch- 

 ing brood with a few bees given to a colony 

 not very strong in the spring would give it 

 a wonderful impetus. The up-to-date queen- 

 breeder of the South should be ready to meet 

 this demand by announcing the fact before 

 spring. —Ed.] 



A PARKER FOUNDATION-FASTENER IMPROVED. 



With a Parker foundation- fastener fixed 

 as shown in cut, it is much easier to get 

 starters in the center of sections. Any one 

 who has ever used the Parker foundation- 



ScreivJtcp. 



fastener knows how much trouble and time 

 it takes to get starters in the center. 

 Gatesville, Tex. W. F. Morgan. 



[A fastener arranged in this way with the 

 screw stop would undoubtedly be more satis- 

 factory. For different widths of sections the 

 screw stop could be put in different positions 

 to make the lever come down at just the right 

 point. If a narrower section were used a 

 cleat would have to be nailed on the lower 

 block. -Ed.] 



