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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov 



leave the glass, which must be clean and cold. You 

 cut the strips just as wide as you like, and they arc 

 ready for use. The bees will Moi-k on them just as 

 well as It they were pressed. Wo have used them 

 for two years. 



We have 50 colonics of black and albino bees. 

 Our bees are doinfr better now than they have all 

 summer. We have sold only about 300 lbs. of comb 

 and extracted honey. Mrs. Almika Ha/.ex. 



Pleasant Mound, Jll., Aug-. :i9, 1885. 



Thank you, my I'rieiid ; but ilie idea oH 

 plain wax sheets, made by dipping on glass, 

 is very old. In our early volumes the mat- 

 ter w^as considerably discussed ; and al- 

 though it will answer tolerably, plain sheets 

 were soon laid aside for regular foinidation. 

 AVe think if you will try these sheets, how- 

 ever, by the side of well-made foundation, 

 you will notice quite a difference. They are 

 also more expensive, because they contain 

 more wax to the square foot. 



SOME QUEKIKS IN KEGAUD TO liASSAVOOD-TKEES. 



Will you please answer the following- questions? 



1. How many years are required from the time 

 basswood seed is planted, till bees beg-in to work on 

 its blossoms? 



Ten or fifteen years. 



2. How many years' start would one have by pur- 

 chasing- ti-ees of you which arc 10 ft. hijrh, in prefer- 

 ence to seed? 



Five to ten. 



'■i. How many trees arc required to keep KX) colo- 

 nies busy? 



Can't answer; perhaps 100 large trees. 



4. How many should be placed on an acre? 



It does not matter much. We have 4000 

 on 10 acres. See ABC. 



Cokeville, Uintah Co., Wyo. Ciias. F. Clauk. 



.MOKE AllOrX BORROWING TOOLS; A BUZZ-SAW DUT 



OF AN OLD FANNING-MILL— HOW TO 



CONSTRUCT. 



While reading Gi,eanings I was very much 

 pleased in the way you express yourself in regard 

 to borrowing and lending tools, and would say that 

 I have been annoyed that Avay myself. Although a 

 person may have to borrow sometimes, as a rule it 

 can be avoided; but I think your article is to the 

 point, and I would advise every reader of Glean- 

 ings to read it carefully, and act upon it, for it will 

 save hard feelings among neighbors. But I say, if 

 neighbors must borrow from one another it would 

 be best to take the best possible care of what they 

 borrow, and they would then feel more like lending 

 to one another again. 



As I intended to give a description of my circular 

 saw that I made for sawing hive-stuff, 1 will now 

 proceed to do so. I made the frame the same as 

 any circular-saw frame, with tilting table; but hav- 

 ing an old fanning-mill gearing 1 attached it to one 

 side of the frame, to connect with a shaft under it; 

 and on this shaft I put a belt-wheel 18 inches in 

 diametci-, with I'.i-inch Hat belt running to the saw- 

 mandrel. 1 turned my mandrel and shaft, and 

 made the whole machine myself, and it cost me but 

 little outside of my own labor. 1 use a a-inch saw, 

 and turn and feed myself, and can tell just how- 

 fast to feed, to correspond with the power. It is a 

 very handy saw to have, to do odd jobs with, even 

 if you have a power saw. I sawed some nice sec- 



tions from green frozen i)oi)lar, which are as white 

 as snow. They are not so white when sawed out of 

 seasoned lumber. K. 15. Kiduer. 



Columbus, Wis. 



Thanks, friend K.. for the suggestion you 

 give ill regard to the hand-power buzz-saw. 

 I believe this is the lirst time the idea has 

 come up, of turning the saw with one hand, 

 and feeding it with the other : but I have 

 no doubt it can he done, and that such 

 a machine avouUI l)e a great help in many 

 instances. 



wintering ox combs where the (tr.i) hox hive, 



UNPROTECTED, CAME OUT AHEAD. 



For the first time I say. " How do you do?" I have 

 just finished reading Gleanings for Oct. 1st, and 

 could not do withijut it now. I am a joung hand 

 at the bee-business. I can get along- in summer, 

 but the winters are hard. I have had bees for 

 three summers only. I commenced on a small 

 scale, and am still working on the "small." Last 

 fall we had built up to 11 colonies, but saved only 

 one. It was in an old box hive, and stood out all 

 winter with no protection. The others I moved to 

 a shed. We had a splendid white-clover honey-flow 

 and a light flow from goldenrod and Spanish 

 needles. I now have four colonies. They have .ill 

 or 60 lbs. of surplus in 12-pound boxes. How would 

 it do to leave one of those boxes over each colony 

 for winter? Would they take it down into the 

 brood-chamber if they needed it? M. L. Breweij. 



Philo, Ills., Oct. 13, 1885. 



Friend B., I think your old box hive prob- 

 ably had old and tough combs, besides be- 

 ing well ventilated. The rest were probably 

 on new combs, and may be not very strong 

 at that. And then on top of it all, you put 

 them in a shed where they probably failed 

 to receive the benefit of the sun's rays. 

 Leaving honey-boxes over the colony, so as 

 to form an air-space for protection from the 

 frost, was advocated considerably some 

 years ago ; and in our back volumes you 

 will find a multitude of reports. 



" A FISH-STORY "— WHEW : 



As you are interested in carp culture, I clip the 

 inclosed from our local paper. I am satisfied the 

 information will be valuable to all who are interest- 

 ed in the carp industry. 8. M. Peacock. 



Lancaster, Ky. 



Mr. Jesse Doty relates the following singular 

 occurrence. Mr. Dotj- is reliable, and no ciuestion 

 can be raised as to the correctness of the account : 

 On the farmof Williaiii liiatt. near Hyattsville. in 

 this county, is a Uu-^rc pond, which was, a few years 

 ago, well stocked with Cermari i-arp. One day last 

 week Mr. Doty went over to this pond to shoot some 

 of the tish. He took his station on the east side of 

 the pond, and soon killed several very flne ones as 

 they came to the surface to sun themselves. The 

 weapon used was a double-bari-oled shot-gun. Aft- 

 er some tlve or six shots were fired, Mr. Uoty no- 

 ticed a singular agitiUion of the wal(,'r on the west 

 side of till' pund where there Is a slight drain. This 

 agitation iinallv gri-w lo br ;i tcri-ihic coniinotion. 

 and Mr. Itotx- li,-i>lcn(il lo iIimi side in sec what was 

 the matter. Hi' iliseuMM-cd iIku a panic eiiiised im 

 doubt by the sliooling. had seized the fish, and they 

 wei-i- forsaking t he pond in laruf iiunibeis by wav 

 of the ilrain niennoneil. Thai drain exlended foi- 

 only a short ilistai.ce, and there the lislies actually 

 pursiieil their way across the grass, their noses 

 stuck straight toward the woods. Mr. Doty: ran 

 around in front of them, and after Tiiuch difficulty 

 sueeeedinl in heading them olf and driving them 

 l>ack into the i)ond. He says there were no less 



