1882 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



381 



else, to make them go out and gather honey. 

 Sometimes a large new swarm will cluster 

 on the outside instead of going in and going 

 to work. Make them go to work ; they will 

 often earn nearly as much as you can, in the 

 tirst few days they are hived in early part of 

 basswood bloom. Always have one or more 

 hives in readiness, to putunexpected swarms 

 in, and when you put them in give them a 

 comb of unsealed brood containing but little 

 honey. Make every colony grow just as you 

 would make a cabbage-plant or hill of corn 

 grow, by the best care you could give it. If 

 you haven't a queen laying eggs in every 

 hive, give the hive a few eggs or larva? every 

 three or four days, until they have a queen 

 of their own laying eggs. Never have a 

 good queen without a good lot of bees with 

 her, and never have a good lot of bees with- 

 out a good queen with them. If some hive 

 has to remain queenless, let it be a weak 

 colony rather than a strong one. I know 

 that some have recommended taking the 

 queen away from a powerful colony while 

 they were storing comb honey; but my ex- 

 perience has been, that it would tend to stop 

 their work, although they might accumulate 

 a good deal of honey, having no brood to 

 feed and care for. You can try it, if you 

 wish, but don't try it on many to commence 

 with. 



If you wish increase, take all the after- 

 swarms you can tind in the neighborhood. 

 Give them some combs and an Italian queen; 

 feed them when honey stops, and they may 

 be your very best before winter. Be watch- 

 ful, be busy, be earnest, be true. 



GIEAKIWG S m BEE COITUBE. 



A.. I- Il-OOT", 

 EDITOR AND FUBLISHEB, 



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For the preaching of the cross is to them that per- 

 ish, foolishness; but unto us which are saved, it is 

 the power of God.— I. Cor. 1:18. 



Honey is now coming from clover moderately. 



We have now, this 2Tth day of June, 4797 subscrib- 

 ers and 385 colonies of bees. 



Our number of queen-rearing colonies will soon 

 be increased to 500, and wo hope to be able to rear 

 the greater part of the Queens we send out. As 

 there is not a black or hybrid queen among the 

 whole, we have a reasonable hope that nearly all 

 may prove purely mated. 



Should any be disposed to complain that I have, 

 in the Home Papers of the present number, taught 

 that a woman should fear her husband, I reply by 

 saying I would advise the same course for a man 

 who has a wife addicted to any bad habit. Meeli- 

 ness and gontleneS3 are far rcmovei from cow- 

 ardice. 



When you have had a correspondence in regard 

 to certain goods, and then afterward make an or- 

 der, be sure you refer to this previous correspond- 

 ence; for unless you do so, we shall know nothing 

 about it. Please bear in mind, that although your 

 whole correspondence is carefully tiled away with 

 our multitudes of letters, it is about out of tho 

 question to remember any thing unless you in some 

 way allude to it, or call attention to it, that it may 

 be looked up. Many troubles have come up because 

 of a failure to do this. 



Pounds or half-pounds of bees, containing queens, 

 shovUd not bo released on old combs, unless there 

 be among them at least one comb containing 

 unsealed brood, or there is quite a danger of their 

 decamping before the queen gets to laying; there- 

 fore, if you have no bees of your own, and can get 

 none of near neighbors, you had better buy at least 

 one c-omb of brood along with your tirst lot. After 

 this you will always have at least one comb to spare, 

 containing the young larva?, so necessary to hold 

 any of these little colonies. 



LOOK OUT FOR THE RED ANTS. 



Be careful how you leave caged queens where 

 ants may get at them. Last season the boys lost 

 quite a number of imported queens by leaving them 

 in a hive containing no bees until they could get 

 ready to introduce them. In just a few hours the 

 little red ants had got at the cages, and the queens 

 were dead. Notwithstanding this experience, two 

 dollar queens wore left in a similar place last night, 

 and this morning both were dead. If these ants are 

 in your house, place your caged queens on a stand 

 having its four legs in as many dishes of water, or 

 your queens will " go dead." I do not really under- 

 stand why ants are so fatal; but there are some 

 postoffices where queens are killed by the ants al- 

 most every time they go there. 



OUR NEW FOUNDATION MILL. 



Since our improvement in comb-fdn. mills, wo 

 have sold 26 of the 10-inch $25.00 mills. The cell, al- 

 though similar to it, is by no means the Dunham 

 cell. While we have trouble almost every day with 

 one of the best Dunham nickel-plated mills, the fdn. 

 comes out of our own, either thick or thin, with 

 hardly a hindrance from morning imtil night, and 

 the rolls rarely if ever need picking out. Tho wax 

 roils so much easier, we have dispensed with the 

 back-gear, and use only a long crank directly on tho 

 shaft of the roll. Although friend Hayhurst seldom 

 speaks strongly, he came pretty nearly doing so 

 when he wrote the following :— 



I am ill ivceipt of :i 1-11). iiackatce of the most beautiful foun- 

 dation I ever saw. It is annost i)erfect. As I liave ordered no 

 foundation from otliei- parties, I inter that it comes from you. 



Kansas City, Mo., May t;:i, 188-'. E. M. H.WIIIHST. 



We have been trying to get some mills ahead, so 

 as to keep them in stock ready to ship, but haven't 

 succeeded yet. 



We have had a roar of business, I tell you; and of 

 late, some pretty strong complaints have been re- 

 ceived; and it is most agreeable to my eyes to see 

 the clerk's blue pencil-marli across each complaint, 

 saying, " Goods gone." I know it would be better to 

 have the goods (joiic before there could be a time for 

 such comphtint; but remember, friends, you do not 

 choose to send orders very much before there is ev- 

 idence there is going to bo a need of them, and why 

 can you blame us so very much for not wishing to 

 invest a great amount of money before we know 



