Gleanings in bee culture . up on the hot dry sideof the boiler it is quite apt to become dark-ened. A boiler full of melted combs requiresless attention if kept on the edge of the stoveso that it boils but slowly.—Ed.] LABOR SONG. BY EUGENE SECOR. Wtien June is rich with odors rare, And birds their loves declare From copse and wood and orchard-top As if theyd never stop, I love to sit as day declines, And longer jjrow the lines, And hear the winj^fing home of bees Circling above the trees. The nectar-laden beesHome-coming through the treesWing this refrain: Toil is not in work is king
Gleanings in bee culture . up on the hot dry sideof the boiler it is quite apt to become dark-ened. A boiler full of melted combs requiresless attention if kept on the edge of the stoveso that it boils but slowly.—Ed.] LABOR SONG. BY EUGENE SECOR. Wtien June is rich with odors rare, And birds their loves declare From copse and wood and orchard-top As if theyd never stop, I love to sit as day declines, And longer jjrow the lines, And hear the winj^fing home of bees Circling above the trees. The nectar-laden beesHome-coming through the treesWing this refrain: Toil is not in work is king of ease. They bring the scent of clover-bloomsAnd other choice perfumes;They hide them in the waxen bellsWhere royal favor dwells,And labor sweetens all the dayWith peace for such as theyWho are content to push the loadAlong lifes hilly road. The happy toiling bees,Home-coming through the back this truth: Forget, forsooth,That worlc is better than City, la. 782 GLEANINGS IN BEP] CULTUllE. June 1. CARNIOLAN BEES; THEIR POINTS OF SUPERI-ORITY; RECORD-BOOKS. I bought a tested Carniolan queen in May,1904; and as there are no Carniolans herebut mine I have tried their many curiousways, and find that you can not deal withthem or manipulate them along the same linesof either blacks or Italians. I have the red-clover Italians, the imported Italians, the Car-niolans, and the pure blacks, and this ishow I grade them by their honey-gatheringqualities: Carnio-Italian cross, 1. Red-clover Ital-ian, 2. Carniolan (Mr. Webers) 3. Red-clover cross and imported and improvedcross, 4. All sorts of crosses from theseabove, 5. Pure blacks, 6. My Carnio-Italian colonies are the strong-est in bees. I kept a record of my bees dur-ing 1905, and will never try to keep beesagain without my book of record of my va-rious manipulations of my bees as well asany others I may care for. Harms, Tenn. J. A. Bearden. SOME EXPERIENCE WITH DIFFERENT FEED-ERS; HOW TO HOLD THE ALEXANDERFEEDER
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