1374 



GLEANINGS IN BEE cri/rUHE. 



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they have had Vol. 1., also; ami if fig. 7, precedes 

 the 3, it means they have both the Photo., and Vol. 1., 

 in order that we may know in answering any inqui- 

 ries a subscriber may make, what he has at hand to 

 •enable us to make our answers fully understood, with 

 out going to too great length in writing him. 



'Tis no very difficult matter to make any of the 

 bives you may have in use, over into the New Idea 

 plan. All that is necessary is to remove one side 

 from two of them and fasten them together side by 

 side. The covers and bottom-boards can be united 

 weather proof by the strips of tin mentioned on page 

 .S9. Make the joints air-tight, and then make them 

 look as well as you can with paint. Although, 'tis 

 true, new hives just as we want them are rather 

 nicer, yet many feel as if they cannot aflbrd to throw 

 •si way their old ones, and wc must avoid paying cash 

 out, certainly, if we are .going to make the business 

 self sustaining. 



Evert day brings reports from different localties, 

 of successful wintering; those wintering in doors and 

 out, on sugar syrup and natural stores, with old bees 

 or young, upward ventilation and lower, and even 

 with stores entirely unsealed, both of honey and syrup, 

 in fact under almost all circumstances, seem alike 

 to have been successful. Can we not all join togeth- 

 er in a feeling of gratitude and thankfulness, without 

 stopping to quarrel over who was right and who was 

 wrong. One friends who feel inclined to be so very 

 sure they have found the bottom of the matter, should 

 remember that where all have succeeded, nothing is 

 proved. [Since the above was written a Jew losses 

 have been reported.] 



"Wur, Mrs. Tupper!" Is it possible your bees 

 «teo object to using combs transferred in a different 

 position from the one in which they were built? 



We have for years used the combs cut from tall box 

 hives, turned down horizontally, and transferred at 

 one time the combs from 30 American hives to the L,. 

 lrames, turning a half of every comb. We have many 

 times also for experiment turned deep store combs 

 upside down, and they tilled them with honey right 

 speedily. 



Again, our Iicvolvable and Reversible friend Price, 

 lias a hive that admits of being revolved every few 

 days to make the bees labor more industriously. 



We haven't heard from him at all since his contro- 

 versy with Dadant. Where are you friend P. ? 



It's a funny way, some people have of abusing 

 {mother in print, and then apologizing by letter. It 

 certainly makes it all square, and perfectly satisfac- 

 tory, besides being soothing to the feelings. 



It often reminds us of the woman of Irish birth, 

 who after having sold a heavy silver watch case to a 

 Jeweler, and got the money carefully knotted in a 

 corner other handkerchief, remarked exultingly, 



" And it was my Jemmj as stole the watch from 

 one of the 'b'yes' at school, he did." 



" Stole it did you say ? " replied the alarmed Jewel- 

 er, extending the watch back toward her. 



"Ah, faith and bejabers and didn't I larrup him 

 well for it? It's all right." And off she marched 

 triumphantly, leaving the Jeweler to moralize on her 

 « ay of easing ones conscience. 



We shall really be obliged to state for the benefit of 

 a thoughtless few, that our large supply of the differ- 

 ent No's of Vol. l, cost us considerable money, and we 

 cannot give them to those who did not subscribe for 



them. We value complimentary letters where we 

 think them sincere, but when they wind up with a 

 request for something of which they have omitted the 

 necessary remuneration for the cost of getting up, 

 we have a kind of feeling that we would regard the 

 enclosure of the modest little sum of 75c. as the high 

 est compliment that can possibly be paid Gleanings. 

 We l-eally shall have to make it something this way: 

 .Sample numbers, our choice, tree ; your choice 10c. 

 each. 



Of course we shall always think it a pleasure to 

 furnish our regtdar sitbsem'bers with missing No's, or 

 to replace any they may have loaned or soiled in pro* 

 curing subscriptions, ,/W'e of charge. 



MR. Moon takes nearly a page to show that we pro* 

 nounced the introduction of virgin Queens risky, but 

 afterward discovered it to be much easier than the in- 

 troduction of fertile Queens. Mr. M. also states that it 

 was well known before, which we are very happy to 

 hear, for he certainly has faith then in a matter we ex- 

 pect to have stubbornly contested. For instance : In 

 .B. K. 31. for March, Mr. King replies to a correspond- 

 ent who asks if t'will do to introduce Queens as soon as 

 hatched, in the following prompt and ready manner: 

 "No. Bees are more inclined to kill unfertile Queens" 

 Now friend M. you will do us quite a lavor if you 

 will show Mr. K. his error. 

 "Our Discovery." Well 'twas substantially this : 

 A Queen newly hatched will treat the first bees she 

 meets as if they were of her own family, and they in 

 turn either pay no attention to her, or treat her kindly ; 

 but if she has been with the bees of any particular hive 

 long enough to get acquainted (even for one hotir) she 

 will act as an intruder among any other bees, and will 

 be liable to be stung. Had Mr. M. been over our ex- 

 periments detailed in Vol. 1, he might not have misun- 

 derstood our remarks. We would like to add that the 

 World is improving, but we find seventeen distinct er- 

 rors in spelling, punctuation etc., in the editorial re- 

 ferred to. Mr. M. may be an excellent practical Api- 

 arist, nevertheless. 



Every good housewife, is supposed to know 

 how to serve up honey for food without any 

 instruction, and all are familiar with its fit- 

 ness for warm biscuit, or hot buckwheat cakes, 

 but we beg leave to suggest a dish, in our opin- 

 ion far superior to either, and certainly more 

 wholesome. Get some clean nice wheat, the 

 best you can find, have it ground so coarsely 

 that the grains are just broken, in fact we call 

 it "cracked wheat" ; a common coffee mill set 

 very coarsely will grind a sample for you to 

 try, but in our family nothing short of that 

 " everlasting windmill " could begin to supply 

 the demand. Boil it thoroughly with just 

 enough water to allow it to turn out of a dish 

 W T hen cold, like jelly. To serve, cut it in slices 

 and warm it in the oven until it will melt but- 

 ter nicely, pour on plenty of clover honey and 

 we leave the matter wdth you, we are done. 



Yet stay ! It only costs per lb, just one half 

 the price of wheat flour, and if you wish to 

 " hold out" till noon on a heavy day's work 

 that must be done before that time, try it. 



I have 250 lbs comb honey, mostly basswood— want 

 25c. for it, here. J. F. Temple, Kidgeway, Mich. 



I have about 1400 lbs ext'd honey, from golden rod' 

 buckwheat and boneset; I am offered 13c. but want 15* 



Feb. 24th 1874. James Heddon, Dowagiac, Mich. 



