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'j^LBVNlNiiS [N BEE GaLrJRE. 



Aug. 1. 



ble illustration if the male sheep made a prac- 

 tice of sitting on spring lambs to •' keep them 

 warm." 



The enemies of the bee are mentioned as the 

 moth, mice, earwigs, hornets, and wasps. The 

 part on bees winds up with very " full " direc- 

 tions on how to make "old budge" out of 

 honey. They called it mead, and equal to the 

 best Spanish wines. 



The second part of the book consists of 200 

 pages in refutation of the papal dogma that 

 communion bread is the actual body of Christ 

 and not symbolical of it. The author is 

 Edward Lewis. He handles the subject in a 

 masterly way. 



The third part of the book is " Directions to 

 the Clergy of London, in 1734. Amen Corner, 

 London, 17.38." Aside from its special bearing, 

 I wish that those who do so much toward ren- 

 dering the Bible unattractive by their wretched 

 reading of it could read what the author, the 

 Lord Bishop of London, says in regard to read- 

 ing sacred words. This one book, or three in 

 one, is certainly one of the most unique and 

 interesting I have ever examined. W. P. R. 



Medina. O., July 24. 



Heads of Grain 



FROM DIFFERENT FIELDS. 



THREE COLONIES 15 YEARS OLD. 



I have three colonies that are 15 years old. 

 They are in two-story L. hives, 20 frames. 

 There has not been a frame moved in those 

 hives for that length of time. They winter in 

 a shed, packed in straw and chaff, with sealed 

 covers, air-tight. 1 have had as many as 160 

 lbs. of comb honey from each in a good year, 

 and not less than 30. F. P. Clark. 



Parkman, Ohio. July it. 



AN IMPROVEMENT ON THE HEDDON METHOD^OF 

 TRANSFERRING. 



Friend Root: — I notice in several late num- 

 bers of Gleanings references to the Heddon 

 method of transferring. I wonder that you 

 should have overlooked or forgotten that there 

 is a still better method, which allows the whole 

 transferred colony to remain together, while 

 the brood is hatching out of the old combs. It 

 was published in the American Bee Journal of 

 1891, page 386. I tried it that year with perfect 

 success. You may remember that I got some 

 all-zinc perforated honey-boards from you, 

 which I used for this purpose. Others, here, 

 have borrowed my honey -boards and used them 

 for this way of transferring. 



VVm. Muth-Rasmussen. 



Independence, Cal., July 14. 



Bee Culture, under the head of " Queen-rear- 

 ing." The fact was, the young queen hatched 

 out, and, as young queens often do, she gnawed 

 the cap of the cell nearly off, leaving it hinged 

 on one side. She crawled out, and in the mean 

 time the woiker-bee crawled in; the cap fell 

 back into position, and litted so tightly that a 

 casual observer would never think it had been 

 opened. But the bees go on and seal up che 

 cell tight. If you observe closely those cells 

 from which queens have just emerged you will 

 find that the cap resembles somewhat the cover 

 of a coffee-pot, hinged on one little narrow 

 edge. Sometimes these caps are gnawed en- 

 tirely oft', but oftener not.] 



HOW DID THE QUEEN GET OUT ? 



I am reading your books on bee culture, and 

 like them very much. Now, I wish to know 

 if I haven't discovered something new. I had 

 a queen-cell about to hatch out. It was a 

 novelty to me, so I watched it every day. On 

 Saturday it had not hatched. On Sunday it 

 -was hatched out, but I did not find the queen. 

 On Monday I looked again, and found that the 

 queen-cell was all nicely sealed up again. I 

 looked for and found the queen. I then cut out 

 the queen-cell and cut it open, and out popped 

 a worker-bee and flew directly to the hive. 

 How came the worker in the cell, and sealed up 

 after it had once been occupied by a queen? 

 Did you ever hear of such a thing before ? 



Delhi, Wis. C. F. Appley. 



[This sort of thing has been mentioned be- 

 fore. You will find it spoken of in the A B C of 



A message from the STARVING IN INDIA. 



In our issue for Aug. 1, 1892, we spoke of star- 

 vation in India, and gave a picture of some of 

 the sufferers. Contributions came in to a mod- 

 erate amount — nearly $35.00 — and that amount, 

 together with our own, was forwarded to Mr. 

 Van Allen, and here comes his report: 



To A. I. Root, Esq.:—1 have just now received the 

 inclosed note from one of our native pastors, to 

 whom I iuid sent $3.00 of tlie money which you were 

 so good as to send me for the relief of those suffer- 

 ing- from famine in our district. 1 send it to you, as 

 I know that it will be an item of perhaps considera- 

 ble interest. Tlie money which you, and others 

 with you, kindly sent me, has principally been ex- 

 pended in buying- rice, and giving- out to our poorer 

 native Christians on Sunday, in our churches, at the 

 close of worship. Tkank Vajs Allen, M. D.. 



Medical Missionary, Madura, So. India. 



Below is the letter from the native pastor, 

 mentioned above: 



Rev. and Dear Sir;— The people who were fed by 

 the money whicli you were good enough to send to 

 me, tliauk you very mucli for your kindness and 

 care toward tliem. For the ten rupees! bouglit 60 

 measures of rice, whicl) gave one good meal for 240 

 people. Some of those tliat received help said that 

 Christianity is tlie best religion because it cares for 

 others. Yours obediently, Y. J. Taylor, 



Native Pastor, Aruppukotti Station, 

 Madura District, Soutli India. 



The letter above refers to only 13.00 of this 

 amount, and that sum gave a good meal to 240 

 people — just a cent and a quarter a meal. Now, 

 does it not si-cm. dear friends, that, with wheat 

 at only .50 or GO c. a bushel, the United States of 

 America ought to be able to come at least pretty 

 near stopping absolute starvation anywhere on 

 the face of the earth. Of course, we have got 

 to have railways and other means of travel to 

 carry supplies speedily to the suffering ones of 

 the earth: audit just now occurs to me that 

 the modern wheel may play a very Important 

 part in this labor of love; and I think I should 

 enjoy ever so much more carrying wheat to 

 starving people, on a wheel, than even running 

 the mail up lo the postottice so as to give our 

 patrons prompt returns and responses. May 

 God bless the efforts, and help us in seeing to it 

 that nobody is starving to death in this whole 

 wide world of ours. 



REPORTS ENCOURAGING. 



Bees are booming. 

 Newton Falls, O., July 5. 



F. F. Main. 



Bees are doing well on basswood. 

 Hastings, Mich., July 9. F. S. Clarke. 



My bees are fairly piling up the honey this 

 year. Some years ago I ordered some shipping- 

 cases, but never had any use for them until 

 now. Wm. Ballantine. 



Mansfield, O., July 1. 



