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GLEANINGS IN liEE CULTURE. 



Am. 



Tq§qonomize infqod, and insure freedom from ni- 

 trogen, feed your colonies sug-ar-syrup stores witii 

 as little honey and bee-bread in the hive as possible, 

 and place these colonies in a warm repository, and 

 heep, up the temperature to io," and you will never 

 lose your bees during- winter, with any length of 

 conflnement we ever experience in latitudes where 

 bees are kept. 



Having hclic red this three years, I have been at 

 work developing a system of mauag-ement by 

 which we can get nearly all our honey stored in the 

 surplus receptacles, bringing our brood-chamber 

 out in fall almost entirely destitute of honey, and 

 with very little bee-bread. I have succeeded to my 

 satisfaction, and proven the system's advantages 

 as regards increase of profit, and decrease of labor, 

 in all directions, and will delineate it to your 

 i-eaders at a future time. It is very pleasant to be 

 able to dictate an improved and cheaper kind of 

 winter stores, without the troublesome, perplexing, 

 and, in many instances, dangerous job of late ex- 

 traction. James Hebuon. 



Dowagjac, Mich., April 3, 1885. 



MR. J. F. FLOBY'S SECTION CORNER- 

 CLAMP. 



HI.S REPLY TO THE QUERIES ON PI*. 110 AXU 16.1. 



'N answer to your queries on pages 100 and 16.J, as 

 to how I close up the ends of my corner clamp- 

 ed sectional honey-boxes, I will say that I am 

 not yet satisfied what plan is best— to put wood 

 in the end as you suggest, or tin, cut about '2 

 an inch narrower than they are high, and ^4: inch 

 longer than they are wide, and then bend it so it 

 will fit close over the outside of the section, and 

 then slip it under the clamps, which will hold it 

 tight up to the section without nailing, or else have 

 your clamped sections about '2 inch shorter than 

 your cap, and put a thin board "b or 3-10 thick be- 

 tween them and the cap. Some will use them just 

 as they do the Tulare sectional box; viz., have 

 them fit up snug to the side of the cap; but I object 

 to that plan, for the simple reason that, if bits of 

 comb are attached to the cap, in lifting them out or 

 in lifting the cap off first, leaving the honey sitting 

 on the hive, which is the better plan, it will bruise 

 the outside of the comb; but by having a thin 

 board between the cap and honey, and lifting the 

 cap off first, these boards can be laid back, and then 

 there will be no l>ruising of the honey whatever. 

 This, of the three plans mentioned, I am inclined to 

 think will be the best plan. 



You still seem to think that I must have a duuhle, 

 bee-space in tiering up. If the clamps, as you ad- 

 mit, are only '« inch thick, and you put one on 

 top of the other, you certainly have but one 

 space, and that just double the thickness of the 

 clamps, making it '.j inch, hence we can have but 

 one space between cac/i tier, no matter how many 

 tiers you may have; while the lleddon has two and 

 a honey-board besides. 



At our last convention at Haniord, March 4, there 

 was but one objection urged against them; and his 

 idea was, that the liees would wax and glue be- 

 tween the sections. As to the wax, I have no fears 

 whatever; but how much, if any, they will glue it I 

 can not say, but certainly not more than the Hed- 

 don case. I am not manufacturing them, neither 

 have I them for sale; but if any one will send me 



several stamps, for postage, etc., I will mail him a 

 sample. J. F. Flory. 



Leinore, Tulare Co., Cal. 



SWEET CORN AS A HONEY-JPLANT, 



ALSO SOME OF ITS OTHi 



ADVANTAGES. 



tGOOD many seeds are sold, and a good 

 deal of time and money is spent in 

 raising plants that yield honey and 

 nothing else. Well, dear friends, 1 

 have many times told you that I felt a 

 little anxious when you sent for seeds pro- 

 ducing plants that promise no return except 

 the honey they may furnish. But if you 

 should plant our best varieties of sweet corn, 

 and give it a good cultivation, I should not 

 worry about you one bit. You know we have 

 advertised four difterent kinds of corn for 

 some years past. AVeil. it just occurred to 

 me this spring that perhaps I had better see 

 if any of these old kinds had been super- 



j sedeci. Below is friend Kendel's reply in re- 

 gard to the matter, and 1 thought it too bad 



I to keep it all to mystlf. If you want any of 

 the seeds he mentions in his article, he will 

 give you the real genuine at the lowest mar- 



1 ket price ; or, if more convenient, you can 



i send the order directly to us, and we will 



j send the things with your goods. 



J Mr. A. I.Riiiit: In reply to yours of April ;J, we 

 would say we have a decided improvement over 

 Minnesota in Fords Early Sweet, which is nearly a 

 week earlier, larger, and somewhat sweeter, with 

 price same as Minnesota. For a second early, the 

 Moore's Concord holds its own; the Croby's is some- 

 times thought to be a little sweeter, but is not so 

 fine and large an ear, so that the Concord takes the 

 lead for market purposes. For the third, Early 

 Mammoth has no peer; it is sweet, productive, large 



' ear, and continues a long time in the milk. For a 

 fourth, the Stowcll Evergreen or the Egyptian are 

 favorites, the Evergreens for evaporating; but for 



! excellence of flavor, the Egyptian. The Evergreen 



I is so well known it needs no description; the Egyp- 



I tian is 12 to 11 rowed, fair sized ear, not quite as 

 large as evergreen, but has a pleasant habit of pro- 

 ducing two or three cars to the stalk when not 

 planted too close. 



You can not urge the friends too strongly to 

 plant corn of the four different seasons all at one 

 planting, which is preferable to successive plant- 

 ings for the following reasons: 



1. Tlie work of planting is all done at the prop- 

 er time, and one can put his mind at pcrt'oct rest 

 on the sweet-corn question. 



2. The first and second early are not ((uite as de- 

 sirable varieties as the third and fourth varieties; 

 but if the former are not planteil, no corn can l>e 

 picked for the table until the third early " Mam- 

 moth " comes, and the ground can all be cleared of 

 stalks, and othci- ero|)s planted upon the earlier 

 liatclu's. 



3. After the Maunnoth has been all used whilst 

 just right, the later varieties will just liegin to be 

 good, and will continue so until frost. 



i. The stalks being of half the value of the crop, 

 are more apt to be cut when green, and in their 

 best condition for fodder; for when one knows 

 there are no more ears to be gathered upon a cer- 



