1875. 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



VZ:i 



opened on tlie llth ami tlie l>ees store! lioney from 

 it lor live tliiys, wlien it ceiiscil to secrete lioney ami 

 our lioney havest was over for 1S75. We liave at 

 (late 108 colonies (but shall jro into winter wiih only 

 100) and liavi' taken 1^18 Ihs. box honey ami ;!() lbs. ex- 

 tracted, or a little over 1<n> His. to each of our 4(1 we.ak 

 colonies in tlie si)rin!;-. We sliouUl pjive, in refranl to 

 ^retting box honey, same directions we gave on page 

 IS.i. Vol. '2, and on pages 20 and tSS in-esenl Vol. 



We have rcduccil onr Standard CJallu)) hives all to 

 nine frames vet we think we have lioney enough in 

 them for winter, i. e. .r) lbs. each. We ha<l about 1:!(10 

 lbs. of buckwheat, and the rest was white. We have 

 sold our white honey here at '25 cts. per lb., and dark 

 at V>)i. l*erh;»ps we'eould have done better by hold- 

 ing it, hut as we were all torn \i\) luiilding, we .had no 

 l)lace to store it for any length of time. We are satis- 

 fied more than ever tliat what we said in regard to 

 profit in bee-keeping on page 135, Vnl. 2, was not over 

 estimated. " Ci. M. Doolitii.i:. 



Borodino, N. Y., Sep/. V,)fJu 'T"i. 



NOTES BY rilE WAY. 



BY A. I. HOOT. 



gSlEPT. 14th.— O/i, the ain^. E. C. Blakeslee 

 1^ informs lis thatiftlio comb loundations 

 are attached to the frames oiil}'- by the top, the 

 waves or bnlecs such as we have mentioned 

 when the frame is tilled, Avill be entirely obvi- 

 ated. Hives must be level, of course. 



Street, car. — Lady has basket, — bottle in it, 

 — asked to look at it ; — 2 lb. jar honey, — lalK-led 

 "Nunn Bros. & Co., Oberlin, O.," — cost 42c. re- 

 tail, — very thick and very white. 



Nortliern Ohio Fair. — Half a dozen patent 

 hives, all by one man who takes no Bee Jour- 

 nals, and who evidently tries to use as much 

 lumber and complication as possible, in their 

 construction. Some beautiful honey in the 

 Isham boxes, but no extracted. 



Dr. ^{tlisbun/^s been, — see page 134, Vol. 2, — 

 are suffering some for want of care, but are 

 now getting honey of a peculiar odor, so strong 

 .^s to make the air about the hive rather un- 

 jileasant. It has the appearance and caste of 

 golden rod, but the raw honey smells almost 

 sour. 



1 : 30 P. Jf. Jacl-son, Mrh.— Two hours to 

 wait for train — can't sit still — one-half hour 

 luintiug for J. Butler's residence — went to two 

 tiroceries and found only Perrine's honey at 

 about oOc per lb.— at thinl found golden rod 

 honey both box and extracted. — 30 and 20c — 

 walked 3 miles — dust and sun- — warm welcome 

 — cominencf'd dinner — saw liives through, the 

 ojien door — went out — beautiful autumn honej' 

 in boxes, ^fr. B. gets all his surplus now from 

 autumn flowers, yet got none ten years ago. 



Mr. B. has the turi" cut aw?y, and the hives 

 nicely sawdusted in front. 



Suspended hive has shown 9 lbs. per day. 

 Promises to tell us how he makes Italians make 

 comb lioney. Was kindly taken to the train at 

 a 2:40 pace and tlien found it a half hour 

 behind time. 



Michigan ! ]Micliigan I What seas of many 

 lined blosscnns, float before the open 

 window of our car. "\S'e never, never before 

 saw so mneli beauty. 



3:15 P. M. — Why does not some bee-keeper 

 util;7,e the acres of swamp land that are now a 

 yellow sea of flowers near Charlotte, Mich.V 



\lth — Pentir(iier.—\\'ii\'k(.'i\ 3 or 4 miles out 

 into the country to .see Mr. Stanhope. Found 

 the family all away, but had the pleasure of 

 seeiniT a multitude of hives scattered on a 



southern liillside amid a beautiful lot of line 

 tlirifty fruit trees. From the appearance of 

 many of Ihe new hives, Iiastilv scattered 

 about, we should infer tliat he to(j had had 

 abundant swarming. Mr. S. is situated in a 

 clearing in the midst of the wood, yet the com 

 fort and i)lenty that surround him, aside from 

 the hives, woukl make almost any one wish \u 

 be similarly situated. A bright looking hoe 

 stood near by us, and the clean rows of cab- 

 bages etc., and the dark light soil made w^ 

 long to get hold of it and help. After oir 

 trani]!, we found at tea, some btauliful bass- 

 wood honey in section frames, that came from 

 H. Palmer's Apiary; these sections were ex- 

 tremely neat, and the perfectly sealed honey, 

 the clean and tidy appearance of the whole 

 Avere a surprise even to us. 



ISth — Visited 3Ir. Palmer yesterday, and was 

 delighted to find that he is making the wild 

 flowers jviy in real earnest. 



Considerably over 100 neat tasty hives were 

 arranged hexngonally tibout his bee house, and 

 the heaps of neat sections full of the most 

 beautiful comb honey, have we fear almost 

 turned our head — i, e, toward comb honey. 



In the first place Mr. P. is a rare mechanic 

 and in this region of cheap lumber, his neat 

 foot-power buzz saw— far ahead of our own, 

 only he hasn't any wind-mill — is made to make 

 Simplicity, Standard, Quinby. and in fact al- 

 most all kinds of hives to a degree of perfec- 

 tion in workmanship, that is very far ahead of 

 anything we have ever done. Mr. P. has this 

 season been using about 7.") Quinby hives, 

 made with a frame the size of the Standard, 

 and he decides that for comb honey, and for 

 hiiuM'lf to manage, he would use them in j^lace 

 of any other. 



It is to be taken into account that he ha« 

 only used them one summer, and that witli his 

 workmanship they certainly are beautiful. 

 The sample hive Mr. Quinby sent us is not to 

 be rompared with his in workmanship. He 

 reasons thus ; the bits of comb built on the tojj 

 and around the combs of sus])endcd frame 

 hives, (that have to be constantly scraped off) in 

 time amount to as much wax as we loseiu 

 selling comb honey, and his light, neatly fitting 

 closed end frames entirely prevent all this. 

 This with the other advantages of the Q. frame 

 already mentioned, is certainly (|nite an item. 



The Harbison section frames illustrated on 

 page 8 current Vol., are just about like those 

 mentioned, except that he uses very thin lum- 

 ber, and they are sold with the honey, not to 

 be returned. We like this feature because the 

 consumer gets the cletm pine frame every time, 

 and we must say again, that nothing we have 

 ever seen, in the way of honey, can compare 

 with these pure clean S(|uare cakes of perfectly 

 sealed lioney, they are retailed frame and all, 

 for 35 cents. 



The fruit, vegetables, arrangement of the 

 barns, etc., about the residence so favorably 

 impressed us that we finally ejaculated, "It 

 must be friend P. that you take the Aimrican 

 Af/ricidturifit." "To be sure I do," said he, and 

 then we had a fresh topic. 



AVhile there we saw him offer :i colony of 

 bees for !'?12,50, or !*;l4.n0, if to be delivered in 

 good condition in the spring; making the risk 

 of wintering §1.50. 



