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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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prices of printed matter; viz., for lc. It is 



not patented, nor patentable ; if any body tries 

 to make you think otherwise, he is a swind- 

 ler. 



THAT NEW MATCH BOX FOR ANV 



SMOKER, 



3T is a comforting thought, that when I 

 find myself unable to invent to* order just 

 H what I want, I have only to mention it, 

 and some bright brother or sister soon sends 

 just exactly the thing wanted, it is friend 

 IJetts, this time, who has given us the match 

 box, the same who invented the diagonal 

 wires to prevent the bottom and top bars 

 from sagging. I gave him $5.00 for the idea 

 as soon as I saw it, that I might give it to 

 von. Let him describe it. 



11IE NEW MATCn 1 OX ATTACHED TO THE 

 SMOKER. 

 P rheps you have nrver seen one of my new ex- 

 cel iior smokers. As I have frequently seen, in 

 Gl..;aninc;s, some one calling for a match box smo- 

 ke-, T invented the match box attachment, several 

 m rths ago. In Gleanings for last Nov., I see Mrs. 

 Jo^nn 'calling for one on the side; perhaps she 

 wo ild like something more complete. 



I,. W. BEITS' EXCELFIOR COLD BLAST SMOKER 



Differs from Simplicity C B. Smokers, in having the 

 following improvements: 



1st. Fuel hole in the side as in pencil sketch. 



I.'nd. A small draft on the other side opposite it, 

 mnVing a sure draft from one or the other. 



3rd. It has a complete self closing match box. 



4th. Tt stands upright like a sober man. 



5th. It looks nicer. 



The match box itself ha9 the following advan- 

 tages: 



1st. There is no spilling matches. 2d. There are 

 no premature igniti 'tis. 3d. It is a match box com- 

 plete, which always stays closed, and has a place on 

 each side to strike matches. 4th. It suits either a 

 r*irhtor left hatided man. 5th. The boxes are eas- 

 '1 • made, cheap, adjustable, and can be attached to 

 nnv smoker, made or unmade, (ith. It can be man- 

 ufactured as an attachment, and sent by mail to all 

 who have none. Tth. It has nothing to get out of 

 order. 



I think them a decided improvement, and have 

 Bent you a sample bv mail, though it is a poor speci- 

 men, being made from old tin. Try them. If you 



don't like this, send it back, but be careful how you 

 write postal cards to me, for I hate them nearly. 



C. A. l.ovell is several months behind on side hole 

 for fuel and draft. I.. W. BETT9. 



Milton. Del., Nov. 11. 1879. 



AIIA.TI <.ICJ'ETI. 



fO-METHING ABOUT HIS F.AKI.IK1 

 CULTURE. 



>\YS IN BKK 



\rr\ DITORG LEANINGS: -I have a few facts con 

 V | cerniug Wisconsin's great bee-keeper, Adam 

 " - Grimm, that would perhaps be interesting to 

 some of your readers. There is an old gentleman 

 living near me, who says hi; sold Mr. Grimm the 

 nucleus of his extensive apiary. He says that soon 

 after Mr. Grimm cam;* from Germany, he sold him 

 a colony of black bees, in an old gum, for which he 

 received an English sovereign, and then assisted Mr. 

 Grimm home with his bees. They carried them 

 home, strung on a pole (as we would term it), a dis- 

 tance of three miles, which was quite an under- 

 taking, as it was a very heavy swarm. He also 

 states that he was at Mr. Grimm'shome three years 

 after, and he had some thirty swarms. From that 

 one. he accomplished these results, by dividing and 

 artificial swarming. It is quite evident that Mr. 

 Grimm brought his theory from his mother country, 

 and must have handled his bees at that time in box 

 hives, as this happened some thirty years ago; so 

 my friend informs me. By the way. this friend of 

 mine is an ABC scholar of yours, of TT years. He 

 has 28 swarms of Italians and hybrids in the Gallup 

 hive, with chaff cushion division boards, and packed 

 in chatf on their summer stands. He is also a read- 

 er of Gleanings. All this has been done in two 

 years. I mistrust he has caught the enthusiasm 

 that Adam Grimm had thirty years ago. There is 

 one more thing he has done, but I hate to own it; 

 he "scooped" his son and myself this fall, hunting 

 wild bees. M. A. Gill. 



Viola, Richland Co., Wis., Dec. 15, 18T9. 



DRONES IN WORKER CO :TIB I GAIN, NAT- 

 URAL. VKKSIS AK.IFICIALQIKFAS 

 AND CHAFF FAl hl\<- FOR WINTER. 



fT is true, we sometimes find drones from natural 

 queens (both Italian and black), in worker comb' 

 ~* but, in every case that I have seen, except when 

 the queens were old, the cells were not uniform in 

 size; either the comb was "wavy" making the cells 

 larger on one side, or, from some cause, the bees had 

 constructed a few irregular cells, and in them the 

 drones were reared. I have, however, had young, 

 artificial queens that would lay both drone and 

 worker eggs (they would hatch from H to % drones), 

 in straight worker comb, with cells of regular wor- 

 kersizc. 



I have raised artificial queens, more or less, for the 

 last 13 years, and have tried nearly every way of 

 raising them, that I have yet seen recommended, 

 but have failed to get them to average as well as nat- 

 ural ones. If you have any way Of doing it, please 

 tell us just how it is done. 



A few words will answer dozens of letters in refer- 

 ence to chalf packing. Pack chaff on all sides of the 

 hive; leave no side unprotected. One thickness of 

 carpet or bagtnntr is enough on the frames; more 

 would be worse than useless, as it is not as gooda 



conductor of moisture as chair, and the chaff will re- 

 tain the heat. All that is needed of any cloth is to 

 keep the chaff out of the combs. Put 4 or 5 in. of 

 chaff on the cloth, oyer the frames. Put BO boards or 



covers on the choff, except the cover to the hive or 

 packing boy. J. H. Townley. 



Tompkius, Jackson Co., Mich., Dec. 16, lbT'J. 



