NOVICES GLEANINGS IN EEE CULTUKE. 



If any one thinks they would like one 

 of the revolving-can machines as well, 

 we have only to ask them to try both. 

 One such machine as we have described, 

 will satisfy any neighborhood as to which 

 form is most practical. 



P. S, Besides the coarse strainer over 

 the "gate" or tube inside to keep bees 

 from running through and crawling over 

 things daubed with honey, we use a little 

 sack of cheese cloth hung in the bung of 

 the barrel and kept in place by a wire 

 ring a little larger than the bung-hole. 

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National Bee Journal for Dec. attempts 

 to excuse " the selfishness, grasping and 

 monopoly " of a certain individual by 

 making, it appear that others are dis- 

 satisfied because they can't do the same 

 way. 



Now we have an old-fashioned idea 

 that our best people do not want a copper 

 ot any one's money unless they have 

 rendered a fair equivalent. 



There may be some who envy the 

 success of the few successful " Patent 

 right Sharpers," but we trust their num- 

 ber is daily growing less. 



Dear Novice : — Many thanks for your 

 little pamphlet sent occasionally to my 

 address. I trust I may profit from your 

 sage wisdom and advice, especially Irom 

 that in your last Journal, wherein you 

 say that 50 lbs should be the average 

 from every good hive in the worst season. 

 Honied words to such a blunderer as 

 your correspondent, who could not with 

 all the "Galloping and Novitiating" he 

 was master of get his " full-blooded Ital- 

 ians" to gather nectar from flowers 

 which secreted naught but fragrance 

 wasted on the desert air of this arid, 

 rainless district during the just very 

 " worst season " it was my lot to ever 

 encounter, and with all due deference to 

 " Novice, s" wisdom and vast practical 

 experience in Ohio I must still be al- 

 lowed to have the benefit of the doubt if 

 even he with his hives and apple paring 

 extractor, and " Giantesses " as queen's 

 regnant could have obtained such won- 

 drous results in barbarous (speaking 

 apistically) Canada. 



Your bee-hive at $1.00, is what I 

 long felt ought to be the general price, 

 and I cannot see why, with persons who 

 are at all competent*to manage bees, that 

 it cannot be made to answer every purpose 

 that the most expensive patent hive does 

 or can. 



Trusting that you may keep on plan- 

 ning and improving for such ignora- 

 muses as your correspondent, believe me 

 me to remain 



Yours very obligatory, 



P. H. GIBBS. 



The $1.00 hive is not ours, only the one 

 we advise. To Langstroth belongs the 

 movable frame j Gallup, the sloping 

 joints for cover ; Bickford, the quilt ; 

 common-sense, entrance, etc.; and to 

 Novice, if anything, the credit of severe 

 criticisms on all useless appendages. 

 Every bee- keeper should be able to make 

 them for less than $1.00. We only furnish 

 a sample and they are poor workmanship 

 too, we notify you, but will give you the 

 idea. 



IIONEV COLUMN. 



Orchard, Mitchell, Co., Iowa, ) 

 December 21st, 1872. J 

 Editor Gleanings in Bee Culture: 



You can tell the readers of your large 

 journal that Gallup has 1,000 pounds nice 

 extracted bass wood honey, all candied 

 and securely put up in 150-pound casks 

 at 15c. per pound, casks thrown in. 



Hurrah for Gallup again, " old hats 

 and new!" His ofl'er is the lowest we 

 have yet received and we have always 

 felt sure he could produce honey cheaply if 

 any one could. We paid ISc. for a half bar- 

 rel a few days ago, and sold it for ten per 

 cent advance ; we didn't have the cask 

 thrown in either. That is business-like, 

 and if we can't find customers for all 

 " Gallup," " Hosmer," and the other vet- 

 erans can produce at that rate, we shall 

 consider our great big journal a failure in 

 one direction any way. 



Dr. Hamlin sajs he has 3,000 extracted 

 and 2,000 comb honey, bit don't give 

 the price. 



Tell us what you ask, brother bee- 

 keepers, and we will advertise all your 

 honey for nothing. 



Our old " American Bee Journal " 

 made its appearance January 14, but as 

 it contains nothing but transactions of 

 the American Bee-Keepers' Society, we 

 have no opportunity to form an opinion 

 of what it will be under the management 

 of W. P. Clark. We find a strange mis- 

 take in a statement from Mrs. Tupper 

 that should be cerrected at once, viz : 

 that when honey is extracted from brood 

 combs the brood is killed* Was there no 

 one at the convention that could prevent 

 such an error from going out before the 

 world? We cant' help saying that the 

 matter looks anything but flattering for 

 the convention of America. Large num- 

 bers of bee-keepers make a regular prac- 

 tice of extracting the honey from all 

 the combs, and their brood don't 

 die either. Mr. Kingmay have kept still 

 because the use of the extractor don't 

 help the sale of closed top frames, but 

 how about the rest ? No one need waste 

 breath in arguing the matter, for the ex- 

 periment can be made at once. Revolve 

 your brood as fast as you please and 

 mark the comb and see if the brood dies. 

 Unsealed brood, it is true, may be 

 thrown out if turned too fast, but this is 

 never necessary. 



Several articles alluded to in this num- 

 ber were crowded out, (problems too), by 

 the extractor, and by the way we notice 

 that Fig. 1st, gives the impression that 

 more than one piece of tin is used for the 

 case to hold the combs. Imagine the 

 letters A. C. D. and P. clear up in the 

 corners and the marks surrounding them 

 a continuous line, except the dotted lines, 

 and we think you can make no mistake. 

 G. B. H. and E. of course, should meet, 

 so that when soldered only a square hole 

 is left in the center for the shalt. 



We hope our friends will be patient if 

 we do not find a place fer their favors at 

 once. Send along the items. 



