(ILEANIXGS 1^' JJEE CULTUilE. 



May 



HOW FAST DOES A SWABM OF BEES 

 TRAVEL ? 



FHIEND DRAYMAN SUGGESTS THAT THEV SOME- 

 TIMES GO FAST, AND SOMETIMES THEV GO 

 SLOW. 



'OW. Bro. Hoot (I call you Itrothor, hcc-ausf I 

 believe that all good Christians are brcth- 

 T-en, for our Master said, while here, that 

 " He that doeth the will of my Father which 

 is in heaven, the same is my mother, my 

 brother, and my sister"), I want to say a little 

 about how fast Vices fly when jroing off, for I had a 

 little exj)eriencc with some last season. I had a 

 very large swarm come out on a Thursday, and I 

 hived them and placed them where I wanted them 

 to stand, and thej" went to work all right, as I sup- 

 l)oscd, for they commenced to draw out the comb 

 (from fdn.) and filled each frame nearly full of nice 

 white comb, and stored some honey. On the next 

 Monday forenoon, about 11 o'clock, another swarm 

 came out, and I hived them all right; but having 

 occasion to go and help a neighbor raise a barn- 

 frame in the afternoon, I kft No. 2 swarm where I 

 hived them, till night, before moving them to 

 where T wanted them to remain. While I was gone 

 that afternoon, swarm No. 1, which I hived Thurs- 

 day, came out of their hive, and 

 clustered upon an apple-tree, and 

 my wife took another hive and 

 hived them in that. When I came 

 home at night I placed them both, 

 Nos. 1 and 2, uixni stands where 1 

 wanted them to remain. On Tues- 

 day. I went out and looked at them, 

 and No. 1 was restless and uneasy. 

 I told my wife that they would 

 not stay, or, at least, I thought 

 they would not: so I went out 

 about every 1.5 minutes to see how 

 and what they were doing. 



About 12 o'clock I went out, and 

 they appeared about the same as 

 usual. I went in and had not sat down more than 

 five minutes when my little boy came and said, 

 "Papa, your bees are swarming." 



1 went out, and I saw that they were not go- 

 ing to cluster, for they rose higher than usual, and 

 were making quickei- motions than a swarm that 

 clusters. Soon I saw that they were making across 

 my orchard. I started after them. Well, how far 

 do you suppose I went before I lost all sight and 

 hearing of them? About 1.5 rods. I gave up the 

 chase, and turned around and came back, and lo! 

 No. 2 had caught the spirit, and they were tumbling 

 topsy-turvy over one another, as if they could not 

 get out fast enough. I lay by the hive waiting for 

 the queen, and the good wife watching where they 

 were going to cluster; but, nary a cluster; they, 

 too, started for the woods, but in an o])i)osite direc- 

 tion (east) from the others. I followed them; some 

 of the time I walked, and some of the time a little 

 faster, till I came to the tree into which tiiey went. 

 Now, I believe it makes some. If not all of the dif- 

 ference how far they are going, how fast they fly. 

 Waldo, Wis., Apr. 15, 1S85. A. H. Brayma.n. 



Yon make a good point, friend ]>.; and, 

 by the way. is it not true that it is dillicult 

 to lay down niles foi- a f?reat many of these 

 tliinj^cs V Sometimes boes behave "one way, 

 and then again tlicy don't. I have seena 



swarm of bees moving overhead when it 

 seemed to me they went faster than a horse 

 could canter ; at other times one could al- 

 most keep up by walking briskly. 



SOMETHING NEW IN TIN PAILS. 



GHAIHATEU TO MEASUUE EXACTLY HALF-I>1XT. 

 I'l.NTS, QUAKTS, A.NI) GALIiONS. 



T THOUGHT some time ago Ineverwant- 



M ed to see any thing new any more in the 

 W way of pails for honey : l)ut here we 

 ""■^ are again with sometliiug newer and 

 better— at least, that is wliat everybody 

 says, and everybody wouldn't be vcry'likelV 

 to be mistaken. 



Tlie smallest pail holds one (luart wlien it 

 is full, and tlie lai-gest one holds a gallon 

 when it is full, and all of them are divided 

 by a bead ill the till, so as to show vou just 

 how mucli it is whfu it is so full. Still fur- 

 ther, this beading is lettered, so that folks 

 who are not very smart can tell just how 

 much tliere is in' the pail, by reading thelet- 

 tprs and figures that stand under the beadilig. 

 Now. I do not believe I could have been iii- 



K Ni:W (iUADlATKn IIX PAILS. 



diiced to have started a new tin pail, if it 

 were going to cost any more money than the 

 old ones; but here they are. with this new 

 graduated device, and not a cent more in 



I the way of expense. The quart pail is o cts. 

 only; the two-quart, lu cts.; the three-(inart, 

 lo cts., and the gallon pail only 2(J cts. ; and 



I the prices by tens and hundreds are the same 

 as those on page 21 of our price list. The 



] pails, as you will observe, are, however, a 

 little taller than our celebrated nested pails ; 

 and. in fac". a graduated pail can not be 



: made to work real nicely unless it is rather 

 tall. Now. then, the matter is right here 



; before you, and you can do as you choose 

 ab;)ut investing in the new-fangled i)ails. 

 Oh yes! when you order, just say "Novelty 

 pails."" and tlicii you will gel the right kiiuL 

 Any kind of a' can or jiail can be made 

 clieaper by making the length up and down 

 greater than tiic diameter; for tin can be 

 cut to make the body, practi'-ally without 

 waste ; but in cutting "the circles for tops and 

 bottoms, a good deal of tin is wasted; and 

 the larger these tops and buttonis, the great- 

 er tiie waste. Tin pails, however, do not or- 

 dinarily meet with as much favor as those 

 about the dimensiinis of an ordhiary tin cup; 



I viz.. with the diameter a little greater than 

 the height. 



