1882 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



513 



*j^EES have gone crazy. My last swarm came out 

 Mm Monday, Sept. 11, being the fourth swarm this 

 month. This has been the best honey season 

 we have had for twenty years. Swarms hived from 

 the Ist to the middle of August are now in good con- 

 dition for wintering. So mueh gained by vising foun- 

 dation, with a little help from strong colonies. 



I. O. Miles. 

 Bellville, Richland Co., O., Sept. 13, 1882. 



My bees are doing better this season than I ever 

 had them before. E. A. Sheldon. 



Independence, Buchanan Co., la., Sept. 7, 1882. 



Bees arc working lively on buckwheat; it is the 

 first honey they have laid in this season. 

 Baden, Mo., Aug. 29, 1882. Richard Grinsell. 



Honey crop very good; nearly an average of 100 

 lbs. per old colony, and 100 per cent increase. 



T. A. Anderson. 

 Big Spring, Mo., Sept. 6, 1883. 



We are having a good How of honey at the present 

 time, and hope to make up for the poor season. 



L. C. Whiting. 

 East Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 9, 1883. 



FOUNDATION PUT ON THE WIRES WITH A HOT IRON. 



All goods, including fdn. in wired frames, received 

 all right. A. A. Harrison. 



McLane, Erie Co., Pa., Aug. 16, 1883. 



The grocers furnish the tumblers and jars for all 

 the honey that I have this j'ear— some 400 lbs. ex- 

 tracted. J. F. Kropp. 



Varysburg, Wy. Co., N. Y., Aug. 15, 1883. 



I bought a colony last spring for $0.50; have in- 

 creased to 5; all seem to be doing well; are working 

 on buckwheat now. J. E. Tod hunter. 



New Martinsburg, O., Sept. 11, 1883. 



I carried 80 colonies (all I ha i) through the winter, 

 but reduced, by starvation, and united to TO^colo- 

 nics; have taken, up to date, .'3500 lbs., and making 

 honey as fast as ever. A. L. Klar. 



Pana, 111., Sept. 2,1883. 



smartweed. 

 Bees are still booming, and I am away behind. 

 They are still swarming, and fill an empty 10-frame 

 hive in 13 days. Smartwccd is what is doing it. 



Wm. Malone. 

 Oakley, Lucas Co., Iowa, Sept., 1883, 



not 4 LHS. to the hive. 



About 300 lbs. of honey from 65 colonies in spring, 

 and only 13 swarms. Bees are O.K. Poorest season 

 yet for me. Count Pennsylvania out this year. 



A. A. Harrison. 



McLane, Erie Co., Pa., Aug. 16, 1883. 



A good report from the poor "gyps." 

 We have had a poor honey season so far, with no 

 honey in white clover. If it had not been for red 

 raspberries, the bees would have starved in June. 

 The Cyps are ahead in all respects; they far excel 

 the Italians on red clover, and I can fully indorse 

 what B. F. Carroll says, that they are "t/icbec." 

 Mine are just as nice as the Italians. 



C. J. Haight. 

 Rush, Susq'a Co., Pa., Aug. T, 1883. 



Will you please infoim me if there is a door to go 

 into the tent described in Juvenile Gleanings for 

 August? G. H. Denman. 



Plttsford, Mich., Sept. 11, 1883. 



[No, sir. Raise it up when you want to go out. It 

 weighs only 5 pounds.] 



SYMPHOr.A CARPUS — P.EE-PLANT. 



My bees are as busy to-day, Sept. 11, on the sjm- 

 phora as they were eight weeks ago, although buck- 

 wheat, Simpson, aster, and goldenrod are each in 

 order. I tell you, I have as strong faith in the sym- 

 phora in particular as A. I. Root has in mankind in 

 general. G. W. Tn()MP.?ON. 



Stelton, Middlesex Co., N. J., Sept., 1883. 



THE GOOD CANDY. 



I send you a black queen, taken from a bee-tree, 

 by this mail, "just to try my luck" at sending 

 queens a distance. The price will be a postal, stat- 

 ing how she arrives, etc. The Good candy is the 

 best I have seen. Geo. E. Davis. 



Shelburne Falls, Mass., Sept. 9, 1883. 



[Queen and workers came to hand in excellent 

 order. We have had no bad reports, and no bad 

 luck with the sugar and honey as yet.] 



SUMAC. 



Seeing a communication from Mr. Thorn, of West 

 Virginia, I took the liberty to answer it. Sumac is 

 almost a "dead sure" thing as regards honey. 

 What honey we have this year came almost wholly 

 from it. These N. E. hills are covered with it, and 

 it is i-egarded in the light of a pest. It spreads very 

 rapidly, and in about the same manner as the elder. 

 It is very singular yours does not bloom. The only 

 one here who regards it with loving eyes is the bee- 

 keeper. Frank A. Tickon. 



Oxford, N. H. Co., Conn., Sept. 13, 1883. 



the 35c magnifier, for finding EGGS IN the 



CELLS. 



I would say the magnifying-glass helps me clearly 

 to see the eggs as soon as the queens get to laying'. 

 I now see what I have never seen before. 



When is the best time to move a swarm of bees, 

 now or later? 



Fayette, O., Sept. 18, 1882. H. B. Pomeroy. 



[It depends upon how far you are going to move 

 the bees, friend P. If over three miles, at once; if 

 much less, wait until it is so cool they will stop fly- 

 ing, or they may come back to their old home.] 



AVHEN to feed. 



Please inform me at what time I ought to feed 

 bees when supplies arc scarce. Bees have done bet- 

 ter in this country this year than I ever heard of. 

 J. M. Richardson. 



Leona, Leon Co., Tex., Aug. 28, 1883. 



[it depends on what you wish to do with them, 

 friend R. If you want to increase your number of 

 stocks, or even to increase the number of bees in a 

 hive, feed always when supplies are scarce, and the 

 bees can fly. If you want honey, you must have 

 bees to get it, and I never saw too many bees in a 

 hive, for the work we use them for.] 



