Gleanings in bee culture . d are not these accidents just as likely tohappen to a comb that was originally builton a full sheet of foundation as to one nat-urally built? WOODPECKERS. In Gleanings for Nov. 15, 1900, is an il-lustration of damage done to hives by wood-peckers. These were much more consideratethan the woodpeckers here, boring onlythrough the hand-holes, where the damagecould be easily repaired. I have seen hiveshere where the giant woodpecker had chisel-ed great jagged holes in the upper edge ofthe hives, beginning at the crevice betweenthe hive and cover, and doing a grea
Gleanings in bee culture . d are not these accidents just as likely tohappen to a comb that was originally builton a full sheet of foundation as to one nat-urally built? WOODPECKERS. In Gleanings for Nov. 15, 1900, is an il-lustration of damage done to hives by wood-peckers. These were much more consideratethan the woodpeckers here, boring onlythrough the hand-holes, where the damagecould be easily repaired. I have seen hiveshere where the giant woodpecker had chisel-ed great jagged holes in the upper edge ofthe hives, beginning at the crevice betweenthe hive and cover, and doing a great dealof damage. This giant woodpecker makesitself a great nuisance here by boring holesinto buildings, apparently out of pure mis-chief, as sometimes several holes will bebored close together through perfectly soundwood. I have had to shoot a number to keepthem from tilling our house full of holes: andwhile at this writing a vigorous rap-rap-rapon the gable end of the house called me outto settle w^ith the FEEDING BACK EXTRACTED HONEY. How this Plan Can be Made Profitable inthe Production of Comb Honey; the Im-portance of Thinning the Honey andFeeding During a Natural Honey-flow. BY E. W. ALEXANDER. [This article deals with a very seasonable subject,Vjarticularly this poor year when there will be manyunfinished sections. The knowledge of how to com-plete them, thus renderins them lit for the market, isimportant. Incidentally this will supplement the ar-ticle by J. E. Hand in this issue.—Ed.] On page 645 friend Reddout calls my at-tention to this subject. He can hardly seewhy there should be such a diffeience ofopinion on this subject as there seems to also can not see how there could be anyvariation in the results, only such as wouldnaturally follow from the difference in thetime of the season in which the feeding was practiced, the quality of food, and in the wayin which it was given. My first experience along this line wassomething over 30 years ago.
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