1889 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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rod and wild sunflowers. The honey is the nicest 

 fall honey we ever produced. We sold 500 lbs. or 

 more, cut right out of the brood-frames. The light 

 honey brought 12y 2 — 2000 lbs., $250. The dark honey 

 brought 10—3000 lbs., $300. Six swarms of bees 

 brought $15.00. All sold within 12 miles of home. 

 We did not have enough to supply the demand. 

 We think we have reason to thank the Master— 

 don't you? E. R. A. Brainard. 



Postville, Iowa, Jan. 21, 1889. 



To be sure, friend B.; and it rejoices my 

 soul to see so many of the readers of 

 Gleanings indicate even in their reports 

 that they recognize in their work the all- 

 wise Ruler of the universe. 



1047 J /i GALLONS of honey; the last season the 



BEST FOR YEARS. 



Last year was the best for honey we have had 

 here in many years; 120 colonies made for me 1047 V6 

 gallons of honey; average per colony, 8% gallons. 



Padgett, Ala., Feb. 9, 1889. B. B. Toney. 



Well done again, friend Toney. This 

 makes another tiptop report for 1888. 



11J4 TONS OF HONEY LAST SEASON, AND 29 TONS 

 FOR THE PAST THREE SEASONS. 



My honey crop this season was 11% tons, and for 

 the past three seasons 29 tons. When you come to 

 visit friend Freeborn next summer, just drive 

 around this way, and I think we can show you a 

 few "points" in our management worth seeing. 



Mauston, Wis., Feb. 19, 1889. Frank McNay. 



3500 LBS. OF HONEY FROM 32 COLONIES THE FIRST 

 YEAR. 



Last year I bought 32 stands of bees at wheat 

 harvest, and during the fall I harvested about 

 3500 lbs. of fine extracted honey, and increased to 

 51 by natural swarming. They are all in very fine 

 shape. Joseph Trindley. 



St. Peters, Mo., Feb. 20, 1889. 



^EF0TO Digceai ^eiNQ. 



NOT ENCOURAGING FOR NEW SOUTH WALES. 



'E are having a very bad season here this 

 year. Last season I put an Italian swarm 

 into a hive of comb foundation, Nov. 1, 

 and on Dec. 8th I extracted 50 lbs. of honey 

 from it, from white clover. This season, no 

 signs of swarming yet. The Italians are the only 

 ones getting honey. The blacks make scarcely 

 enough to live on. When I say a bad season here, I 

 mean in the "New England District of New South 

 Wales." John S. Rutter. 



Armidale, Australia, Jan. 7, 1889. 



NOT ENCOURAGING FOR AUSTRALIA. 



We regret to say, that this season the bees have 

 not done any thing worth speaking of, and our 

 trade in supplies has been correspondingly small. 

 Reports are, however, improving, and men have 

 told us of " pure Italians" (?) being found " in the 

 bush " as we call it— that is to say, building in trees, 

 etc., wild. At any rate, swarming has commenced 

 at last; and if we have a long summer we might 

 make up for some of the trade which we might 

 have done if the season had been more propitious. 



Sydney, Jan. 21, 1889. Hebblewhite & Co. 



]Mote# ti]md QaEi^iE^. 



We solicit for this department short items and questions of 

 a practical nature; but all QUESTiONS.it' accompanied by oth- 

 er matter, must be put upon a separate slip of paper with 

 name and address. 



TO TRANSFER IN WINTER. 



TS it possible to transfer a colony of bees from 

 M an old-fashioned box hive to a hive with 

 W movable frames, in the winter? They have no 

 ■*• honey in the old hive, and I wish to transfer 

 them for feeding. John Hobbs. 



Red Hook, N. Y., Feb. 6, 1889. 



[Experts have done it frequently, but a beginner 

 should not undertake it. The better way would be 

 to pry off part of the top of the hive, and feed them 

 as you would ordinarily a colony in a movable- 

 frame hive. If they pull through all right, you can 

 then transfer them during apple-bloom next 

 spring.] 



OAT HULLS INSTEAD OF CHAFF. 



I am putting up a few chaff hives, but I have no 

 chaff to fill them with, and I'd like to use them this 

 summer. The question is, Would oat hulls do to 

 fill them, instead of chaff? Don't you think that 

 would be a good substitute? J. L. Edwards. 



Oxford, la., Feb. 7, 1*89. 



[Oat hulls might answer for a packing; but if you 

 can possibly get chaff we would recommend you to 

 use it instead. For further particulars, see A B C 

 book on " Wintering," a prospectus of which we in- 

 close you.] 



HOW LONG FROM A START WILL IT TAKE FOR 

 FOUL BROOD TO INFECT THE WHOLE HIVE? 



How long would it take foul brood to get under 

 such headway in a hive containing 12 Gallup 

 frames that every comb should be affected more or 

 lees— say from y s to % of all cells used in brood- 

 rearing being affected? D. W. C. Matthews. 



Ypsilanti, Mich., Feb. 7, 1889. 



[After foul brood has made its appearance in a 

 few cells in a hive, if neglected by the apiarist that 

 long, it will take only about a week or ten days for 

 it to affect every comb. In two weeks every cell 

 of brood will be rotten.] 



COFFEE-CANS FOR EXTRACTED HONEY. 



Will large tin cans that roasted coffee comes in, 

 holding 50 lbs. of coffee and 16 gallons of honey, be 

 stout enough to ship honey in? Cans are boxed. 



Madison, Ga., Feb. 12. R. H. Campbell. 



[If the coffee-cans are securely soldered I should 

 think they might answer; but as they are manu- 

 factured for shipping coffee and not for honey, 

 which is so very much heavier, I think you had bet- 

 ter test them carefully before risking very much 

 honey in them.] 



BEES ALL " FROZE ; " HOW TO START ANEW. 



Can a person start up a swarm of bees by getting 

 a queen and a pound of bees? Mine all froze. I 

 should like to start again. M. J. Bowles. 



Sexton, Ind., Feb. 4, 1889. 



LWith a pound of bees and a queen you can make 

 a very nice start. Where one has lost all his bees, 

 this is the best way to begin anew. It certainly is 

 the cheapest.] 



40 BUSHELS OF JAPANESE BUCKWHEAT FROM 1 

 PECK OF SEED. 



We have received Gleanings regularly, for 

 which we thank you. We are well pleased with it. 

 The peck of Japanese buckwheat I bought of you 

 last year I sowed on % acre of ground. It yielded 

 40 bushels by measure. J. N. Buzza. 



Kossuth, Pa., Feb. 18, 1889. 



