1896 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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honey. I examined my bees Jan. 8, and found 

 several colonies that would require feeding. I 

 took the lightest one and placed it about five 

 feet from a hot stove in my cellar, and put a 

 shallow feeder, holding nearly 5 lbs. of syrup, 

 on top of the frames, and filled it with warm 

 syrup; laid two cobs across the feeder so ihe 

 bees could readily enii^r it, and then covered all 

 with a warm cloili. I then put on the cap, 

 and filled it with warm bran-sacks; closed the 

 cover, and the job was done. In the evening 

 the feeder was empty, and I refilled it; and this 

 morning it was empty again, and the bees were 

 quiet. I shall feed each of them in the same 

 manner. Ten pounds is all I deem it advisable 

 to feed at one time, as more than that of un- 

 sealed stores might sour, and cause dysentery. 

 I set the hive back of the stove, and covered 

 the front with a bran-sack, and the bees were 

 not at all troublesome in corning out and flying 

 to the windows. They might be later in the 

 season. I then would confine my feeding to the 

 night time. If I had a swarm in a box hive 

 that required feeding I would place the feeder 

 filled with warm feed underneath it. and close 

 the entrance and ventilate it from the top if 

 necessary. Gp:()rge W. Bassett. 



Barre, Vt., Jan. 9. 



DOUBLE OR SINGLE VFALLED HIVES. 



Dr. Miller: — I am about building me a lot of 

 new hives. I winter on summer stands. Which 

 are best?— double or single wall hives? Ther- 

 mometer drops to 20 belovv zero at times. 



Which are best for the bees to build up in in 

 spring, for fruit-bloom? Hives are the L. pat- 

 tern and frame. Geo. L. Vinal. 



Charlton City. Mass., Jan. 14. 



[Dr. Miller replies:] 



1. All things considered. I think you will 

 like the single-walled hives best. Careful ex- 

 periments at the Michigan Experiment Apiary 

 failed to show any real advantage in double 

 walls; and even if at times there should be ad- 

 vantage it would be overbalanced by some dis- 

 advantage at other times, together with in- 

 creased weight and bulk. But a comparative 

 trial of the two kinds might settle the thing 

 more satisfactorily to you. 



2. Hard to tell. Perhaps there's no real dif- 

 ference. In a cold time the double walls would 

 be an advantage in keeping the hive warmer; 

 on a sunshiny day, a disadvantage in keeping 

 the heat of the sun out of the hive. 



Marengo, 111. C. C. Miller. 



DEATH OF AN OLD BEEKEEPER AND MISSION- 

 ARY IN PALESTINE. 



Mr. Root: — My dear father departed this life 

 after having passed forty-six years in the mis- 

 sion station on Mount Zion. Only recently dis- 

 missed from his post, he died near Bethlehem, 

 at Urtas, a small Mohammedan village where 



he had begun his Palestine career almost half 

 a century ago. His last will was to be carried 

 to his last resting-place in Bethlehem, by the 

 Arabs, which happened on the 20th day of Jan- 

 uary. The Mohammedan women of all the 

 environs followed the body, singing their death- 

 .«ongs in praise of the departed, and wishing 

 long life to those left behind. Even the Mo- 

 hammedan friends were unanimous in repeat- 

 ing, " His works shall follow him." My moth- 

 er writes, " I prayed to God to spare him yet 

 this once; but now he is gone home in peace. 

 God's will be done." 



He was the cause of our all following bee- 

 keeping. His apiary near Solomon's Pools, and 

 when friends Jones and F. Benton visited him 

 on Mt. Zion, was the first to furnish the Holy 

 Lands, at the beginning of the eighties. For 

 further description, see Gleanings, page 672, 

 Sept. 1, 1S9.3. Father died at the age of 73, 

 deeply bewailed by his widow, daughter, and 

 five sons. Ph. J. Baldensperger. 



Nice, France, Feb. 7. 



[It seems remarkable, but it is a fact that the 

 very country where Christianity first took its 

 start must now receive missionaries of that 

 same gospel. The soil that received the seed 

 was not the soil that would grow the great Tree 

 of Life. It is a pleasure to know of the great 

 work of your father.— Ed.] 



BROKEN COMB HONEY CANDIED; WHAT TO DO 

 WITH IT. 



Last week I wrote you to know if there is any 

 thing you know of to put in honey to prevent it 

 from candying, as I have some comb in jars, 

 and filled with extracted, and can not heat it or 

 it will ruin the comb. W. L. Ri'^hmond. 



Lexington. Ky., Dec. 24. 



[There is no way to prevent granulation of 

 honey without heating. If you have broken 

 comb honey candied, we would recommend you 

 to put it into a solar wax-extractor. The wax 

 will rise to the top; and the honey rendered 

 liquid by the sun's heat, while not of first qual- 

 ity, will be very fair extracted honey.— Ed.] 



ADULTERATED HONEY; HOW IT CUT.S DOWN 



THE PRICE OF PURE HONEY; FIVE- 



B ANDERS POOR. 



In Gleanings for Jan. 1, Mrs. L. C. Axtell 

 says their market is flooded with a sweet that 

 is called California honey, put up in glass tum- 

 blers. This is exactly the condition in all the 

 towns around, and especially in the city of 

 Galva. The tumbler has a small piece of comb 

 honey in it. Some of it is light, and some 

 amber. I can not believe it is pure honey, as It 

 tastes more like a poor grade of corn syrup. I 

 was in one store, and tried to sell them some 

 comb honey, but they said they could sell dou- 

 ble as much of this California honey as of my 

 comb honey, as it was so cheap— only 10 cts. 

 per lb., while Colorado comb sells at 20 cts., and 

 I sell mine for 123^ to 15. If all the towns in 

 the State are flooded as they are here, some 



