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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 15 



cordingly, that evening, I interchanged the 

 locations of the two hives, as they sat side 

 by side only 15 inches apart. The next 

 morning 1 watched to see the result, and 

 found that the held bees as they came back 

 would dance up and down in front of No. 2, 

 and then many of them would go in. But 

 in two days No. 1 was doing all the business 

 again. 



I had other work to do, and I didn't want 

 to bother them any more, so I left them that 

 way all summer. 



June 25 I put a super of 32 Danzenbaker 

 sections on each of the five hives. Nos. 1, 3, 

 and 4 went right to work in them. 



On July 20 No. 3 threw out a very large 

 swarm which lodged on an apple-tree about 

 ten feet from 

 the hive. 



While I was 

 getting the 

 hive ready 

 they left and 

 went into the 

 top of a wil- 

 low ten rods 

 north, so I 

 got a ladder 

 and cut the 

 limb and 

 shook the 

 bees into the 

 hive. I saw 

 the queen, 

 picked her up, 

 and let her 

 run into the 

 hive. I then 

 went to work, 

 thinking that 

 every thing 

 was all right. 

 That evening 

 I went out to 

 bring the 

 swarm into 

 the yard; but 

 somebody had 

 taken the cov- 

 er from the 

 hive, and the 

 bees were all 



206 lbs. in all. Besides these, there were 

 about 20 partly filled sections. 



I opened No. 2 about Sept. 1 and found 

 they had no queen and only about a pint of 

 bees, so I put the hive on top of No. 1, but 

 the next morning I found the pint of bees all 

 dead in front of the hive. 



Now I have four swarms of bees that are 

 fairly strong, and I hope to winter them all 

 riglit. I am going to get some drygoods- 

 boxes and set over them and fill wi'^h chaff. 



I have sold my honey so far for 15 cts. I 

 have sold 8 boxes of 20 sections each, amount- 

 ing to $24 00. I also gave away some to the 

 neighbors, and have a lot left for pancakes 

 this winter. 



Schenectady, N. Y., Sept. 29. 



1. — SOME FANCY HONKY FROM THE APIAKY AT A CANADIAN EMIGRA- 

 TION BRANCH OF IRISH ORPHANAGES, HESPELER, ONT., CANADA. 



gone. That swarm coming 

 from No. 3 stopped its work in the sections, 

 and they haven't done any thing since that 

 time. 



In the meantime I took a peek into No. 5, 

 and was surprised to see the super almost 

 full, so I raised it up and put an empty one 

 under it; and the way the bees went to work, 

 it did me good to stand and look at them. 

 There was a constant stream of bees coming 

 and going, falling over each other, trying to 

 get in and out of the hive. 



As for results, that little despised second 

 swarm that I thought would hardly build up 

 for winter has done the best of any of them. 

 I have taken off two full supers of white clo- 

 ver and 21 full sections of amber honey, be- 

 sides 11 sections that were not finished. In 

 all I had 85 lbs. from No. 5; 25 lbs. from No. 

 3; 64 lbs. from No. 4; 32 lbs. from No. 1, or 



BEE-KEEPING AT AN ORPHANAGE 



A Good Honey Average in the Apiary at a 



Canadian Emigration Branch of 



Irish Orphanages, 



BY G. W. TEBBS, 



Superintendent. 



I started bee keeping with the purchase of 

 one colony, and finished up the season with 

 three, which I ran for comb honey. I win- 

 tered them out of doors, putting over the 

 hives rough wooden cases, and packing in 

 between with dry maple leaves. All of them 

 came out in good condition. 



The first year, of course, I made some sil- 

 ly blunders, such as putting the sections up 

 side down in which 1 had placed full sheets 

 of comb foundation. But during the winter 



