NOVICES GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



NOVICE'S 

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A. I ROOT & CO., 



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PRINTED AT MEDINA COUNTY GAZETTE OFFICE 



Medina, February 1, 1873, 



As we are now a monthly, those who wish 

 the whole 12 numbers will please remit us 

 50 cts additional. To those who pay but 

 25 cts, we shall send Gleanings quarterly 

 as at first proposed, after this number, which 

 will be sent to ali, making five numbers for 

 25 cents instead of the four we promised. 



Several irresponsible persons have had 

 advertisements inserted in some of the Bee 

 Journals, and in one case considerable sums 

 of money were lost by our bee-keepers send- 

 ing to them. 



Will it not be advisable for our Editors to 

 require reference in regard to the standing 

 of their advertising patrons. It will be far less 

 trouble than to require each separate indi- 

 vidual to determine who is to be relied on 

 and who is not. 



We must positively refuse to advertise any 

 receipts or methods of doing desirable things 

 in the Apiary ; for the first person sending 

 the needed 25 cts or $1.00, could, if he chose, 

 then publish it to to the world. Let infor- 

 mation of all kinds be free, through our 

 Journals, each one presuming that he will 

 receive as much as he furnishes. 



Samples, models to work from, or imple- 

 ments themselves, of course, have a cash 

 value, but not secrets, as a general rule. 



Keports of dysentery have already reached 

 as in three cases. In the latter it affected 

 only those colonies having natural stores ; 

 a part of them that were fed on sugar syrup 

 were entirely heatlhy. A friend near us, 

 fed all his colonies, 20 or over, except one, 

 with syrup made by pouring boiling water on 

 coffte sugar in a tin sap bucket. This was 

 stirred well, and the syrup poured off when 

 cold and fed in tin milk pans, with a cloth 



laid over the top. Nothing more All are 

 healthy. One strong colony, and that was 

 fed with poor maple syrup, died with an ag- 

 gravated form of dysentery, in December, 

 soiling every part of the hive badly. He 

 forgot our instructions to use Cream of Tartar 

 in his syrup, but the syrup did not grain in 

 spite of what "Confectioners" tell us, see 

 A. B. J., page 91, Vol. 8., and his bees are 

 in as good shape so far as can be desired. 



At the convention at Indianapolis, Mr. 

 Hoagland says he lost bees that were fed on 

 syrup. 



Now as this is the very first case 

 that has ever come to our knowledge, of the 

 kind, we would ask Mr H. to give us full 

 facts. Was the syrup made of good coffer, 

 sugar, and had the bees no natural stores ? 

 Our experiments have all pointed so posi- 

 tively in one direction, that we think we 

 cannot be mistaken. 



IIKADS OF GKAIN FU«M DIFFKRKNT 

 FIELDS. 



^DGAR SAGER, Hudson, 111., writes: 



erf " Signs of disease were noticed in some 

 places quite early in the Fall," and that it 

 looks rather discouraging ; but it need not 

 be so, for whenever they really commence to 

 soil their combs, take them in a warm room 

 and give them clean, empty combs in place 

 of their old ones, and confine them to their 

 hive with wire cloth until they can store 

 some pure coffee sugar syrup in the combs 

 and if a day occurs that they can be allowed 

 to fly out of doors, all the better. In severe 

 cases they must have a wire basket attached 

 to the hive to allow them to come out in, 

 while in the warm room, without soiling 

 their hive and combs. 



James Ferguson of Surgeons Hall, Pa., 

 writes : "I am using King's hive, although 

 it does not matter much what hive is used, 

 during a dry June that dries up all the white 

 clover which is our main dependence here " 



But it does, friend F. Suppose you take 

 your bees about April 1st, your very weakest 

 colony for instance, put them on three combs 

 only, and in a hive small enough so that the 

 bees and combs fill it completely. 



Now feed them, keeping the entrance al- 

 most closed and a warm quilt over them 

 until brood begins to hatch ; enlarge their 

 hive as they increase, but always have them 

 fill it, and they will bear considerable crowd- 

 ing in cool weather, and your hive must not 

 be so tall as the one you mention or you 

 will not be able to keep them clustered clear 

 down to the bottom of it, which you must do 

 always. 



By May ls f , you will have a colony that 

 will send out a host of workers if you keep 

 them crowded, and by June, if you keep their 



