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GLEAN12sGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 15. 



ing (and I am not sure but he was the only) 

 harness-maker in town, and bee-keeping he 

 conducted as a side issue. 



Mr. M. came from that good but cold country, 

 Sweden, and had been a resident of this coun- 

 try for only five years. He occupied a very 

 pretty residence in the edge of the town, sur- 

 rounded by trees and luxuriant foliage, and the 

 bees were in neat dovetailed hives placed here 

 and there under the trees; and. though some of 

 the hives were only a few feet frotn the street, 

 the bees were not troublesome to the neighbors. 

 Mr. M. seems to be a thorough mechanic, and 

 showed us a new kink in putting together the 

 dovetailed hive. A piece of tin Ix nt at right 

 angles, long enough and wide enough to cover 

 the ends of the dovetails, is securely nailed to 

 the corners of the hive. There was no chance 

 for sun and rain to get in their warping effects. 



Upon the date of our visit, Aug. 30, the bees 

 were working quite lively, and we were shown 

 quite a number of sections in which the bees 

 were storing a good quality of amber honey. 

 We were also shown combs nicely drawn from 

 foundation, and well filled with honey, which 

 had been inserted in the hive on the 26th, or 

 Sunday, five days previous to our examination. 



When Mr. Morley first came to this country 

 he used a hive that was in general use in Swe- 

 den. This hive was 18 inches deep, and con- 

 tained 24 frames. The latter were 14 inches 

 deep and 10 inches in length. From one of 

 these hives he secured 900 lbs. of honey. Hav- 

 ing no extractor he cut out the combs contain- 

 ing honey, on Sunday. By the next Sunday 



MORELEY'S SMOKEK. 



the bees had built new comb and filled it with 

 honey; and the cutting-out process was per- 

 formed again. The operation was continued 

 through the entire season, with the above re- 

 sults. The honey was gathered from wild sun- 



flower, and was of a bad quality. Mr. M. finds 

 a home market for his honey, selling his comb 

 honey for 25 cts. per lb., and the extracted for 

 10 cts. Mr. Pryal was pleased to be introduced 

 to a queen uf his own breeding, and showing 

 finely marked progeny. We were also intro- 

 duced to some Carniolan stock from Mrs. Ben- 

 ton, and a strain of Italians from Lockhart's 

 apiaries. Mr. Moreley had bred the Carniolans 

 in Sweden, and had much experience with both 

 races; and it was his opinion that, for business, 

 the Italians were far superior to the Carniolans. 



Mr. M.'s smoker was of that kind which 

 causes some controversy and any amount of 

 ugly comment. It has been described as follows: 



"A little roll of tobacco-leaves with a fire at 

 one end and a sucker at the other," or the 

 cigar. Mr. M. had a polite way of wafting the 

 smoke over the bees. They understood the 

 plan, and were handled without gloves or veil. 



Mr. Moreley would be a successful apiarist 

 upon a larger scale; but the transforming of 

 leather into horse-trappings seems to have the 

 greater attraction, and in that business beseems 

 to be successful. 



Lakeport is some distance from railroad trans- 

 portation; and this,, with the dark grade of 

 honey usually obtained, would probably deter 

 the apiarist from making honey a specialty in 

 this location. 



Mr. M. kept abreast of the times by being a 

 subscriber to Gleanings and the Revieic; and 

 we had a very enjoyable visit with him. 



We stopped a day ih Lakeport, in order to 

 allow Mr. Pryal's propensity to fish to have full 

 play. His efforts piscatorial resulted in about 

 as many bites as Wilder's signs of deer. I was 

 pleased that my traveling-companions mounted 

 such opposite hobbies; for when they did both 

 mount the same hobby later on, ruin and devas- 

 tation marked their pathway. 



THE T SUPER, AND WHY THERE IS NOT A DE- 

 MAND FOR IT. 



WHY SOME THINGS GO AND OTHERS NOT. 



[I would explain to our readers that A. B. 

 Anthony has made some suggestions regarding 

 the T supers; but as Dr. C. C. Miller has had 

 more experience along that line I forwarded 

 them to him for reply. The doctor sent his re- 

 ply to me, and I have in return again sent them 

 on to friend Anthony. I have not space to 

 give the whole of the discussion, but I give the 

 "tail end" of it. Dr. Miller's comment on a 

 previous letter of Mr. Anthony's appears first.] 



If I understand Mr. Anthony correctly, he 

 proposes to change the length of the brood- 

 frame so as to accommodate more perfectly the 

 super. Then he will have a super % inch long- 

 er inside than four sections, and fill up that 

 space with wedges at each end, or with a wedge 

 and follower at one end. In actual practice I 

 find no great difificulty in having a super short- 

 er inside than the brood-chamber. He can tell 



