1874 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CUI.TVT{F.. 



H®B©y (J©I'diM:£L 



- ( HAVE 200 U,s. of uh honey, also L600 lbs. of 



dark extracted, far which I ask 20c per II*.. all 

 through. All in \ ■ Ii..h<-\ -it tar sulil at retail lias 

 Ill-ought mi' a net of'*' t-< :*Ve, per Ilk 



•Iamks iikdoon, 



Dowagiac, Mich. 



I havc400wr 500 lbs, .>r extracted and 250 lbs. of 

 ■comb, [raised 150041* of the latter ami sun of the 

 former. Price for eonth in frames 20c. per 11k, for 

 extracted from 10 to l-.v. per lb., delivered here, 



J, L. Dv\ is. Holt, Mich, 



Since above was «*•! np we learn Mr. D. lias 

 sold all his extracted liouey ; and all the honey 

 in our neighborhood has been sold for 20c. per 

 lb., bv tin- barrel. 



FROM DIFFERENT FIELDS. 



REPORTS 



Mli 



Hll®@Bi*8iiIiy 



API.* If I *> REPORT, 



^W-UMBEE of Stocks in the spring 26, of which :; 

 J'* 1 were tpieenl ess No. of stocks at date, 40. No. 



— • ' of His. of surplus I ey stored this season 



mostlv in ;i 11*. boxes. i.".ii. 



I ). i •. i \ s i:. 

 Ivoshkonoug, Wis.. Nov. J.-t, is;:;. 



Had 3 hives last spring, increased to s . and (JO lbs. of 



honey. Kes| tfullv. Yours, 



< '. < . Mii-ijoj.', Chicago, Ills. 



"iYf" m '" '"" what do ybu mean by telling us to see our 

 hi'es often in the m inter? You do nol mean loi- 

 ns to ever handle theftl when tliey are in winter 



quarters, ilo j ou - 



I >. \. Bkockw v\ . 



Manteno, 111. 



Just this-. That you go in the house after 

 dark once or twice a week, and examine them 

 by raising a corner of the quilt, or if bottoms 

 arc movable, raise the hive gently and see how 

 many dead bees have fallen down, etc. It will 

 be very convenient to have a lamp and matches 

 kept ready for use. 



Whenever your visits seem to arouse or dis- 

 turb them, we shall say that you are careless, 

 and we should not open the doors much during 

 extremely warm, or cold weather. 



Mr. Quinby's plan of warming up the room 

 by a stove, we fear, would make too much dis- 

 turbance, unless great care be used. 



A neighbor of mine, and a Bee-Keeper, was travel- 

 ing in the south part of our state last spring-, ami 

 stopped at a farm-house to dine. He saw a large num- 

 ber of -bee-hives in the yard, and a greater part of 

 them were the old-fashioned straw hives. lie en- 

 quired of the fanner how liis bees wintered, and was 

 told that all the bees died in the Yankee hives, "but 

 all mine Dutch hives made niit straw, not von die;'* 

 ami every one of them was strong and vigorous. 



Now. Friend Novice, this report brought home b\ 

 my neighbor, set me to thinking whether something 



Bees have net usuajh done very well around here. '. m - ht "" r ,0 '"vented in the proper shape to hold our 



■especially where com'l uey was relied on, have frames ifnd bees, and answer the same purpose as the 



seen but "one box of comb iionev in this town this straw mvc tor out-door wintering, tor all bee-keepers 



year; but by the use of the extractor ami plenty of nave not winter houses or cellars. 



■empty comb, I got from d sw'amis-^some of them quite i .J. Butler, 



weak in the spring— tin new swarms natural -and ' Jackson, Mich. 



ScLlfESevTin 'need tinier? fesold , Th ^ ks for «« »»»• We are well aware of 

 .all my honey for 15c. }<<■<- lb., wholesale. Honey is the advantages ol straw hives for wintering, 

 •now scarce. I see Quiubv's Bee Keeping, page To, but we 



I think vou areliai-.il> fair in proposing to publish ,.,..,]],- «,.„. \ ]..,.- , vn „i.t have little effect town if 1 

 "the names of your subscribers who have lost money ie8iU J u .' u in \> wouia nave lime enecttovi aid 

 in bee-keeping during lite last live years;" they are preventing the real Bee Disease. Can Mr. 

 nol the class of bee-keepers that subscribe for Glean- Quinby afford us any additional lio-ht on straw 

 ' N,;s - & K Fairibaiat Minn j hives s,mce his book was published? We have 



, seen no mention of them in his recent articles 



I made an extractor fitmi a suggestion hi your paper, on wintering. Mr B. mentions au experiment 

 1 ^'V'/l'-nT'^. 5 '' 1 '- »""' "' ol \"" e •"'''■>'. '" u ' s we he is making with double walled hives made 



-••;'.'( our nullv to the clieese laetorv — lint in a cross .. . , ,. B . i , .. ,,,, , . , 



piece far enough from the bottom to have the top of of P me lath, with the space hi led with dry 

 the frame come to the top of the can. put in some wheat chaff. Now our friends should bear in 



troodeii j£» on ^theumler s^le of the cross-piece, to m ind that the beneficial results from straw 

 : o>t on the bottom ot I he can, put ju ni\ -gearing made i- , , -, ., .... 



nom au old broken paring machine. And it worked hives are as much dependent on the facility 

 very nicely. I could take out about 7"> lbs., when I with which straw dries out as its property of 



absorbing moisture; and in order to dry out 

 quickly it must not exceed say an inch and a 

 half or two inches in thickness- Mr Muth of 

 Cincinnati has just sent us a straw mat that 

 is nicer, more tidy and compact than any thing 

 we supposed could be made, and which will 

 we think be excellent. It is stiff enough to 

 make a whole simplicity hive in fact, and were 

 we not afraid exposure to summer weather 

 Would induce decay too soon we should seri- 

 ously consider them for hives the year round. 

 They would have one very valuable quality, viz: 

 lightness, and when we ascertain the cost of 

 the article we will consider straw hives. Even 

 for indoor wintering they would be quite desi- 

 rable under circumstances as follows: 



Several quite cold days reduced the temper- 

 ature in our Bee-house to aboul 32 degrees, a 



would have to empty. l>\ pouring out of the top. I 

 took out 600 lbs., and nm i-ontident thai I should nol 

 have got 50 lbs. of bos hooey. 



Subscriber. 



All I he stocks that we have now over 40 are winter- 

 ing in our cellar mi their own stores, and appear in a 

 lair condition. Alter selling some in the spring we 

 had :!a left. I should saj we commenced with 50 hives. 

 We have sold bees, homo and wax to the amount of 

 $429.13, and we can spare $100 worth more, inostlv 

 comb honey : this is nothing great, but will do, consid- 

 ering the amount of fami work I have done, all of 

 u Inch is respectfully submitted, notwithstanding the 

 "Blasted Hopes." J. L.Davis&Co, 



The Co. means my daughter, who will ac( as "P. G." 



I have >i swarms of l>eei 



lbs. of honey the past -c:i- 

 Olll the < tLEAXIXGS, >,. bo 



sold my honej for 15 ami - 

 priving it up. 



net lia\ e made o\ er 5000 



I cannot well do with- 



is your 7~> cent-. I have 



per lb., and liont feel like 



'.i."ii:i.l. P VERI >TT. 



Winamac, Ind. 



