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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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two frames being taken this year, and yet 

 after all this depletion of brood her colony 

 is strong in bees, and doing very good 

 work. Five years in one hive seems a long 

 time for a queen to live, yet she may be 

 seven years old or more. 



The stack of supers shown, and another 

 stack of half- depth supers, not shown in 

 photo, have all been on, and are being taken 

 off full of comb and extracted honey. Mr. 

 D. R. Waggoner's plan of tacking on little 

 strips to the escape-board, page 547, is cer- 

 tainly a good one. I have tried it, and can 

 say that it works well. 



While some of the writers are giving their 

 plans for comb and extracted honey from 

 the same colony I will give mine. I start 

 my bees, as early as possible, to storing 

 comb honey in shallow frames with thin 

 foundation, one imbedded wire running 

 lengthwise through the middle of the frame. 

 Bait combs are a great help to mix in with 

 the foundation. As soon as bees are extra 

 strong, or show signs of swarming, all the 

 brood is hoisted up above the excluder, ex- 

 cept one frame of brood containing the 

 queen. The rest of the space below is filled 

 in with combs and foundation. In seven or 

 eight days I look for cells above the exclud- 

 er. If there are any I cut them off, and 

 this settles the swarming with me. As soon 

 as the shallow super (which is on top) is 



about completed, another super with founda- 

 tion or combs is slipped in next to the queen; 

 and as fast as the brood is hatching out 

 above this, the full-depth combs are being 

 filled with honey for extracting. The honey 

 is cut out of the shallow frames in two long 

 strips, and afterward cut into lengths to fit 

 any sort of vessel or bucket. The wire is. 

 left in the frame for more foundation. 

 With a little chisel of the proper width the 

 groove in the top- bar is quickly cleaned and 

 made ready for more foundation. I use a 

 glue-pot for melting the wax, and a table- 

 spoon in preference to the wax tube, for 

 fastening the foundation in the groove. 



A few of my customers and friends have 

 some peculiar ideas in regard to the genu- 

 ineness of the honey in the "httle square 

 things" at the stores, but my honey they 

 kiioiv is the real thing. 



Like Dr. Miller, I shall not " lie awake 

 nights ' ' owing to the growing scarcity of 

 basswood for sections, but, instead of using 

 a four-piece section, shall stick to my shal- 

 low frames. 



Greensburg, Ind. 



[I do not see that you, anywhere in the 

 article, say any thing about those hives 

 wrapped in paper or oilcloth. If this was 

 for the purpose of wintering we should like 

 to know how it worked. — Ed.] 



THE CABIN IN THE WOODS AND THE APIARY OF MILLARD A. HUDSON. 



