Items related to Gleanings in bee culture Volume 33
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ... June 1 they swarmed as any other colony would. My excluder was made of three pieces of perforated zinc (size about 3x6in.), on a board the size of the hive. Perhaps there should press iust a little hole through the cappings, enough for the bees to start on. Wnen using the uncapping-knife to remove the cappings it often leaves the frame in a rather smeary condition. C. H. W. Weber. Cincinnati, 0. This tool is advertised in nearly all of the bee-supply catalogs of Germany. Whether it is used for actual uncapping purposes I do not know; but with honey as thick as we find in most localities in the United States a mere perforation through the capping would not be large enough. The combs would have to be revolved at a very high rate of speed--high enough to crush them. I am inclined to the opinion that the tool is used a good deal as Mr. Weber states above, for the purpose of stimulating only.--Ed. BEES BUILDING COMB TO UPRIGHT CLEATS ON THE FENCE. In using shallow extracting-frames in supers with plain sections and fences, as per Townsend plan in June 1st Gleanings, would not the bees build comb to upright cleats of fences next to the frame? Would it not be a good plan to remove the middle cleats of the fences next to the frame? Vassar, Mich. R. D. Chappell. Yes, there would be danger of the bees building their combs up against the post of the fence next adjoining. In that case, perhaps it would be best to remove those uprights, or, in other words, use a one-sided fence--the plain side to the extracting-comb and the bee-spaced side to the plain sections.--Ed. WINTERING BEES IN VENTILATED FROSTPROOF BUILDING. I have read the discussions about inside wintering of bees. We put ours into winter quarters the 17th of November, and I set them out the 18th of March-149...
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- PublisherRarebooksclub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1231226315
- ISBN 13 9781231226315
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages802
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