"novice's" gleanings in bee culture. 



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top of your hive, and pack strips of wool- 

 en around the sides to make ii bee tight, 

 put in your cells, and it seems to us thai 

 any bee keeper could rear "queens for a 

 dollar." Those who rear the best and fin- 

 est ones will ot ccrse get the most or- 

 ders. There's room for all who will aid 

 us. Wo will insert their card free. 



Of course we may expect such attacks 

 on "dollar" queens as we have had on 

 "dollar"' hives, but "by our works shall 

 we be known." To aid in the matter we 

 will furnish fifty-four cage nurseries for 

 Langstroth hive, ready to put together, 

 for fifty cents; this includes wire cloth, 

 and the whole can be sent by mail for ten 

 cents. 



RECAPITULATION. 



Queen rearing may he reduced to the 

 following simple operations, with the im- 

 plements we have mentioned, supposing 

 your hives are all divided and each part 

 has learned to protect itself from robbers, 

 gather pollen, etc., etc. : 



Suppose your nursery stocked with 

 cells, we will give the first queen hatched 

 to the first queenless hive, and the next 

 to the next, and so on. On examination 

 next day, if the queen is all right, the 

 hive containing her may be omitted in 

 our daily examinations until she is a 

 week or ten days old. When found lay- 

 ing she may be shipped to fill orders or 

 used as required. All queens missing in 

 our daily examinations should have their 

 hive supplied with a strip of eixgs or very 

 small larvae from our choicest queen 

 mother, for if the queen is really in the 

 hive and has only been overlooked, this 

 will do no harm, and if she is lost, cells of 

 value will be started and thus we will 

 keep our nursery supplied, We should 

 never or seldom lisk introducing our 

 young queen until we are assured they 

 aie queenless by their having started 

 queen cells. m 



Thus we rear cells, and when these are 

 sealed cut them out and give thetn a 

 a young queen : after the J'oung queen 

 lays we rear cells again, and so on, pre- 

 suming the queens will lie better received 

 after cell rearing and that better cells will 

 he built after they have had a queen. 

 With the queen index and a fifty-four 

 ■ aoje nursery, the work of the apiarist is 

 very simple and well defined ; providing 

 he is prompt, neat, careful and diligent. 



P. S.— We need hardly state that cells 

 should be reared onl}' in colonies that can 

 do it well, and that their own brood 

 should always lie replaced by that from a 

 carefully tested queen. With our nur- 

 sery all cells may be saved, no matter 

 how closely they are built, for if we wait 

 until the queens are fully formed they 

 ripen equally well, so far as we know, if 

 kept warm, whether out of the cells or 

 sealed up. 



In consequence of the very sudden and 

 unexpected death of our Artist Photo's 

 Jjav£ been delayed. 



uomv COlitTMSr. 



W HAVE got 

 H which 1 hs 



off 1000 lbs. box honey, 

 tve sold for 25 cts. per 

 pound. Extracted sold for 14c. I have 

 also worked another small apiary for 

 half of the honey (box honey), from 

 which I have taken 900 lbs. I have also 

 worked a 150 acre farm with the help of 

 one man, and to tell the truth 1 am near- 

 ly worked out. G. M. Doolitti„e, 



Borodino, N. Y. 



1 am having considerable of my honey 

 sold in our town at 25e. Commission 10 

 per cent. K. Wilkin, Cadiz, O. 



I shall extract all my honey next sea- 

 son and hereafter, for 1 have no trouble in 

 selling all I can produce at 20c. 



John A. Bichaxan, Wintersville, (J. 



We have 1200 lbs. nice basswood honey 

 for which we want 12Jc. per pound, and 

 pay for kegs. Kegs hold 150 lbs. Have 

 some in barrels. G. M. Dalh:, 



Border Plains, Iowa. 



I began on a small scale, as you tell 

 about, and try to learn as I go along. I 

 began this spring with three swarms ; now 

 1 have ten, and 43 lbs. of nice box honey, 

 which I have sold at 40c. per lb. ; 80 lbs. 

 extracted honey sold at 35c. How is 

 that for a new beginner, and in the cen- 

 ter of the city at that ? 



II. A. Hoi.comh, New Bedford, Mass. 



Have taken 800 lbs. honey from eight 

 swarms, and increased three new swarms. 

 I have one barrel containing 500 lbs. 

 which I wish to sell for 15c. per lb., bar 

 rel not to be returned. S. Rowkj.l, 



Faribault, Minn. 



Friend Novice:— I have three thou- 

 sand pounds of nice extracted honey, for 

 which I want 1 fc. per pound, the barrels 

 thrown in. I hav.e > s swarms of bees in 

 good condition. They are gathering 

 honey very fast, and I have all that I can 

 do to keep up with them. I have all 

 Italian bees; am the only person in the 

 county that uses the extractor that I am 

 aware of ; have been reasonably success- 

 ful, and don't think of giving it up; but 

 can't get 500 pounds from one stand yet. 

 Geo. Parratt, Winimac, Ind. 



I-). C. Blakeslee of this place has 1000 

 lbs. extra white clover honey. 



G. W. Dean, of River Styx, Medina Co., 

 O., lias about 1500 lbs., and we have 

 about 1000 lbs. of our own remaining. 

 In view id* th° scarcity of honey in this 

 locality, and the extra quality of the Me- 

 dina Co. clover honey, our prices will be 

 for the present 18c. 



In regard to the honey market we give 

 prices as follows : 



|For the "Gleanings."] 



Aug. 21st, 1873. 



We have made arrangements for the 

 sale of large quantities of honey. Ex- 

 tracted honey is made a specially. We 

 do not handle honey on commission, but 

 pay cash on delivery. 



