GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 



1879. Now for 1880. I had the 9 hives in the spring, 

 and made them up to the 41, and took COD Ib3. of hon- 

 ey, and fed some sugar in the fall. Mr. Root, it will 

 be hard for you to beat me much; for if I take a no- 

 tion to do any thing, I go at it to win. 



E. Coklett. 

 Oumminsvilie, Ont, Can., Nov. 5, 1880. 

 That is exactly the right way to go at it, 

 friend C. You see, I guessed pretty nearly 

 right when I calculated, last month, that 

 you must have made at least 6 or 7 the first 

 year, although you got as high as S new 

 ones, and 134 lbs. of honey besides. I de- 

 clare, I wonder if we had 'not better emi- 

 grate to Canada— a lot of us. Friend Jones 

 seems to have wonderful yields year after 

 year, while we are all in Blasted Hopes 

 down here. Hurrah for Canada, the land of 

 snow and frost, for bees and honey ! 



DEPOSITORY OF 



Or Letters from Those Who Have Made 

 Bee Culture a Failure. 



FACKAGES received, and directions followed. 

 For results, I respectfully refer you to page 

 384, ABC. Rub out all the hives but two, 

 and— "that'* me." T. J. Harper. 



Atlanta, Ga , Nov. 4, 1880. 



Our friend had a dollar queen and an A B 

 C book. After getting the above pathetic 

 postal, I turned to page 2S4, and found this 

 picture, which we produce. 



Don't cry, friend II.; your queen was only 

 a dollar one; and, as you have got your 

 book left, you are about as well off as the 

 woman was when the bottom fell out of her 

 tub. She said she could then "see through 

 it" all as plain as day. We will send you 

 another next summer free, if you will men- 

 tion it. 



In examining my bees T see that they are without 

 stores for winter. They have eaten up all their 

 honey within the last six weeks, it is so dry. 



Rev. Joh* McKean. 



Lewlstown, Mifflin Co., Pa., Oct. 13,188). 



Please do not entertain a thought that this year's 

 business in the apiary furnishes the "sinews of war," 

 which occasionally find their way from me to deal- 

 ers in supplies, for the reason that I have yet to re- 

 ceive the tirst dime from this year's sales! True, I 

 have leceived as much on an average as 6 or 8'lns. of 

 honey, in small section boxes, per old stock! This 

 is most astonishing, but not half as much so as the 

 report, "Honey is quite plenty on the market now, 

 and prices have taken a tumble." From zero, eh? 



Koshkonong, Wis., Oct. 15, 1880. D. P. Lane. 



This has been such a poor honey year that 1 can 

 not afford to send for Gleanings again. From my 

 apiary at home, of 70 stands, I did not get 1 swarm, 

 and no honey until buckwheat season, and then only 

 a few pounds. Phil Osburn. 



LeClaire, Scott Co., Iowa, Oct. 30, 1880. 



Very sorry to part company with you, 

 friend O.; but we tender our thanks for 

 past patronage, and wish you success with 

 the bees all the same. 



I am in the bee business. Am making a living at 



raising early potatoes fnr market, and other 



minor pursuits. Have taken about 40 lbs. of honey 

 from 20 swarms this season; increase, one swarm. 

 Have helped out several black swarms on winter 

 stores from thpir yellow rivals. Season very poor. 

 Many black swarms in this vicinity will starve be- 

 fore spring unless fed. Prescott Undkrwood. 



Lawrence, Douglas Co., Kan., Nov. 8, 18S0. 



%uw(bu%§ f $MndUi§, 



Pertaining to T5ee Culture. 



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 have a deceptive appearance. The 

 greatest care will be at all times maintained to prevent injustice 



lieinfr done any one. 



fjJPJlILS department seems very near being 

 J!L left without any occupant this month. 

 We have heard nothing from Mitchell 



for quite a long time ; and Mrs. Cotton, it is 

 said, has sent some sort of an equivalent for 

 all money sent her during the past year, ex- 

 cept the book, and the book is to be out 

 soon; or, at least, so her publishers say. A 

 copy of the drawing for building her hive 

 has' been sent me, and that, at least, is pret- 

 ty well gotten up ; but as $4.00 is almost 

 enough to buy all the standard works on 

 bee culture, it would seem a pretty good 

 price for the contents of a book of only four 

 leaves. However, as it answers pretty well 

 to the advertisement, we can easily let that 

 part of it go. All that remains is for her 

 now to pay up old scores, or account for the 

 money sent her previous to the past season. 

 If she will undertake to do this, and to send, 

 in future, all she advertises, we shall all be 

 glad to lend her a helping hand. She says 

 my dollar was returned to me a long time 

 ago ; but as it is only just now that she has 

 made such a statement, it looks a little sin- 

 gular. I sent it to her by P. O. order, that 

 I might be sure she received it ; and it 

 seems to me that fairness would say it 

 should be returned in the same way. I will 

 willingly give her this dollar, and several 



