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GLEANINGS IN J3EE CULTURE. 



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my home, the factory, the greenhouse, the ! 

 ctiVp-poiul, and all the things. 



ox THE AViN(;. \ 



It is 10 o'clock, and we are Hying over the 

 frozen landscape. The morning sun pours 

 down a lli)od of light. You remember how 

 I told you I had Ijeen thanking (iod lately 

 for the sunshine. .Vs the tields and towns 

 lly past us, this wealth of sunshine comes 

 oiit as it nevpr did before. Of course, it 

 does not even thaw the snow wliere we are 

 now ; for where we are it is still below zero, 

 ^ly lieart bounds at the tiiought that at the 

 rale we are s})eeding southward this beauti- 

 ful panorama will soon change to one of 

 spring time aiul verdure. Of course, the 

 ci'eeks and livers we pass are all solid, and 

 many ot thiMu form beautiful ])athways for 

 children, and for cattle and otiierfarm stock; 

 and. by the way, 1 notice cattle hunting low 

 l)laces". and pawing in vain for water. Is 

 that the case with any of your stock, my 

 friendsV liemember our dumb friends. The 

 sleighing is beautiful, and tlie hanl level 

 surface which the roads v""t'sent is very 

 pleasing. It is seldom that tiiis portion of 

 Ohio has enjoyed such sleighing as it has 

 had for live or six weeks past. 



'2 o'clock v. >i. — The snow is beginning to 

 dis.ippear. and the streams are uncovered. 

 The sight of the babbling brooks is refresh- 

 ing, after the scenery has been so long all 

 ice-bound. I am enjoying my ride amazing- 

 ly ; and as my mind has been free from busi- 

 ness cares, I have just studied out a great in- 

 vention— or, rather, it came of itself. I will 

 tell you about it some day. We are in the 

 neighborhood of Springfield. Ohio. 



l^EP0RTg DlgC0UI^7I6IN6. 



0UR bees are all dead— died with cholei-a. We 

 noticed before cold weather set in that one 

 hive had it, and we carried it away from the 

 others. We had four hives; have the hives 

 yet, for that matter. We were going to have 

 at least four swarms, then I was going to send for 

 the rest of your A B C book (1 have the first part), 

 and for Gleanings; but that is all gone. I write 

 to ask yon if you will please tell me what I can do 

 with the honey and comb and hives. They smell 

 very offensive. Will the hives give it to other bees? 

 We feel worse about our bees, because our neigh- 

 bor's bees that received no care are doing well. 

 Thoy said they did not care whether they lived or 

 not. Could we have caused the bees to get the dis- 

 ease in our working with them? We wanted to 

 learn about them. Aonks Hitddleson. 



Victor, Iowa, Feb. 17, ISHS. 



I am afi-aid, my friend, you have packed 

 your bees tf)0 close, and this would be the 

 reason why the hees are all right that had 

 no care. Shut up yrtur hives so no robber- 

 bees can get in. and in Mayor Juiu; give 

 these offensive combs, one at a time, to 

 strong colonies, and they will lix them in no 

 time. When opportunity offers, it would be 

 a good plan to brush out tlie dead bees, and 

 l)rush off the combs as well as you can con- 

 veniently. Put the dead l)ees on your com- 

 post heap, and tliey will probablv be wortli 

 something 



they will be worth for manure. I would 

 not" give up at one defeat, if I were you. If 

 your neighbor's bees lived without anii care 

 it is pretty certain that your method of'man- 

 agemt nt has been at fault in some respect. 



CA.N'T keep BEKS where it is .30 BEIiOW ZERO. 



1 can't keep bees through winter in this locality, 

 where the thermometer is Zu° below zero. I started 

 in winter with 36 colonies; lost 26; 10 alive now. 

 There are now 250 full frames of combs. I am at a 

 loss to know what to do with all of those empty hives 

 and combs before the hot season sets in. I want 

 you to advise some plan for me to get bees in them 

 early in the season. The most of my bees died witJi 

 plenty of honey in the hive. W. Uiggen. 



North Salem, Ind., Feb. 7, 188."). 



Friend li., if you have the low tempera- 

 ture you mention, continuously for several 

 weeks, I would try wintering the bees in a 

 cellar. You know this is quite extensively 

 done now in many localities. 



OUR FOUR-PIECE-SECTIOW MACHINE, 



SOMETHING FURTHER IN REGARD TO IT. 



ELOW we give to our readers an en- 

 giaving of the four-piece-section ma- 

 chine w^e spoke of in Gleanings of 

 Jan. lo. It works with perfect satis- 

 faction, turning out as smooth and 

 nice a section as you will lind in the market. 

 Owing to the improvements we have re- 

 cently made on this machine, we can not 

 afford it for less than So"), instead of $.-(0, as 

 stated in our former issue. We can till or- 

 ders on short notice just now, as we are 

 still not badly crowded, liemember this 

 machine saws' and sandpapers the sections 

 all at one movement, and does not require 

 skilled help to run it. 



DUR-PIECE 



OUR NEW .MACHINE KOR MAKING 



DOVETAILED SECTION. 



'i'his is by all means the cheapest rig a 

 supply-dealer can use for making section 

 boxes, for it does away with the necessity of 

 The wtr^e they smell the more i an expensive cigar-box planer. 



