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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July 



a fair little colouy, and are doing well, bringing in 

 pollen. Nobody knew where they came from, nor 

 saw them till they hung on that iron fence. I be- 

 lieve they starved out some plac3. Quite a number 

 of bees have been lost since that warm spell the first 

 part of April, by starvation. 



Geo. L. Hollenbach. 

 Noblesville, Ind., May 19, 18?2. 

 I have before remarked, that there is some- 

 thing strangely fascinating in taking and 

 caring for these truant swarms. You see, 

 friend II. sold a good colony for .$12.00, and 

 then picked up this one, that perhaps no one 

 in his neighborhood would think of taking 

 as a gift, and yet, with a frame of brood and 

 a little feed, they will soon be worth just as 

 much as the one he sold. These truant 

 swarms are found almost everywhere, sooner 

 or later, near where bees are kept, and it 

 will pay to have an extra hive in readiness, 

 to give them a pleasant home whenever they 

 make their appearance. 



WITH AVHAT MEASURE YOU METE, IT SHALti BE 

 MEASURED TO YOU AGAIN. 



Quite often ] hear, " Mr. Root, you have 

 more faith in humanity than 1 have.'' I 

 have sometimes wondered if there is not a 

 good deal in taking humanity right. AVe 

 sent an extractor to the friend below, and 

 he replied that it came with the casting bro- 

 ken. As I should not like to get a broken 

 machine myself, I judged he would not, and 

 so I sent him a new piece, saying there 

 would be no charge. See what he says :— 



The arm to extractor, and your postal, received all 

 right, with the exception of your not taking pay for 

 the former. I want you to take your pay like a man, 

 and not be afraid to take what rightfully belongs to 

 you. Yours with respect,— Orem Dipes. 



Fulton, Owego Co., N. Y., May, 1883. 



Is it not a pleasure to have your business 

 transactions turn out that way V and is there 

 not something fair and generous in human- 

 ity, when you draw it out by being fair and 

 generous yourself V 



LEAVING THE HONEY-BOXES ON ALL WINTER. 



I have lost 3 out of 30; one starved, one died with 

 dysentery, and the other, I think, had too much up- 

 ward ventilation. I left broad frames filled with 

 sections in the upper story for an experiment, but 

 don't care to try it again. 



HONEY FROM CORN. 



Since reporting last August that my bees were 

 gathering honey from corn, I have noticed quite a 

 controversy on the matter in the bee journals. Now, 

 I do not wish to say whether they do or do not get 

 honey from corn in all latitudes; but for the last 

 two years they certainly have gathered it here, and 

 from the tassels. I have watched them closely, and 

 find that they alight on the tassel, and walk ai-ound 

 over it, tonguing the blossoms. The corn I raise is 

 known as the Early Ohio Dent. They also get a large 

 amount of pollen from the tassel. M. D. York. 



Millington, Mich., April 17, 1882. 



MOVING BEES IN WARM WEATHER. 



Perhaps it would not be out of place to tell how I 

 moved bees 7 miles the 3d of April. The roads were 

 rough, but ray bees arrived all right, I took and put 



the double box on the wagon, filled the first box with 

 straw, set ray bees on the straw, and then packed 

 them around with straw. They rode as nicely as 

 you please, and they are doing well. 



THE GREEN-CORN INDUSTRY. 



I see in June Gleanings, p. 374, an article headed, 

 "Corn Industry," and " A Cheap Evaporator Want- 

 ed." I have planted some corn, and am going to use 

 the Teasdale fruit evaporator, a cut of which I in- 

 close you with this letter. There are a great many 

 used here, and are liked very much. There are dif- 

 ferent sizes; the one that I have is 18x28 inches, and 

 takes 10 frames; capacity, 1 bushel of apples. It is 

 the largest family size — rather too large for a stove. 

 They make them smaller, and also larger for arches. 

 There was one run in Howell last fall, that kept 10 

 or 15 hands at work all the time. The price of the 

 one I have is, or was last fall, $20.00. I think they 

 have them for $10.00 about one-half as large. They 

 arc, and no mistake, the best thing out for a farmer 

 or bee-keeper. If you want further explanations, 

 write to F. N. Monroe & Son, Ilowell, Mich. 



THE SWARMING-BOX. 



I have used the swarming-box, and find it to be the 

 "boss" thing. Lynn Andrews. 



Howell, Mich., June 5, 1882. 



AFFAIRS IN UTAH, AND HOW THEY CURED FOUL 

 BROOD. 



Our bees have wintered poorly; many empty 

 hives this spring, but plenty of honey. We have had 

 six months hard winter weather this s:ason,andit 

 has been snowing steadily all day tc-day. Many bees 

 have died this spring; on an average our loss has 

 been over one-half of all the bees in the county. I 

 have 102 colonies alive, but if winter continues 

 many months longer I do not know how many will 

 be left alive. I have 48 dead, and no foul brood in 

 the county, to my knowledge. Thanks be to our 

 legislature and county court for appointing a bee 

 inspector, with authority to see it destroyed. 



Being the County Bee Inspector, I have visited al- 

 most all the apiaries within the last two years. Last 

 season the honey harvest was extra good in most lo- 

 calities; honey being abundant, prices were low, 

 and many bee-keepers did not take as much out of 

 the hives as they should have done, therefore the 

 brood-chamber was crowded with honey, and no 

 empty cells for the queen to use to keep up the 

 strength of the colony; hence weak stocks this 

 spring were one of the causes of our losses with 

 bees. George B. Bailey. 



Mill Creek, Salt Lake Co., Utah, April 17, 1883. 



HOW NEAR WILL IT BE SAFE TO PERMIT BLACK 

 STOCKS? 



I have 13 very powerful stocks of bees, one-half 

 pure Italians from Oliver Foster, and the rest hy- 

 brids. Now, I think this a good location for rear- 

 ing queens for market. There are no bees within 

 l?i miles, and but 6 or 8 swarms within 3 miles. 

 Now, to make a sure thing of purity of queens, how 

 far from here shall I have to Italianize the neigh- 

 bors' bees? 



A MYSTERY; WHERE DID THE EGGS COMB FROM? 



This summer I wished to raise a few queens, so I 

 sent to a friend for some larvte to start queen-cells. 

 It was received in the morning. The day before it 

 came, one of my strongest stocks swarmed. While 

 clustered, I looked the hive over, removed all the 



