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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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<ine not wanting it. wc shall take it i'or granted that 

 uU who do not remit before Jan. 1st, wlsli it discon- 

 tinued, and no one need ever talce the Iroublc to write 

 lis if they wish it stopped. The same with Oiiu 

 Homes; ye.u can all tell by this time whether you 

 will desire it for next year; if you do, r^'init tlio extra 

 i'> cents, before Jan- 1st, atid tell us what pi-escut you 

 wish. 



A I'ltETrv little volvnnc, entitled "A Manual of Bee- 

 Keeping,'" by John Kunter, England, has jvist been 

 (issued. Although it is iu many respects not quite 

 adapted to the habits and customs of "Young Anier- 

 joa," yet we have been very much iileased indeed 

 with it, and take pleasure in adding it to our book list. 

 The chapter on making comb fouuilations will be rea<l 

 with niucli interest, as also the one on making candy 

 -"IJarley sugar" our English cousins are pleased to 

 term it. Uy the way friend Hunter says that for guide 

 ■combs for boxes, or' for any place where either drone 

 ■i)r worker comb will do, sheets of jilain unembossed 

 wax are just as good. Who has tried this.^ We will 

 mail the book for 5^1.50. 



ALTHorcK reports in ipneral are strongly in favor 

 of in-door wintering, iu our own locality the matter 

 lias many exceptions. A friend has just been in, who 

 keeps from 20 to 30 always on their summer stands, 

 and uses neither quilt nor honey board. The upper 

 story is their only protection and as these are by no 

 sueans tight, they have ventilation until they can al- 

 most see the stars twinkle overhead on a frosty win- 

 ter's night. Do they die r Not at all. and yet his 

 neighbors wlio have kept theirs in their nice cellars 

 •uid bee houses have lost so badly, that they are giving 

 -aj) the business in des])air. Now we do not mean to 

 advise such a course, but we would like to hear trom 

 those who have made similar experiments : was it tlie 

 ■hair, the straw mats, tlie double walls, the corn fod- 

 der, etc., ttiat sav«d your bees? or would tlie.v have 

 Mved equally well with good stores and nothing over 

 them at all?" 



[Cuudnurd fri>,H Index jjugc.^ 



Iiiil)]*.'!!!*-'!!!!-; for the Apiary; Apr. Sui>plement 



Iiiipoi'lt'tl t^iK^eii.s; Dadant »'t ^in 



r*aiiit. Averill Chemical; Jan. to .Dec. 



l*olatoow. A. J. Fisher; Oct. 



Poultry. J). E. Moore; June. 



rolltjii riants. J. r, McElrath; A]ir. Slay; & Oct. 



I'c-i'iotlic^al?^. JJingham's Agency; Jan. to 

 Sept. H. A. King; .Jan. to Apr. Bee World; Jan. to 

 Dec. Fruit Kec<i}-dvr; Jan. Am. Bec-Jmrrmd; Jan to 

 Dec. Bee-kcrprr's M<ujazine; Jan. to Dec. SoutJiern 

 Farmer; .Tail. & Feb. Ohio Farmer; Feb. & Mar. 

 Prairie Farmer; Oct. Geo. O. Tompkins; Dec. J. H. 

 Nellis Dec. 



Queens,. < i. AV. Dean; Jan. to Dec. 11. S. Beck- 

 teli: Jan. to April. ,"\I. K. McMastci; Fob. to Dec. J. 

 Oatnian <t Co.; Mar. to l>ec. Eli Coble; Fob. to Dec. 

 V. (;ould & Co.; Apr. to June. Dr. W. i'. Moore; Apr. 

 to.7une, .7. M. (,'. Tavlor; Apr. to Seia. iSarnum & 

 l»evton; 3Iay to ./ulv." A. -T Weidner; JMay to Oct. J. 

 If.'Nellif; June to bept. JI. Nesbit; July to Sejit. S. 

 F. Newman; July. J. Shaw & Son; July. H. Alley 

 Aug. .7. S. Woo'dburn; Sept; & Oct: J^os; M; Brooks 

 Oct; to Dec ; 



tlasi>l»«j'w. Thos. J. Ward; Aj))-. 



f-<ee<:ls. D. II. Stair & Co. ; Feb. & Mar. ./. Vick ; 

 Mar. to Sept. JJeach. Son & Co. ; Mar. to Sept. Seed 

 Ware House ; Nov. & I>ec. 



lloii«->- .J iii'.>i;. Ch. F. Muth ; year ; i!. D, Fah- 

 tr.stock ; ,/inie to Dec. 



lIon«y 1»U3 lit w. Kruschke Bros : Mar & Apr. 

 •"' Ti^'t'.-i. A A Battles ; .7an to Mar ; 



'■fC Green ; Mar to June. 



Iloiiey I^oxew- Barkers Dicer; Apr. to J'un. 



Cai'tlsi'^ U. M. Clark; April & Dec. A. Snow; 

 Julv. W. W. Adams ; Jul v. 



Catnip We<'<!. J. I^. Wolfendeu'; Jan. to 

 Mar. A A. Uico : .Jan. to June. 



Jl-3nix>t>' tJ'<>jiiT>. J. H. Martin ; Apr. to June. 

 D. L. Scott ■; May. 



I^ln^ra-viiijv, Miss E. S. Fuller ; Dec. 



x::xti'a«~t<> !•!-;. A. I. Root ; Sept. 



l^ariii. U. M. Dale ; July & Aug. 



J'^'eetler. ( . C. VanDeusen ; Apr. to June. 



<»la>:w <f 'ut t <-v. G. O.Tompkins: Feb. a Dec. 



IH>-«'!-. Geo, T. Wheeler; .Ian. to Aug. ; Clias F. 

 Mutli ; vcar : Kevcs .V: Finn : Miw: to -Mav ; D. B. Scott 

 iMav : j1 II. Martin Mav ,.S: June : Wni D. /ell June to 

 Nov. 



'l^r'N planting grai;c vines for shading bee stands, how 

 i«|i far ai)an should the rows be, that a trout row will 

 -r-': not iiinder easy access to stands in the rear? 



Out- own nrv. ;il)Oiit T)' , IW'X^ and wo \\m\ am- 

 ple room for working;. The vines are feet 

 aiitift iu the i-ov;s, which brings the hives feet 

 from centre to centre in ;cll directions. Sec 

 Litiioiiraph. 



Is a hive after slyh; of Jiangstroth witli <le(ul air 

 sjHJce for protecti(»i, worth tlie exti-a cost of making 

 over thin liives of inch stufl:-' 



J. N. Whitk, Wolf Creek, I'a. 



Double walled hives have not proved any 

 better than those of siur^ie walls, wv. !K.'lieve, 

 althouifh they have been warndy advocated 

 I'or a time. Many experiracuts have been made, 

 and some are still iu progress. 



Will bees work in metal or paper combs, if made 

 nearly perfect ? 



They will work in combs n)ade of metal 

 when coated with wax, as Mr. Quinby demon- 

 strated ; but they are very apt to pick at jia- 

 per, and linally tear it entirely out. We have 

 combs in use that are l)uilt on a very thin pa- 

 per, dipped in wax aiul pressed iu dies to 

 stamj) the bottom of the cells. 



Enclosed find a sami)le, plucked to-day, of what !. 

 consider the best honey plant for this year. Name it. 

 Blooms Irom Aug. till iirst of Nov. 



M. S. Ki.M^r. Sherman. Texas. 

 Order, Composif(r, ; family, Bollotiin ; species, 

 Diffusid. Wo confess that the foregoing do(»s 

 not give ns a large amount of information iu 

 the matter, even if it was pointed out to us in 

 the Botany. The plant probably is peculiar to 

 your southern country ; it more nearly resem- 

 bles some species of our Golden rod, than any- 

 thing else we know of. 



I had one swarm on ni^- scales which gathered. Iniilt 

 comb, and stored honej- in small frames, at the rate of 

 &% lbs. i)er day, for several days. 



Albeut Potter, Eureka, Wis. 



KEPLY TO JAMES HEDUOX. 



I commenced with 55 out of 100 and increased to lOn. 

 Bate and early frosts made this a poor season. 1 took 

 lOCO lbs. box honey, '2()00 lbs. extracted, and ilO. worth 

 bees-wax. I rec'd for all 85.35,uo. My out-goes arc 

 $^100,00 interest on amount invested, lo'davs work at; 

 S2.0(),— SfiO.cO, honey boxes S20.U0, leavin.s me $:ijr).00 

 l)rolit. Corn is 20 cts. and potatoes 12 '^ cts. !)er bushel, 

 lean raise a pound of box honey with le^s exiiensc 

 than a bushel of corn, and onejiound cf extracted 

 honey for less than a bushel of potatoes. One season 

 with another, I can make more from one stand of bees, 

 than from a cow or an acre of ground. 



D.JJ.J?ALMEU, Eliza, Ills. 



Our bees are ready for winter, 50 colonies in num- 

 ber; though we had to take up i)erfectly ])ure swarms 

 to do it. You wished for a report of my daughter's 

 one hive. This hiv(!, kept for box lioney- last year, 

 was crammed full of bees in the fall and wintereil ex- 

 cellently. We made an artificial swarm from it in 

 April, and have from it, 5 full and 1 nucleus swarms. 



Sold 150 lbs. of honey iu comb for SoU.OO. and six 

 pure queens for £-12.00. The new swarms would be 

 worth S50.00, all making total profit SiJ2.00. 



' ^ DavI!*, Delhi. Mich. 



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miirtR. A. I. BOOT:— In reply to yours of the 28th, 

 ^^s■(n wc would say we do not wish to buy any ex- 

 ^/^ tracted honey, as it is mostly used to manufac- 

 ture counterfeit honev to be peddled about the city. 



B. H. Stair &"Co., Cleveland, O., Oct. 29th, '75. 



Very likely this is the case in almost all cit- 

 ies, and if so, what is to be done about it ? In 

 Dio Lewis' book entitled "Our Digestion,' ho 

 advises that we bu}- only comb honey, as the 

 liquid is always adulterated. A friend, in 



