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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July 15. 



tract once a week, and get two gallons from 

 each hive. Some one may say, " Why don't 

 you make a hive that you can extract four gal- 

 lons from at a time, and take out your honey 

 onlv once in two weeks ?" I have tried that, 

 and my bees would not fill one in a montli; but 

 they will fill one half the size in a week. Some 

 may say that honey will not keep if taken out 

 once a week. But I know better. It will in 

 this climate. I never had a pound of honey 

 spoil in my life, and I have extracted once a 

 week during the honey-flow for years. I think 

 much depends on a deep brood-nest. 



I have three sizes of hives. The one that I 

 get the most honey from is 12x12 inside; the 

 brood-nest is 12 inches deep, with 8 racks. The 

 extracting-super is 12x12, inside measure, with 

 7 racks. I had ten hives 12x183.2 inside, 9 inches 

 deep. I tried them two years, and they did 

 very poorly. I cut them off to 14 inches long 

 inside. Since that they have done much better. 

 My experience teaches me that 9 inches is not 

 deep enough for a brood-nest. I have kept a 

 strict account of the amount of honey I have 

 produced for 4 years, so I know what I am talk- 

 ing about when it comes to large and small 

 hives. 



I have taken Gleanings for a number of 

 years. I like it better all the time. 



Could not some one get a new pair of pants 

 for Rambler? I am tired of those old plaid 

 trousers. Joseph I. Earle. 



Bunkerville, Nev., June 24. 



[With all this available material before him, 

 friend Doolittle ought to be pretty well loaded. 

 -Ed.] 



a superiority of queens more than of 



HIVES. 



Friend Ernest:~I have read Mr. Davenport's 

 article, and I think he shows a superiority of 

 queens more than hives. Please note in Ram- 

 bler's article, the 24-frame hive of Mr. Morley, 

 900 lbs. of honey cut out in one season, and 

 your editorial, the improvements in hives tend 

 to less labor, not mo7-e honey, Sbiid then think 

 of keeping two men to feed. April 13th I se- 

 lected 4 hives — two 8 and two 10 frame — am 

 keeping a record of my work, and amount of 

 honey from each. I will let you hear from 

 them at the close of the season. 



Sarasota, Fla., June 1. S. C. Corwin. 



TEN-FRAME HIVE AHEAD. 



We find the ten-frame hive is much better 

 than the eight-frame hive that we have been 

 using. We changed five colonics from eight 

 to ten frames, and placed them with an equal 

 number of eight-frame hives, giving the ten- 

 frame hives two frames of foundation. Now 

 for the result: Four of the five eight-frame 

 colonies have swarmed, but not a swarm from 

 the ten-frame as yet. Each one of the ten- 

 fame hives has filled 28 sections. We have 

 placed another half-section, filled with founda- 



tion, under the one already filled. This was 

 done a week ago. We find to-day, June 26, the 

 foundation drawn out, and partly filled with 

 honey. The eight-frame hive that did not 

 swarm have filled 24 sections, and we have put 

 on another half-story with foundation. As to 

 the strength of the colonies in the spring, they 

 were about equal, or in favor of the eight- 

 frame. The ten-frame hive is far superior to 

 the eight-frame in this one point — swarming. 

 We will give you a full report later. 

 Morristown, Tenn., June 2G. Glenn & Co. 



BAMBLE NO. 136. 



AT HYDESVILLE. 



By Rambler-. 



In Hydesville we discovered one of the most 

 renowned bear- hunters on the Pacific coast — 

 Mr. Herbert Hansen, a Swede, and one of the 

 early pioneers, a wool-producer and owner of 

 thousands of sheep. He had killed 512 bears, 

 308 mountain lions, and a greater number of 

 deer. In the early days it required eternal 

 vigilance to protect the lives of the herds of 

 sheep against the depredations of wild beasts; 

 but in these more civilized days it requires 

 hunters of experience and the help of trained 

 dogs to hunt the bear. We three wanted to 

 enjoy a bear-hunt; but circumstances worked 

 against us, and we were prevented, and did not 

 secure bear-skins for rugs as we desired to. 



Our first Sunday in Hydesville, Bro. Pryal 

 and I attended church, where we found a pro- 

 gressive Christian spirit. The pastor gave us 

 a very good sermon upon Sabbath observance. 

 He told his flock that, if people came to visit 

 them, it was their duty to invite the visitors to 

 attend the church services with them; and the 

 young ladies were admonished in like manner 

 to invite their Sunday-evening gentlemen 

 callers to spend the evening with them in 

 church. Now, Bro. Wilder was a "gallyant 

 young man " with the ladies, and proceeded 

 that evening to make a call. It is evident the 

 minister's words were not lost upon the good 

 young ladies; for in the evening Mr. Pryal and 

 I were quite surprised to see Mr. Wilder meekly 

 led in by two young schoolma'ams and safely 

 sandwiched between them in tlie front seat in 

 the church. 



In my last Ramble I mentioned the fact that 

 an apple-tree here will produce five barrels of 

 apples in five years after planting. I have no 

 reason to doubt the Blocksburg doctor's state- 

 ment, for there are other things here equally 

 marvelous. For instance, plant a schoolhouse 

 anywhere in Humboldt Co., and in five years 

 it will mature a crop of 50 schoolma'ams. The 

 schoolma'am mania is so strong here that, in 

 the rancher's families, triplets are not rare, and 

 twins abundant — mostly girls. There are, 

 therefore, more schoolma'ams to the acre here 



