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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Mar. 



If'HTHYOLOGY— CARP IN' TEXAS. 



Is that the name? Well, I see so many sayinf? 

 something- about carp autl carp-ponds, if you will 

 allow me I will " speak my piece." The carp are 

 like a drove of pig-s— just give them room to turn 

 around and all is well. A thousand carp in a pond 

 of '; acre would find ample room, if the water could 

 be kept from three to five feet deep, and all you 

 would have to do would lie to feed plenty from May 

 to October. 



L. T. Wheeler, Corsicaua, Navarro Co., Te.vas, I 

 am told, has a flvcyear-old carp that weighed last 

 summer 2.j lbs. K. C. Mabry, Blooming' Grove, Tex., 

 received from the U. S. Fish Commission, Jau., 1884, 

 seven small CLirp, 4 months old and 4 inches long, 

 which he put in a small pond of i;i acre. Six of 

 these washed out during- the terrible floods last 

 May, and in August he look ap the remaining carp 

 and found that it measured 1« inches, only 12 months 

 old. The carp is the best flsh I ever saw for our 

 hot-water tanks of Texas. I kept 50 carp, from 8 to 

 20 inches in length, all through the hot summer of 

 1884, in a pond not over .50 feet long and 20 feet wide, 

 and a greater portion of the time onlj' 10 to 12 inch- 

 es deep; and every day they were ready to receive 

 their feed, and would come as quick as that many 

 pigs in a pen. B. F. Carroll,. 



Dresden, Texas, Jan 20, 18S5. 



A SUGGESTION FOR USING THE HEDDOX REVERSI- 

 BLE FI{AME FOR FRAMES IN COMMON USE. 



In regard to the Heddon reversible-frame device, 

 I would suggest stout strong hoop iron for a hanger, 

 bent at top end, say 2 inches at right angles, so as 

 to screw fast to under side of top-bar. Any regular- 

 made frame, projecting ends cut off, will then fit, 

 as the. end spaces are wide enough to admit the iron 

 when it would not wood. For proper depth, simply 

 remove bottom-bar, and cut off of end of upright 

 7)ieces enough to allow bee-space over frame.?, and 

 nail bottom-bars on again, and you have it. 



Baltimore, Md., Feb. 9, 18S5. C. (i auwood. 



of his, there might be some that would be impressed 

 that it is some of my own origin. I want it strictly 

 understood, that 1 mean to give honor to whom 

 honor is due; and if it is an invention of his, I hope 

 the bee-keeping fraternity will give him the credit 

 of it. If the chaff tenement hive is an invention of 

 Oliver's, T should like to know it through Glean- 

 ings. As I supi)Osed it was almost an exact copy of 

 I the tenement hive, I thought it was an invention of 

 I longer standing. .\ good many of the bee-keepers 

 I are copying, and claiming and publishing in a 

 threatening manner inventions as their own, be- 

 longing to others. I hope the fraternity wili not 

 countenance it, for we should consider it a dishon- 

 orable act. W. S. Dorman. 

 Mechanicsville. Iowa, Feb. 11, 188."). 



Friend D.. I do not think anybody would 

 gather from your description that you meant 

 it to be understood that you were the in- 

 ventor of that plan for wintering. 1 agree 

 with you. that there is getting to be a little 

 too mucli said about wlu) is the inventor, 

 and to whom does the lionor belong? So far 

 as I am concerned, any invention that I have 

 ever made is free to everybody to use. and it 

 does not matter very niucli whether I get 

 the credit or not. There is one thing, how- 

 ever, that makes it necessary to bring these 

 things up. and that is, when a brother begins 

 to claim this, that, and the other as liis own 

 invention, and to threaten others if they use 

 it. Tlien sometimes it becomes necessary to 

 hunt up the facts. But I tliink we ought to 

 do it in a kind and Christianlike spirit, re- 

 membering that it behooves us to act like 

 those whom Paul mentions as being prompt- 

 ed by that spirit that " thinketh no evil." 



keeping HEES on the R0(JF of a THHKE - STORY 

 lUILUlNG. 



I have often thought I would write and give you 

 my experience in bee-keeping. I purchased one 

 colony of Italians in the fall of 1873, and wintered 

 them all right in one of your chaff' hives. In the 

 spring they came out a rousing colony; and as I 

 moved to live over the store, and had no otlier place 

 to put them, I placed them on the roof of the three- 

 story building, which is flat. I increased them to 

 three by artificial swarming, keeping the queens' 

 wings cut, and in the fall I had two good colonies, 

 and one small one having enough bees to cover two 

 frames. I got about 20 lbs. of honey in comb, but I 

 fed them about 20 lbs. of syrup, made from sugar 

 and honey; and up to the present time of writing 

 they are all, so far as I can see, in good condition; 

 in fact, I may say I took a look at the smallest colo- 

 ny, and believe they have somewhat increased. So 

 much foi- wintering on the i-oof. 



J. K. HOWDEN. 



Flamiltoii, ()nt;'.rio, Canada, Feb. 10, 188."). 



WHO IS THE INVENTOR, ANU TO WHOM liELONGS 

 TUE HONOR, ETC. V 



In the issue for Feb. 1st 1 gave a description of a 

 chaff winter tenement hive. Since then I have re- 

 ceived a letter from Oliver Foster, claiming that he 

 is the inventor of the hive described. While I did 

 not think for one moment that it was an invention 



REVERSIBLE FRAMES, XyV . 



I send you two i-eversible-framc attachments. If 



I have copied yours or Mr. Thompson's, I beg par- 



i don; if not, are they any good'/ You can let us 



I know through Gleanings, and give credit only 



i where it belongs. 



! Friend Hoot, I wish to inform you that your "or- 

 i thodox " rule won't work in the West. Of course, it 

 will in the East, where the fair se.\ are in the major- 

 ity; but in Iowa the fair sex are in the minority by 

 about fifty thousand, and some one must stay out in 

 the cold. No doubt the same state of affairs exists 

 in Minnesota; and if it is as cold theie as it is here 

 now, it won't take long to freeze out. Bachelors and 

 widowers are like trade-dollars— not the right stamp 

 to be at par. We shall have to insist on female im- 

 migration, and lobby a bill through Congress to 

 help us out, if you don't allow girls to come as well 

 as price lists, when both are needed, and you have 

 them idle. I have not had one of your lists later 

 than April 1, 1884, but several of them. 



B. F. Pasley, 13-28. 

 Zcaring, Story Co., Iowa. Feb., 188.5. 



Your device, friend P., is exactly what we 

 had a little time ago, and, in fact, pretty 

 nearly all tlie devices that are sent in now 

 are only repetitions of what we have been 

 working on.— In regard to that otlier matter, 

 I am really afraid I am not competent to ad- 

 vise. As you state it. it is a bigger problem 

 than I had" any idea of. If it is really as you 

 state, 1 do not know but you will have to 

 scrape up a few stamps, and then take a hur- 

 ried trip out here. ]May be you have got 

 some relatives tliat could pave the way a 



