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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Sept. 1 



ties of old comb. For these a good press 

 should be used in connection with hot wa- 

 ter.— Ed.] 



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A THREE-YEAR OLD BEE KEEPER. 



I send to Gleanings the photo of the 

 youngest queen-hunter (perhaps) in the 

 United States — little Harold Shultz. He 

 was three years old the 25th of February 

 last. He goes in front of his grandpa, the 

 writer, and removes the block from the Al- 

 exander feeder. Who can beat this? 



Huntington, W. Va. J. E. Starks. 



of it last year to the farmers in the vicinity 

 of our north yard, l)elipving that the plan 

 would be productive of good results. We 

 pursued the same policy of free seed given 

 this season in the region of the other yards, 

 including the one at home. Of course this 

 last seed-giving has not been al^le thus far to 

 show any results except to show a thrifty 

 growth of young plants; but at the north 

 yard, where the seed was sown a year ago, 

 we have found that the flow of nectar was 

 materially increased. When the other yards 

 were almost on the verge of starvation the 

 north yard was abund intly supplied with 



HAROLD SHULTZ, THREE YEARS OLD, LOOKING FOR A QUEEN. 



ARTIFICIAL PASTURAGE. 



Giving Away Alsike Seed to the Farmers 

 within a Mile of a Bee-yard ; How a Poor 

 Bee-range may be Improved. 



BY E. R. ROOT. 



We have already referred to the fact that 

 we have been giving away alsike seed with- 

 in a mile of our out-apiaries. The result 

 was we disposed of a considerable quantity 



honey from the alsike which was growing in 

 the tall timothy, and the peavine clovers, 

 for the farmers seem to prefer to mix the 

 seed, averring that they get a larger and bet- 

 ter crop by mixing alsike with timothy or 

 with peavine clover. When alsike is sown 

 by itself it has, they say, a comparatively 

 small growth; but when sown with some 

 other hay of taller growth the stalks, in the 

 effort to get toward the sunshine, stretch out. 

 Jn a recent trip through Southern Michi- 

 gan we saw that the farmers were universal- 



