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GLEANINGS m BEE CULTUEE. 



Aug. 



A 54-LB. SECTION. 



If you will split your section boxes in two, and 

 hang 8 of them in a brood-frame over the brood-nest, 

 without any separators, I believe you will get Va-lb. 

 sections without any trouble or fussing. I intend to 

 try some. G. W. Forman. 



Ripley, O., July 3, 1883. 



[Thanks, friend F. ; but they would not be in shape 

 to ship handily; nevertheless, I thank j'oii for the 

 suggestion, for something may grow out of it. 

 Friend Muth rather advocates thin comb sections.] 



Please send me a Clark smoker. I ought to have 

 ordered it last Saturday with some other things, but 

 thought I could not afford it, till the bees stung my 

 nose for blowing fire on them from punk, as they 

 had a right to do. Rev. J. M. Smith. 



Old Mission, Mich., July 3, 1883. 



[It seems to me, friend S., it would not be very 

 convenient for one of your calling to be obliged to 

 go before his people with a disfigured countenance, 

 and most especially with a swollen nose. I wish we 

 might all learn to take such things as philosophical- 

 ly as you seem to do, and say, when stung, the fault 

 is ours for our mismanagement.] 



" NOTHING BUT LEAVES. " 



My bees have wintered well on summer stands, 

 having been packed up warmly with dry leaves last 

 fall, and are now doing well in spite of our back- 

 ward spring. 



RED POLLEN FROM THE HORSE-CHESTNUT. 



On page 281, June Gleanings, Wm. Malone asks 

 from whence his bees get a dark-red pollen. For the 

 past week mine have been bringing in a great deal 

 of that color from the horse-chestnut (^F.sculus hip- 

 pocastanum), of which there are quite a number of 

 trees in the vicinity of my hives. 11. L. Rand. 



Boston, Mass., June 13, 1883. 



QUEENS LAYING IN SECTIONS, AND EUROPEAN 

 LINDEN. 



My few bees (9 stands) are working finely. I have 

 trouble in keeping queens from laying in sections. 

 Bees are working on white clover and European lin- 

 den. H. H. LiTTELL. 



Louisville, Ky., June 19, 1883. 



[Friend L., will you please tell us if your queens 

 laid in sections having tin separators on, and also if 

 they were at the sides, or over the brood-nest? Will 

 you te'il us, too, if the European linden blossoms be- 

 fore the American, and about how long before? 

 You see, I am full of questions this morning.] 



PRETTY GOOD AVOIfK FOR A QUKKN. 



The queen which you sent to me in April, I intro- 

 duced after the prescribed mannei', and it was very 

 successfully done. She is the best laying queen I 

 ever had. The hive into which I put her contained 

 but two or three hundred l)ees, and produced, 33d of 

 June, a very nice swarm. E. A. Rocker. 



Havana, Mason Co., III., July 5, 1883. 



[We find the above was a hybrid queen sent friend 

 R., April 18th. She must, therefore, have brought 

 two or three hundred bees up to the swarming- 

 point, in about 60 days. This is pretty fair work, 

 unless there was brood in the hive that kept hatch- 

 ing out, day by day, which was very likely the case.] 



MAKING good ACCIDENTAL LOSSES, ETC. 



Being somewhat discouraged at J. L. Hiatt's suc- 

 cess in getting a queen, I wrote to others; l)ut since 

 learning that you sent him another, I think it may 



be that you wish to do an honorable business; and, 

 therefore, inclosed you will find one dollar for a 

 queen. Francis M. Smith. 



Chester Hill,' Ohio, July 1, 1883. 



[Do j'ou not see, friends, how much depends on 

 the spirit you show, in trying to bear these losses 

 where it often seems a question as to who was at 

 fault?] 



m 



mbaem mlumn. 



WILL write to you soon, and tell how, through 

 your Tobacco Column and the goodness of 

 God, I overcame the appetite for tobacco, aft- 

 er using it for fifteen years, and then sent and paid 

 for my smoker with the money I have usually spent 

 for tobacco. May God bless you and all other good 

 people everywhere. T. C. Willis. 



East Rochester, O., June 39, 1883. 



While perusing the Tobacco Column, I came to 

 the conclusion that I would not be a slave to the 

 weed any longer. I have used it for three j'ears, 

 more or less, but now I have quit it entirely. 



R. B. Howard. 



Salisbury, Add. Co., Vt., June 19, 1883. 



May the Lord be praised, friend II., for 

 another name added to the list, and may he 

 help you to hold fast when the time of trial 

 comes. 



As you say you will make a present of a smoker 

 to any man who is in the habit of smoking, if you 

 please, send me one, and away goes my pipe and to- 

 bacco. John Ruckle. 



Markhams, Catt. Co., N. Y., June 8, 1883. 



With all my heart, friend 11.; and remem- 

 ber, if yon ever i^ut another pipe between 

 yovir lips, you owe us that little 75 cents. Of 

 course, I do not know what you will do, but 

 the eye of the kind Father above is ever on 

 you, and it is before him you stand, and to 

 him you are accountable. 



It is .iust one year ago to-day since I formed the 

 resolution to quit the use of tobacco. I went into 

 your Tobacco Column one month later, and I have 

 kept my pledge, and mean to still keep it. 1 used 

 the weed for about 35 years, and was almost a slave 

 to it. I had often trial to quit before, but it ended 

 in a victory for tobacco. I am satisfied that taking 

 the pledge publicly, us I did through Gf.eanino.'*, 

 was a great help to me, and 1 know that any one 

 can quit who will just think so. J. H. Eby. 



North Robinson, Crawford Co., O., July 5, 1883. 



,V short lecture by one who " OUGHT TO KNOW." 



Well, 'tis 4 months the 13th of this month since I 

 tasted tobacco in any shape; have not got over the 

 hankei ing after it, though, but am not going to buy 

 any, nor beg nor steal. I won't have it — no, sir, *ee ; 

 glad I'm boss, I tell you. I feel better, more sense, 

 clearer mi nd, no vertigo. Well, the fact is, I'm con- 

 siderable of a man in feeling; rid of that nasty, 

 filthy, mean, dirty, stinking, besmearing habit. I 

 can go into anybody's house, or a meeting-house, 

 without leaving a nasty, filthy mai"k; but, enough; 

 for it is sickening to think how filthy wo are. 



Jno. H. Daniel. 



Cumberland, Guernsey Co., O., June 15, 1883, 



