1874 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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Questions not too lengthy, may be answered through 

 this department even if not received until within two 

 days, of the first of the month ; anil in two days more, 

 nothing preventing, yon may have your paper contain- 

 ing' the reply. If our friends would use a separate , 

 piece of paper for this, and in fact for each of the de- 

 partments; and write on one side only t'wonld be quite 

 i favnr.hnt if it's too much trouble, don't do it, for we 

 want to hear from you any way. 



J-^lSrCT^IRrX' S9TH, 1873. 



It's just 11 o'clock & we've a line wind for the "Print" 



Where's Adair's Annals for December? 



Mrs. Tuppcr'.i Journal reached us Jan. 23rd, and 

 as usual, contains much of value. 

 ■J. L. Wolfenden, Adams, 'Wis. writes: "Tell that 

 iiiiin he can take the propolis off his quilts by pound- 

 ing and rubbing: them briskly in the open air on a 

 cold day, I can clean one. so that it is just about as 

 good as new in ten minutes.' 1 



King's JSfcigazvne for Feb. made its appearance on 

 the 27th. Wonder if they don't get up before day- 

 light? "We are informed they have engaged the ser- 

 vices of Mr. Quinby for this year, who will doubt- 

 less add much to the value of their Journal. 



"Why don't 'Novice' attach a 'Governor' to his 

 •windmill' power for his 'Print' and make her run 

 kind of soher.-and steady ? It can be done surely," 

 writes a pleasant friend from Pa. As to whether 

 "she" has become any more "steady" in her habits 

 nir friend can judge by the appearance of the. pres- 

 ent Xo. 



Bee World for Jan. made its appearance on the 

 27th, it numbers among its contributors some of our 

 best Apiarists, and as Mr. Moon promises to make it 

 the exponent of our Southern Bee-keepers, we would 

 kindly suggest to him the propriety of being- more 

 careful of punctuation, spelling and " dictionary ; " 

 they may feel that they are not fairly represented 

 before, or in, the World. Monthly, $2.00, Rome, Ga. 



P. S. Mr. Moon's attempts at Journalism have 



heretofore been so short lived, that we must for the 

 present decline adding the World to our list of Bee 

 Culture Periodicals. 



A. B. J. for Jan. made its appearance on the 16th, 

 in a beautiful new dress and with a clear bright ty- 

 pography that we novices in the "art preservative," 

 could only resolve to try to equal. 



Although most of the matter is as usual, valuable. 

 ivi help remonstrating against the publication 



of such articles as the foreign one entitled "Italian 

 Bees.— Their Worthlessness." 



When ibhornly sets himself up in oppo- 



sition to the testimony of hundreds, we might almost 

 say thou have found it generally the case, 



that In .''oil ;t view of gaining popularity 



thereby, ot tag attention by his eccentricity. 



They only do mischief by leading astray beginners 

 and outsiders, foi thosi "< £ any practical experience 

 with tin.' Italiai ' tich an article, as they 



would one recommend discard horses and 



use ox i> am ii Bofl sides to a question is all 



very well, but 'twould be folly now to go over ground 

 so well tablisl 



We 

 Atlantii rfc aid b 111 ' »f tl 



mbjei ■ e to persist in 



it long : . . ' 



If there is a probability of agreeing on a standard 

 frame, can we not have also a standard hive ? 



We have just tilled an order for one as follows; 



From a board 14* inches wide, cut pieces 45 inch- 

 es long, two for each hive; straiten one edge of each 

 and then cut them square in two so as to make a 

 side and end from each respectively 15 3-S, and 30 in- 

 ches. Rabbet the ends of side pieces 3-8 by %, and 

 then cut off on a bevel from both sides and ends, 

 strips 1? 4 wide, these are to go around the cover. 

 Also bevel the lower edges of the body pieces at the 

 same time they are trimmed to an equal width, and 

 then rabbet the upper edge of all side pieces 1 by 3-S 

 for a place to hold the frames, and the body is ready 

 to nail. 'For a cover, cut from a board 1(5 3-8 inches 

 wide, pieces just length of side-pieces viz : 20 inches; 

 rabbet \ by 3-8 clear around and nail in aforemen- 

 tioned strips. See "Hives, to make," Vol. I. for more 

 explicit directions. Hinge the cover as you like, and 

 make a bottom-board in the same way or nail on • a 

 permanent one, for as this hive holds 20 Adair frames 

 it will probably never be used two-story. The prin- 

 cipal objection to it is, being obliged to carry the 

 whole into winter quarters; but if only just as much 

 honey can be secured with it, we dou^t see but we 

 had best make broader shelves and get some one to 

 help "lug 'em in," for they will be so much handier 

 for extracting, and our surplus comb can always be 

 kept right at" hand. What do our people say to try* 

 lug to see how near we can all agree on a stand aed 

 hive AND PRAMS. As Gallup has given us his opin- 

 ion on a frame. Mill he be so kind as to say as 

 much for a hive for it ? 



Directions for making Buzz-saws to . be run b y 

 foot power, with diagram of top of table will be giv- 

 en next month. 



l.OG ttSMHi&i 



5^j5?^ ID your queens hatched by artifical heat become 

 ;] :) fertilized ? If so and from" mothers of undoubted 

 *JL(> purity I should think they would, be very, desi- 

 rable, as of course there was much less probability of 

 their meeting black drones than those hatched natu- 

 rally. In one of your recent articles you speak' of a 

 ii ft v four cage queen nursery. Are they of different 

 sizes ? the only one I remember seeing advertised is 

 Mr. Davis's fof $5.00. How early do you think queens 

 could be safely sent from your apiary ? Our bees here 

 commence swarming so early that it would be almost 

 impossible to get them here by- that time. 



Anna Saunders, 

 Woodville, Miss. Dec. 12th, 1873, ™ ". • 

 All Queens (except some lost of course) 

 hatched by artificial heat became fertilized, ex- 

 cept three or four that were hatched, too late 

 to enable them to fly out. By keeping Italian 

 drones in queenless stocks, or by causing them 

 to be reared late by excessive feeding", we can 

 most assuredly secure greater probabilities of 

 having them purely fertilized. We. may re- 

 mark here that 'tis quite a. difficult matter to 

 induce drone rearing out of season ; we have 

 only succeeded once in so doing and that was 

 in Oct. 1872, when we gave" one colony a vhoh 

 barrel of syrup at once, arranged on the pi an 

 of the "tea-kettle feeder," giving .the combs t<-> 

 other colonies as fast as they -were fiHed and 

 sealed. A host of drones were reared and their 

 queen which was an old one, was 'siipersedvd ; 

 the young one becoming fertilizedand proving 

 1 rself one of our best this season. ■ 



gard to nurseries^: "We used one of Jewel 



*■ ' nted ones, side by side with one of 



' the past season, the latter pro- 



lightest. and most economical 



