1895 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTQRE. 



897 



Bees with me are doing nicely. I shipped 

 half a ton of this season's extracting, in the 

 middle of April. 



I notice that Mr. Crane states very plainly 

 "what he has bet-n allowed a patent on. Will 

 you give us a siniihir statement inregard to the 

 Porter escape? I think a better one can and 

 will be Invented ; but no one wants in any way 

 to infringe on a just patent. 



Sometimes since I suggested in Gleanings a 

 system of transferring by drumming the bees 

 •up Into a hive having at least one frame of 

 brood, then placing a queen-excluding zinc over 

 it, and the old hive over the zinc, and, when the 

 "bees had all hatched out, placing a bee-escape 

 board under the old hive, and thus get the 

 ■combs free of bees and brood. The idea was 

 new to me; but 1 >ee since that it is the system 

 used 'in France, which proves its value and pre- 

 vious use. 



Murphy's, Cal. 



[The prlnciide of the Boardman feeder is old, 

 and, indeed. 1 do not know that our friend has 

 made any claims as to its being new. Yhs, at- 

 mospheric entrance ffi-ders are quite old. In 

 looking over our back vulumes 1 Hud quite a 

 number. In Gleanings for 1881 and '82 sever- 

 al were illustrau-d; for 1881, ^ee page 477; for 

 1882. see pages 174 and 221; and, again, one was 

 shown and illustrated on page .561 for 1891. But 

 the one on pagu 174 for April, 1882, by A. C. 

 Kendel, resembles the Boardman more closely 

 than any other, and some might pronounce it 

 almost identically the same thing. But Board- 

 man's is the cheapest am) the best of all, and of 

 late 1 have seen quileannm- ._:^ 



ber of excellent tesiiinunials 

 from those who have wind it 

 since we illustrated and de- 

 scribed it on page 34li, current 

 volume. The lower part (see 

 ■adjoining cut) is made of 

 wood, and gives plenty of 

 room for the bees to cluster 

 around the lid, secure from 

 outside intruders. 



The following are the claims upon which a 

 patent was granted to the Porters.— Ed.] 



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i. A ue^-e.^'Ctpu uo.inji i.^iii„ iii,i'uiu.jiJiaiioii a Ijuiiy having an 

 ■opening in it.s top to register, with an opening in the escape- 

 board whereby it is adupted to <'orninuuic'ate with the siper 

 and open it at its end to :id ipt it to lOiumunicate with the 

 brood-ehaniber. said body providing' :i p.isr.agewa.y between 

 the super and brood chamber, and a guard of spring metal 

 arranged in said passageway with the movable portion there- 

 of normally out of contact with the top and bottom of the 

 passageway, and adapted to yield laterally to the pressure ex- 

 erted thereon by the escaping bees, and "by its resiliency to 

 close the passage against their return, substantially as de- 

 scribed. 



2. A bee-escape comprising in combination a body having a 

 passage who»e ends oiien outside the body, and a spring 

 guard-piece arranged in s.aid passage, and having one end 



'•thereof secured to a flexiljle. inelastic part of the structure, 

 and its opposite end free, whereby by bending said flexible 

 part the free end will be adjusted to vary the size of the pass- 

 age, substantially as described. 



3. A Ijee-escape comprising in combination a body having an 

 opening in its top to register, with an opening iii the escape- 

 board, whereby it is adapted to communicate with the super, 

 and open at its end to adapt it to communicate with the 

 brood-chamber, said body providing a passageway between 

 the super and brood chamber, and said passage having placed 

 therein a laterally yielding resilient guard piece, the mo^ able 

 iportion whereof is normally out of contact with all lixed parts 

 ■of the stnicture, whereby clogging of the guani-piere with de- 

 posits made by the bees is avoided, substantially as described. 



4. A bee-escape having a passageway adapted to comrauni 

 cate at one end with the super, and at the other with the brood- 

 chamber, a spring guard-piece arranged in said passagewa.y, 

 and a chambei- underne.ath the entrance to said passageway, 

 and at a lower level than the Hoorof the passageway, whereby 

 clogging of the passageway with dead bees is avoided, sub- 

 stantially as described. 



.5. A bee escape comprising itt combination a passageway 

 .adapted to communicate at one end with the super, and at the 



other end with the brood-chamber, and a guard of spring 

 metal arranged in said passageway, and having one ena 

 thereof secured to a flexible inelastic part of the structure, 

 and its opposite end free, whereby, by bending said flexible 

 part, the tree end may be adjusted to vary the size of the pass- 

 age, substantially as described. 



6. A bee-escape comprising in combination a supporting- 

 plate having an aperture therein, a shallow open-ended metal- 

 lic body secured to the under side of said supporting-plate, 

 and forming a passageway, spring guard-pieces arranged 

 therein, and an outer box-like body having one open end, and 

 secured to the supporting-plate around tne body containing 

 the guard-pieces, and closing one end of said passageway, 

 substantially as described. 



JAKE SMITH ON ADULTERATION. 



The other day me and Zed went into the 

 store. They was a nice-dressed man a talkln 

 to Nat Boucher, the man that keeps the store. 

 The stranger had a sample of'hunny he was a 

 sellin, and Nat had just bin a tastin the hunny, 

 and said it was 1st class, and he thot he mite 

 try a few pounds of it. Besides the bottle he 

 had the sample in, he had it in cans to sell. 

 I mean the man had, not Nat. It had nice 

 labills onto it, with pictures, and marked Pure 

 Hunny. The stranger held it up to show how 

 nice it looked, and was a tellin Nat how he 

 could easy sell 1000 pounds of it, and just then 

 Jim Short came in. 



Jim listened to him reelin off his story for 

 awhile, and then says he to the stranger, says 

 he, " When you see hunny nowadays, you 

 don't know whether it's hunny or not. How's 

 a buddy to know whether that of yourn is the 

 simon-pure juice of the posies or some of the 

 city-made stuff ? " 



The stranger looked at him, and says he— he 

 was a real pleasant-spoken man, and says he 

 to Jim, "My friend, I'm afraid you've been 

 reading some of the newspaper yarns. It shows 

 you're a man of intelligence, and read the 

 papers; but you mustn't believe all you read. 

 That stuff about adulteration of hunny is all 

 pure rot. There's nothing to it. Not a thing. 

 Why. just think of it. I appeal to you as a man 

 of judgment and discrimmenation, which I can 

 see by you're appearance you're that sort of a 

 man— I'm out in the world a good eel, and a 

 man in my position learns to read character 

 pretty weii— I appeal to you if it's reasonable 

 that men would buy glucose or any thing else 

 to mix with hunny, when the bees furnish the 

 pure article for nothing. Bees work for noth- 

 ing, and board themselves; so a man would be 

 a fool to try to make mnnny by mixin some- 

 thing with his hunny that would cost more 

 than the hunny itself. No, sir; no one can 

 afford to adulterate hunny. They wouldn't be 

 any munny into it." 



'• Well, now," says Jim, '"that does look kind 

 o' reasonable; but supposin a man hadn't any 

 bees, and bot glucose at 3 cents a pound, and 

 then sold it at 10; it seems to me they would be 

 some munny in it, even if he did mix some 

 hunny with it. Fact is, you ain't sure of 

 nothin bein pure nowadays. If I had my way 

 I'd string up a few of the scoundrels. Hunt 



