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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 15 



(this is a Canadian emigration branch of 

 Irish orphanages) painting hives after put- 

 ting them together. The third one shows 

 one of my colonies just in the act of swarm- 

 ing. My apiary is on a southern slope, and 

 is screened from the wind on the north and 

 west by low lilac bushes. All my swarms 

 have hitherto gone to these bushes, most of 

 them being more than 20 yards from the 

 apiary or 5 feet from the ground. 

 Hespeler, Ont. 



[Bee-keeping would serve a very useful 

 purpose at any orphanage or home, as it 

 would give the inmates some useful work as 

 well as recreation. We know of several 

 charitable institutions that are taking up api- 

 culture with this very end in view. Many 

 of these are raising their own garden truck 

 as well as general farm produce, and why 

 not honey? Mr. Tebbs has, in this case, 

 given us a splendid demonstration of the 

 possibilities in this line. — Ed] 



extracted honey; first on specimen of extract- 

 honey; first on best display of extracted 

 honey in granulated form. 



The exhibit was of my individual effort, 

 but you may see by my banner in the photo 

 that I made the exhibit in the interest of all 

 Northern Michigan red-raspberry-honey pro- 

 ducers. 



Rapid City, Mich. 



THE PLURAL QUEEN SYSTEM. 



The Colonies more Uniformly Strong at the 

 Beginning- of the Honey- flow; Swarming 

 Easier to Control ; Why Only One Queen 

 is Left when Excluders are Removed. 



BY HAROLD DAVENES. 



For the last three years I have been keep- 

 ing the majority of my colonies ia the shal- 

 low divisible-brood-chamber hives, two to 



EXHIBIT OK KASrBEHKY HONEY AT THE WEST MICHIGAN STATE FAIR, GRAND RAPID?, 



HONEYE EXHIBITS. 



A Display of Fine Raspberry Honey at the 

 AVest Michigan State Fair. 



BY GEO. H. KIRKPATRICK. 



I mail a photo of my recent exhibit of bees 

 and honey at the West Michigan State Fair, 

 Grand Rapids. You will notice one more 

 point has been scored in favor of red-rasp- 

 berry honey, it having received a majority 

 of the first prizes as follows: 



Second on display of comb honey; first on 

 best case of comb honey, first on display of 



three stories, with a queen in each super, 

 separated by an excluder. By working the 

 plural-queen system I gain three valuable 

 points: 1. A hive packed with brood, and 

 overflowing with bees by the first week in 

 March, just at the opening of the orange 

 bloom; 3. A better average of surplus honey 

 per colony. Some daughters of my best 

 breeder, when worked on the single-queen 

 plan, fall far behind in the production of hon- 

 ey from some of their sisters in the same api- 

 ary. Two or three queens in one colony will 

 overcome the defects of the less productive 

 queen; 3. Better swarm control. While it 



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