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' NOVICE'S " GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



ed." (£>■? Bee Keepers Magazine for 

 May.) 



Unless the liive had been previously 

 tilled from an abundant yield, we cannot 

 remember that we have ever had a case 

 of natural swarming under the c ircum- 

 stances mentioned, and think at least 

 they are unusual, yet we have seen colo- 

 nies alter they had got the swarming fev- 

 er, that swarmed when every other frame 

 was an empty one, and in one case they 

 swarined -with the combs spread over an 

 urea of sever at feet outside the hive while 

 we were extracting. 



Now we still think that had their combs 

 been faithfully emptied with the extractor 

 as a preventive, they would never have 

 bad this swarming fever; however, Mrs. 

 Tupper should know best for she has had 

 much more experience with natural natur- 

 al swarming, we presume, than we have, 

 for our experience has been mainly with 

 bees that were not allowed to swarm. 



Is there any danger of getting brood 

 ^billed so as to destroy it while transferr- 

 ing? It seems to me there might be al- 

 though I think I bave never seen any 

 thing in print to that effect. A Subscriber. 



We bave never had brood chilled in 

 transferring, but have known unsealed 

 brood to chill when combs were lifted to 

 the upper story too early in the season, 

 but this only occurred when the nights 

 were so cool as to be slightly frosty, caus- 

 ing the bees to desert the combs and go 

 below. We have made no accurate ex- 

 periment, but think brood could be kept 

 out of the hive a short time, say a couple 

 of hours, with a temperature as low as 

 40° and in warm weather, say from o'0° to 

 80° brood will keep sealed up safely until 

 it is hatched. Unsealed larvae would of 

 course need feeding, but where well sup- 

 plied with food, they will keep alive one 

 day and in some cases two days, and we 

 ibink very small larvae just hatched from 

 the egg may be our best way of mailing 

 comb for queen rearing, for short dis- 

 tances. 



It has been observed, probably, that we 

 advised bars of folded tin instead of wire 

 cloth for our extractor. Further experi- 

 ment satisfies us that tinned wire cloth is 

 better, (as it mars combs less) which can 

 be laid against the tin strips and fastened 

 by folding the ends over the top and bot- 

 tom bars. Wire cloth should be about 

 five meshes to the inch of small wire. We 

 cau furnish the proper kind, both sheets, 

 by mail for 2Jc, and the same will be 

 sent without charge to all those having 

 purchased Extractors of us, on applica- 

 tion. 



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Advertisejients and Problems crowd- 

 ed out this mouth, as you^see. 



NOTICE. 



^jjPF there are any goods in this case that 

 jM^do not give entire satisfaction" in ev- 

 ery respect, you will do us a ^reat fav- 

 or by returning them at our expense. 



We are so well pleased with the above 

 — which came a few days ago in a box of 

 goods from a first class business house in 

 New York — that we have copied it here, 

 and it expresses our sentiments exactly, 

 only we should end the sentence by say- 

 ing " tell r.s wherein we do not meet, your 

 approval. " 



We have abundance of complimentary 

 letters in regard to our " Gleanings, ' 

 which we forbear publishing because of 

 " native modesty,'' for one thing, and that 

 we can't see how such letters really assist 

 our readers with their bees, for another ; 

 besides every one can see for themselves 

 whether our paper is of value to them. 

 Now the point is, we have had too few 

 criticisms: we don't believe all are pleas- 

 ed with us, and those are the ones we 

 should like to hear from. The same might 

 apply to the simple hive we have recom- 

 mended, and objections and even abuse 

 has come quite freely from some source.", 

 but none from those who have made and 

 tried them. We are quite anxious to hear 

 that the plan of making and using hives 

 pleases others as it does us, and if it don't, 

 wherein lies the trouble? but we do not 

 value criticism from those who have never 

 seen the article criticised. 



We are glad to learn that many of our 

 friends have rigged up saws and are doing 

 a good work in making hives for them 

 selves and neighbors. To aid our friends 

 who wish to set up in the business, we 

 copy a neat little circular received a few 

 days ago : 



Dickinson Parsonage, Spring of 1873. 

 To my fellow bee keepers in Cumber- 

 land Valley, I offer a superior Movable 

 Comb Hive at about the price of the com- 

 mon box or chamber one. The box is of 

 the style used and recommended by A. I. 

 Koot, Medina, O., — one of our most suc- 

 cessful Apiarians, and whose articles in 

 the American Bee Journal, orer the sig- 

 nature of " Novice have done so much 

 to simplify and popularize the. whole bus- 

 iness of Apiculture, — and well deserves 

 the name it has received, "Simplicity 

 Hive.' Having built a buzz saw express- 

 ly for the cutting of this hive, I can sell it 

 at a price much below the cost of produc- 

 tion "by hand. Terms — "Trust" till 

 September: then $3 cash paid by you, for 

 the hive, or .*3 paid to you for the bees — 

 as you prefer. A. S. Woodburn, 



Dickinson, Cumberland Co., Pa. 



HONEY COLUMN. 



i,jj»h^ barrels extra thick white clover 

 A honey, for which we want 15c. per 

 lb. In quantities of 5 lbs. or less, 20c. 

 per lb. If we can't gel that price, we are 

 firmly resolved to keep it "forever and 

 ever." A. 1. Hoot & Co. 



