1890 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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some years ago, was on the same plan. 

 While you can extract honey with such an 

 arrangement, especially if you have a few 

 hives, it is not only a very laborious way, 

 but very fatiguing, where very much of it is 

 to be done. It is true, that the honey is 

 thrown into a single tin can, and nowhere 

 else ; but a single tin can can be used in 

 any ordinary extractor, where you wish to 

 extract only one comb, or, say, two combs. 

 or more The objection is, that it forms 

 what is called a revolving-can extractor. 

 The honey swings around with the comb, 

 instead of being thrown out against a sta- 

 tionary can ; and as soon as you swing very 

 much honey in this way you will f\nd it very 

 laborious. Every comb "that is emptied will 

 necessitate stopping and pouring honey out 

 of the can or cans. I would suggest that, 

 if you are going to use such a machine, in- 

 stead of a wagon-wheel and hickory sapling, 

 you use simply alight iron or steel rod, with 

 some kind of metal wheel not weighing over 

 a jiound. 



GEORGIA FOR BEES. 



AN A B C SCHOLAR'S EXPERIENCE. 



One of my brothers has been kct^ping lees ia 

 this county for over six years, but he has never 

 made beekeeping' a specialty. He commenced 

 with only 13 colonies of the golden -banded Ital- 

 ians, and Increased to 35 colonies, and sold 1335 

 worth of honey from them the first year. But as 

 he has been engaged in farming and merchandiz- 

 ing ever since, he has not given them very much at- 

 tention. 



I believe this to be the best country for bees in 

 the South, as we have a large number of honey- 

 producing fiowers in bloom here every month in 

 the year, from January until November; and they 

 are no trouble to winter. 



Our winters are never cold enough lo stop our 

 bees from work. They usually commence to gath- 

 er pollen in January, and never cease till Decem- 

 ber. The honey season commences about the first 

 of April, and we take off surplus until the 15th of 

 July. Our honey-producing plants and trees are 

 the yellow jessamine, pround-huckleberry, gall- 

 berry, persimmon, magnolia, bay, poplar, and 

 horsemint, and a large number of others whose 

 names are unknown to me. Over two-thirds of our 

 honey is made from the gallberry-bush, which com- 

 mences to bloom about the 20th of April, and con- 

 tinues in bloom until the middle of June. Our 

 apiary is situated in the center of a gall berry-for- 

 est, out in the country, three miles from Sasser, in 



" A populous solitude of bees and birds. 

 And fairy formed and many-colored things." 



And while the gallberries are in bloom the bees 

 work from daylight until dark. It is in full bioom 

 now, and it is a pretty sight to see how busy the lit- 

 tle creatures are. 



OAt,l>BERRY HONEY. 



This i3 the prettiest I ever saw. It is well flavor- 

 ed, very thick, and as translucent as the classic 

 product of Hymettup. I took .53 pounds of as pret- 

 ty sealed gallberry honey from an upper story yes- 

 terday as I ever saw, and I could easily extract 25 

 lbs. from any hive in our apiary. It is all this 

 year's honey too. I expect to commence extract- 

 ing in a week. 



Mr. Root. I am one of your ABC boys, and will 

 let you hear from me again soon. 



Walter L. Anthony. 

 Sasser, Terrell Co., Ga., May 6. 



We have had of late some inquiry in re- 

 gard to Georgia as a bee country. The 

 above will* doubtless give the information 

 needed. 



HONEY-CIDER VINEGAR, ETC. 



PUTTING refuse HONEY INTO THE VINEGAR -BAR- 

 REL, ETC. 



Dear Gleanings:— Your pages fall under the eyes 

 of multitude s of people, embracing many shades of 

 thought, and representing a gi-eat variety of inter- 

 ests. Though the chief interest centers in the 

 busy bee, your readers are treated to other sources 

 of vital interest to society, and to individuals. 

 There really appears to be a great big Gleanings 

 family who are all trying to help each other. The 

 question, " What business shall we connect with 

 apiarian management?" Is a prolific one, and has 

 had much interesting discussion in your pages. 



I entered the Gleanings family in 1S87, wilhSO 

 colonies; and however fascinating be the occupa- 

 tion, I need not even hint to any of those who re- 

 cord their honey gains in tons, how very essential a 

 thing it is to us who would like to be bee men, to 

 have a side show occupation until the big honey 

 business would materialize. 



In 1888 I moved my apiary from Indianapolis to 

 North Vernon, Jennings Co., and to this city in 

 1889. Through these years and changes our honey 

 product has slightly exceeded a liberal supply on 

 my own table. My great lack of success has come 

 from the ravages of that loathsome disease, foul 

 brood. My stocks have decreased to U colonies, 

 '•spring count." I have just made a purchase of 

 a fine old farm. Yesterday ray little "wicked" 

 busy bees bid good-by to city life, and to day I lib- 

 erated them under the spreading branches of an 

 apple-orchard full of bloom; and this brings me to 

 the thought which prompted this article. Glean- 

 ings is authority for the quality of honey vinegar. 

 We are here surrounded by a prolific, never-failing 

 fruit-crop. Fruit makes cider; cider makes vine- 

 gar; cider vinegar, known to be such, always com- 

 mands ready sale at the best quotations. I put the 

 question, " Will cider and honey vinegar combine?" 

 Both are known to be in quality par excellent. 

 Neither would be an adulteration of the other. The 

 brand would be improved— honey-cider vinegar. I 

 am told that honey enters largely into the manu- 

 facture of the plug from the wickedest weed in the 

 world. Of course, the name of honey associated 

 with the vile stuff helps the sale of it to those who 

 indulge in such nastiness. Would it not be a 

 bumper in aiding the sale of pure vinegar? Can 

 any one tell? John Cadwallader. 



Madison, Ind., Apr. 26. 



Friend C., I am happy to tell you that we 

 have been in the habit of putting our refuse 

 honey into our cider vinegar for some time, 

 and it improves it amazingly— sometimes to 

 the extent of making it so sharp that no- 

 body can use tlie vinegar without lirst di- 

 luting it. When they put it on the lettuce 

 in our dining-room, 1 have remonstrated 

 several times because they did not dilute it 

 more. It would fairly take the skin off 



