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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



.Sei't. 



CANDIED NEW HONEY, AGAIN. 



flELL mo what is best to do with honey that has 

 sugared in the comh. All the honey jiather- 

 ' ' ed in the past five or six weeks has done so, 

 and there is no such thing as extracting- it, so tar as 

 I know. If you will take the troul>le to give me 

 some information as to what is best to do, you will 

 very greatly oblige— J. L. Waue. 



Terry, Miss., July 34, 18S3. 



I can suggest nothing better than to have 

 the bees work it up in making new colonies, 

 as I have said before. If any one else can 

 give a suggestion, let him stand up and 

 speak. What shall we do with this new 

 kind of honey, that candies as fast as stored 

 in the combs V 



A TURNING-LATHE IMPKO VISED ON A lOOT-POWEH 

 SAW. 



Some having foot-power saws might like to turn 

 small things like washers for wabbling saws, or the 

 like. It can be done in this way: Take off your saw, 

 put on the collar, bore a hole in the wood you wish 

 to turn, just large enough so you can screw it on to 

 the thread of your arbor. Fix your rest, and you 

 are all right to turn. D. S. Bassett. 



Farnumsville, Worcester Co., Mass., July 11, 1882. 



Thanks for the suggestion, friend B. We 

 turn our telephone heads in much the same 

 way, but it had not before occurred to me 

 that the Barnes foot-power saw might be 

 used for turning such articles, until you 

 mentioned it. 



HOW THEY DO IN ARKANSAS. 



I've just finished taking honey for this season, and 

 I thought 1 would let you know what I have done. I 

 commenced this spring with six stands, and have 

 extracted about 400 lbs., and increased to 10, besides 

 six I let go to the woods. I had no iilace to put them, 

 as I had about as many as I wanted, any way. 



The wintering problem don't bother us here, as it 

 never gets cold enough to freeze bees, even in the 

 most exposed places. If they have plenty of hone.v 

 in the fall, they will always come out all right in the 

 spring. H. C. Bethel. 



Poteau, Scott Co., Ark., July 38, 1883. 



Letting the bees go to the woods because 

 you have got as many as you want, is a rath- 

 er queer way to do, it seems to me, friend B. 

 AVe should not think it sound up here in the 

 North. 



QUEENS GOING INTO THE SECTIONS, AND A CAUSE 

 SUGGESTIOI). 



In August Gleanings, H. H. Littell complains of 

 his queens laying in sections; and from the ques- 

 tions you ask, I judge any information on the sub- 

 ject would be acceptable. We, too, have some 

 trouble of that kind, but it is caused by not allowing 

 drone comb enough In the brood-chamber to suit 



them, 80 they build It in from two to four sections 

 in the center, over the brood-nest, and raise drones. 

 I have seen very little worker brood in sections. 

 There were tin separators on the frames. 



You may be right in your reason for queens 

 laying in the sections, and sevenil have de- 

 cided on using only worker fdn. in the sec- 

 tions, because the queen was more apt to 

 put ill brood, when drone comb was built. 



KOUL 1!]?001). 



I have long wished to ask a question iu regard to 

 foul brood. If sealed or unsealed l)rocd is killed by 

 not having bees enough to keep it warm, will it 

 cause the disease called " foul brood," if left in the 

 hivesy Bees are doing pretty Avell this summer. 



Mrs. p. p. Cobb. 



Middleville, Barry Co., Mich., Aug. 1, 1883. 



I do not think it possible that dead brood 

 can ever originate the disease foul brood ; 

 and, if I mistake not, both friend Muth and 

 Prof. Cook hold to the same. See back vol- 

 umes. 



COMB -BUILDING, ETC. 



It is said by some of our mien, that bees do not 

 make any comb after the 10th of July. Sourwood is 

 now in full bloom; this makes our best honey. 



C. Watson. 



Yanceyville, Caswell Co., N. C, July 11, 1?8J. 



The saying you mention, friend W., is 

 simply a relic of old times. Bees build 

 comb'whenever they get honey; and if the 

 honey-yield closes about the luth of July, 

 there would not be any more comb built. 

 Nowadays we have comb built, and rear 

 queens, any month in the year when we 

 choose, by supplying the needed requisites 

 artificially. 



IMPORTANCE OP KEEPING A " SHARP LOOKOUT." 



Bees are doing finely here now, but I came near 

 losing all of mine this spring. On the 35th of May 

 we had a killing frost. Up to that time my bees 

 were stronger than I ever had them that early in the 

 spring. They had consumed pretty nearly all their 

 stores, and the frost came killing nearly every thing 

 in the tender vegetable line, such as beans, pota- 

 toes, corn. etc. My bees were in such fine condi- 

 tion, and I so busy at other farm matters, and 

 feeling pretty blue over the cold rainy weather, 

 to tell you the truth I nearly forgot them; but acci- 

 dentally I went out among them, and found at the 

 entrance of most of the hives at least one gallon to 

 one and a half of dead bees, while many starving, 

 stupid bees could be seen crawling out of the hives, 

 never to return. It being miles to town, I started 

 out, however, after sugar, and soon revived my liv- 

 ing Italians. But they are just beginning to swarm 

 up to date, and I can not govern their swarming 

 fever by adding surplus room. B. F. Curdy. 



New Cambria, Macon Co., Mo., July 33, 1883. 



AN A B C SCHOLAR IN A LlIiEMMA. 



We want some information badlv. We received 

 our queens of you, and introdu.'ed them to three 

 frames and some bees out of one of our black hives, 

 and put them in, and they went to work all right, 

 and got very strong, and in two or three weeks they 

 swarmed, and we hi^cd them all right, and in look- 

 ing through them we found it to be the same old 

 queen you sent us. We then went back to the old 

 hive, and there we found a fine large queen-cell, and 



