. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ODDS AND ENDS Group of beekeepers at the Putnam, Illinois, field meeting found to work well on a few occa- sions : Put the old queen below with a frame of brood and empty combs or foundation. Next, place a queen ex- cluder, then one or more supers, then another excluder, and at the top of all place the brood with a ripe cell fro'n your choice breeder. Shove the hive- body containing the brood and ceU forward, just a little, so that the queen can get out at the back. The two excluders, being a considerable distance apart, will tend to prevent the virgi
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ODDS AND ENDS Group of beekeepers at the Putnam, Illinois, field meeting found to work well on a few occa- sions : Put the old queen below with a frame of brood and empty combs or foundation. Next, place a queen ex- cluder, then one or more supers, then another excluder, and at the top of all place the brood with a ripe cell fro'n your choice breeder. Shove the hive- body containing the brood and ceU forward, just a little, so that the queen can get out at the back. The two excluders, being a considerable distance apart, will tend to prevent the virgin from "raising a rumpus" in the vicinity of her maternal ances- tor, a proceeding which may result in the exodus of at least one Tjueen and a portion of the bees. Somehow I cannot feel just right toward the fel- low who will bore an auger hole in n perfectly good beehive. It is not necessary to discard sec- tions which have become discolored especially if the honey is to be sold locally. By the use of sandpaper they can be made to appear almost as good as new. If the number is large, a pulley belt or a grinder wheel replaced with a wooden disk, covered with coarse sandpaper may be used, but if there are only a few hundred, just place a sheet of the paper on a smooth board and rub the filled sec- tions over it. The following will bear repetition : To make a flour paste that will stick to tin, add a tablespoonful of honey to each teacupful of paste. Boil thor- oughly, but do not allow it to burn. I'resh paste should be made for earn li)t labeled. Wanted—The best method of dis- posing of cappings. We use a cap- [ling melter after the extracting is all done, but it is a slow and tedious job. In the spring of 1919 there was clo- ver, clover everywhere resulting, we might almost say, in not a drop of clover honey. Last spring it was dif- ficult to find a leaf of white clover anywhere, and the sequence—well, it has rained honey all summer. In the future I expect to leav
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