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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 



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KEADY FOR WINTER. 



'E have had a poor honey season, on account 

 of the drouth. I had 16 stocks in spring', 

 in Simplicity and chaff hives, and have tak- 

 en 5001b. section box honey, and increased to 24. 

 They are in good condition for winter, except that 

 they are not very heavy with honey, and may need 

 some feeding in the spring. They are all packed 

 with chaff division hoards on each side, and cushions 

 cm top, of frames. R. I. Barber. 



Bloomington, 111., Oct. 10, 1819. 



IMPORTANCE OF ANSWERING .A T.I. LETTERS PROMPTLY 

 11Y RETURN MAIL. 



Every thing you send conies promptly. I have 

 sent to parties not 200 miles from here, when the 

 same mail that carried your orders carried theirs, 

 and received your acknowledgement first. 



Samuel Griscom. 



Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 21, 1879. 



HONEY CAUSING SICKNESS. 



Do you know of any receipt that will prevent 

 strained honey from causing sickness (I mean when 

 used in moderation)? 



[.Nothing, unless scalding will help it. By the use 

 of the extractor we can keep the different kinds of 

 honey separate, and those who find it difficult to eat 

 one kind will often find another to agree with them 

 perfectly.] 



SCALDING TO PREVENT CANDYING. 



Also will scalding it prevent its candying? 



[Scalding- will liquefy all candied honey, but it will 

 soon candy again, if exposed to cold, unless it is her- 

 metically sealed while hot, according to the direc- 

 tions given in A B C] 



HONEY YIELD IN OCT. IN VIRGINIA. 



The honey yield is just commencing', and the little 

 fellows have filled every cell this last week. 



John Williams, Englishman. 



Barton's Creek, Va., Oct. 30, 1879. 



Lit really does me good, to hear of a honey yield in 

 October, in any part of the world where Gleanings 

 goes.] 



REPORT FROM AN A B C SCHOLAR. 



I commenced with 4 colonies, and increased to 9 

 the first year. The next, I increased to 21; and this 

 year, increased to 49 and took 700ft. of extracted 

 honey, ami 300ft. of comb honey. I winter on sum- 

 mer stand, packed in chaff, and have never lost by 

 wintering. While % of all the bees exposed in the 

 old box hives perished in my neighborhood, last win- 

 ter, mine came through all right, and I had a swarm 

 May 5th. My plan is to increase by dividing, in 

 which 1 have always succeeded. 



Francis Danzenbaker. 

 Gettysburg-, Penn., Oct. 13, 1879. 



ANOTHER REPORT FROM CANADA. 



The weather is warm like summer. Gnats were 

 biting me this morning before it was light. What a 

 pity we could not have had such weather in Sept. 

 It was so cool then the bees did not get much honey 

 from golden rod or other fall flowers. Our whole 

 surplus was from fruit blossoms and white clover; 

 basswood only yielded a taste. This has been the 

 poorest season I ever knew; still we have taken 401b. 

 surplus to each old stock, and 1 have sold nearly 100 

 queens. Ila Michener. 



Low Banks, Out., ('a., Oct. 7, 1879. 



[Pretty well for a bad season, friend Ila, but how 

 does it come that D. A. Jones gives such a good re- 

 port? 1 presume his good fortune does not extend 

 all over Canada.] 



THE NEW PLAN OF INTRODUCING QUEENS. 



After 1 received the August number of Glean- 

 ings, I tried your plan of introducing queens, and 

 was perfectly successful. I think that will prove to 

 be a better way than the old plan of caging them 24 

 to 48 hours. O. A. HOAG. 



West Union, Mo., Aug. 10, 1879. 



introducing queens. 



I received the queens the 4th inst., and have re- 

 leased her every day since, except the two Sundays, 

 and, to-day, after having been several times "ball- 

 ed", she was accepted and is laying. The native 

 queen proved to be a very small one, really not as 

 large as a worker. Hence the trouble to find her. 



C. C. Shipp. 



Spring Dale, Miss., Oct. 13, 1879. 



[Depend upon it, my friends, this is the only way 

 we can succeed with stubborn colonies. The' plan's 

 often given, of allowing the bees to liberate the 

 queen, caging her on the brood and letting them 

 gnaw her out, &e., will all fail when you get a colony 

 like the one mentioned above.] 



OUT OF PRINT(?). 



Can your book, known as the "A BO of Bee Cul- 

 ture," be obtained any where in New York City? I 

 have inquired for it of the O. Judd Co., and Ameri- 

 can News Co., and they say it is out of print. 1 

 would like to know your price for mailing it to me, 

 provided it is not for sale in this city (New York). 



Chatham, N. J., Oct. 13, 1879. G. M. Swaim. 



[Rather a joke on the A B C, is it not, friend S.? 

 It rather looks as if some of the city folks had a 

 stereotyped way of excusing themselves for being 

 out of a book. I think you will find the O. Judd. Co., 

 at least, supplied in future.] 



I came through with 50 swaims last spring. My 

 average yield per stock is 53tr>., or 2,150ft. in all, 200ft. 

 extracted honey being included in above. 



A. W. Anderson. 



Oambridgeboro, Pa., Oct. 7, 1879. 



[Pretty well done for this season, friend A.] 



A CAUTION ABOUT PUTTING MANY QUEEN CELLS 

 IN ONE HIVE. 



I write you asking you not to put your article on 

 "Economy in Maturing Queen Cells," on p. 301, Aug. 

 No., into the A B C. Ilhought it would be a nice 

 thing, and put about 70 in one hive, when the yield 

 of honey suddenly ceased, and the bees, oncluding 

 not to have so many, tore all down but about 10. So 

 you see I lost $15.00 worth of cells in three days, and 

 1 do not wish ethers to lose in the same way. 



F. L. Wright. 



Plainheld, Mich, Aug. 15, 1879. 



[Thanks, friend W. I have never had the cells 

 destroyed as you say, tort as we have never given 

 the matter a lengthy test, you may be right.] 



THE COLD BLAST SMOKERS. 



The '; dozen cold blast, Simplicity Emokers, ob- 

 tained of you early in the season, were at first dis- 

 carded a< a nuisance. Latterly, however, I have 

 had the small chimney, or cone, supplanted wifn a 

 larger one, and find them to work in a very satisfac- 

 tory manner indeed. J. S. Woodburn. 



Newville, Pa., Aug. 9, 1879. 



Will not cheap brown sugar or raw cane sugar be 

 used as readily as grape sugar, by the bees? and 

 cannot cheap syrups or molasses be used for feed- 

 ing: bees? H. P. Nichols. 



Bridgeport, Conn., Aug. 21, 1879. 



[Not as readily as the grape sugar now made; be- 

 sides it is not as wholesome, or as cheap.] 



PURE DRONES FROM HYBRID QUEEN. 



Will a pure Italian queen raise pure drones, when 

 she is matfd with a black drone? or will the drones 

 be the same as the workers, only half bloods? 



LDroncs will be pure, I think. See A B C] 



SOUR HONEY. 



Will it be hurtful, to feed bees sour hi ne\ ? If 

 not, what way would you feed it? 



[Will do harm for winter stores, but may be fed 

 safely in spring and summer, if they will take it.] 



Honey has been almost a failure here this season. 



Alexis, 111., Sept. 2?, 1879. E. L. Dunn. 



THE ASTER AS A HONEY PLANT. 



We have a flood of aster honey here this fall. 



W. L. Moores. 

 Cyruston, Lincoln Co., Tcnn., Oct. 17, 1879. 



