. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Nov. 2f>. 1903. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 765 c FROM MANY FIELDS 3 Doubling Up Colonies — Entrance- Closer. On page 712, Mr. Bingham says he doubled up his colonies, putting 150 into 75. Why not have him and other veterans tell the beet w ay to do it! By the way, why don't some experts get up an en trance-closer that will «ive lifting a heavy hive to turn over the bottom-boards? I use them, and like them very much, but I would like to buy them when I buy my hives. F. P. Briggs. Middlesex Co., Mass., Nov. 16. [Mr. Bingham is hereby requested to tell
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Nov. 2f>. 1903. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 765 c FROM MANY FIELDS 3 Doubling Up Colonies — Entrance- Closer. On page 712, Mr. Bingham says he doubled up his colonies, putting 150 into 75. Why not have him and other veterans tell the beet w ay to do it! By the way, why don't some experts get up an en trance-closer that will «ive lifting a heavy hive to turn over the bottom-boards? I use them, and like them very much, but I would like to buy them when I buy my hives. F. P. Briggs. Middlesex Co., Mass., Nov. 16. [Mr. Bingham is hereby requested to tell us how he doubles up colonies. A good entrance-closer was illustrated and described about three months ago in these columns.—Editor.] A Big Catnip Experiment. I promised, some time ago, to furnish an article for publication relating my experience the past season with catnip, so here goes: "Ten acres of wild catnip; ten thousand pounds of choice comb honey ; .*3,000 worth of seed in one short season; and how I did ; It was about sundown, a little later or a little sooner, may be, 1 don't know (borrow- ing the language of Josiah Allen's wife), a real thought came to me that a reality of the aixjve paragraph, although somt'what extrav- agant, would not be impossible. So one bright October morning I ventured out with team and wagon, with a new triple box and a hand-scythe. I gathered catnip enough in one day to thrash out 40 pounds of choice seed. March 31, 1902, those 40 pounds of catnip seed were scattered over ten acres of good ground, where a good crop of corn had been raised the previous year. The corn- stalks were still standing tall and thick, so I cut them down with a disk harrow to level the top surface, leaning the teeth well back so as to scatter the stalks as much as possible, forming a mulch for this much-treasured seed. Abundance of rain soon brought forth a nice crop of catnip plants, but as soon as we had a dry spell, of say two weeks, those cat-
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