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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Sept. 



the house, so that we eould sell pieces of brood 

 without opeuiuy the hives iu the rain — it 

 laius every dciy thin summer, here. Now, not- 

 withstaucUnii- vre have cut out nearly all the 

 l)rood sold from this colony — she has always 

 seemed to have more to spare than the other, 

 and besides, her (Queens are lighter colored, 

 but this last is pernaps an accidental quiility, 

 — she has so tilled her 10 frames with bees that 

 they need more room, and what do you suppose 

 we are going to do ":' We are going to put over 

 tiie colony some of those nice boxes, made all 

 of glass and tin, and pnt in guide combs of the 

 new foundations, and see how the foundations 

 aro going to answer f(jr box honey. We liave 

 never fed this colony until (juite lately, but 

 v/e now propose to give them a chance. The 

 feeder used will be the tin trough, made wide 

 euongh for 'three frames to hang in it. Were 

 it not for the inconvenience of tilling this, we 

 might thinlv it in danger of superseding the 

 Universal feeder, but with the movable sule as 

 we have the hives in the house Apiary, this 

 oi))ection is partially remedied. By taking a 

 little trouble to fix the hives for it, it may be 

 the most desirable feeder after all. 



Auff. 2(ith. — Thirteen Queens hatched last 

 night in the nursery, and the funniest part of 

 it is, that ten of them were running around to- 

 gether, sometimes clustering like bees, yet not 

 a Queen v/as injured iu the least. The only 

 way we can account for this at all is, that there 

 were uo worker bees present. If you think 

 these Queens were not strong and lively, you 

 should have seen them run when we attempted 

 to catch them in order to cage them. 



Aiig. 28th. — Our Apiary is now composed of 

 107 col — beg panlon, hives with bees in 'em. 

 We are perfectly well awai'e that it is very 

 poor economy to make colonies, and then have 

 a large per cent of them die before another sea- 

 son, but the Queens /r on Id hatch, and the bees 

 would increase so their hives wouldn't hold 

 them, and because we pitied (V) them we have 

 made the above increase. We intend to select 

 the best Queens, and unite them down to 100 

 or less. 



Gleanings in Bee Culture, 



JPiablisIicd Woiatlily, 



-A.. X. E,OOT_ 

 EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR 



MEDINA, OHIO. 



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[fncludiiKj Postage.] 

 For Club Bates see Last Page. 



iva:EiDinsr.A-, seipt. i, ists. 



ir any man will do liis will, hu shall know ol' llio 

 (loctiiuo, whether it be of God, or whether I spuak of 

 uiyseir.— John, vli, 17. 



FuiKNJ) Miith gave (Urections for cleaning lioncy 

 jar.s with sal-soila anil shot ; our compositor got the 

 last article "salt." 



Now is the time to feed for winter if an)- sucli work 

 is to be done. Bee.s 7imst be got in condition so that 

 they can be let alone when frosty w'eather comes. 



Tn(^sE who are still fussing willi moth-miller.^ 

 should compare the letter on i)age 105, with the one 

 from tlie same gentleman on page 117 of this number. 

 His experience is only one among thousands of simi- 

 lar cases. 



Tkn cents jiostage must be paid on (Queens and all 

 implements etc., going to Canada, and tlie weight 

 must not exceed 8 oz. Tlie jJOotage on letters, papers 

 and books, are the same as our rates, but merchandise 

 is as above. 



Some one of our number wrote that if a small hole be 

 puncheil in tlie lower end of the (^uinby smoker to let 

 in air, the tire would not go out so i-eadily ; since our 

 own has got "rickety." it does not trouble iis as it for- 

 merly did, iu that way. 



A sifDBEX flocd of honey— in some cases the lirst 

 of tlie season— has come to our Western friends, and 

 now they are writing to know what they shall do 

 when the combs are all full, and the honey too thin to 

 extract. Give them a larger hive and more empty 

 con\bs, and see page 90. 



I'Eun.^i'S aomc of our correspondents will rejoice to 

 know tliat we liave procured a Type- Writer, and that 

 hereafter all that we attemj)! to say on postals, will be 

 printed. AVe have not yet decided whether to hitch 

 it to the "wind-mill," but it will have to stand some 

 "wear and tear," at all events. It cost 1125.00. 



Mil. W. W. Martin, Catlin, Vermillion Co., Ills., 

 has been purchasing Sl.oo Queens and selling them as 

 tested at six dollars each. Much is due friend Nesbit, 

 of Cynthiana, Ky., for ferreting out the fraud, as he 

 thereby loses what might have been a iirotitable cus- 

 tomer. It will probably pay the bee-keepers in Mr. 

 Martin's neighborhood, to take a Bee Journal. 



On another column we have stated pretty positively 

 that bees never start (^Uuien cells when they have a 

 Queen, but to-day we found a whole cluster of cells 

 where we had put a Queen yesterday. As we were 

 about to put in another (iueen, we observed the for- 

 mer one striding over the half made cells very mncli 

 as if she had a deep interest iu the proceedings. Our 

 opinion is that they had not yet noticed she was a 

 Queen, as slie was put in when "newly hatche<l. 



Fkiesi) Marvin, of St. Charles, Ills., hasn't given uj) 

 bees by any means, and he now reports such an enor- 

 mous crop that there would hardly have been room 

 for it in the lioney column, had it been in time. 

 Should we give the number of tons, everybody would 

 be moving there, as they are to Point Coupee, La.. 

 since Parian ge reported iii tlie liee World, that he had 

 got u)) to his 49th barrel— .")00 lbs. each— and that he 

 had not got through yet. Who makes the next great 

 Se,nsation ? 



The cheapest way to send the comb foundations, 

 where less than 5 lbs. is wanted, in general, will be 

 by mail. Will not Mr. Long make some such ar- 

 rangement to save our friends such expensive express 

 charges ? Again, it is iinite a task to piece them 

 together to till our frames ; we vuist have them made 

 so that a single sheet wilHill a frame. Our plan of 

 fastening them in the frames is to cut a board to tit 

 iiicel\' inside the frame, and then to nail stojis on the 

 edge "so that it will just go into the frame half way. 

 I-ii3' on your wax sheets and run a hot iron arountl 

 the eilge, and it is fastened exactly as we want it. 

 The bees always bulge the combs'iu an undesirable! 

 way where the joints in (lie sheets occur. 



Ql'EEN.S, ltB'KKIES,.lETC!. 



[^>>']|nL Queen from Dadant is dark, hut I like her 

 jS|[ very mucli ; her daughters are very prolific. It 

 ^r^ is fun to take out the comb ijhe is oil, and see her 

 lay eggs as if there was nothing wrong. She is very 

 quiet on the combs, just the kind I wanted. The 



