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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July 



milky state, or will be hatching in five or six hours 

 after giving to a colony to start them. 

 Coronaca, S. C., June 19, 1889. J. D. EOOSHE. 



FROM DIFFERENT FIELDS, 



PRODUCING SECTION HONEY ON BOX HIVES. 



[JM 1{ - ROOT:— I know it is a very busy time to 

 stop to talk; but as you and most of the ad- 

 vanced bee-keepers have passed through 

 what I am experiencing now, I thought a 

 word of advice from you would be of great 

 satisfaction. You may remember I told you that I 

 was a rather small pioneer in the improved method 

 of bee-keeping in this part of the country. I was 

 made the object of many a smart .joke on my crazy 

 hobby; but my success in producing the nicest hon- 

 ey, and at the same time making some money, has 

 turned the scale; there is quite an excitement 

 springing up, and everybody appears to want to 

 go into the bee-business. Men are coming from a 

 range of several miles to get information and in- 

 structions how to proceed to get such honey, and 

 as much of it, as I do, from a hive. I admit I feel 

 ashamed that I know so little as a bee-keeper; but 

 novices express themselves as being satisfied I 

 know it all when they see my apiary with the beau- 

 tiful white honey tiered up two or three crates 

 high. Now, there is one thing I wish to consult you 

 about, and it is a thing that has stirred everybody 

 who has any kind of agum, in these parts; that is, 

 about using sections on common gum hives. I had 

 a few such hives, and I made a crate to hold 18 one- 

 pound sections, which are filled as nicely as on any 

 hive, and the public have found it out, and many 

 are coming to me for said crates, filled with sec- 

 tions to go on these gums, and they are running 

 me out of supplies; hence the last orders. Now, is 

 this a new thiog, and am I responsible for breaking 

 down the trade, by teaching everybody who has a 

 gum, to produce section honey? S. Daniels. 



Pine Grove, O., June 22, 1889. 



In our ABC book, at the close of the ar- 

 ticle on tk Transferring," we gave a short 

 plan by prying off the top of the old box 

 hive and setting a Simplicity hive, filled 

 with foundation, over it. It is true, there 

 is nothing said about filling this Simplicity 

 hive with sections, but the matter almost 

 suggests itself, without being mentioned. 

 In fact, it has been done a great many 

 times, and the matter lias been frequently 

 mentioned in the journals. — Whenever any 

 trade or occupation can be broken down by 

 teaching short ways of accomplishing desir- 

 able results, by all means let it break. I 

 think very likely that people who have bees 

 in gums might do nicely in the way you sug- 

 gest, and we thank you for calling our at- 

 tention to it. 



MOKE EXPERIENCE WITH BEE-STINGS AND RHEUM- 

 ATISM. 



At my table, when eating honey, without any oth- 

 er conversation leading to it, a German friend, with 

 much animation, told the following: "After the 

 Franco-Prussian war I suffered rheumatism (as the 

 effects of my soldier life) for three years, never 

 able to work, and seldom able to. walk. One flue 



day in spring I coaxed them to carry me into the 

 garden, and, sitting near the bees, I smelled honey 

 and asked for bread and honey. The bees gather- 

 ed around me, and, being left alone a short time, I 

 tried to chase them off, and they stung me awful 

 bad on the face and arms, fifteen or twenty stings 

 before I got away. The swelling was terrible; but 

 before it was gone I could walk; and when it was 

 gone I was well, and never had rheumatism after- 

 ward, and immediately went to work." The name 

 of this man is Henry Karstadt. I believe his state- 

 ment. J. A. Lowe. 

 Hutchinson, Kan., June 28, 1889. 



My friend, the above is very valuable ; 

 and from the numerous similar reports we 

 have received, I am inclined to think that 

 bee-stings are perhaps the best remedy for 

 that fearfully stubborn disease, rheuma- 

 tism, of any thing that is known. May it 

 not be that the hot sun and open air have 

 also something to do with it f I can readi- 

 ly understand how our poor friend K. 

 should get stung in the way he mentions. 

 The bees got enough honey from h's bread 

 and butter to put them into the right mood 

 for stinging fearfully, just about the time it 

 was gone. As he was helpless, he probably 

 got a good sound bee-sting treatment, es- 

 pecially for the first dose. 



ANOTHER HIVE-CART. 



Seeing a cut in Gleanings of a wheelbarrow to 

 lift and carry hives, I thought I would send you my 

 arrangement. With it I can lift and carry the heav- 

 iest hives with ease. One handle is on a hinge, so 

 it can be spread and closed up. The blocks and the 

 handles go under the strips near the top of my hives. 



WILSON'S HIVE-CART. 



I think it could be fixed to go under the hives as 

 well. The wheel is from a culitvator, and the 

 springs from an old spring seat. A frame goes 

 over the wheel to keep it from wabbling about, 

 which it would do on the end of such a long spring. 

 I have used this more or less for three years, and I 

 think if it were perfected and made just right it 

 would be quite handy. Henry Wilson. 



Clinton, 111. 



I will explain to our readers that our ar- 

 tist has not quite caught friend Wilson's 

 idea For Dovetailed hives, or hives whose 

 b )ttoms may be fastened, instead of having 

 a support under the bottom-board, a pair of 

 blocks on the handles of the wheelbarrow fit 

 into the hand-holes. With a movable-bottom 

 hive, however, something must go under to 

 keep the bottom in place, as shown in the 

 cut. The frame mentioned, as attached to 

 the springs to keep the wheel from wab- 

 bling, is omitted in the cut ; and, in fact, 

 friend Wilson has not made it plain just 

 what this frame should be. A stout piece 

 of fiat iron, however, riveted to each one of 

 the springs, and running over the wheel, 

 with a sort of bow, would probably remedy 

 the difficulty alluded to. 



