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the portico, filling with honey as thoy went 

 along right out into the "colcl world." 

 After nil the old hives, boxes, find hollow 

 logs wore filled, I drove down four stakes, 

 nailed on a couple of strips and hung on 

 some frames; then I put, 'A or t swarms 

 that went together on the frames; in the 

 fall we had a barrel of honey and comb. 

 About tho middle of September the bees 

 quit business, but I expect they are getting 

 toady to try the thins over again. The 

 plant is called here cockle, and grew six 

 feet high in some places and covering the 

 entire swamp, the bees workod on it. all 

 day. My bees had about 7000 lbs. of 

 honor in their hives and not more than .">00 

 in boxes. J. L. Davis, Delhi, Mich. 



P. S. We got considerable slung honey 

 but kept no account of it. 



Wo don't know how much Mr. Davis 1 

 'hay and grain" were worth, but it strikes 

 rfs w«! should have let it "slid/' "cause we 

 hadn't time to tend it,'' but we should 

 have taken care *of the honey and then 

 bought the "hay and grain ' of some one 

 that didn't know any better than to waste 

 their time raising it. Two years Jago we 

 received over $1000 cash for our honey 

 and a neighbor who had an equal number 

 of stocks and an extractor too, received 

 less than $100. When asked why he had 

 no more he replied his farm kept him so 

 busy that he coula vol take care of his 

 bens ; and yet his whole product of the 

 farm for the year was worth less than half 

 the calve of the honey he allowed to waste, 

 and such cases are common. 



No. oO. — How do you prevent a. queen 

 from laying too many drone ogg.<, and is 

 there such a thing as a good lumigator. 



1. J. Kknn'khy, Castaha Springs, Tenn. 



Cut out all drone comb and (if it in a 

 frame byitself for use in the upper story; 

 now to prevent more drone comb from 

 being built, fill the vacancy with worker 

 comb and keep none but worker combs in 

 the brood apartment. We ha,o. tried 

 furoigators, tobacco, pans of sawdust, rolls 

 of rags, etc., etc., but we find a chunk of 

 hard, rotten wood and a coal of fire from 

 the kitchen stove more effectual and less 

 trouble than anything else. Provide a 

 sheet iron box in some convenient place, 

 to keep it. in: this will shelter it from 

 rain, and if you are careless in nut putting 

 all the iire out no damage will be done. 



No. Jl.— Please bang crape on the 

 knob of your bee house door in respect to 

 T swarms of your correspondents bees 

 which bave/'gone up," "gin out" or "friz." 

 Also tell your photographer to get ready 

 to take a picture of the longest faced bee 

 keeper, er rather bee looser in Medina 



county, (them's me). It is not strange 

 that they died as the thormometor varied 

 It in 24 hours ; going as low as 19° be- 

 low /.ero. O, for a beo house, 



Sinn Lrc.vs, Rcmson Corner*. (). 



I >ut. friend L bee houses don't always 

 save them either, though wo think them » 

 Tory important item in the business. We 

 shall be. very happy to include you, as we 

 want, "all sides to the picture" when w« 

 have our apiary photographed next June. 



No. .V2. — Dear Notice : — As vou have 

 about quit making blunders. I didn't know 

 but you might pay a premium on a few 

 first class ones, so 1 send you one of 

 mine, for I am quite ingenious in that 

 direction. Last summer I had quite a 

 number of empty combs and as I was 

 obliged to leave home the last of July for 

 a long time, I thought I would leave them 

 where the bees would protect them from 

 the bee moth. So I put a second story 

 on all my hives and filled up with empty 

 combs. When I examined them in the 

 iall those which weje strong had stored 

 some surplus, but those which were weak, 

 some of them being the latest swarms 

 made, had the second story a solid mass 

 of cocoons and webs. Two or three 

 hives full of empty comb, that had no 

 protection, but stood in the sun with the 

 entrance open to the moth, were not dis- 

 turbed at all. MbitAT,. — To destroy 

 combs, protect them weakly by* bees. In 

 one of the above cases I placed a second 

 story on a hive, with an inch board hav- 

 ing a two inch auger hole through it be- 

 tween the two stories. In the fall I found 

 the lower story filled with honey and the. 

 brood nest and bees in the upper; which 

 hardly <rocs to show that the queen pre- 

 fers to keep the brood below in all cases. 

 C. C. Miller, Marengo, 111. 



We are really afraid friend M. wasted 

 his time worse than Mr. Davis did in tak- 

 ing care of his hay and grain. 



No. 53. — We are all very much pleased 

 with your "Gleanings," and feel that thev 

 are to "turn over a new leaf" in bee cul- 

 ture; by which the business will be .sim- 

 plified, popularized and made interesting, 

 fashionable and profitable; besides being 

 much sweeter than ever. 1 hope you 

 may be able to interest the ladies general- 

 ly in the pursuit: in order to call them 

 more ont of doors, and make them more 

 interesting and healthy. It would do 

 very much in the way of abolishing lonu 

 doctor bilb. ,1. H. Saltsbitry, M. D., 

 < 'levoland, 0. 



As the above comes from one of the 

 first physicians of the present age, we 

 feel considerably encouraged thereby. 

 Besides being able to contribute to the work 

 of opening up a new branch of industry., 

 the fact that we can also aid in elevating 

 the standard health of our American 



