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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Aug. 1 



month ago, and they are all right yet. I 

 take a look every day or two to see how 

 they like it, and often see two queens on the 

 same side of a frame, sometimes within an 

 inch of each other. T. J. Landrum. 



Roswell, N. Mex., May 2L 



IIOWTO FILL 60-LB. CANS WITHOUT WATCH- 

 ING OK RUNNING THEM OVER; A SIM- 

 PLE AND PRACTICABLE ARRANGE- 

 MENT. 



I never had the patience to till cans by de- 

 pending upon the scales to tell when they 

 were full, and soon adopted the following 



plan: I made a sort of square funnel out of 

 a 60 lb. can. This .when tilled to a certain 

 point holds just 60 lbs., or the capacity of the 

 can to be tilled. By removing the bottom 

 from a 60-1 b. can, and soldering a cone- 

 shaped pipe over the opening on the other 

 end, said pipe small enough so it will enter 

 the screw-top opening of the can to be tilled, 

 we get a filling can, or funnel, just right for 

 the purpose. Then I pi'ovide a plug to close 

 the opening in the funnel, making it about 



inches longer than the funnel is deep, which 

 extends up through the honey, and gives 

 room to take hold of. 



When in use the opening is stopped with 

 the plug, and the inverted can or funnel 

 tilled with honjey to the 00-lb. mark. When 

 the plug is removed the lower can fills itself 

 just right. 



Inasmuch as my honey-house is on a level 



1 run the honey from the extractor in pails, 

 which, when full, are emptied into a barrel 

 or tank, properly strained, from which I 



draw the honey in pails, and from which to 

 till the 60-lb. funnel. F. H. Cyrenius. 



Oswego, N. Y. 



[The arrangement here shown is very sim- 

 ple and unique. Any tinner, if he be given a 

 square can, will be able to make up a funnel 

 from the description and sketch. — Ed.] 



FANCY COMB HONEY WITHOUT SEPARATORS. 



During the past season one of my colonies 

 made 162 sections of honey that weighed 163 

 pounds. These were in six supers holding 

 27 sections, each of the 4^X4^X11 two-bet- 

 way style. There was not a single unfin- 

 ished section, and all the combs were 

 straight, although I used no separators. Be- 

 sides this, I had two colonies that gave sev- 

 en supers each, and some others that made 

 150 pounds. A good many made only one 

 super. All this honey was taken off in July, 

 as there is no surplus from the fall How. 

 William G. Snodgrass. 



Montrose, Mo., Jan. 11. 



[While separators with the ordinary sec- 

 tions may be dispensed with some seasons, 

 and with some colonies, it woukl be bad 

 policy to attempt to run a whole apiary on 

 that plan year after year. At one time, 

 many bee-keepers produced comb honey 

 without separators; but in later years, most 

 of them have abandoned the practice, and it 

 is well that they did, as such honey will not 

 crate and ship as well as separatored honey. 

 -Ed.] 



how to trace robbers. 

 Referring to p. 1416, Vol. 24, I would say 

 that the following plan may be recommend- 

 ed to Dr. INliller for tracking robbers. (Jne 

 September I was suddenly troubled with rob- 

 bing, which is always stiggestive of careless 

 management; and as my stocks were well be- 

 haved 1 felt sure some neighboring apiary 

 must be guilty. I placed an empty hive in 

 the yard, with a honey-comb inside, and a 

 trap entrance (the Porter bee-escape) In 

 the evening, when flying was over, I re- 

 moved the top of the trap-hive and some 

 hundreds of bees issued from it. They all 

 went into one of my own hives, but it was 

 a stock composed of spare combs occupietl 

 by driven bees from Yorkshire, which I had 

 received ten days befoi'e, and had fed up for 

 the winter. No other stock joined in the 

 picking and stealing, so I presume the bur- 

 glars had taken to bad ways in their last lo- 

 cation. A Scottish Reader. 



[The foi'egoing is an excellent plan for 

 tracing down the robbers. 



It very often happens that only one colony 

 is responsible for all the robbing, especially 

 when it flrst begins. In the case above 

 mentioned we would advise taking the guilty 

 colony and putting it down cellar for a week 

 until it forgets its misdeeds, or, mayhap, re- 

 pents. If when returned, it refuses to be 

 good, remove it to a distance of a couple of 

 miles, and in the meantime requeen. — Ed.] 



