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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



of the animal heat of the hive, although the 

 actual cost did not exceed two dollars. Either 

 of these had to be lifted out of the hive to make 

 an examination, and to insert or take out cells 

 or queens, some of the little doors had to be 

 opened ; mischievous young bees had to be got 

 out or in etc.; but with the 54 cage nursery 

 we had no bees in the way at all, and a simple 

 rolling back of the cloth opened every cell or 

 queen to view at once. Now it would almost 

 seem that this latter arrangement should sat- 

 isfy every one, but in all these nurseries we are 

 at the mercy and caprice of the weather and 

 the outside cells would many times fail to 

 hatch. Artificial heat we found a perfect rem- 

 edy, and large yellow queens such as are ordi- 

 narily never seen only during our warmest 

 summer weather became the rule, and poorly 

 sized or colored ones the exception. 



Are we not right in considering the latter 

 plan in connection with our discovery that 

 queens just hatcfied could be "let loose" any 

 where, far in advance of any of the nurseries ? 



Now Miss, or Mrs. Anna, instead of telling 

 you how soon we can rear queens in Ohio, we 

 would most earnestly urge that you should 

 lend a hand. With the great advantages 

 of your southern clime you should be able to 

 rear a thousand queens in a season, which we 

 should consider a very fair income for a lady 

 to secure, especially as it may be done all at 

 her own home. We think we can send you 

 customers without charge for all you can pro- 

 duce. Somebody in the southern states must 

 rear queens, we don't see how we can get 

 along otherwise. 



We presume it will not be safe to calculate 

 on queens in our locality much before June 1st, 

 although we are going to try hard to "steal a 

 march" on the weather. In answer to a great 

 number of inquiries as to how soon we can 

 furnish from one to a dozen, we shall have to 

 say we can only promise to let you know when 

 they are ready. We book orders with or with- 

 out the money but the former always have the 

 preference, and none will be shipped until 

 paid for. 



I shall still continue to raise dollar queens, so yon 

 may put me down in your li6t, I want to raise 500 at 

 least and will more if I can. I E Daniels, Lodi, Ohio. 



I will undertake to rear queens tor Si .00, under the 

 conditions yo» name. Dr. J. P. H. Brown. 



Augusta. Ga. 



Glad to add your names to our list. Several 

 have asked if we could sell 50 or 100 at one 

 time, any cheaper. We should say no, not even 

 1000. We will give a list of the "Volunteers" 

 in the "cause" when the season opens. 



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HAVE 1000 lbs. of extracted honey that I would 

 like to sell at 20c. 



R. Wilkin, Cadiz, O. 



We clip the following from an article from 

 "E. A." in the Cincinnati Commercial. 



A little time .ago my friends the Quintuses bought 

 some honey. The grocer had two kinds of honey- 

 strained honev sealed up In a bottle, and honey in the 

 comb, in a little square wooden frame, just as the bees 

 made it. [The bees never saw the other.] With vis- 

 inns of the delicious strained honey of his grandmoth- 

 er's time before his eyes, Quintus bought a bottle of 

 the stuff called strained honey, and carried it home 

 rejoieiug. The grocer warranted it to be puro strain- 



ed honey. The Quintuses proceeded to unbottle it 

 and pour it over the morning buckwheat cakes— sc 

 delightful, you know, buckwheat cakes and honey, 

 nothing's like 'em. Alas for the honeyed hopes of 

 humanity! Quintus' strained honey was sweetened 

 water. Quintus had paid forty cents per pound for 

 water. Maybe water'll be worth that much before 

 the new Water-works are built, but it's nothing like 

 so high as that now. Quintus tried it again. He 

 wouldn't give it up. The second time he bought the 

 comb honey, in the little wooden frame. This sort of 

 honey, comb and all, was worth fifty cents per pound. 

 Quintus was surprised at that. The grocer had as- 

 sured him that the strained honey was the simon-pure 

 article. Now, if that was pure honey, how on earth 

 could the bee-keeper afl'ord the labor of crushing the 

 comb, straining it out, buying the cork and bottle, 

 putting the honey into the bottle, and sealing it up, 

 and then sell it ten cents per pound cheaper than he 

 sold it before he took it out of the comb. Quintus has 

 been studying the problem ever since, and he can't, 

 get it through his head yet. He hereby submits the 

 question to all grocers and bee-keepers for their con- 

 sideration. Quintus bought the little frame of honey, 

 though. The grocer weighed it to see how much 

 honey there was. He put a large piece of heavy 

 brown paper upon the scales first; then he wrapped 

 the frame of honey up iu a quantity of other paper; 

 then he weighed the whole together— paper, pine 

 frame and honey. It weighed a pound and a half, if 

 I am not mistaken. The grocer said there was a 

 pound and a half of honey. Thus he sold brown pa- 

 per and pine wood at the "rate of fifty cents per pound, 

 Quintus has noticed since, and he finds that his gro- 

 cer sells all his brown paper in mnch the same way. 

 Quintus thinks of setting up in the grocery line arid 

 selling brown paper at titty cents a pound. 



Cannot some one set " E. A." on her feet 

 with her face turned in the right direction? 

 She evidently "means well." If she will give 

 us her address we'll send her ajar of" strained" 

 honey, equal to " grandmother's." 



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