1903 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



553 



bookseller to be nicely bound, and then the 

 new volume takes its place in my bookcase. 



These few words are enough to prove how 

 friendlj' are my remarks. Now, then, what 

 I find that could be improved in Gleanings 

 is the disposal of pages reserved to adver- 

 tising-matter. For instance, in last num- 

 ber. March 15. at the beginning are 4 pages 

 of advertising and 11 at the end. This 

 leaves 7 pages which have lo stay; 24 num- 

 bers multiplied by 7 gives 168 pages, or 

 nearly a volume of no use. If these adver- 

 tising pages were evenlj' distributed on 

 each side, the matter would be of no conse- 

 quence, as the}' could be easily pulled off 

 for binding. 



Another remark, please. Could not the 

 literature be paged bj- itself? As it is now, 

 when we remove leaves containing adver- 

 tisements the number of pages jumps so 

 much that the volume looks very incomplete, 

 while it is all right. Frs. Benoit. 



Notre Dame des Neiges, Que., Can. 



[In a journal like Gleanings it is not 

 practicable to divide the advertising pages 

 so that half of them shall come just before 

 the reading-matter and the other half just 

 after. So far as possible we try to group 

 our advertising in such away that goods of 

 a kind can be massed together. Periodi- 

 cals like Gleanings and other class jour- 

 nals are usually saddle- stitched; that is, 

 the wire passes through the cover, clinching 

 on the inside sheet in the middle. The 

 journals that page only their literary mat- 

 ter are usually back-stitchei — the stitches 

 passing through the series of folded sheets 

 near the back edge, the cover being pasted 

 on. It is possible for such papers to page 

 their literar}- matter, leaving the advertis- 

 ing matter unpaged. While there are a 

 few like j'ourself who bind their volumes of 

 trade papers, the great majority read them 

 and cast them aside. — Ed.] 



HOW TO LOCATE AND KILL LAYING WORK- 

 ERS in a COLONY. 



Dr. C. C. Aliller: — I have read in the 

 March 1st issue of Gleanings that Mr. C. 

 M. Aarons can not get a laying-worker col- 

 nj' to accept any kind of queen. I had a 

 colony that I worked on her over three 

 months, and I could not make her accept a 

 queen nor raise one from the combs contain- 

 ing eggs that I put into the hive. I made 

 the following experiment, and it gave me 

 tine results; and from now on, whenever I 

 have a laying-worker colony, I play the 

 "trick on them." Please tell Mr. Aarons 

 to try it and report if he succeeds. 



I take the laying-worker colony away 

 from its place, saj- about fifteen or twenty 

 feet, and place a new hive where the lay- 

 ing-worker colony was, leaving the old hive- 

 bottom under the emptj- hive, and then I 

 smoke all the bees out of the laying-worker 

 colony. They surely all go where the old 

 stand is, and then the}- will accept a queen 

 or raise one if you give them combs with 

 eggs. You will notice that, when you have 



smoked all the bees out of the laying-work- 

 er colony, there will remain two or three 

 places of the hive (that depends on how 

 many laying workers were there in the 

 hive), bees clinging one to the other, and 

 you can be sure they are there. The lay- 

 ing workers can not fl\', as they are rather 

 heavj', but they can not be picked out from 

 among the working bees; and then I kill 

 all the bees left in the old hive. I maj' de- 

 stroy some of the working bees, but I get 

 rid of the pest. J. E. Larrondo. 



Sagua la Grande, Cuba, May 16. 



[This method of locating or identifjnng 

 the laying workers is new so far as I know. 

 I commend the treatment to any one who is 

 troubled with anything of this kind. — Ed.] 



a smothered shipment of BEES. 



We received a shipment of bees a short 

 time ago from the other side of Cleveland — 

 2 colonies hy freight. They were strong 

 enough to swarm (some of them) before 

 shipping. The shipper nailed them up 

 what we would call air-tight, making no 

 provision for ventilation except 1 '4 -inch hole 

 in the bottom of the hive, a few having holes 

 in the gable end of cover. They were on 

 the road about five da3's. The strongest 

 colonies arrived as dead as a door-nail; the 

 rest nearl}' gone up, onl}' the weakest being 

 in any kind of shape. The brood in all is 

 scalded or dead. We gave instructions to 

 shipper to cover top with screens, which 

 would have brought them through all right. 

 Had the weather been at all warm, all 

 would have perished. We give the above to 

 show the idea that some people have as to 

 the requirements of bees when shipping. 



Parkertown, O. H. G. (Juirin. 



[The shipper in this case should be made 

 to suffer for his own folly — that is, his fail- 

 ure to follow 3'our instructions. — Ed.] 



lippia nodiflora; where to get it. 



The experiment station at Tucson, Ari- 

 zona, is co-operative; i. e., it is principally 

 supported \>y the general government, hence 

 a citizen of any State will be supplied with 

 a trial supply of lippia nodiflora free of 

 charge upon application. In March last 

 they sent me a nice lot of plants. Every 

 one grew, and all are beginning to bloom, 

 and are running f reel}'. 



Corona, Cal., May 9. H. M. Jameson. 



old combs vs. foundation for bees. 



I was reading an article on p. 443 from 

 Reginald C. Holle, which I don't quite un- 

 derstand. I think from the waj' he talks 

 that the old combs were all solid pollen, 

 and the queen would not lay in them. I 

 never had the queen leave the old comb and 

 go on foundation. I have taken foundation, 

 all built out, and put it in with old combs, 

 and the queen would lay in the old combs 

 first. Arthur Hkixkel. 



Mauston, Wis. 



