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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Aug. 15 



good thick extracted Iiouey instead of sugar. 

 A delightful new flavor is obtained that is 

 quite dift'erent from the taste of honey or of 

 ordinary lemonade. 



The American Btc Journal has put in 

 some new department headings. The "Old 

 Reliable" seems to be able more than to 

 hold its own. 



THE FERRIS HIVE-LIFTING DEVICE. 



Owing to a large number of engravings to 

 go with it. we were compelled to leave out 

 of this issue the article by A. K. Ferris de- 

 tailing his system of producing honey. It 

 will show a set of machines, or lifting- 

 derricks, not only for handling the hives 

 but for lifting heavy supers off from the 

 brood-nest temporarily while the latter is be- 

 ing examined. In short, the frailest kind of 

 woman can use this apparatus, handling 

 hundreds of pounds weight with very little 

 effort. Two other lifting-devices will he 

 illustrated and described as well. 



THE PROBLEM OF HIKED HELP IN THE 

 APIARY. 



The editor of the Beview, in commenting 

 on the difficulty of getting help, stated that 

 at the last meeting of the Michigan Assocui- 

 tion some one criticised the methods of Mr. 

 E. D. Townsend. The latter admitted that 

 other methods might be better for the man 

 who is doing his own work, but that he, Mr. 

 Townsend. was developing a system that 

 could be turned over to ordinary hired help. 



There is a whole lot of truth in this. Some 

 people are skillful workers, but have no abil- 

 ity to instruct others to ilo what they can do 

 successfully. The great difference between 

 success and failure lies in the ability to han- 

 dle help and make that help do your work, 

 or at least parts of it, as well as you can do 

 it youi'self. 



AN EDITOR IN THE FIELD. 



It will be remembered that Editor Hutch- 

 inson, in connection with his brother Elmer, 

 is operating several out-yards in the raspber- 

 ry regions of Northern Michigan. Some of 

 the editorials of late in the Review. I imagine, 

 are written outdoors on a hive-cover, the 

 fingers, perhaps, daulied up with propolis. 

 Somehow there is a crispness alxnit editorial 

 buzzings from the field. At all events, the 

 Beview is redolent nowadays with some in- 

 teresting experiences of the editor. His ar- 



ticles telling of his experience in wintering 

 bees and moving them by train and l)y wag- 

 on up in Northern Michigan make very in- 

 teresting reading. 



Mr. Hutchinson was forced to go outdoors 

 on account of his health. Perhaps the mis- 

 fortune of ill health is, after all, a blessing in 

 disguise. Gleanings sincerely hopes that 

 Bro. H. will not only get a good reserve of 

 health, but lots of honey: and last, but not 

 least, some practical suggestions for his 

 brother bee-keepers who are struggling with 

 the same prol)lem of ■•long-range" bee- 

 keeping. 



queen-cage CANDY; IMPORTANT FOR EVEKY 

 QUEEN-BKEEDEK. 



In selecting an extracted honey to use for 

 making a queen-cage candy, it is veri/ impor- 

 tant that the source of that honey be known. 

 If unknown it should be thoroughly boiled to 

 disinfect it from any pos.sible germs of black 

 or foul brood. One boiling may not be suffi- 

 cient. Boil it one hour and let it stand two 

 or three days, and then boil again another 

 hour. This is better than Ijoiling three hours 

 all at one time. 



One can readily see, if he will I'eflect a 

 moment, how foul brood might he spread 

 through the agency of bee-canily. Most of 

 the mailing-cages now are self-introducing 

 by the bees eating out the candy and finally 

 releasing the queen. Suppose this candy is 

 contaminated with germs of black or foul 

 brood. The chances are that the colony to 

 which this queen was introduced would soon 

 show symptoms of disease, even though the 

 colony or bee-yard Avhence this queen came 

 might be perfectly healthy. 



This matter is so important that I would 

 respectfully suggest that our apicultural ex- 

 changes bring the matter before their read- 

 ers. In the mean time the pui'chaser of the 

 (jueens, if he wishes to be on the safe side, 

 taking no risk, may reeage the queen re- 

 ceived in the mails, introducing her hj means 

 of bee-candy made of honey out of his own 

 yard. 



THE VALUE OF A ROBBER-TRAP. 



About the best way to stop robbing, when 

 it first gets started, is to catcli them all in a 

 rol>ber-trap. We will say here is a colony 

 or nucleus that is being robbed. Take the 

 hive away and put it down cellar or in a 

 building "temporarily. Put in place of this 

 hive another empty one containing a comb 

 of honey. Over the entrance on the inside 

 thei-e should be two or three bee-escapes 

 that will let bees enter but not escape back 

 into the open air. Keep this robber-trap on 

 the stanil until all flying rol^lxn-s have dis- 

 appeared in the "trap:" then take trap and 

 all into the i-ellar and keep them there for a 

 week. or. better still, move the trouble- 

 makers to an out-yard two miles away from 

 the home bees where the pilfering took place. 

 The trap catches all the roljljers. and pre- 

 vents them from being an annoyance for 

 days afterward. Not only that, it prevents 

 them also from stirring up other bees and 



