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GLEANINGS I.V BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 15 



moval of each successive comb the queen has 

 a chance, it' at all disturbed, as is likely to 

 be the case, to run forward, often necessitat- 

 ing the removal of fifteen or twenty of these 

 combs in quest of her. It is fortunate that 

 the Italian liees do not gather the propolis 

 that hybrid or black liees do, 



Era "Giuseppe had a number of nuclei, and 

 seemed to know al)out tlie age and probable 

 condition of all his queens. He showed us 

 a complete home-made artificial queen-cell- 

 dipping outfit, and the way he made his cells 

 displayed a goad practical knowledge of 

 queen-rearing. 



on condition that he should have a picture 

 for himself. 



The old monk spoke well of the Dadant 

 hives: but, still true to the Eatherland, he 

 clung to the old Berlepsch hives he had 

 learnetl to use as a boy in Germany. The 

 bees he kept were of a dark leathery color, 

 the true type of the bees of Italy — quite gen- 

 tle, and easy of manipulation. Having the 

 number of queens we desired, we paid the 

 monk and awaited our change. He turned 

 the gold over in his hand and exclaimed, 

 "Ahl but we are poor Trappist monks I we 

 have not so much money!"" But he ilisap- 

 peared along the cloister, and 

 soon returneil, Ijearing the right 

 change in glittering gold; and, 

 joining our companion without, 

 we took our way down the dusty 

 road to Porta San Paula and 

 liack to Rome. 



FIG. 



-A SIMPLE 



AND QUICKLY 

 CAKRIEK. 



ADJUSTED HIVE 



THE MOUNTAIN MEADOAV 

 APlAJtY. 



A Strap llive-carriei-: Kcvcr- 

 siltle Closetl-eiul frames. 



BY ANSON S. WHITE. 



I am sending you some pic- 

 tures of the Mountain Meadow 

 apiary. Fig. 1 is my hive-carri- 

 er, it is composed of two hooks 

 and a strap. The hooks have an 

 eye in one end, and the strap is 

 run through Iwth eyes, and l)uck- 

 Icd. That makes the strap dou- 

 bled. Now put a hook under 

 each side of the liottom-board 

 and lift on the strap. You will 

 s 'e that it will squeeze the whole 

 thing tight together. 



Fig. 2 is of myself in the api- 

 ary. 



No. 3 is my new frame, closed 

 end and reversible, and end 

 spaced top and l)ottom; no kill- 

 ing of liees, no deep ralibets in 

 the hive. Please give this frame 

 a little of your time, as I believe 

 it is worthy of a trial, and also 

 give me your opinion as to its 

 worth. V\'hy not hang section- 

 holders with it in place of set- 

 ting them on tin, so the finished 

 ones can be easily taken out 

 when finished, without trouble? 



C'owiche. Wash. 



Having looked over the nuclei in the house, 

 we now repaired to the end of the building 

 where, ranged along beneath the peach-trees, 

 were a number of colonies in Dadant hives, 

 of the monks' own manufacture, as, indeed, 

 all of his hives and appliam-es Avere. It was 

 here that Fra Giuseppe consented to have 

 hiujself snapped among his bees and carried 

 away in the ever present American camera. 



[Your hive-carrier is a simple 

 contrivance, and has the merit 

 that it will grip the hive solidly, without let- 

 ting it get loose. The arrangement as a 

 whole is excellent— particularly so as it may 

 be used on any hive with cleats or not. A 

 mei-e shortening of the strap will permit its 

 use on hives of different widths and depths. 

 I believe the arrangement is good enough 

 to illustrate in the ABC of Bee Culture. 

 Your reversing double bent wire was illus- 



