1907 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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swarming has not averaged one per eent 

 from these colonies, and booming colonies 

 they are. These fourteen-frame hives are 

 wintered out of doors in a packing-case, and 

 this packing is left on the entire year, as far 

 as the brood chamber is concerned, and the 

 results have been, first, booming colonies; 

 second, non-swarming; third, no queen-ex- 

 cluders needed, as the queen doesn't go above 

 in one hive out of fifty; fourth, no cluster- 

 ing of bees at the entrance; hfth, big crops 

 of honey due to the fact that there is little 

 fussing done to hunt for queen-cells, etc., and 

 thus disturbing the bees. 



Mr. Brundage says that, for an out-apiary 

 especially, these larger hives are for him the 

 sine que non of perfection, and he expects to 

 have every one of his colonies eventually 

 housed in them. 



Stephen and George are two noble little 

 fellows, and work like Trojans in the apiary, 

 helping their father. 



Rye, N. Y. 



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A SOUVENIR POSTAL SHOWING A 

 AVINTER SCENE IN CANADA. 



Bees Store Honey in the Portico of a Hive. 



BY R. F. HOLTERMANN. 



I am sending you two photographs. The 

 first shows bees in winter quarters at the 

 home apiary of Mr. J. F.Miller, Vice-presi- 

 dent of the Ontario Bee-keepers' Association, 

 London, Ont. Mr. Miller used this view on 

 a postal card which he got up as a souvenir. 



The other is a snap-shot of a r2-frame col- 

 ony owned by S. E. Pickett, of Victoria. 

 When the extraeting-sviper was full, the bees 

 began building comb and storing honey in 



A COLONY SHORT OF ROO.M THAT STullKL) 

 HONEY IN THE PORTICO OF THE HIVE. 



the portico. After a second super was put 

 on, the bees took the honey out of these 

 combs and stored it inside the hive. 

 Brantford. Ont. 



[The editor had the pleasure of seeing the 

 apiary of F. J. Miller in its winter quarters 

 just as it appears in the illustration. Two 

 hives are placed in each winter case. The 

 bees are then warmly packed, and left alone 

 the entire winter. 



It may be interesting to our readers to 

 know that Mr. Miller has a beautiful resi- 

 dence on a very picturesque sylvan height 

 of ground just outside of the city of London. 

 He is a retired business man, and has gone 



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VIEW ON SOUVENIR POSTAL CARD SENT OUT BY F. J. MILLER, OF LONDON, ONTARIO, CAN. 



