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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUKE. 



Oct. 



THE PEET CAGE. 



I have introduced all my queens this summer with 

 one Peet combination cage without loss. 



Norwich, N. Y., Sept. 6, 1880. M. Ishell. 



[But how many was "all," friend I.? It' it is 25 or 

 more, it is pretty well for the cage; but if but a half 

 dozen, it would not be very singular with any cag-e.] 



Will a swarm of bees stay in a new hive without a 

 queen? [Not often unless they have unsealed brood.] 



Can a queen be introduced to a hive that has been 

 queenless 15 days or more? [To be sure, and usually 

 without any caging.] 



Will a queenless colony cut down and destroy 

 queen cells which are given them,— I mean sealed 

 cells? [Not usually. See A B C] T. W. Cooper. 



Stone Wall, Smith Co., Tenn. 



bees and confectioneries. 



My bees did poorly until buckwheat, and, being in 

 town during the scarcity of honey, they were en- 

 ticed by the confectioneries, where they were sul- 

 phured and killed, so that I had to move them out of 

 town to save them. I did not get a single new 

 swarm this year; but they are doing finely now on 

 buckwheat. Geo. D. Silvins. 



Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Sept. 6, 1880. 



1 began the season with 14 colonies,— 11 blacks and 

 o Italians. Have increased to IT hives, which are 

 full of brood and bees, and have honey enough to 

 winter on, but I got no surplus. 



Thomas H. Hunter. 



Zanesville, Muskingum Co., Ohio, Sept. 6, 1880. 



twenty-two days in the cell. 

 1 had a young queen hatch a few days since, that 

 was 22 days in the cell. She is a fine queen, doing 

 good work now. Is this not unusual? 



BEE MOTHS AND ITALIANS. 



The bee moth are killing nearly all the black bees 



around, but they have disappeared from my apiary 



since I introduced those yellow foreigners. 



B. F. Carroll. 

 Dresden, Texas, Sept. 4, 1880. 



A very poor honey season is closed. I do not yet 



know how much honey we have, but bees are in fine 



condition for winter, and have honey to spare. 



T. F. Bingham. 

 Otsego, Mich., Sept. 9, 1880. 



The 28th of April, 1880, I landed here, with two, 4- 

 framed nuclei. From them, I now have 7 good col- 

 onies, in chaff hives, with plenty of stores for the 

 winter, and all are strong. C. W. Caskey. 



Parsons, Kan., Sept. 14, 1880.. 



PAINTING IN COLD WEATHER. 



Tell your readers that, if they will have their 

 hives ready and paint them after it comes cold 

 weather in the fall, the paint will last longer than if 

 put on in warm weather. Nelson Hubbard. 



South Strafford, Vt., Aug. 26, 1880. 



FROM 4 TO 20, BY NATURAL SWARMING. 



I commenced last spring with 4 stands of bees, 

 which have increased by natural swarming to 20, 

 and are still swarming. I have extracted out of 

 three of the old colonies and two July swarms, 

 about 175 lbs. of honey, and they are now full and 

 swarming every day. I have had 5 large swarms in 

 5 days. J. P. Ingram. 



Bonham, Texas, Aug. 21, 1880. 



DIFFERENCE IN WORKING QUALITIES OF DIFFERENT 

 STOCKS. 



I have awaited Gleanings to see reports from 

 red-clover queens. They are pirates are they? Don't 

 want them. This sets back the red-clover theory, 

 yet there is a difference in the industrial qualities of 

 colonies in the same apiary, conditions, so far as we 

 can see, being the same. lam anxious to know if 

 these qualities are transmissable. Traits of char- 

 acter are inheritable in bipeds and quadrupeds, 

 why not in insects? I wanted to experiment in this 

 direction, but my best colonies are hybrids, and we 

 should select the best of the superior races. 



Jno. N. White. 



Wolf Creek, Mercer Co., Pa., Sept. 6, 1880. 



The queen which I thought was lost, I found in 



the hive attending to business, like a good queen. 



Kokomo, Ind., Sept. 10, 1880. J. B. Covil. 



DIPPING FOUNDATION. 



1 have made a Faris machine, and it works like a 

 charm. Many thanks to Gleanings. 



John Carpenter. 

 Miamisville, O., Sept. 11, 1880. 



I commenced last spring with two colonies— one 

 black and one Italian. I first removed the black 

 queen, and gave her colony a capped cell taken 

 from the Italian stock, and nearly ready to hatch. 

 At the same time I divided the Italians, as they had 

 more sealed queen cells, and were strong in bees and 

 stores. From these, Mr. Sampson and I have 20 

 swarms; and, through inattention, we let 5 other 

 swarms come out and leave us. Working for bees, 

 we have not saved much honey, as our young 

 swarms that were late needed it. 



J. C. P. McLendon. 



Dripping Springs, Texas, Sept. 14, 1880. 



I have never raised any bees. I let them raise 

 themselves; but the wmms have been so bad of 

 late years, that I would like to help them. Don't 

 forget to print a Gleanings for me, for, if I can't 

 make a club, I will send myself. Mrs. R. Hall. 



Wurtland, Ky., Sept. 3, 1880. 



HONEY IN SEPTEMBER. 



Bees are bringing in plenty of honey yet. I have 

 had several swarms come off lately, and hived one 

 good swarm to-day. John Kentch. 



Tioga, Pa., Sept. 17, 1880. 



CONVENTIONS, etc. 



I have sold out at South West, and have purchased 

 a small farm of 41!£ acres here joining the village of 

 Nappanee. I am only 80 rods from the post-office, 

 and about 100 from the express office.— Friend A. I., 

 I am really sorry you are so prejudiced against con- 

 ventions. I tell you we had a good time at Chicago 

 last week. I believe you would have enjoyed the 

 treat if you had been there. I. It. Good. 



Nappanee, Ind., Sept. 20, 1880. 



[I have no doubt at all, friend (i., but that I should 

 have enjoyed the convention, and I do not believe I 

 am very badly prejudiced, only that I can not but 

 regard them as expensive luxuries for the most of 

 us. I have not as yet published convention reports, 

 mainly because they are almost always contained in 

 the other journals, and the friends who take two or 

 more journals would hardly care to have the same 

 thing in all.] 



