. Gleanings in bee culture . first shak-ing was done too early to thwart the inclination toswarm: and the colony, after having lost Its clip- ped queen, and having given up a part of its beesto make the ni>clei, was really In the same condi-tion that any colony would be after casting a primeswarm, especially since it was provided with thequeen-cells; hence the after*warm was to be ex-pected.—Ed.] Queen-finding Sieve to Fit in Hive-entrance. The queen-sieve described by J. P. Brumfield, , Sept. 1. has suggested what I think Is a simplerone. 1 fashioned a piece of zinc excluder, 10 x 14I
. Gleanings in bee culture . first shak-ing was done too early to thwart the inclination toswarm: and the colony, after having lost Its clip- ped queen, and having given up a part of its beesto make the ni>clei, was really In the same condi-tion that any colony would be after casting a primeswarm, especially since it was provided with thequeen-cells; hence the after*warm was to be ex-pected.—Ed.] Queen-finding Sieve to Fit in Hive-entrance. The queen-sieve described by J. P. Brumfield, , Sept. 1. has suggested what I think Is a simplerone. 1 fashioned a piece of zinc excluder, 10 x 14Inches, to strips of wood H x -% inch on the twosides and one end: then I tacked a very thin pieceof board or cardboard to the other side of the woodand one or two small supports In the center tokeep the board and zinc apart. I have this underthe brood-franaes so that it is the only entrance tothe hive. When the bees are shaken on a sheet Infront of the hive they 7nust enter through the sieve,and the queen will be N CARDBOARD No sharp lookout has to be kept: in fact, noneat all, for whether one examines the sieve in fifteenor twenty minutes, which is the usual time forthem to go in, or five hours later, as I did with thelast hive, the queen is sure to be In the sieve. AllI have to do is to put In the sieve, shake the bees,and let them take their time to go in, and the queenis surely safe. Claremont, N. H., Sept. 21. Robert Forsyth. Goldenrod as a Honey-plant, etc. This plant is known here In the mountains ofKentucky by the name of stickweed or farewell-weed. It has been here only about twenty years,but it seems especially adapted to our soil and cli-mate. It grows all over cleared land and by theroadsides, and in cultivated fields and is ready to bloom In a piece of land I had plant-ed to corn last year, and it Is safe to say that it willbe in all fields next year that were cultivated thisyear. Its stalk grows from six Inches to as manyfeet, with several s
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