1879 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUKE. 



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loii^ as the end bars are, inside measure. 

 As these sticks are to stand flatwise and 

 have comb built right over them, we will dip 

 them in melted wax, before standing them 

 in the frame, as shown in the cut. If of the 

 right length, they will make the top bar just 

 perceptibly crowning. "When loaded with a 

 heavy weight of honey, they are expected to 

 be straight. 



Before putting in the fdn., we will put in 

 the light, upright wires of which there are 6, 

 3 on each side of the waxed upright. Draw 

 them up as tight as a fiddle string, if yon 

 like ; it can do no harm. To put in the 

 wire, we fasten it to the bottom bar, then 

 put it up through the first hole, bring it 

 along the upper surface of the top bar and 

 down through the next hole, and so on, fas- 

 tening the last end under the bottom bar. 

 Now cut the fdn., exactly the size of the in- 

 side of the frame ; if it is a little full, it will 

 do no great harm. Warm the sheet in the 

 sun, lay it on the wires, and rub it down 

 with the little roller figured last month, and 

 you will have combs that are perfectly 

 straight and true, and yet you can throw 

 them on the floor when only one day old, 

 and it will not harm them. Furthermore, 

 frames Idled with fdn. can be put in hives, 

 or shipped in a crate, ready to hive swarms 

 on, without fear or solicitude. Great num- 

 bers of losses have been reported, every sea- 

 son, from combs having broken down in hot 

 weather ; and in buying bees this present 

 season, whole colonies have been killed by 

 the breaking down of a single comb. 



For sucli frames complete, all tilled with 

 fdn., fastened in, our price will be, for the 

 present, 15c or $14.00 per hundred. The 

 same in the flat, each 2 cts. less. 



Pertaining to Bee Ciiltxii^e. 



[We respectfully solicit the aid of our friends in 

 conducting this department, and would consider it a 

 favor to have them send us all circulars that haye a 

 deceptive appearance. The greatest care will he at 

 all times maintained to prevent injustice being done 

 any one.] 



MITCHELL STILL AT HIS OLD TRICKS. 



!dLL you please send me your honey extract- 

 y or, N.>. li, c. O. T). I ordered our from N. C. 



>4'W Mitchell, the first of March, to be sent in the 

 same way: he wrote me that he never sent goods in 

 that way, hut if I would send the money, he would 

 Bend me the extractoron the receipt or it. I sent 

 him the money, and thai is the last of X. C. Mitchell. 

 I can neither hear from him nor get my money or 

 extractor. Please send it immediately, on receipt 

 of this, for you know the goods sent CO. T). are 

 ju8t as sure for the money, as if you had it in ad- 

 vance. Josiah Pekkv. 



P. s. — N. C. Mitchell acknowledged the receipt of 

 the money. I wouldlike you to ventilate him in 

 your journal, so he will not swindle any one else. 



Covington, Ga., .June 2, 1879. J. P. 



Bless your heart, friend P., we have ven- 

 tilated Mitchell almost ever since GLEAN- 

 INGS had an existence, but it seems he con- 

 tinually finds some unfortunate like your- 

 self who does not take the journals. !No 

 honest dealer should refuse to send goods 

 ('.(>. P.. if his customer prefers to bear the 



additional expense of sending his money in 

 that way. Those who are willing to incur 

 this expense for the sake of seeing their 

 goods before handing over their money 

 should certainly be accommodated, and we 

 send our work out almost constantly in that 

 way. It always pays to take the journals ; 

 do you not see it V 



I drop you this card in reference to the division 

 board that is used in hives, whether there is a pat- 

 ent on them or not. There is a man here who says 

 that he has a patent On them. He has sold one or 

 two rights. A good many of us are using them. 

 He says he is going to prosecute those that are us- 

 ing them, and I want to know what to do about it. 



W. H. Burris. 



Spencer, Ind., June 19, 1879. 



I can only repeat what I have said month 

 after month, that one who claims to have a 

 patent on division boards is a most bare- 

 faced swindler, and only expects to scare 

 folks into paying him money, without a 

 thought of trying to prosecute. Either pay 

 no attention to him at all, or treat him as 

 a highway robber. 



INTRODUCING QUEENS BY "RILE." 



AND THEN SHUTTING THE HIVE AND "LETTING THEM 

 ALONE." 



fjWO letters just now handed me, will 

 show the rashness of decidii 



deciding that it is 

 ever safe to follow special directions 

 and then let them alone. 



That queen came all right; but I had a hard time 

 to get the bees to accept her. It took about nine 

 days to get her in, but she is all right now. She has 

 commenced laying all right. D. Baldwin. 



Baldwin, Ohio, June 11, 1879. 



I received my queens the 30th of May. They were 

 in good order, everything being all right as far as I 

 know. But that was not the worst of it; they came 

 when I could not get away from my work (I work in 

 a basket shop and cannot always get away when I 

 want to). I tried three days to get one swarm to 

 take one queen, and could not make them own her. 

 I got her all daubed with honey, then I took two 

 frames of hatching brood from my only swarm that 

 had a queen, and put it in a hive, picked out about 

 50 young bees, and put bees, queen, and brood to- 

 gether; I took them into the kitchen and have kept 

 them by the fire ever since. The other one I tried 

 one day longer and then served her the same. I 

 think if I could have had time (of my own) that I 

 should have made the bees own them. I set them 

 in the sun day times, and keep them by the fire 

 nights. They are both laying. One has about a 

 quart of bees, and the other half as many. I have 

 taken out of my best swarm two frames of brood to 

 keep my queenless ones along, 2 frames each for 

 my Italian queens, transferred them from an'old 

 hive to a new one, and yesterday, June 8th,[,they 

 gave out a large swarm— as much as a peck of bees. 

 I had them in a hive and at work in less than one 

 hour after they commenced coming out. of ^the old 

 hive. How is that for an A B C scholar ? 



Guy Clark. 



Bellows Falls, Vt., June 9, 1879. 



It is just right, my friend. If your bees 

 decline to accept the queen you wish them 

 to have, it is your "beesiness,"to?'m<At'them 

 accept her. 



