. Gleanings in bee culture . heHoney Producers League to be held in SaltLake City in January, but we were disap-pointed in not being favored by the Gov-ernment men who held two meetings in Col-orado, til en flew right over to California. While there are perhaps not many placeswhere beekeepers need instruction morethan we do here, we are not without somemerit, for we have one beekeeper who pro-duced 150 tons of honey last season. Afterthe Government finds out that there is sucha place in Vh on tliO map, we may be no-ticed next time. M, A, Gill. Hyrum, Utah. FkbriARV, 1932 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTU
. Gleanings in bee culture . heHoney Producers League to be held in SaltLake City in January, but we were disap-pointed in not being favored by the Gov-ernment men who held two meetings in Col-orado, til en flew right over to California. While there are perhaps not many placeswhere beekeepers need instruction morethan we do here, we are not without somemerit, for we have one beekeeper who pro-duced 150 tons of honey last season. Afterthe Government finds out that there is sucha place in Vh on tliO map, we may be no-ticed next time. M, A, Gill. Hyrum, Utah. FkbriARV, 1932 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUKE 97 HEADS OF GRAIN tt^PQ^OTDIFFERENT FIELDS Large Hives in We are trying out twoNew Mexico. yards of the large hivesshown in the accompanyingpicture. They hold 12 frames, but we useonly 11 in the brood-chamber and 10 in thesuper. The colonies in these hives for thelast two years (the length of time we havebeen running them) have produced morethan twice as much honey per colony asthose in eight-frame hives. The picture of. Hives with one, two and three entrances. the one row shows where we have beenmaking tests with one, two and three en-trances during the heavy honey flow. Thepicture was taken just after the top en-trances were closed. I could see no differencein the ones that had three entrances and theones that had one good large one. In thepicture of the yard the small hives are apart of my mating nucleus yard. The EioGrande Kiver is just across the valley andruns around the foot of the hills in the dis-tance. J. W. Park, N. M. To Clean Pollen I noticed an article in No-Clogged Combs, vember issue of Gleaningsin regard to getting thebees to remove pollen from brood-combs. Ihave tried scraping the cells with the hive-tool as recommended, and it worked. I havealso tried shaving the cells with a sharpknife or an uncapping-knifc and that workedwell, too. The best plan I have ever triedwhere the pollen was old and dry was to fillthe cells with water and let the c
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