. Gleanings in bee culture . assages, reaching to a cornerof the hive where there was a verv Cityof Ants, or at any rate a very popular andpopulous suburb. We gaAe the bees a newTiottnm-board and brood-clinuber. scrapedthe hard-caked nuid from tlie combs and [loured gasoline into the hole in the gioundthat looked like ant head(|uarters. Severaltimes, as usual, in the warm snug place be-tAveen the inner and outer covers, Ave foundblack ants. And as usual we sprinkled lib-erj^lly with borax, which lias never yet failedto drive them off. Chilled brood Avas beingdumped out on soA^eral doorsteps. B
. Gleanings in bee culture . assages, reaching to a cornerof the hive where there was a verv Cityof Ants, or at any rate a very popular andpopulous suburb. We gaAe the bees a newTiottnm-board and brood-clinuber. scrapedthe hard-caked nuid from tlie combs and [loured gasoline into the hole in the gioundthat looked like ant head(|uarters. Severaltimes, as usual, in the warm snug place be-tAveen the inner and outer covers, Ave foundblack ants. And as usual we sprinkled lib-erj^lly with borax, which lias never yet failedto drive them off. Chilled brood Avas beingdumped out on soA^eral doorsteps. But Avhat of it?—wliat of all these aAvk-Avard, incouA-enient, disappointing and un-profitable things? We could not care birds Averc singing and black locustAvas in bloom and beauty laid her magic onthe hills. Then, too, there was a mystery. Everybeeyard has at least one mystery a as I reached the yard one noon I sawa SAvarm in the air near a hive not yet ex-amined. At first glance T thought it Avas. By the chorry orchard wilh the liills beyond. coming out, but the next instant discoA^eredtliat it Avas entering the hiAe, the front ofAvhicli Avas a solid curtain of bees. Clippedqueen, T thought A\4th satisfaction. The re-turn of the SAvarm being so far accomplished,I merely sat doAvn on the hive and Avatchedthe entrance idly—scarcely hoping to seethe queen come in. But T did see her—andshe Avas not clipped. On opening the hivea few hours later, I found queen-cups Avithonly eggs in them. I clipped the queen, puther on a frame of brood with nine emptycombs in a ncAv brood-chamber, Avith aqueen-excluder and the old brood-chamberabove. There they still are, apparently con-tent. O you Avho are wiser than T, why, swarmed Avith aa undipped queen,.lid thoA come back? 386 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE June, 1922 FROM NORTH, EAST, WEST AND SOUTH In Southern .Tlie seasonis conserva-tively estimated at from two weeks to onemonth late. Perhaps one
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