Nov. 23, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



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 GLEANINCS 

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for bees to fly, say down to 40-- or there- 

 abouts, all that is necessary is to close the 

 entrance with wire-cloth. It the day is 

 warm or the entrance small, it is better to 

 take off the cover of the hive and put wire- 

 cloth in its place. 



"If you can have yourchoice just as well, 

 it may be better to take a day when the 

 thermometer stands somewhere from 4.5'-^ 

 down to SS*-'. or even a little lower, tor on 

 such a day if some of the bees should get 

 out they will not be likely to sting the 

 horses." 



<)iieen-Reariiig is discust in Aus- 

 tralasian Bee Keeper by H. L. Jones, the 

 man said to have the largest queen-rearing 

 establishment 'in Australia. He says a 

 large percent of cells will be accepted and 

 workt out in an upper story over a strong 

 colony in a honey-flow, otherwise there 

 must be steady, judicious feeding, and it is 

 then better to have the cells started in 

 strong, queenless colonies, two days later 

 putting them in an upper story between 

 two frames of brood in all stages, this 

 brood having been put in the upper story 

 a day or two previously. He has been 

 fairly successful in getting cells accepted 

 without royal jelly, but better with it. 

 Altho the bees remove all the jelly given, 

 it seems to act as a suggestion to them. A 

 hot knife is needed to cut the cells apart, 

 and if a cell is given to a nucleus at the 

 same time its queen is removed, a cell-pro- 

 tector is used. With larv;t of the right age, 

 the queens hatch in a little more than 11 

 days, and begin laying 10 or 11 days later. 



Four Stray Straws in Gleanings in 

 Bee-Culture read as follows: 



'•Sometimes it happens that, by some 

 means, some nice sections of honey have 

 their faces so daubed as to be almost 

 spoiled. Put a super of such sections over 

 a hive and take away as soon as the bees 

 have had time to' lick off the daub. 



" I never used a sheet of cloth, as men- 

 tioned by Capt. J. E. Hetherington, to 

 cover honey cases in a car, but last week I 

 used newspapers, tacking them lightly on 

 the cases. The cloth has the advantage that 

 it is all in one piece. Perhaps better than 

 either would be manilla paper pasted to- 

 gether. 



" Mr. Editor, if you think it for the gen- 

 eral good to have your program arranged 

 to shorten up the spelling thrnout the whole 

 catalog of words ending in if and iii/h. I'll 

 try to bear it manfully, even tho it does 

 sometimes jolt me in reading. But. say: 

 won't it leave the word rather short if you 

 drop the final iiijli from the interjection 

 " ugh ?■' 



'• You cannot give the absolute weight of 

 any section of a given size, for one year it 

 wiil be heavier thau another. But I can 

 give the relative weights of 3 kinds of sec- 

 tions for this year: 5ti7(> beewav 4I4XI",, 

 averaged 14 94 ounces; 44'2 plain .5x4'4 xl '.4 

 averaged IS S'2 ounces; 34.t plain 4i4x4'4X- 

 1>,J averaged 13.83 ounces." 



Getting BSe*"* Out ol"»<-o«ions is 



thu.. discust by F. Greiner iu the American 

 Bee-Keeper: 



" There are probably but few up-to-date 

 bee-keepers who do not find the escape a 

 very fine thing. I consi,ler it indispensa- 

 ble. But after all I have been obliged to 

 give up iis use un th^' hive when renjoving 

 honey (comb or section houey) ajtrr thr 



/uniei/ aeasoii h'i over, on 'trnntut of imr hfrsinr 



foratiug or bltiufi the f<it>i>ii>tjti. When honey 

 is stili coming iu everytiiing works lovely 

 and that is natural enough. Let us see how 

 it does work : 



" When the bees leave a super full of 

 honey they take with them, each and every 

 one, a full load of honey. During the honey 

 flow most bees have their honey i-acs filled. 

 Besides, plenty of unsealed lioney is in 

 reach ; they do not find it necessary to un- 

 cap any honey to get their fill But after 

 honey-secreiioD hds >ro[,t conditions are re- 

 verst and one must force'the bees ruit of a 

 full super very quickly or the cappings will 

 suffer. I practi,-e the following method: 



•• I first remove the cover — honey board or 



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