1905 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



545 



sufficient to admit air. Don't think that 

 this feeder needs an extra flange around it 

 to prevent overflow. Experience shows 

 that, if perfectly level, the feed will stand 



so as to fill the grooves about two-thirds full 

 when unmolested; but when the bees get 

 after it they will never allow it to reach the 

 ends of the board. W. T. Gary. 



Wakenda, Mo., April 10. 



[This feeder is the same that w^e used 

 many years ago in our own yards, and illus- 

 trated in the early editions of our A B C of 

 Bee Culture under the head of "Water." 

 We used, however, a solid grooved board or 

 block. The feeder is an excellent one, even 

 if it is old. We used it all last summer (on 

 a larger scale) for our outdoor feeding.— 

 Ed.] 



ZINC FOR record-cards; ITALIANS AS CELL- 

 BUILDERS. 



My queen-registering cards are ahead of 

 any thing else I have ever tried. They are 

 made of pieces of zinc 21 long by 2J wide, 

 with a hole punched through the top so that 

 they may be hung on the north side of each 

 hive by a small nail. It is an old idea, but 

 a nearly perfect one. 



Write with a lead-pencil ; and when the 

 card is full take a scouring-pan to the bee- 

 yard and go from one hive to the other and 

 clean each zinc, after which rewrite the last 

 item at the top. 



It is a well-known fact that black bees or 

 hybrids which have their queen taken away 

 will build much finer queen-cells than Ital- 

 ians under the same circumstances. 



Will Italian bees build just as good queen- 

 cells above a queen-excluding honey-board, 

 with a queen laying in hive below, as would 

 black bees under the same conditions ? 



South Bend, Ind. C. A. Bunch. 



[Just as good queen-cells will be built 

 above perforated zinc, with a laying queen 

 below, as under other conditions, providing 

 the cells are once started. Sometimes bees 

 will not start cups or cells above. Black 

 bees or hybrids may build a few more cells 

 than Italians; but the difference, so far as I 

 remember, is not great. Eastern races, 

 however, will far excel either Italians or 

 blacks. — Ed.] 



BEE PASTURAGE FOR SALE ; HOW^ COULD THE 

 BEES BE KEPT FROM TRESPASSING? 



On page 314 Mr. Murphy suggests the 

 renting or selling of bee pasturage by pub- 

 lic sale, to which you point out the difficulty 

 arising from the disposition to be made of 

 the money. This is not the point that trou- 

 bles me. I am partly of Henry George's 

 views of land, and wholly so as regards the 

 nectar of flowers. Like the fish in the 

 stream and the game in the woods, the nec- 

 tar is the heritage of the people. Theland- 



THE GROOVED BOARD AND MASON JAR FOR OUTDOOR FEEDING. 



