1880 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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season? What do you think of one acre of the above 

 plant to carry through one hundred stocks after 

 white clover till frost, counting- some on buckwheat? 

 My object is surplus honey. Wm. M. Young. 



Nevada, Wyandott Co., O., May 24, 1880. 



Spider plants should be about as large as 

 cabbage-plants to transplant nicely ; trans- 

 plant at any time during wet, cloudy weather. 

 I think it will take about 1U acre's, instead 

 of one, for loo colonies. 



ARTESIAN WELLS. 



Please tell us or give us some information in 

 Gleanings about your Artesian well; how deep it 

 is, size of bore, and how much water runs out of it, 

 and whether it throws water higher than the surface 

 of the ground. Samuel Keagy. 



Maria, Bedford Co., Pa , May 25, 18c0. 



Well, friend K., it does not even carry the 

 water to the surface of the ground. Ton see, 

 we ran short of water, and had quite a time 

 to get enough to keep our works agoing, and 

 so I told the boys and girls one noon that we 

 would have to ask God to bless our efforts 

 in obtaining water. We kept on drilling un- 

 til the well was over 100 ft. deep, but still the 

 water would not hold out until night. Some 

 of them suggested that God had not answer- 

 ed my prayer. I told them I thought he had, 

 and that the fault was in some way ours. 

 Finally, we ran a pipe clear to the bot- 

 tom of the well, with a pump-rod inside of 

 it, and had the pump-cylinder clear down to 

 the bottom. Now we have an abundance of 

 water, even during the driest times. God 

 does not see lit to bring the things we ask 

 for right to our feet, but we must get up and 

 go after them, as well as pray. The well, 3 

 inches in diameter, was drilled into the rock, 

 and the pump and tubing are only about 24 

 inches in the largest place outside. 



PLAYING of the young bees. 



I have purchased a few colonies of bees. One day 

 they all seemed to be crazy. Those coming in with 

 pollen would immediately turn and come out, run 

 all round the entrance, and even on top of the hive. 

 The neighbors said they thought perhaps there were 

 millers in the comb. 1 thought a little about it, and 

 then referred to the ARC, and there 1 found it all 

 plainly, it being the young bees coming in with their 

 first load, being exactly the way you describe it; and, 

 as they have all sobered down, I concluded that was 

 it. C. S. Burke. 



Batavia, Genesee Co., N. Y., May 3, 1880. 



$&<i§ and (luerm. 



HOW EASY IT IS TO BE MISTAKEN. 



SB WENT through that box again, and, sure 

 enough, there tins the cant file. I hate to ad- 

 — ' mit I was so careless, but such was the case. 

 There were three of us looking too. M. H. Hunt. 

 May 13, 1880. 



I have introduced 18 queens in the last 30 days, and 

 have not lost any. Have none balled. 



A. a. Swingle. 

 Hancock, Washington Co., Md., Sept. 28, 1880. 



FIRST premium, to unglassed sections. 

 First premium ($25.00) for best 25 lbs. of comb hon- 

 ey at the Kansas State Fair this fall, was awarded to 



"your humble servant." Honey was in 1-lb. sections 

 of pine, without glass. Second-premium honey was 

 in whitewood sections, glassed on two sides. All 

 basswood honey in both lots. James A. Nelson. 

 Wj-andott, Km., Oct. T, 1880. 



GOOD FOR THE CYPRIANS. 



The two Cyprians are clinkers on a nest. The 

 Vankee hen's-nest that caused the hen to lay herself 

 all away but feathers is nothing compared to the 

 first Cyprian queen— 3200 eggs in 24 hours, by actual 

 count. How is this for high in the young foreign 

 "mistress"? B. F. Carroll. 



Dresden, Navarro Co., Texas, Sept. 23, 1880. 



FOUL BROOD CONTRACTED BY BUYING COMBS. 



In buying comb of different parties, am I liable to 

 introduce foul brood in my apiary'? M. Isbell. 



Norwich, Chenango Co., N. Y., Sept. 28, 1880. 



|To be sure, friend I., if you buy combs of any- 

 body who has had foul brood in his apiary. In these 

 days of fdn., I should hardly think it would pay to 

 buy combs.] 



FOUL BROOD. 



Bees have done well this year in Texas, but I have 

 a bad report to make for myself. I lost all my bees 

 last year by foul brood. I started anew last winter, 

 and now I have 40 or 50 stands ruined by it again. 

 This is too bad, isn't it? I am glad to say, that, as 

 far as I know, there is not a case in Texas, except in 

 and around Dallas. F.F.Collins. 



Houston, Texas, Sept. 29, 1880. 



FROM 1 TO 41 IN TWO SEASONS. 



Two years ago this fall I bought a hive of bees in 

 the box hive, and now I have 41 colonies in L. hives. 

 I sold 31 queens this summer. Now, if you can beat 

 this, I should like to hear it. Honey crop was very 

 poor here this summer. E. Corlett. 



Cumminsville, Canada, Sept. 27, 1880. 



LVery well done, friend C. As you do not give us 

 any particulars, we shall have to conclude you in- 

 creased the one to about 6 or 7, the first season, and 

 from the 6 or 7 made 41. That is a pretty good re- 

 port, but not above what may be done by one who 

 tries, in a fair locality. But I presume, of course, 

 friend C, you not only got no honey, but likely fed 

 considerable sugar.] 



INK BY MAIL FOR 25C. PER GALLON. 



I would like to have you try my ink-powders. 

 They are put up in 25c packages, each package con- 

 taining enough to make 1 gallon of the best black 

 ink. This letter is written with the ink made from 

 the powders. William Ellwood. 



Rome, Oneida Co., N. Y., Sept. 10, 1880. 



PREMIUM BLACK INK -I'l IWUKRS. 



Directions: Dissolve contents of puper in one gallon soft wa- 

 ter; bail slightly, or simmer in mi iron vessel 16 minutes, stir 

 the liquid ;i few tninutej while over tin- (ire; take off, ami 

 when set tin I, st tain twice tlmiu^li coi nine hi muslin or sheeting 

 cloth, The above is a jel black from the first, Bows beautifully 

 from the pen, and is so indellible that even oxalic acid will not 

 remove n from the paper. William Ellwood, 



Rome, N. v. 



[Of course, we made a trial of the package, and, 

 sure enough, it makes a beautiful jet-black ink, and 

 we have introduced it on our 5 and 25c. counters. 

 That it can be sent by mail, and thus save the great 

 expense of shipment, is a great advantage. The ink 

 is of a jet black when first written, and our clerks 

 say they can discover little difference between it and 

 Oldrojd's, except that it dries up and clogs the pen 

 more. This would be likely to be the case with any 

 Ink.thnt has water only for the liquid portion of it.] 



