Gleanings in bee culture . settrees the last of May with soft soap or strongsoap solution we can save our trees and willrejoice in their health and beauty. Fortu-nate the bee-keeper who has many maples ineasy Iange of his yard. The tulip is wondrously beautiful, is afine honey-tree, and is excellent for have never yet seen it set along the high-way, and this is not complimentary to theenterprise or patriotism of our Americanpeople. The linden, or basswood, is theincomparable tree for roadside planting. Itis wondrously beautiful, and is the tree parexcellence for honey. All of the abov
Gleanings in bee culture . settrees the last of May with soft soap or strongsoap solution we can save our trees and willrejoice in their health and beauty. Fortu-nate the bee-keeper who has many maples ineasy Iange of his yard. The tulip is wondrously beautiful, is afine honey-tree, and is excellent for have never yet seen it set along the high-way, and this is not complimentary to theenterprise or patriotism of our Americanpeople. The linden, or basswood, is theincomparable tree for roadside planting. Itis wondrously beautiful, and is the tree parexcellence for honey. All of the above treesare attacked by the great tulip scale, but Ihave watched the splendid trees of all thesevarieties on the campus of the Michigansince their planting in 1S58; and the otherday, as I sat again beneath them, I couldnot see any loss of health or vigor, In California and on the Pacific coast theeucalyptus, acacia, and the beautiful pep-pers aie strong vigorous growers, very beau-tiful, and are all of value as POLLEN, PROPOLIS, ETC. Mr. Doolittle, some of my colonies stor-ed lots of pollen in the sections last year, andthey are Ijeginning to do the same thing thisyear, and I want to know why they do The storing of pollen in the surplus apart-ment to the hive is laigely brought about bythe queen tilling the brood-chamber so full ofbrood that there is not room enough for allof the needed pollen below. This is a thingwhich does not happen regularly where alarge brood-chamber is used; but with oursmall hives, such as the eight-frame Lang- stroth or the nine-frame Gallup, it is not atall unusual for this state of affairs to exist,where no precautions are used. What are the precautions which can beused? A break-joint or queen-excluding honey-board will help very much. What is a break-joint honey-board? It is a honey-board so made that the open-ings from the brood-chamber below to thesurplus apartment above come directly overthe center of the top-bar to each frame
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