. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. The Price of Success.—"I never saw a successful bee- keeper who was not, in all kinds of weather, thinking about his ;—C. P. Dadant, in Busy Bee. Saving Sweet Clover Seed.—" I once gathered a bushel in two hours by pushing au inverted umbrella up close to the stalk, and an assistant bent the stalks over it and beat off the seed with a ;—J. B. Hains, in Gleanings. Tips and Dovsrns. —In 1896 Dr. Stell was reported in Southland Queen as producing In Mexico from 10 colonies 1,500 pounds of honey that he sold at a dollar a po
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. The Price of Success.—"I never saw a successful bee- keeper who was not, in all kinds of weather, thinking about his ;—C. P. Dadant, in Busy Bee. Saving Sweet Clover Seed.—" I once gathered a bushel in two hours by pushing au inverted umbrella up close to the stalk, and an assistant bent the stalks over it and beat off the seed with a ;—J. B. Hains, in Gleanings. Tips and Dovsrns. —In 1896 Dr. Stell was reported in Southland Queen as producing In Mexico from 10 colonies 1,500 pounds of honey that he sold at a dollar a pound. In 1897 the case is reverst. From 18 colonies increast to 40, he got only 22 pounds of honey after paying out .5240 for supplies. Extracting in Parts.—Hasty in Review thinks it might be a good plan to avoid extracting unripe honey to have two extracting-supers on at a lime, extracting alternately, or else having only one super and extracting alternately the two halves, thus giving a chance for better ripening to the part to be extracted. Wax in Bee-Glue.—M. Bertrand, editor Revue, sent to Dr. de Planta a sample of the material used by bees to con- tract the entrance of a straw hive. The analysis showed : Beeswax, ; resia (propolis), ; water and volatile oils, ; total, 100. Probably many beekeepers would be surprisfld to find the large amount of wax they could secure by melting up what they may think pure propolis. Are Drones a Help to Workers P—Some think that workers are more energetic if drones are present in the col- ony. Editor Hutchinson thinks that even if the presence of drones is an encouragement to the workers, there's no need of a big lot. He says : " Two or three hundred in each col- ony, if they are anyways smart drones at all, ought to be able to give the workers all of the ' patting on the back ' that is ; TheJBee Not Cold-Blooded. —Karl Gruendig, indeutsche Imker, combats the assertion of Dzierzon that the
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