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GLEANINGS IN JiEE CULTUIIE. 



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an order to a doaler who had a?.wnm been prompt, 

 and It waH May ;iTth before tbe wroods came. Don't 

 you Koc, almost every bee-keeper had done just ex- 

 aetly as I did, and the orders eame down in Bueh a 

 heiip upon t lie dealer, that it was some little time 

 before the p(«)r man could " dig: out." J'iVen if you 

 do lose Hoinu ol' your bees, isn't it better to keep 

 supplies over one or even two j'ears, than to not 

 have them on hand when they iire needed? The in- 

 terest on $100 worth of Mupiilies would not be more 

 than $10 a year, while one niiKht easily lose $100 by 

 not havinjjr supplies on hand at the proper time. 

 Ijast sensoii, riKlit In the liusswood-honey harvest, I 

 hadawlisht attaek of dii)hlheria, and for a week 

 eould "just crawl around;" but I hiid a great "stack" 

 of hives tilled with empty combs all ready for use, 

 and HO I "crawled" out and set, on theso upper 

 stories full of comlis. As the result, not a pound of 

 honey was lost for want of room In which to store 

 It; l)ut <lo you see what 1 would have lost had not 

 the lilvi'H luid combs been in readiness? Oik^ more 

 point : if a bee-keeper has his supplies on hand, and 

 then unfortunately loses his bees, and is unal)lo to 

 buy more, it (luito frequently happens that ho has 

 more fortunate l)ee-keepinf<' nelg-hbors, who will 

 Rladly take tho supplies olf his bands. 



LAiioi: in(;ki;asi': or stooc. 

 Friend Hasty, of all tlie Rood thing's that you have 

 written, none have stirred me up more than did 

 tliose " Unreiill/.cd Possibilities," Riven in January 

 (<|/KAN1N(1S. Vou tried to nniiceforty colonies from 

 one, in one seasoni Why, friend II., if you were not 

 eriizy, ^ ccrt;iiiily was for a lew minutes after read- 

 ing your article. Hero I have kept bees live years, 

 and have never tried to see how many colonies I 

 could mukofrom one, in one season. I am not much 

 Riven to tellluR what 1 am Roing to do, but 1 believe 

 1 will do so Just this once. Next sprinR I am roIur 

 to select three Rood colonics, and see what 1 can do 

 In tho way oE InereasiuR them. Jf they are fur- 

 nished with empty combs, andciucens, and fed when 

 not nun'li honeyls eomiiiR in, do you think that they 

 can 1)0 built up to tU'ty Rood strouR tmlonles? lam 

 RoliiR to try for it. Now, who can tell whicli way to 

 uuinaRe this business? Shall I divide them into 

 weak colonics, and then allow them to build up, and 

 then divide aRaiu, etc.? I am inclined to think that 

 the belter way would be to keep them all nujder- 

 ately strouR, makiuRa new swarm as of ten as tho 

 old ones are strouR enouRh to spare onouRh frames 

 of l)eeH, brood, and honey to till another hive. Oh! 

 I'm Rlad I'm in this army of -bee-keepers, before 

 which there are yet so many " unrealized possibili- 

 ties." W. Z. HUTt;illNS()N. 



nogcrsville, Genesee Co., Mich. 



HOKEV M'UICK1> IIN <;LA$S JAKS AND 

 UULIi-fiil.ASISKS 



PJll E Apiary ; or, Jkcs, Bee-hives, and Bee 



(hdtiirc, IS the tille of ii book by Alfred 



— ' Neiglibour, of U\o, linn of Neijiliboiif 

 & Sons, JjOiidon, EiiiJ^huul. The book is 

 beautifully printed on line j)aper, and illus- 

 trated with some very l\w enj^raAinj^s. The 

 copperplate v)ictures of the queen, worker, 

 and drone, iinished iu colors, is perhaps the 

 liiaest work of any thinj.; UKide in the line 

 anywhere on the face of the earth. The 

 book contains over S5U pp., and, were it not 

 for the recent inconvenient fashion of charg- 



iiig duties on books sent by mail, w^e might 

 off(!r it at the same price as the A 15 C. As 

 it is, we van not have it mailed to you for 

 less than about i?].7.'3. Well, although tliis 

 book is hardly up to the times as we do 

 things here inAmerica, being i)ublished in 

 1878, it lias many good things in it; and 

 among them is "a rather shallow circular 

 glass dish, lilled with comb honey. The fol- 

 lowing extracts are from pp. 2(jli— 2()4 : — 



UFAAjOhASiKS. 



Of tlie Stricter bell-form rounded at tlie top, we 

 have three sizes:— 



Til conliiiii 1(1 lbs., 10 inclicM liik'li. 7 inches wide. 

 'I'o (■oiiliiiii lliM., 7 inchi'.-* liiRh, •'iVv' inrhcH wido. 

 To rdiiliiin :) Win., f) luilics liiuli, 4 inclios wide. 



These bell-Rlasses are used in the hives before de- 

 scriited. The larRcst is fur Nutt's hivt;; the middle- 

 sized is for our improved cottaRC hive; tlie smiill- 

 est Riass isso very smtiil that it is not ()ften used, 

 and we do not recommend it. Bees will Rencrally 

 tut a mlddle-aizcd Rlass quite as soon as one so small 

 as this. 



Th(! next flRures exhibit what are known ns " Tay- 

 lor's Uiasses." They were introduced by Mr. Tay- 



lor, and arc recommended as preferable to deep 

 narrow rIiisscs. The drawinR^ will show that they 

 are straight at thi^ sides, flat jit the top, with a knol) 

 abov(\ to take hohl by, throoRh which is a hulf-ineh 

 openinRlo admit a ventilatiiiR tube. Tho larRor, to 

 contain perhaps twenty pounds, is six inches deep 

 and thir«(*en inches wide; the smaller, Ave inches 

 de'p and nine »nd a half inches wide. 



The late Mr. .1. H. Payne, of Burv St. Edmunds, 

 author of the " Uee-keeper's Guide." introduced an- 

 other RlasH, called '• Payne's Glass," accordingly. It 

 has a three-inch hole in the center, th(< purpose of 

 which is to tempt bees to produce additional and 

 larRor stores of honey. It is to bo used as follows: 

 When a bell-Rlass (which must be smaller in diam- 

 eter than Payne's) is half or (piite lillec), raise it, and 

 l)lace Payne's jjlass over the holc^ of t\w stock hive, 

 with the lilled Rlass on it, over the three-inch hole. 

 The bees will l)rinR thiMr coml)s throuRh, and thus 

 Mr. I'ayne found that they would store more honey 

 than if tlu! b(>ll-Rlass were removed and another 

 empty one i)ut in its place. 



Tho "Flat-topped Glass" is a super to be placed 



on tho hivo In a similar way to tlio bell glasses al- 

 ready allud(<d to. It has tlie advantaRcs of being 

 straiRht at the side*. Hat at top, and withouta knob; 

 so that when tilled it may l)el)rouRhton to tho break- 

 fast table, inverted, on a plate. The glass lid shown 

 in tho figure forms a cover, and fits over outside so 



