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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Mar. 15 



SCHOOL-TEACHING AND 

 ING. 



BEE-KEEP- 



The Clipped-wing Plan and How it Enables 

 a Professional Man to Keep Bees; Lay- 

 ins: AVorkers Caiia-ht in the Act. 



many bees. The clipped-wing plan, or any 

 other good non-swarming plan, will serve to 

 hold the bees until the teacher can give his 

 full time. — Ed.] 



BY M. JOHNSTONE. 



HONEY PACKAGES. 



The engraving shows a photo which I call 

 "The End of the Harvest." My interest in 

 bee-keeping began in 1900, when a friend 

 presented me with a colony of bees. My 

 mistakes at first were, opening the hive in 

 vmsuitable weather; striving for too much 

 increase, and attempting to experiment on a 

 suitable hive. By 1903 I had increased to 

 about fifty colonies, where I now keep them. 



Those years of study gave me a pleasure 

 which I hardly can hope to equal in any 

 further researches unless it be that of queen- 

 rearing. 



An amateur usually dislikes to lay claim 

 to any original discoveries, but I think I 

 have been among the very few to observe 

 laying workers in the act of depositing eggs. 



A New Idea in the AVay of a Pasteboard 

 Box Lined AVitli ParatHne Paper; a Prac- 

 tical Package for Candied Honey. 



BY HOWARD C. MILLS. 



To those whose time is limited, the process 

 of liquefying candied honey and putting it in 

 cans or pails should from the start be aban- 

 doned. You may, in rejoinder, say that it 

 takes about as long to liquefy it after being 

 candied in the bottles as after being candied 

 in the storage-tanks; but I can not afford to 

 liquefy it at all, and do not believe it is nec- 

 essary to do so. In other words, the people 

 may be educated to the use of candied hon- 

 ey. This I have partially proven in my own 

 experience, and intend to keep at it until my 



THE APIARY OF A SCHOOLTEACHER 



MANAGED ON THE 

 CONTROL. 



CLIPPED-WING PLAN OF SWARM 



as reported in Gleanings, page 846, for the 

 year 1900. 



My crop has averaged a ton each season 

 during the last three years, even in this bad 

 year. Being engaged in teaching I work by 

 the clipped-queen system, using an eight- 

 frame hive. Supers are placed on the brood- 

 chamber in the spring as soon as the strength 

 of the colony warrants. Combs of brood are 

 taken from Iselow in exchange for full sheets 

 of wired foundation, and placed above the 

 queen-excluder. Swarming is thus retarded 

 until the summer vacation commences, when 

 full time can be given them. Last season 

 only one swarm issued during the last week 

 of June; and the next Monday, when I was 

 with them, ten swarms issued. I have never 

 known a swarm to leave the yard under this 

 system. 



My colonies are wintered on the summer 

 stands packed in cases, seen in the rear of 

 the accompanying engraving. 



Brentwood, Ont., Can. 



[School-teaching and bee-keeping go very 

 nicely together, providing there are not too 



theory becomes practice. Others have had 

 the same theory, and many devices have 

 been tried for getting candied honey in such 

 a condition that it would be attractive, con- 

 venient, and salable, as Mr. Hershiser puts it. 

 Candy-pails were the first to be used by 

 me, and they were suggested by a Canadian 

 in a bee-keepers' convention. I immediately 

 dumped some pails on to the counter of Syr- 

 acuse stores, and, being a new thing, they 

 took well and people bought a second time. 

 This showed me that they would eat candied 

 honey. Bat this at its best was a sticky job 

 for the clerks of the store, and the board on 

 which it rested could not be kept neat and 

 clean, and a better dust-collector could not 

 be devised. To people who crave dirt and 

 dust I still sell candied honey in candy-pails, 

 but not until I have offered them something 

 better. This something better is, according 

 to my ideas, the most attractive, convenient, 

 and salable package at present available. 

 It consists of a neat white pasteboard box 

 lined with paraffine paper, neatly labeled, 

 with a tissue paper over_^the entire box, tied 



