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CJLJilAKlNGS IK lifcE CULtUliE. 



Aug. 



FROM DIFFERENT FIELD: 



EXTRACTING VEUY THICK IIONKY. 



^AST summer was a very busy one for ine, and 

 I neglected to extract the honey from the 

 colonies run for extracted honey, as fast as 

 they gathered it, but kept taking out the 

 filled combs and putting: empty ones in their 

 place. When the honey season closed I had a nice 

 lot of sealed honey in brood-combs ready to extract, 

 but had not any more time to extract it than during- 

 the summer, as I thought, so \ stored them away 

 and left them until so late that the honey became 

 so thick that I questioned whether it could be ex- 

 tracted at all. Hut Doolittle, in Gr.E.VNiNGS of Nov. 

 1, came to my relief, and told all about how to do it, 

 and last week I tried his plan, and it worked to a 

 charm, just as well as in warm weather, as far as I 

 could discover, except that it had to be done by the 

 side of the kitchen stove, and that is the women's 

 domain; and, " look out" if you should be so unfor- 

 tunate as to drop honey on the Hoor, and get it on 

 the door knobs, etc. After I had finished extracting 

 I was so well pleased with the job that I said to the 

 partner of my joys and sorrows that I would again 

 subscribe for Gleanings, as I considered this arti- 

 cle alone worth more than the subscription price. 



Uy the way, the extractor I use is a home-made 

 one, the gearing of which is made of an old fash- 

 ioned apple-parer, and it did not throw anj' honey 

 over the top either, that I discovered. All it cost 

 me was fifteen cents for the gearing, and my labor. 

 Williamsville, N. Y. John S. Sneari.v. 



NAMING THE FRIENDS WHOSE PICTTTRES APPEAR 

 IN THE PHOTOGRAPH MEDLEY OP THE NEW OR- 

 LEANS BEE-KEEPERS' CONGRESS. 



On page 380, Jas. A. Nelson wants to know if we 

 can not number the bee-keepers as they appear on 

 our photograph taken at the N. O. Bee Congress. 

 You seem to think not. Now, friend Root, suppose 

 you commence, say at the familiar face of Viallon, 

 on the left of the picture, but to our right as we 

 face it, and call him No. 1, and Mr. Flournoy, of 

 Texas, No. 2, etc., coming on down the line toward 

 the very familiar faces of A. 1. Root and Newman. 

 There are just five lines, and numbering them from 

 east to west, or right to left, we could affix the num- 

 ber, and let everj' man or woman call out his or her 

 name through the journals. By this means I think 

 we could very accurately get every name on the 

 photo. I, too, should like to be in possession of all 

 the names. I never expect to meet these faces 

 again in the Hesh, but I should like to have a card 

 appended to my photo, giving all the names in full. 



Clinton, I.a., July 7, 18)-5. VV. F. Roberts, M. D. 



I have kept giving them brood to raise queens from, 

 and thcj- have kept up their colony very well. They 

 have filled their comb with pollen, and yet they will 

 have no queen. They have got queen-cells capped 

 over now, and I suppose they will behave as before. 

 Please tell me the cause and remedy. 

 ■ Jordan, Ky. A. C. Clover. 



the turner RASPBERRY. 



I notice that Mr. Heddon, in his circular, recom- 

 mends and also offers for sale the Turner as a great 

 honey producing plant. As T devote a little of my 

 time t'xperiinenting, I will give my experience 

 with the Turner. I have fruited it here three years 

 without any cultivation. I find it very hardy; 

 spreads rapidly, soon takes possession of considera- 

 ble ground; canes are short, smooth, and thornless; 

 plenty of bloom and ripe fruit at the same time, 

 making its season very long. Bees ai-e on it all the 

 time, so that to get at any of its fruit or bloom 

 would be much like trying to get hold of a balled 

 queen. I think the reason the bees take the fruit 

 here is, they don't find much honey before Septem- 

 ber. The fruit is rather soft for a distant market; 

 but for a near market, or for home use, is excellent. 

 I never saw so much fruit and bloom on the same 

 amount of ground before anywhere, and I have 

 been over 18 different States. I will here plant it 

 on waste ground only, on account of its rapid 

 spreading. We must experiment, in order to find 

 out which fruits are best calculated for our soil; 

 and while so doing, must expect to meet with some 

 bitter disappointments. The Giegg and Cuthbert, 

 that jirove so valuable in some parts of the coun- 

 try, amount to nothing on my soil. 

 .straavberkies. 

 I believe that the Crescent will be my favorite 

 strawberry; but, Mr. Root, T suppose that you will 

 I never plant it, because it often goes by the name of 

 I "Lazy Man's" strawberry ; that is, being able to take 

 I care of itself on nearly any soil. 

 I Nashville, Mo. John Umhols. 



I Thanks for your report, friend V. It 

 seems to me tliat onr best raspberries are 

 ! now ready to take a foremost rank in our 

 I list of honey -plants. Kaspberrles, buck- 

 I wheat, alsike clover, and rape can all be 

 I raised with a fair show of being profitable 

 i investments. 



A COLONY KILLS TEN QUEENS. 



1 have nine stands in Simplicity hives, all doing 

 well but one. That one's trouble is, killing their 

 queens in trying to l)uild them up in the spring. 

 They kill their queen, and 7, accoiding to your in- 

 struction, introduced another, and she laid one day 

 and night, and they killed her also. I gave them 

 brood and they raised one; she remained in the 

 hive about four days, and she was killed also, and 

 BO on until they have raised and killed eight virgin 

 (jueens and two laying queens, and they all have re- 

 mained about four days in the hive before Ijeing 

 killed. No eggs of fertile workers have been seen. 



CARP. 



In the fall of 1883 I nuide a pond about 3(l.\70 feet, 

 partly by excavating, and partly by damming 

 across a hollow in which was a spring. Above this 

 pond I made another dam, in order to throw the 

 surface water into a ditch above, and run it around 

 pond No. 1. I saw it would take but little work to 

 make a smaller pond above No. 1. I did so, and 

 nuide No. 2 about twt)-thirds as large as the first. 

 On llie t;ih day of last May I put 8 two year-old (!er- 

 man carp into pond No. 2. On the 21st of Maj I 

 saw the first young lish, about '= or 'j of an inch 

 long. During the sunnner I have taken from No. '»', 

 30(10 young carp from 2 to inches long, and put 

 them in No. 1, and have sold .500 at *5.00 per 100. 



Milan, Ind. T.F.Wilson. 



GRASSHOPPERS ASSISTING BEES IN GATHERING 

 HONEY ERO.M RED CLOVER. 



Yesterday as I was passing through a clover field 

 I heanl the hum of bees at work; and stopping to 

 look around 1 saw hundreds of bees of all kinds- 

 blacks, hybrids, aud Italians, busily at work on the 



