GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUEE- 



Jan. 



FEEDING BEES. 



I,.VYIX<i CASUIEU HONEY DIRECTLY 

 THE FRAMES. 



)N TOP OF 



PERTAINING TO BEE CULTURE. 



AST winter I fed honey in the celhir, that was 



candied hard; it was good clover honey. I 



broke it in chunks of about one or two 



pounds, and laid it on top of the frames. 



They took and put it in the cells, and sealed 



some, and some of the bees built comb on top of the 



frames, but the honey needs to be candied so solid 



that it will be almost like candy made of sugar. 



WOUKER-UEE.S FltOM A FERTILE WORKER. 



Did you ever hear of a fertile worker producing: 

 worker-brood y Well, I had a stand that I divided 

 about the time the honey-tlow ceased. I took the 

 old queen away and gave them a cell which they 

 cut out, and then started cells of their own in due 

 time (almost 7 days). I shook off all the bees, and de- 

 stroyed all the cells. 1 went over them again in two 

 days, and took out every thing that was capped 

 higher than a worker-bee, all di-ones, and gave them 

 two cells which they destroyed In a few hours. I 

 then thought I would give them a caged queen in a 

 day or two; but in a day or so, when I looked into 

 the hive I found a few eggs, and in a few days they 

 had four combs filled irregularly with eggs, and 

 some would have as many as a dozen in, and 

 others a less number. Well, I hunted three days, 

 and found nothing that laid eggs. I shook them out 

 in some smartweed, away from the hive, and let 

 them go back when they got ready. I have some- 

 times got rid of fertile workers in that way, but it 

 did no good. I tried queen-cells again, but they cut 

 them out, so such work went on for two weeks, 

 when they had five combs of brood— sealed drones 

 in worker-cells. I carried the hive to another one, 

 and shook the bees in and put in three combs of the j 

 brood and two combs of it in with another swarm, j 

 I then closed up for that day, as robbers were Hying 

 around. The next day I went out with my knife, j 

 and clipped the drone-heads off in a hurry from all 

 the combs, and was not very particular in missing a j 

 few. In two or three days I went again to make 

 another examination of the comts, and shave off the \ 

 remaining few little drones. I got through at one | 

 hive, and went to the other. I began to shave again, j 

 when I jiulled out some young worker-bees that had I 

 got their wings, and were perfect. 1 almost finished, I 

 but found three in cells that I had not yet reached 

 with my knife. I went to the first combs and found j 

 two more among the wonderful lot of drones. You 

 will perhaps doubt. Well, the above is correct and 

 true; and if I could see you I could tell it better 

 than 1 can write. Mont. Wyrick. 1 



Cascade, Iowa, Dec, 1881. 



Friend W., your plan of feeding candied 

 honey lias been mentioned before ; but the 

 difliculty seems to be to get honey that will 

 candy hard enough. lii regard to the 

 worker-bees from fertile-worker brood, it 

 seems you must have made ii mistake, and 

 got hold of the wrong combs somewhere ; 

 but, of cour.se, you know better th;in we do 

 wlietlier or not this were i)0ssib]e. Young | 

 (luecus often liiy drone-brood for (juite a j 

 spell, or tmtil they have filled several combs, • 

 and change to worker brood. Is it not pes- I 

 sible that a queen got into your hive and 

 laid those eggs, or a portion of them, that 

 you tho'.ight were laid by fertile workers':* 



THE BOHEMIAN OATS; AN OLD AND EXPLODED 

 SWINDLE. 



R. A. I. ROOT:— I don't like to draAV your at- 

 tention from your business, but I will tell 

 you why I write to you. Thei-e are two men 

 in this county, hailing from the noithern 

 part of this State, who claim to represent the 

 " Bohemian HuUess-Oats Association." I tell them 

 that their scheme is a fraud. They refer me to sev- 

 eral northern counties where the " association " has 

 " operated," and say the farmers are well satisfied 

 with the "operation." One of the counties is Medi- 

 na, and perhaps j'ou know something about the 

 scheme. Several of our best farmers are buying 

 oats of them, paying SIO.OO per bushel, expecting 

 big profits back. I am a farmer, and a beginner in 

 bee-keeping. I love to work with bees, but I don't 

 want any oats at $10.00 per bushel. I am well 

 pleased with Gleanings. 



Very respectfully yours,— T. L. Rees. 

 Winchester, Adams Co., Ohio, Jan. 7, 1885. 



Friend R.,the Bohemian hulless oats is 

 one of the biggest swindles that ever cursed 

 Medina County, and the same may be said 

 of the whole of this part of Ohio. In our 

 vicinity the whole thing is now an old and 

 exploded humbug. If you want further 

 particulars, see the articles on this subject 

 in the Ohio Farmer of late. You or anybody 

 else can buy as many genuine Bohemian 

 hulless oats' ;is you want, for about 7-5 cts. 

 per bushel. If your best farmers are, at this 

 late day, going into that miserable, foolish 

 fraud, they are behind the times. Some 

 men have made money out of it, no doubt ; 

 but in so doing they have robbed their 

 neighbors, or innocent men who will have to 

 bear the loss eventually, for the loss must 

 come sooner or later. Honest, hard-working 

 people who will sell their influence and 

 reputation for the sake of the little money 

 they get in their pockets by the operation, 

 ought to be ashamed of themselves. Surely, 

 no Christian man would keep money in his 

 pocket thus obtained, after he had seen the 

 way in which innocent parties are made to 

 suffer. 



BEES IN INDIA. 



a missiox.\ry's account. 



RESIDED seven years in India as a missionary. 

 . My home part of the time was in the Himalaya 

 ir Mountains, about 1100 miles northwest from 

 Calcutta, east from Hurdwar. I hope to start 

 for that country about Dec. 1, and make a per- 

 manent homo there. I expect to introduce a num- 

 ber of industries among the native Christians; and 

 as there are i)lenty of honey-bees in the rocks and 

 trees, and they even come into the native houses 

 and store their honey, I hope to get the busy bees 

 to do some mission work. I never saw a bee-hive 

 there, or a pound of honey, except what the natives 

 cut from the trees. Bees are plentiful, and bee- 

 food in abundance, and the season lasts from eight 

 to ten months. The aJtitude will be 3000 to 5000 ft. 

 above the level of the sea, and the latitude about .30 

 or 3^°. 



