1882 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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THE NEW JONES HONEY LABELS. 



Our Jones labels are at hand and we can send them 

 at the following- prices: — 



I Piicc I Pos- 1 Printing Address 



THE NATIONAL CONVENTION. 



I EXPECT to be at the convention at Cincinnati 

 from Oct. 'Id to .51 h, and I shall bring aljng one of the 

 new $25.00 fdn. mills, the now folding tent, and some 

 other things that I think may interest the brethren. 

 As you will have an opportunity to visit the Exposi- 

 tion as well as the convention, it may be worth the 

 while to have a grand rally of the bee-men. I shall 

 also bring our apparatus for melting wax by steam, 

 which can aljo bf? used for boiling liquids, drying 

 fniit, or any other purpose of heating by means of 

 steam. 



" THINKETH NO EVIL." 



There is one form of uncharitableness that we 

 often meet in business, that I would like to direct 

 attention to. It is a sort of hasty and inconsiderate 

 way of thinking people guilty, where a little reflec- 

 tion ought to convince one of his mistake, before 

 going a great way. In condemning his fellow-men. 

 Christian people, I believe, have less of it, but still 

 they are, many of them, guilty with the rest. It is 

 among our own clerks, as well as customers, and it 

 seems to be one of Satan's strongest wiles to get 

 friends by the ears, as well as strangers. I will give 

 you a few cases. A man reports some part of his 

 goods missing. As the clerk remembers distinctly 

 of putting the missing part in, he accuses him of 

 wanting to get more for nothing, while a little re- 

 flection should have shown it was a mistake or mis- 

 understanding, and no dishonesty about it. A 

 stone-mason's tools were missing, and the black- 

 smith who sharpened them was accused of stecilino 

 them. The blacksmith, although quick-tempered, 

 perhaps, would no more steal than he would try to 

 fly; and besides, what would he want of a stone-ma- 

 son's tools, any wjy? A customer of ours bought a 

 $40 lot of goods of us; and although the great bulk 

 of them was quite satisfactory, he accused us of in- 

 tentional swindling, because a few bags of maple- 

 sugar candy were hardly fit to throw away. Exam- 

 ination showed they had somehow got wet, and re- 

 flection should have decided that no man in his 

 senses would hav^e tried to swindle on a 5-centbagor 

 box of candy, when the rest of the order was more 

 than worth the money the}' cost. Even though our 

 Waterbury watches are all carried before thej' are 

 sent out, we occasionally find one will fail, in a few 

 da5's, as all other watches are liable to do. Of course 

 we expect these returaed; but once in a while some- 

 body takes it for granted that because his watch 

 stopped, all Waterbury watches stop, and that we 

 recommend watches that stop every few days, or 

 may be several times a day. The same might be 

 said of queens, and many other things that are lia- 

 ble to disappoint and vex one. The moral of this 

 little sermon, friends, is that you be not in a hurry 

 to decide you have been purposel.y wronged. Do 

 you not know that we each and all of us love and re- 

 spect that kind charity that " thinketh no evil " ? 



" REMINDERY." 



THE BREAD-PAN FEEDER. 



fF this comes in time, I think you would confer a 

 great favor on us A B C class by describing the 

 — ' bread-pan feeder. F. Minnich. 



Freedom, Wis., Sept. 0, 18S2. 



Willi all my 

 heart, friend M. 

 It is simply an 

 oblong bread pan 

 holding about 2 

 quarts, as shown. 



It can be set in Ihe hive at the side of the 

 combs, or where there is an upper story, on 

 top of the frames. Our bees are just now in 

 Simplicity and chaff hives. As the Simplic- 

 ities are, for the most part, colonies that are 

 to be united, we first get out all combs con- 

 taining no stores. This brings them down to 

 from four to six combs remaining. Well, a 

 bread-pan is set on the bottom-board, close 

 up against the outside comb, so the bees can 

 run down the comb, right into the pan. 

 When placed in this way, some colonies will 

 take all the syrup without a bee drowning,, 

 even if no cloth is put over the pan ; but as 

 others will rush right into it and drown, 

 we think it safer to spread a small piece of 

 cheese cloth (or other thin cloth) over each 

 pan . This makes a strong foothold for them 

 to get out and in. Set your extractor on the 

 wheelbarrow, and put in 100 lbs. of granu- 

 lated sugar, or more. Pour in boiling water 

 until it is about the consistency of honey 

 when stirred. The amount of water does not 

 matter. When it gets too thick, put in 

 more. Wait until about sundown, then 

 wheel your syrup right along by the hives, 

 and fill up the pans. You can hold them un- 

 der the honey-gate to fill, or fill a coffee-pot, 

 and fill the pans from that. Have your smo- 

 ker on the wheelbarrow, so you can quickly 

 get the bees out of the way when they are 

 numerous. As your pan will hold about 5 

 lbs., not many feedings will be required to 

 get them in winter trim. After you get the 

 four or five combs filled so as to bulge with 

 sealed stores, take the queen from one, and 

 unite two of them. The uniting is simply 

 setting the two colonies into one chaff hive. 

 Do it when too cool for them to fly, watch- 

 ing a little to see if they show any disposi- 

 tion to figlit ; if they do, make them behave 

 with the smoker. It is a very simple opera- 

 tion to unite two colonies. After uniting, 

 put away your empty Simplicity hives in 

 good order until next summer. Ilave your 

 apiary look as neat in the fall and winter as 

 it does at any time of the year. I prefer the 

 bread-pan feeder to any other, because it is 

 so cheap — enough feeders for a hundred 

 colonies costing only $4..j0 ; also because 

 they can be washed in hot water, and nested 

 together so that the whole hundred can be 

 stowed away until another season, without 

 taking up any room of any account. 



Be careful about giving one colony so 

 heavy a feed at any other time than just be- 

 fore sundown (when it is warm enough for 

 the bees to fly), or you may have robbmg on 

 a large scale. After they have got used to 

 it so they won't get demoralized, and let rob- 

 bers get in unhindered, you may be able to 



