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GLE.\XIXGS IX BEE CULTURE. 



putting^ foundation in sections, preparing^ 

 for another season's crop. I try the plan 

 there jotted down bv way of experiment, if 

 I chance to find such a note reg^arding 

 putting- in foundation in this book. I see 

 you still look a little puzzled. Let me ex- 

 plain more fully. In one of my bee papers 

 I find something about keeping bees from 

 swarming by using the shaking-out process, 

 the writer claiming that this process will 

 not only keep the bees from swarming^. but 

 will give a better yield of honey also But 

 the article was written so it appeared in 

 print during November, while the time 

 when I must use it would be the last half 

 of June; so when first reading and mark- 

 ing, it was jotted down under June 15. 

 "VN'e will suppose June 15, 1903. has now ar- 

 rived, just the time when I could make use 

 of this information :o my profit, if I ever 

 can. so I turn to June 15 i by putting my 

 thumb on that date when opening the book . 

 and right there under the title of "shaken 

 swarms, a preventive of swarming, with 

 large honey-yield, try it — Reiie-u:, 1902. 

 pages 337. 338. 339, "' I find just where to 

 turn to find the matter I wish to know about 

 at just this very time of the year, although 

 it was six months from the time of the year 

 when I wanted it. Reading it I am ready 

 to put it in practice, just as much as I 

 would have been had I just read it in the 

 fresh number of the Rez e-j. for June. 19<j3. 

 By your looks I see you understand now." 

 "Yes. I do. I thank you. and will go. as 

 I have alreadv staved too long." 



Ix our last issue we made reference to 

 the fact that Mr. Jacob Alpaugh. of Gait, 

 Ontario, intended to accompany A. I. Root 

 to Cuba. While at Fort Pierce. Florida. 

 he learned that his bees and bee-fixtures 

 that he had in Bru:e Co.. Ontario, burned 

 on the 27th. The bees were in the cellar 

 and the fixtures up stairs. Mr. Alpaugh's 

 appliances were probably something very 

 much above the average. He is a fine 

 workman and an inventor, and his loss will 

 mean more to him than to the average per- 

 son We extend to him our sincerest sym- 

 pathies. 



TH.\T CUBAX shipment: HOW A. I. R. EX- 

 JOYS HIMSELF IN CXTBA. 



Our Mr. F. J. Wardell writes that, in- 

 stead of there being only a bushel and a 

 half of dead bees in the shipment that went 

 from heie to Cuba, there were /?:<' bushels, 

 and that, furthermore, there was a rapid 

 depletion after the honey-flow began. But 



it seems to me that, out of a shipment of 

 500 colonies to Cuba, the loss of even five 

 bushels of bees would be insignificant. It 

 would be almost like the proverbial drop in 

 the bucket. Then the bees we sent had 

 bjrne some of the toil of the season around 

 Medina, and had practically served out 

 their best days. So it was not at all sur- 

 prising that, when the heavy honey-flow 

 came on in Cuba, these bees would "peter 

 out.'" A heavy hoc ey flow anywhere is lia- 

 ble to use up the old bees. 



A. I. R. is very much pleased with the 

 Cuban yard. He says it is one of the pret- 

 tiest apiaries he ever saw. He has t>een 

 writing^ Our Homes and other matter out- 

 doors. When he left Medina he had a hard 

 cold, and wore a heavy overcoat, and a fur 

 cap drawn down o^er his head. He looked 

 as if he were pinched with the shivers. 

 While we are having zero weather and a 

 high wind. I can just imagine the pleasure 

 he is having- sitting- outdoors writing- for 

 Gleanings, and perhaps in his shirt- 

 sleeves, enjoying- a genuine winter's sum- 

 mer. 



THE EDITOR'S AX7TOMOBILE TRIP AMONG 

 THE BEE-KEEPERS THIS SUMMER. 



I HA\"E toured among- bee-keepers on the 

 bicycle: have ground centuries day after 

 day. with the sweat rolling down off my 

 nose: I have traveled on horseback, and in 

 the buggy: I have even gone so far as to at- 

 tempt to ride a burro at the fast pace of a 

 mile an hour, and got off at the end of the 

 first half -hour quite used up. I have tour- 

 ed on steam-cars and electric cars: and now 

 there seems to be only one means of locomo- 

 tion that I have not yet tried: and this sum- 

 mer, nothing preventing. I hope to try the 

 eccentricities of a gasoline-automobile. As 

 soon as the roads will permit I expect to 

 make a trip on a long-distance "auto"' 

 among the bee-keepers of Xew York. Penn- 

 sylvania. Indiajia. and Michigran. I have 

 just placed my order for a 1903 Friedman 

 car with double-opposed-cylinder seven- 

 horse-power g-asoline-engrine. It has all the 

 latest improvements, and it is capable cf 

 being speeded all the way from one to 25 

 miles per hour. It is guaranteed to plow 

 through sand : and I should not be surprised, 

 judging from its substantial construction, 

 that it might plow through mud. Mrs. E. 

 R. R. and Lei and will accompany me on 

 some of my trips, for I will shoot out one or 

 two hundred miles, making Medina the hub 

 of the wheel, so to speak, and my various trips 

 representing the spckes. 



The macnine is ordered, and will be deliv- 

 ered about the first of February. In the 

 mean time I am studying up g-asoline-en- 

 g-ines ana automobiles in g^eneral. for I pre- 

 sume I shall have some disagreeable stop*. 

 for all gasoline-engines have a quee*- wny 

 of being "balky "" at times. I shall make 

 seme short trips along- about the first of 

 May. roads permitting-, and will beg^in my 

 lony- tours some time in June. 



We have been testing- the efficiency cf the 



