Gleanings in bee culture . HE GOLDENS BY \K E. LHOMMEDIEU Mr. Miller is right. A number of yearsago I was desirous of getting some newblood into my stock. At this time the lateMr. Alley was advertising a dozen goldenqueens, every one a breeder, for $10 perdozen. I received a dozen by mail. Theywere so bright, and they came thru so well,that I ordered three dozen more, and intro-duced them into four different apiaries. The next spring about cured me ofgoldens. To make sure, however, I gotsome queens of another breeder, but theywere very little if any better. They are notlike honeybees. It cost
Gleanings in bee culture . HE GOLDENS BY \K E. LHOMMEDIEU Mr. Miller is right. A number of yearsago I was desirous of getting some newblood into my stock. At this time the lateMr. Alley was advertising a dozen goldenqueens, every one a breeder, for $10 perdozen. I received a dozen by mail. Theywere so bright, and they came thru so well,that I ordered three dozen more, and intro-duced them into four different apiaries. The next spring about cured me ofgoldens. To make sure, however, I gotsome queens of another breeder, but theywere very little if any better. They are notlike honeybees. It cost me over $100 to getthem cleaned out of the yards. But thegoldens have one good quality—they aiehandsome. Colo, Iowa. A CALIFORNIA YANKEES METHOD OF WIRING FRAMES BY S. A. NIVER my wiring-clamp will interestsome beekeepers who have found the wiringof brood or extracting frames very puz-zling. It is a slow tedious job at best. Ihave taken several ideas from the bee-jour- TOGGie Jo/A/r FOR LEV£RA/^D SL/D/rVG nals, and combined them into a simple de-vice for holding the frame rigidly andsquarely. It is easy to fasten the frame injDosition and release it, and the wires arestrung tighter than by any other plan Iknow of. It is a double-deck-ed affair. Fig. 1 showsthe loAver deck with thelever arranged to pullthe iron lugs againstthe end-bars, bendingthem in toward eacliother, while the wireis threaded. No. 2shows the upper deckwith a frame in posi-tion with the leverpushed to the left, andheld in place by the button. The clampis fastened to thebench by means of a l£V£R BUTTON LOCK CLAMP APRIL 15, 1916 couple of screws soyou can yank the wireas hard as you stringing thewire in the frame andreleasing it from theclamp the end-barsspring back and drawthe wires very this locality,where the sun is hotand honey thick, 1have found the cross-wiring scheme an ex-cellent plan, worth all the trouble and moretoo. Fig. 3 makes it plain. I buy the wire L^D BA
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