. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 682 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. October Uniting Weak Colonies is made easier, says Editor Root, by bringing them from an out-apiary, for then they will not go back to their old places.—Gleanings. Honey-Dew for Winter Stores.—The editor of Gleanings has advised leaving honey-dew in the hives for winter. But It seems all honey-dew is not the same as at Medina. M. V. Facey says that in Minnesota it is fatal as winter food. One winter he had in the same cellar a lot of colonies filled up with honey-dew, and another lot that had been fed sugar syrup. On
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 682 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. October Uniting Weak Colonies is made easier, says Editor Root, by bringing them from an out-apiary, for then they will not go back to their old places.—Gleanings. Honey-Dew for Winter Stores.—The editor of Gleanings has advised leaving honey-dew in the hives for winter. But It seems all honey-dew is not the same as at Medina. M. V. Facey says that in Minnesota it is fatal as winter food. One winter he had in the same cellar a lot of colonies filled up with honey-dew, and another lot that had been fed sugar syrup. Only one with sugar died, and only one of the others lived. "Whither are we Drifting P" is the question aslft in the Progressive Bee-Keeper by H. H. Hyde, in view of the many inventions and changes made in bee-keeping appliances (but before he gets through he advocates a new separator of his own invention), especially mentioning the change to smaller sections, and the "cut-off top-bar brood-frame," with a hint against the plain section and fence separator. The editor Is emphatic upon this last point, favoring slotted separators "instead of catering to certain supply dealers'pocket-books by buying their glued-up ; Why Fruit Does Not Set.—A bulletin of the Kansas Ex- periment Station gives four important reasons why fruit may fail to set: 1. The pollen may be insufficient in quantity. This ap- plies particularly to the strawberry, the remedy being to plant pollen-producing sorts, the so-called staminate sorts, along with the so-called pistillate sorts. 2. " Insects may be prevented from visiting the flowers during the receptive period. If bees are kept from fruit- blossoms by netting or other artificial means, the amount of fruit set is little or none. It not infrequently happens that inclement weather prevents, or hinders the flying of bees dur- ing the period when the flowers are receptive. A fruit-tree, half of which was subjec
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