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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Sept. 1 



A PLAN FOR GETTING PLENTY OF CELLS AC- 

 CEPTED AND FINISHED WITHOUT DE- 

 QUEENING A COLONY OK 

 BOKROWING BEES. 



This plan which I am about to describe 

 does not stop the colony from storing honey 

 nor interfei-e with the queen in any way. It 

 is not necessary to have bees queenless for 

 several hours to get them to accept prepar- 

 ed cells and Ixiild them out properly, as some 

 claim. The plan is as follows: Having already 

 fastened my empty cells in a frame 1 remove 

 from its stand a good two-story i-olony with 

 excluder on, and put in its place a bottom- 

 board, then take the body of combs from 

 (jver the excluder and put on this bottom, and 

 put the cover on: then shake the bees from 

 two or more combs from the Ijrood-chamber 

 in front, and let the bees run in (of course, 

 l)e sure not to get the queen): then close the 

 old colony l>y putting back the cover, and 

 set l)ehind, facing the opposite direction, 

 You are now ready to go and put the jelly 

 and larvf« in the cells; and by the time you 

 do this, w^hich takes only a few minutes, your 

 l)ees are ready for the 'cells, which you slip 

 into the center of this hive-body on the old 

 stand. In two to four hours later you can 

 go and put the l)rood-nest back in its okl 

 place and put the body with cells ])ack over 

 the excluder for the l)ees to finish. I usual- 

 ly give 20 cells to a colony treated thus, and 

 they usually accept every one if properly 

 prepared. With me this "^is by far the Ijest 

 and quickest way of getting plenty of line 

 eells of any plan I have ever tried. 



Montgomery, Ala. D. R. Keyes. 



[I believe your plan will give good results. 

 —Ed.] 



a few excellent recipes for making 



CANDY. 



Believing you will appreciate a good thing 

 and another way to make a small demand 

 for honey, I send you the two following 

 candy recipes that are original with me. All 

 I have let sample ours have pronount-ed it 

 superior to almost any candy you buy, and 

 it is easy to make. 



TAFFY. 



Granulated sugar, 3 cups. Extracted hcni- 

 ey, f cup. Hot water, | cup. Boil all togeth- 

 er until it "spins a thread" when dropped 

 from a spoon, or some hardens until brittle 

 when dropped in a cup of cold water. Pour 

 into a greased vessel deep enough to hold: 

 put in a spoonful of any preferred flavoring. 

 Let it cool until one can handle. Pull until 

 white. Here's a finer one: 



HONEY NOUGAT. 



Granulated sugar, 3 cups. Nut meats. H 

 cups. Any kind is good. l)ut English or 

 common walnuts and hickory are tine. 

 Strained honey, | cup. Hot water, f cup. 

 White of one egg, l^eaten stiff. Boil the 

 sugar, honey, and water together until they 

 make a rather hard ball when dropped in 

 cold water: remove from the fire: pour in the 

 beaten white of the egg, and beat liriskly 



with a silver fork. After beating awhile, 

 pour in the nut meats and beat until it be- 

 gins to get a hard creamy mass. Then pour 

 into a buttered dish and" let cool. You will 

 have no trouble in giving this away if you 

 can't eat it yourself. 

 LaDue, Mo. IVIrs. W. M. Burke. 



HOW TO TAKE CARE OF UNFINISHED SEC- 

 TIONS. 



At the close of the season, finding I ha<l 

 some unfinished sections on hand 1 got a 

 small box with a sliding lid from the groeer's. 

 I fixed this so that I could easily insert and 

 place in it three or four sections, and close 

 it so that only ©ne bee at a time could enter 

 it. This box I placed with the opening to 

 the hive on the entrance-board, having re- 

 moved the board so as to have the contract- 

 ed entrance underneath. A little block of 

 wood enabled me to contract the entrance so 

 that sufficient room was given for ingress 

 and egress to the hive, at the same time en- 

 abling the bees to go in and clean out the 

 sections without being troubled by other 

 bees. 1 placed the sections in the box at 

 night, and the next evening found them all 

 cleaned out as nice as c^ould be, so that I 

 have some excellent sections of empty comb 

 ready for next season. Will not such a plan 

 enable one to feed up any colony retjuiring 

 lielp in the fall, without inriting stronger 

 colonies to rob? You can thus give the ben- 

 efit of the unfinished sections to the colonies 

 most in need of such help. 



Rev. W. L. Palfornon. 



Mt. Brydges, Ont. 



[Your plan is all right, but it would require 

 some labor to attach a set of sections to an 

 entrance in such a way that there would be 

 communication between the receptacle for 

 holding the sections and the hive. — Ed.] 



HOW TO MAKE A SWAKM-CATCHER. 



I have all my queens clipped: but occa- 

 sionally I have a second swarm, and if they 

 settle high up in some valuable fruit-tree I 

 can get them without climbing or cutting 

 the tree. To make a good swarm-catcher, 



Set a small light pine box. 8X10 inches, 

 ^nock off two sides, and replace with wire 

 cloth, which will make it still lighter. Fas- 

 ten two small hinges to the top for a lid. 

 Now^ get a light pole 18 ft. long: fa.sten the 

 ])ox to the end of the pole. Attach a short 

 rubber l)and in such a way that it will tend 

 to keep the (^over (closed. A stout cord 

 should run from the lid over the top of the 

 pole, antl down to the bottom. 



To use the swarm-catcher, push the ))ox 

 up to the swarm: pull the cord to i-aise the 

 lid, and give the pole a cpiick push up against 

 the limb. The bees will fall into the box. 

 By releasing the cord the rubber band will 

 close the box. Dump the bees in front of a 

 hive: and if all the bees are not caught, re- 

 peat the operation. 



