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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



M\Y 15 



owner can do nothing to produce or prevent 

 it except as he raises crops that are honey- 

 bearing or otherwise; and a large share 

 comes from the wild plants by the roadside. 

 Then the rental should go into the county or 

 township treasury, or, perhaps, to the road 

 district or school fund. But what troubles 

 me is, how the man will get what he has 

 bought, or keep his bees from~ trespassing. 

 If he buys three miles square, and is allow- 

 ed to set his bees in any place on the terri- 

 tory, he can get all the honey on six miles 

 square if he has sufficient bees to do it; and 

 the man buying the territory adjoining 

 would be robbed of part of his right, for it 

 becomes personal property after he buys of 

 the community. J. H. Haughawout. 



Fairmount, Neb. 



[I do not see but you would have to buy 

 up the territory for six miles of flight; or, 

 to put it more exactly, the bee-l^eeper ought 

 to be able to control a radius of two miles of 

 flight to every yard. Well, he can't do it, 

 that's all, unless the territory were sold at 

 a very low figure per square mile. — Ed.] 



A REMOVABLE METAL FRAME-SPACER. 



I mail you a sample of my metal frame- 

 spacer. It is impossible to put it on wrong, 

 as wide wooden end -bars are sometimes 

 nailed up in all sorts of ways. They could 



probably be made for one-fourth cent each, 

 as it may be stamped from sheet metal, 

 instead of making it the same as the sam- 

 ple—perhaps as thin as ordinary tin. 

 Bairdstown, 0. A. J. Oberlitner. 



^The^metal spacer shown above is quite 

 similar to a device we illustrated some time 

 ago. They will be quite expensive as com- 

 pared with the ordinary Hoffman frame; and 

 while, to a certain extent, removable for 

 the purpose of uncapping, I question wheth- 

 er they would give the satisfaction of the 

 ordinary wooden widened end. —Ed.] 



honey to "work." Despite the most favor- 

 able circumstances, honey will foam when 

 agitated, that being the worst period for 

 several days after extracting. Large tanks 

 obviate this trouble partially. Then they give 

 a uniform color, flavor, and ripeness, which 

 are necessary when selling by sample. 



T. WORTHINGTON. 



Leota, Miss., April 11. 



[What you have to say refers, I should 

 judge, to your own locality or to any honey 

 that has a tendency to "work " or ferment. 

 Still, it is an advantage in any locality to 

 use a large tank in order that the honey 

 may all have the same blending, quality, 

 flavor, and body. — Ed.] 



PUTTING UP extracted HONEY. 



We have invariably found it best to use 

 large tanks because of the proneness of 



STRAINING AND SKIMMING EXTRACTED HON- 

 EY; HOW TO RETAIN THE NATURAL 

 FLAVOR. 



On p. 364 I see by your footnote to E. D. 

 Townsend's article on putting up extracted 

 honey that you have called for the opinions 

 of others on the care or proper shape to 

 have honey fixed up to fill the bill, so I sub- 

 mit my plan, which will, perhaps, help 

 some to give the public honey which has not 

 lost its fiavor by being exposed unnecessari- 

 ly to the air, and which has no scum on the 

 tops of the cans. I store my honey in large 

 oak barrels that have been waxed inside 

 and painted on the outside. All the barrels 

 stand on a low counter, and each barrel has 

 a large top in it, and all have the top end 

 taken out. I spread a cheese-cloth over the 

 barrel, and drive a hoop over this to hold the 

 cheese-cloth on. I then spread another 

 cheese-cloth over it, which can be lifted off, 

 washed, shaken, and spread on again. As 

 soon as the first barrel is nearly full I take 

 off the cheese-cloth and draw enough honey 

 from the bottom of the second barrel to fill 

 up the first one. I then put about six news- 

 papers over, and drive the hoops over these 

 tight so as to keep the honey from losing 

 any of its flavor. As the honey has been 

 run into the barrels warm, and sealed air- 

 tight with papers, it retains its flavor and 

 also keeps longer from granulating. 



After these barrels of honey have been 

 sealed over this way for about twelve days 

 I drive up the hoops, remove the papers, 

 and skim off the little thin scum and put the 

 newspapers over again and drive the iron 

 hoop over these so as to keep the honey air- 

 tight. When I run the honey out of these 

 barrels into tins 1 seal them at once so as to 

 retain the flavor of the honey. 



Wm. McEvoy. 



Woodburn, Ont., April 10. 



[I will explain to our newer readers that 

 Mr. McEvoy is the official foul-brood inspec- 

 tor for Ontario, Canada; he is also one of 

 the leading bee-keepers of that province. 

 He does not write for bee- journals very oft- 

 en ; but when he does he invariably has 

 something worth reading. The suggestion 

 he has given above is excellent, so that the 

 beginner or the veteran may well profit by 

 it.-ED.] 



