Gleanings in bee culture . into the water,will form a film that will crack when the fin-ger is bent, then the cooking has progressedlong enough. But be careful in making thissyrup to see that it does not burn. It shouldthen be poured into shallow wooden butter-dishes; and if the candy has been made rightit will not run down between the , to prevent the possibility of it, turn thebuttei-dish of candy right side up. For ex-periments on candy-feeding you are referredto pages 95 and S2 of our Jan. loth issue. When Mr. Somerford speaks about cagingthe queen he means putting her in any kin
Gleanings in bee culture . into the water,will form a film that will crack when the fin-ger is bent, then the cooking has progressedlong enough. But be careful in making thissyrup to see that it does not burn. It shouldthen be poured into shallow wooden butter-dishes; and if the candy has been made rightit will not run down between the , to prevent the possibility of it, turn thebuttei-dish of candy right side up. For ex-periments on candy-feeding you are referredto pages 95 and S2 of our Jan. loth issue. When Mr. Somerford speaks about cagingthe queen he means putting her in any kindof queen-cage, placing the cage on top of thecluster of bees, or between the frames ifit does not bulge them too far apart. Theordinary cage will hold candy sufficient fora week or ten days. When he speaks aboutremoving the queen he means putting herinto another hive by introducing. A division-board and a frame of candy ora pan of syrup would answer in the place ofa frame of honey.—Ed.] 190^ GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 771. 3IKRCEES PNEUMATIC-TIRED CART ARRANGED FOR CARRYING HIVES. EXTRACTINGCOMBS. Pneumatio-tired Carts for Carrying them tothe Honey-house. BY L. E. MERCER. On page 1574 of the Christmas issue ofGleanings for 1906 are two pictures of extracting-house, and the manwith that heavy box of honey. It makes myback aehe to look at that picture. I dontthink 1 could keep a man on my bee-ranchmore than one day if hehad to pack the honeythat way. Well do Iremember one summerabout 23 years ago,when I carried about 20tons of honey in the tinbucket such as used tobe advertised in Glean-iN(is for that makes me tired tothink about it the next year weused a sort of cart andbox that held ten combs,and shoved them intothe house on a set ofrollers, and out on an-other set; l)ut we soondiscarded that for some-thing better, and nowwe use the rubber-tiredcarts that you see inthe photos I am send-ing. When the largerpicture was taken I wasloading the v/ag
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