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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Aug. 



fine specimen of clover honey, altliough it 

 has a flavor slightly different when one no- 

 tices carefnlly. I believe it is also of a deep- 

 er straw color than clover honey. If it is al- 

 ways like this. I should say that the honey 

 from red raspberry will rank eciual to any 

 clover honey made, although tlie honey may 

 be a little inore "• on the straw,"' as I have 

 mentioned. Now, then, friends, we can get 

 raspberries and honey too, therefore red rasp- 

 berries are a safe honey-plant. We have 

 just been sampling some specimens of the 

 Marlborough raspberry. The plant is a won- 

 derful grower. The berries are very large, 

 and of excellent flavor. If full-grown plants 

 fruit as well as our little ones less than two 

 feet high, we want a big plantation of Marl- 

 boroughs.— We notice a good many speak of 

 the red raspberry being especially a honey- 

 plant. Don't bees get honey from the black 

 raspberry also V We have not had an oppor- 

 tunity of testing it on our grounds. All that 

 we have in full bearing are red, and the bees 

 are extremely fond of them. 



good fish. If you have any better way of preparing 

 them, please let me know. H. C. Hersperger. 



Kccne, Ky., July 13, 1W5. 



Friend II., I think if you will try feeding 

 your carp on some other "kind of food shortly 

 before they are taken for the table, you will 

 find the quality of the flesh all that you may 

 desire. This msitter is very fully treated in 

 the ABC of Carp Culture. You may have 

 coi-n-fed fish as well as corn-fed beef. 



BKES BALLING THEIR OWN QUEEN. 



Referring? to Mrs. Harrisons inquiry on page 445, 

 I should like to instance a case which has recently 

 come under my own observation. I have a very 

 line and prolific Italian queen which was hatched 

 last August, and wintered on three frames. Soon 

 after spring opened this colony increased to eight 

 frames, all filled with brood. About this time I 

 commenced taking frames of brood from them for 

 other colonies, giving them frames of full fdn. in 

 place, and have kept this up till the present time. 

 About ten days ago, upon opening this hive I no- 

 ticed a ball of bees, and by smoking them I found 

 the old queen in the center. After being liberated, 

 she seemed frightened — running about on the 

 comb, and was immediately caught by the bees and 

 balled again— this time by a larger ball than before. 

 As I was afraid they would kill her, I caught her 

 and caged her in a Pcet cage, on the comb, with the 

 slide out. After a few days she was out attending 

 to her business, and the bees all well disposed 

 toward her. This colony was full of bees, with 

 plenty of brood, honey, pollen, etc., and was in 

 everyway prosperous. I give you the facts; and 

 as I am young in the business I will refrain from 

 comments. C. W. Costellow. 



Waterboro, Maine. 



CARP FOR the table, AND HOW TO COOK THEM. 



We have carp over here in Kentucky. They are 

 wonderful growers, but they do not make a good 

 , bill of fare for every one, by any means. If you 

 take them right from the pond and fry them they 

 will taste of mud. I took one from my neighbor's 

 pond, and it had a flavor of cold cabbage. This 

 taste may have been given by feeding cabbage 

 from the table, which I understand was done. If 

 so, it shows that we may improve the quality of the 

 fish by proper feeding. Indeed, we had about made 

 >ip our minds to keep them from our table, but 

 lately we have been successful in preparing them. 

 We now kill and dress, and scald the skin off, as you 

 would a cat-fish; then put them in salt and water 

 until ne.xt day, then bring to a boil in clear water. 

 Now bake or fry, and you have a very good fish, but 

 not equal to the best fish of our county. We had 

 one today for dinner, weighing about 5 lbs., pre- 

 pared in this way, and it was pronounced a very 



HOW THOSE STRAWBERRIES TUIfNED OCT. 



In April, 1881, 1 put out a whole town lot, which is 

 50 ft. wide h3' 1.50 ft. long, in strawberries, of which 

 I had IT diflerent varieties, all of highly recom- 

 mended kinds, of which the James Vick has been a 

 total failure; the Windsor Chief, the largest berry; 

 the Manchester the very latest, and a good bearer; 

 but the old Wilson and the Crescent have been the 

 most profitable, both affoiding good berries from 

 the first to the last, and both kinds producing more 

 than double what the most of the other kinds have 

 done. Well, this is how they turned out: I have to- 

 day, July 4, picked and sold 22 quarts, which is the 

 last. Total, (5(56 quarts, or 20 bushels and a half, all 

 of which have been sold or used at home, except 48 

 quarts shipped to Dennison. Average price 10 cts. 

 a quart. Largest picking in one day, 84 qts. Next. 

 A. A. Frauenburg. 



Port Washington, O., July 4, 1885. 



cook's BEE-BRU5H. 



Many of the friends have declared they 

 much preferred the old style of bee-brush in- 

 vented and manufactured by our old friend 

 T. J. Cook, and we have just made arrange- 

 ments to furnish them again, as well as the 

 j Davis brush, which is just now having such 

 a large sale. The letter below explains the 

 matter. It also tells us something about 

 how to use either the Cook or Davis brush. 



BEE-BRCSH. 



We give a cut of the Cook brush as it was 

 made before he died ; and in accordance with 

 friend Davis' kind offer we are prepared to 

 furnish them at the same price as the Davis 

 brush ; namely, lo cts. each. If wanted by 

 mail, '6 cts. each extra for postage. 



I send you by this mail one of Cook's brushes im- 

 proved. When you get it unwrapped take out the 

 tack, put in the handle, drive in the tack again, then 

 dip the brush in water up to the head, then smoothe 

 it out with the hand and let it dry, and the brush is 

 ready for use. I send it that way to prevent getting 

 broken in the mails. 



Theodore J. Cook was a cousin of mine, and an 

 only child of James and Ellzab Ih Cook. He was as 

 fine a young man as ever nuirked this country, a 

 member of the Methodist Church, and 1 think a true 

 Christian. His parents are very wealthy, yet Theo- 

 dore never indulged in any thing bad in his life; 

 and, friend Root, you have no idea how it would 

 please uncle and aunt to know that his brushes are 

 still wanted. C. F. Muth thinks they are ahead of 

 my brushes yet. J. S. C. Davis. 



Ballstown, Ind., July 4, 1885. 



