Gleanings in bee culture . light flow from flowers andfruit bloom. In the eight-frame super thespace admits only one section-holder andtwo fiames. Over this is placed a super cover withscreen tacked on the escape space, and thei\ 156 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE half a dozen thicknesses of burlap as wideas the super, and long enough to reach wellover the ends. This makes a cheap andvery warm as well as ventilated winter case. It takes care of the unsalable honey, andgives the bees No. 1 stores. Their naturalhome in the rotten, lined, hollow tree couldserve them no Moines, la. SOME NEW E
Gleanings in bee culture . light flow from flowers andfruit bloom. In the eight-frame super thespace admits only one section-holder andtwo fiames. Over this is placed a super cover withscreen tacked on the escape space, and thei\ 156 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE half a dozen thicknesses of burlap as wideas the super, and long enough to reach wellover the ends. This makes a cheap andvery warm as well as ventilated winter case. It takes care of the unsalable honey, andgives the bees No. 1 stores. Their naturalhome in the rotten, lined, hollow tree couldserve them no Moines, la. SOME NEW EXPERIENCES IN BEEKEEPING BY GARDNER B. WILLIS Two years ago I had a colony that hadtwo queens in October. I saw both at thesame time, and all was quiet and peacefulin the hive. I left the bees alone for themto choose the queen they wished to keep. MOTH Last summer, in a nucleus I observedsome young bees still in the cells, and aliveafter their heads had come thru. The nextday they were still there. I took a tooth-. pick and removed one, when, to my sui-prise, a small white worm came from itsabdomen. About eighteen were like this,either a small white worm about half aninch long in the abdomen, or in the bottomof the cell. I removed all the bees in thecells that were like this, and have seen noth-ing like it since.* DRONES IN WINTER. I have a hive in my back yard that hasat least 75 drones in it. One warm dayearly in December I observed drones goingand coming from this hive. My first thoughtwas that tlie hive was queenless. I unpack-ed it and looked it all thru, but there wasthe queen with one wing that I clipped lastsummer. I know the colony is all right, al-tho it has all these drones. The onlv way I can account for this, andyet I dont see how it can mean anything,is that I took these frames and bees froma fourteen-frame hive used for queen-rear-ing, and this was done before the frost has been no excluder or separator inthe hive since the change was made. But
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