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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUKE. 



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On page 18G of the Scioitific American for March 

 25, there appears an article on partheno-genesis, 

 claiming that wc bee-keepers have been making a 

 great mistake in supposing the queen meets the 

 drone on the wing, etc, As the winding-up of it is to 

 the effect that there is no such thing as u fertile 

 worker, the rggrs having remained in the hive over 

 winter, atid then hat died in the sprino, etc., it is hard- 

 ly worthy of comment. Messrs. Munn & Co., you 

 may be too much at home in mechanics to be fooled 

 by Keely motors, but you certainly are ignorant in 

 regard to the present advanced state of bee culture, 

 or you would not have given place in your columns 

 to such as the above. 



KEVEUSIKLE FKAMES. 



The subject of turning brood-frames upside down 

 is being agitated; and it is now claimed that, by so 

 doing at the right time, the bees can be made to 

 carry the greater part of their surplus (in the brood- 

 frames) into the boxes above; this empty space then 

 being at once filled with brood. No doubt but that 

 this can then be done; but as it destroys the ar- 

 rangement the bees have made for 'honey right 

 about their brood-nest, they will have to be fed up in 

 ample time before winter, or they may be lost in 

 consequence. It will he no difficult matter to turn a 

 Simplicity hive upside down, when the combs are 

 pretty well bridged together. Wedge the bottom- 

 bars so as to be about equally spaced, then set on 

 your ease of sections, and you have all the good re- 

 sults of a reversible frame. 



OxcE more we would caution the ABC class in re- 

 gard to odd-sized hives and frames. It will make a 

 never-ending trouble to you, and those all about 

 j'ou. Just now at this season you can order regular 

 goods of almost any manufacturer, get them at 

 once, and with no possibility of mistake in size. 

 Odd sizes must be booked, and take their turn; ex- 

 pensive help must be employed on them; machines 

 must be stopped and adjusted differently; and as it 

 is impossible to pick out the lumber to make just 

 the quantity ordered, much must be wasted in use- 

 less remnants. To send in an order now for odd- 

 sized frames is much like stopping the engineer of a 

 train on a I'oad-crossing, to ask him to give you a 

 ride of half a mile. If you can't be content with the 

 sized frames in our price list, let me make a sug- 

 gestion: Order tops and bottoms to one frame, with 

 side pieces to another. These are always in stock, 

 and J'OU can order them as regular goods. For in- 

 stance, if the L. frame is not deep enough to suit 

 you, use Gallup end-pieces; if it is too long to suit 

 you, order Adair tops and bottom-bars. As the 

 Adair frame was almost the same in width as the 

 crosswise L. frame, we have recently shortened it 

 exactly to it. From these five frames and their 

 combinations you surely can suit yourselves. 



S^VEET CORN AS A HONEY-PLANT. 



POBK AND " BEES." 



^HE great questions with bee-men are, how to 

 build up bees strong before the honey season, 

 and to give them .something to do to keep 

 them out of mischief, earn an honest living, and lay 

 by something for winter after the honey-tlowis over. 

 When I tlrst commenced with bees I had but few, and 

 raised a great deal of sweet corn, both for market 

 and to fatten pork. I would plant it at different 



times, and different varieties, so I would have green 

 corn from the 4th of July till frost came, and the 

 bees would work on both silk and tassel from morn- 

 ing till night. I never knew pollen from sweet corn 

 to make bees sick in winter; it is fall pollen, gath- 

 ered from weeds, and rotten fruit that kills the bees. 

 I do not doubt liut that Heddon cankill bees byfeed- 

 ing them raw tlour in winter. I know I can kill 

 them by feeding poor honey, without either pollen 

 or tlour. 



The way to raise sweet, or any other corn, is to 

 plant it in drills, three or four feet wide; one kernel 

 in a place, about one foot apart. In this way you 

 get an equal growth for each stalk, and no small 

 ears. Just as the corn is coming up, drag it with a 

 common harrow. You won't hurt it, and will save 

 half the cultivating. The best planter I know of is 

 the Hoosier corn-drill, as it drops the corn, distrib- 

 utes any of the commercial fertilizers, and covers It 

 all perfectly, at one operation. Like Prof. Cook, I 

 like to recommend a good thing. 



Every bee-keeper who has an opportunity should 

 plant a good-sized patch of sweet corn; and just aft- 

 er it is tit to cook, cut it up and feed to the pigs. 

 They will eat it, stallis and all; and in this way you 

 will get cheap bee feed and cheap pork. 



Medina, O., Mar. 27, 1882. H. B. Hariungton. 



Ill regard to sweet com, I know of no bet- 

 ter opening tor a great industry than raising 

 corn for drying or evaporating. Since the 

 articles we have published, we have tried to 

 find, some for sale, and at present we are 

 getting Shaker sweet corn from New York 

 city, at a cost there of i;> cts. per lb. ; and 

 even at that price it is the leading dish at 

 our lunch-room, and sells right along at 15 

 cts. at retail. The Shaker corn does not be- 

 gin to compare in richness and flavor with 

 the Mammoth sweet we have been selling 

 for so many years, and yet there is a good 

 demand at the prices I have quoted. If 

 nothing happens, I would like a ton next 

 fall, at 10 cts. per lb., providing it te equal 

 to the dried corn we put up from our Mam- 

 moth sweet. 



MARRIED. 



Lyon— Spink.— At the residence of the bride's 

 mother, March 21, 1883, by the Bev. W. B. Farrah, 

 Mr. Will C. Lyon, of St. Johns, Mich., to Miss Stella 

 G. Spink, of Medina, Ohio. 



"Twinkle, twinkle, little star." 

 When 1 jjaze uj) where you are, 

 I'lose by Leu Jlrtjur's side. 

 iTruly nuw the " Lvun's bride"; 

 Twinkle softly, theii I'll know 

 Yon still love me here below. 



-Lc. 

 As throutrh life's vast s))aeeyou move 

 In theiirbit un iuiTs love. 

 Upward, onward ever press' 

 Toward the .'■un of Uighteousness; 

 Trusting: him to light the home. 

 Where no shadows e'er .shall come. 



— Carrik and Nettu:. 

 It seems onlj- a short time ago that a shy, slender 

 little girl came to me, asking if I had not something 

 for her to do. Her beautiful penmanship, to which 

 most of our customers can bear testimony, would of 

 itself have given her a place; but it could not have 

 endeared her to all in the factory as her uniformly 

 kind and gentle ways have done, together with her 

 neatness, accuracy, and order, in all thnt was in- 

 trusted to her care. Friend Lyon. God has blessed 

 you in giving you such a partner for life. May he 

 grant that no act of yours shall ever cause her to 

 forget the Savior she accepted but a short time ago; 

 and may his blessing rest on you both until he calls 

 on j-ou to cross the dark river to that eternal light 

 beyond! "Boss." 



