1885 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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MORE LABELS WANTED. 



The labels were received yesterday all right; ac- 

 cept my thanks for promptness. The pails are the 

 nicest and cheapest I have ever had. I think you 

 should get up a label to tit the pails. It is very nec- 

 essary that the paper should go around the pails and 

 lap, or they will peel off. I am doing very well; am 

 averaging over 100 lbs. per colony each year, about 

 one-half each of comb and extracted. 



L. A. Pknnover. 



Winona, Minn., Dec. 25, 18F4. 



I know we need a nice litbograph laljel for 

 each one of the ntsted pails we are selling; 

 but to tell the truth, we have already so 

 many different kinds of labels that a clerk 

 lias to be employed to look after them: and 

 even then it is liard keeping track of what 

 we have in stock, for we have made almost 

 every thing that has been asked for in this 

 line." Another thing, a lithograph label large 

 enough to go around the four-quart pails 

 will be a pretty expensive affair. We have 

 Jones's labels that do very well for pint and 

 quart pails, but neme for the 2. :>, and 4 qt.; 

 and as it costs about .S4(J0 or SoOO to get out a 

 nice lithograph label, as large as these we re- 

 quire, we should be obliged to buy them by 

 the million, almost, to get our money back ; 

 that is, if we sold them at a reasonable price. 

 Friend Jones monopolizes the matter so far, 

 I believe, on his lithographic colored labels 

 for honey-pails. 



CHAFF HIVES FOR WINTERING. 



I have made 100 chatf hives this winter, and never 

 will try to winter bees in this section any other way. 

 Clark f'HANnLEU. 

 North Blandford, Mass., June 4, 1P81. 



^EP0RTS ENC0aR^6I]SI6. 



Sl0¥Ef$ 7Ij\D QaERIEg. 



, AST YEAR S SECTIONS ON WHICH Till', RKES HAVE 

 MADE A START. 



HAVE 600 sections with full-size starters, that 

 have been propolized. Will the bees use them 

 |l again, or must I put fresh starters in? I got 

 116 sections with nomr honey in them— don't 

 think they would weigh 7.') lbs. 

 Elston, Mo., Dec. 6, 1S81. I. F. LoNO, .l-JT. 



[Friend L., your sections containing fdn. partly 

 built out are a great deal better than new ones. 

 The same with those containing sonu- honey. If 

 any of it is capped over, uncap it before putting on 

 the hive, and then they are just the thing to start 

 the bees quickly.] 



BEES, ETC., AT THE WORLD'S E.XPOSITION. 



Please add to the call for convention, that tin: time 

 of e.vhibit of colonies of bees will only be during Vic 

 wenk of ct)nvr:itiii}), and not as published in the Pre- 

 mium list. .1. P. n. IliiowN. 



Aiigusta, Ga.. Dec. 12, 1884. 



MY REPORT FOR l'<84. 



XT UMBER of bees in spring; 116 stands, doubled 

 jVI back to 96 stands. Number now, 13t stands. 

 -PI Took 10,000 lbs. honey; 862.5 extracted. 1525 

 -*■ T lbs. comb. Honey all sold, extracted at 8 cts. 

 at wholesale, comb 12!; and 13 cts. I had 

 about 3 bbls. of " bug juice." It went with the rest; 

 sold to cracker factories at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 

 Shellsburg, Iowa. Robt. Quinn. 



10 FRAMES AND 80 SECTIONS FILLED AVITH BVCK- 

 WHEAT HONEY IN ONLY 12 DAYS. 



! This has been a very good honey season with us: 



1 the spring was very backward, and our stocks 

 dwindled till they became weak. I started with fif- 



' teen— seven in very good order, and eight weak ones. 

 I had no swarms until the last of .luly, when we 

 had two. T' e 5th of August we had five all come 

 out at once, and alight in one place together, and I 



, happened away from home that day, but they man- 

 aged to get three of the five ((ueens, and made three 

 swarms of the five: but they were hives full instead 



[ of swarms, so I filled the hi\ t-s full of frames and 

 sections, 80 in each, and in 12 days one of those 

 hives sent out a very large swarm. I happened 



I away from home that day again, so the next day 1 

 thought I would give them some of the sections oil 

 the hive they came from, as I thought they would 

 not need them on that hive, when, to my surprise, 1 

 found the whole ^0 sections filled and ready to caj). 

 They did not seem satisfied after they left the hiv<^ 

 They swarmed three days in suecession, every time 

 clustering, and we hived them until at last I return- 

 ed about halt of them to the old hivi', and gave 



, the other half to a couple of weak ones, and all was 

 peace with them then. I suppose they swarmed 

 for the want of room; but, why did they kee)) 

 swarming? We increased to 21, which is the num- 

 ber we have now. We have taken off 1000 finished 

 sections, and have quite a good many that were not 

 finished. 1 ne\ er saw honey come in as it did in 

 buckwheat-bloom; it would almost seem impossible 

 that a swarm of bees could fill ten frames and 80 



I sections in 12 days, but that is the fact. 



Accord, N. V., Oct. 24, 1884. William Palkn. 



CISTERNS; A CRITICISM. 



All should be interested in making cisterns, and 

 in a pure supply of water. Putting the waste-pipe 

 at the bottom, so the sediment will wash out. seems 

 to be a taking idea with some. It is undoubtedlj' 

 good, if true. I have not tried it i)raetically. but 

 should expect this waste pipe to act as a siphon, 

 and empty the cistern in ease of an overflow. Voii 

 can laugh all you want to, but it strikes me so, at 

 first blush. .1. M. Shcck. 



Desmoines, Iowa, Dec. 1, 1884. 



[Friend S., the overflow-pipe would act as a siphon 

 were it air and water tight; but as this pipe is ce- 

 mented only at the joints until it reaches the top 

 of the ground, or a little further, there is no danger 

 of its acting as a siphon, for plenty of air gets in at 

 the highest point where the bend comes.] 



FROM 3 TO tl, AND IJOfl LBS. OF COMII HONEV, AM> 



NOT ENOlliH Tl) SCPPLY THE DEMAND, KVF.N 



THEN. 



This is my report for 1884: T liad 3 hives of l)ees in 

 the spring. T got fi swarms of bees and 300 lbs. of 

 comb honey from them. Isold 75 lbs. at 25 cts. a 

 pound ; the rest I sold at ;.2 cts. a pound, or 5 pounds 

 for a dollar. 1 didnt have enough to supply the de- 

 mand at that price. I sold the most of it in the shop 

 where I work. Marshall Darling. 



Waterbury, Conn., Dee. 1, 1884. 



MY REPORT KOK 1881. 



1 commenced the season with 5 weak colonies; 

 increased to 10 by natural and artificial swarming, 

 all strong and well supplied with stores. I took 

 about 60 one-pound sections, and extracted about 



