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. GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July 



quantity of brood. I never saw such colonics at this 

 time of the year as our first ones are, first out of 

 cellar, and those wintered outdoors literally boiling- 

 over full, and we mean they shall have nil the honey 

 they can use until white clover. It has been so cool 

 all throiig-h apple and cherry bloom, they have gath- 

 ered but little. Sarah J. W. Axtell,. 

 Roseville, 111., May 1. 1882. 



Of course, we all know, my good friend, 

 that you do not sell the honey, just as Ave 

 know that your husband does not write the 

 good letters you give us now and then. But 

 as these letters are, much of them, of him 

 and about him, we have somehow concluded 

 you work together, without any Avoman's 

 rights or wrongs, or man's rights or wrongs 

 about it, but that you twain are one. Per- 

 haps I was the unlucky one who interposed 

 that " I." We are very glad indeed to know 

 you have so many bees, and we think you 

 are wise in having them in more than one 

 apiary. 



$dlt^^ and ^mvie^. 



DAMP CELLARS NOT ALWAYS DETRIMENTAL. 



f||HE weather has been so warm that I have taken 

 my bees out of the cellar. I find them in good 

 — ' condition, although the cellar had a foot of 

 water in it when I put them there, and it must have 

 been damp all winter. It is a clay cellar. 



N. P. Appinwall. 

 Harrison, Kandiyohi Co., Minn., Feb. 15, 1883. 



Bees doing well at the foot hills of the mountains; 

 on the plains it is dry, and no flowers. Our 40 colo- 

 nics have used over 300 lbs. of Hour. 



R. H. llHODES. 



Arvada, Jefferson Co., Col., April 8, 1883. 



I commenced the season with 13 colonies; 3 were 

 weak ones; got 895 lbs., all comb honey; brought 

 $113, for which I feel very thankful. 



I). M. Stowits. 



Beaver Dam, Schuyler Co., N. Y., Feb. 36, 18S3. 



I have 30 colonics of pure Italians. Last season I 

 sold over 100 gallons extracted, and 300 lbs. of sec- 

 tion. I had 17 colonies last spring-. 



Meles S. Pray. 



Delta, Fulton Co., O., March 4, 1883. 



wintering in caves. 



Bees came from their winter quarters in good con- 

 dition. We winter in a cave, and cover them up 

 tight like potatoes, so they never freeze. 



Fort Dodge, Iowa, May 26, 1883. T. W. Dale. 



THICK HONEY IN NEW ZEALAND. 



I have had a fair crop of honey this year, but it is 

 so thick that it will not extract; in fact, I removed 

 the sides of a cell, and the honey remained in the 

 same shape, like a jelly out of a mold. 



C. H. Thomson. 



Opotiki, Whakalane Co., N. Z., April 17, 1883. 



READY FOR BUSINESS, AND BUSINESS COMING. 



Bees arc booming. Since the 4th, my 19 colonies 

 have gathered about 4 lbs. per colony each day, of 

 surplus honey. Well, let them boom. I think I am 

 ready, with 35 empty hives and 10 young queens in 

 nucleus hives, ready for swarms. S. H. Moss. 



Colchester, 111., June 8, 1883. 



I have been taking Gleanings ever sin«;e the first 

 number, and find it takes some time to look them 

 all through to find what I could turn right to in A 

 B C. Samuel C. Ware. 



Towanda, McLean Co., HI., May 37, 1883. 



Bee? are now getting strong fast, though no honey 

 to gather yet. I had several swarms, but must feed 

 them. White clover comes in about twelve days, if 

 weather is warm. Geo. Grimm. 



Jefferson, Wis., June 1, 1SS3. 



Cold and rainy all through apple bloom, and now 

 there is nothing to be obtained by the bees. I have 

 just purchased a barrel of sugar, as ray honey is 

 equalized so there is only about 3 lbs. to the hive. 

 Next week I shall be obliged to feed, if something 

 don't yield honey. G. M. Doolittle. 



Borodino, N. Y., Juno 16, 1883. 



I have discovered that, for putting fdn. into wired 

 frames, there is nothing equal to a sewing-needle 

 with point end put into a handle and grinding off a 

 portion of the opposite end. By running this 

 creased end along on the wires it may be nicely and 

 firmly imbedded into the foundation. 



South Sutton, N. H., May 3, 188 J. F. M. Cheney. 



JONES entrance-guards — A CAUTION. 



The entrance-guards you sent a short time since 

 do not or did not answer the purpose. The queen 

 came out, and the bees swarmed as before. I ex- 

 amined, and found that the holes along the corner 

 where it is bent, became larger by bending. 1 hnm- 

 mercd them a little; think they are all rie-ht n >w. 



W'm. G. Follmer. 



Milton, Northumborhind Co., Pa., June 5, 1883. 



REPOKT in regard TO OUR FANCY SECTIONS. 



I split the stars, etc., through the middle, and put 

 foundation between, and the bce^ filled them and 

 capped over one side. The honey-liow then stopped 

 abruptly, and they did not finish them. I ptU them 

 in the body of hive. I think I should have no 

 trouble in getting the letters built out by putting 

 one below two 5x6 sections. Geo. E. Hilton. 



Fremont Center, Mich., Dec. 26, 1881. 



chaff niVE5. 



I have most of my bees in chaff hives; have not 

 lost any. The other day they had a fly ; I noticed in 

 front of the Simplicity hives three dead bees to 

 one in chaff hives. I got 79 lbs. comb honey of the 

 best Italians in chaff hive. I have engaged all my 

 honey at 30 cents per lb. 1 have .57 strong swarms, 

 and well supplied with honey, the best I. ever had. 



T. J. Elliott. 



Ashland, Ashland Co., O., Feb. 20, 1883. 



RUBBER GLOVES. 



In your circular you protest against rubber gloves. 

 Five minutes with our bees would satisfy you that 

 gloves are of some use. Bees here have the 1 >ngest 

 splinters in their terminus of any bees on the map 

 of Amcrira. I was stung twice inside of five min- 

 utes, and through the rubber gloves too. 



D. G. Waldo. 



McGraw, Warren Co., Pa , June 15, 1883. 



[Very likely, friend W., for the bees would sting 

 you with rubljer gloves on, while j'ou would not get 

 stung at all without them. Have you not proven 

 they are of no protection against the "splinters"? 

 Somehow we are doing a pretty heavy trade on 

 them, in spite of the protest however.] 



