. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. Vol. X Published Monthly by The W. T. Falconer Mfg. Co. OCTOBER, 1900 No. 10 THE SEPTEMBER BEE-KEEPER. Emphasizing the Good Things in the Last Number. BY G. M. DOOLITTLE. ON opening the wSeptomber number of The American Bee-keeper our eyes alight on a scone wliich at once transports us to the Southern iieniisphere, to a place where the people have long summer days when we are r years, what keen enjoyment has come to me in reading tlie bee-books and papers on these same cold, stormy eve- nings, with tlie room kept warm by the base burner stove, thr
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. Vol. X Published Monthly by The W. T. Falconer Mfg. Co. OCTOBER, 1900 No. 10 THE SEPTEMBER BEE-KEEPER. Emphasizing the Good Things in the Last Number. BY G. M. DOOLITTLE. ON opening the wSeptomber number of The American Bee-keeper our eyes alight on a scone wliich at once transports us to the Southern iieniisphere, to a place where the people have long summer days when we are r years, what keen enjoyment has come to me in reading tlie bee-books and papers on these same cold, stormy eve- nings, with tlie room kept warm by the base burner stove, throwing out its mel- low heat from the consumption of coal therein, while the hanging petroleum- burning lamp, with its almo'^t noon-day light, gave a radiance to the page which was only equalled by the radiance in the heart, as the reading gave rise to new plans and new experiments which were to be used the following summer in con- nection with the bees. The soul which sees nothing of fun in these things is to be pitied. But I'll not enlarge on these matters further. Thank yoa, Mr. Editor, for giving ns a glimpse of bee- keeping in the Southern hemisphere tlirough this frontispiece. TO KEEP COMBS FROM MOTHS. Near the middle of the, second column on page 1(34, Mr. M. F. Reeve tells us how he overlooked a hive of combs until the moth-worms had taken posses- sion of them. Finding them tlius, ho removed what worms he could handily, when the hive of combs was set over a strong colony for cleansing and protec- tection. Good! I have had similar ex- periences myself, but never thought to give it in print. And allow me to say, if a colony of bees will thus clean combs after the larvse, of the wax-moth has gotten possession of them, said colony will fully protect combs, if they have access to them, from worms or enemies of all kinds. For this reason, when I have more combs than I have colonies of bees to profitably use tliem during the honey-harvest, and these combs are likely to fall a p
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