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GLEANINGS IN HEE CULTURE. 



Oct. 



they have well repaid me) I love the study, and 

 have taught it to my three boys, who are now old 

 enough to do the work, almost, with me. 



I have always used the Langstroth hive, on Mr. 

 Winder's pattern, which takes the Simplicity 

 frames. 



One other item T should like to mention is my ex- 

 perience with the Chapman honey-plant. We were 

 sent seed from the Agricultural Dept., Washing- 

 ton, last year, and planted it in April. They did 

 not bloom till this spring, and it may be that there 

 is so much more to gather honey from while they 

 are blooming that the bees have neglected them 

 entirely. I shall plant again, and try another sea- 

 son. We extracted 60 lbs. this morning from a 

 hive that had already yielded 75 lbs. this spring. 



Monroe, La., July 20, 1S89. St. J. T. Moore. 



Your photo was received, and we should 

 have been very glad to present it to our 

 readers in the shape of an engraving ; but 

 some parts of the picture were so dim and 

 out of focus that it would be impracticable 

 to engrave it by our special process. You 

 have given us a very good pen-picture, how- 

 ever. 



Because we love our business is no reason to sup- 

 pose our neighbor wishes to have his property 

 damaged, or be stung himself. Move the bees 

 back. C. A. Dean. 



Auburn, Pa., Sept. 2, 1889. 



FROM DIFFERENT FIELDS, 



LARD CANS; WILL THEY BE SUITABLE FOR HONEY? 



Please inform me whether round tin cans, such 

 as lard is shipped in (holding 50 lbs. of lard), would 

 be suitable to put extracted honey in, to be left in 

 the honey-house for three or four months. I can 

 get these cans for about 20 cts. each. They are as 

 good as new, having been used only once. Do you 

 consider them heavy enough to hold honey? 



Amos G. Addison. 



Huntington, Fla., Sept. 10, 1889. 



Any kind of tin cans are suitable for hon- 

 ey ; but be sune you have them cleansed so 

 that there is not any lardy smell about 

 them. If 1 am correct, such cases as you 

 mention have been used quite extensively 

 already. You can decide only by actual test 

 as to whether they are strong enough. They 

 will probably need to be crated, to prevent 

 injury in shipping, and a round can is much 

 more inconvenient to crate than a square 

 one. This is the principal reason why we 

 have adopted the square can instead of the 

 round. 



BEES TOO NEAR THE HIOHWAY ; SERIOUS RESULTS 

 OP SICH PROXIMITY. 



We have had an occurrence in our county that is 

 well calculated to set bee-keepers thinking. A bee- 

 keeper has been keeping his bees very close to the 

 highway, and a few days since they stung a horse to 

 death, badly stung another one, and several peo- 

 ple, thus causing considerable damage and annoy- 

 ance. Now, there is considerable prejudice against 

 our business, and we are not altogether blameless; 

 for in looking over bee-yards we find a great many 

 bees just as close to public roads as fences will al- 

 low, and" are therefore a public nuisance, and dan- 

 gerous as well. I hope Gleanings will give this 

 matter attention, to the end that careless bee-keep- 

 ers have their attention called to this matter, so 

 that no more prejudice arise against our business. 



GETTING PROPOLI8 OFF FROM GLOVES. 



Please tell your readers what will take propolis 

 off rubber gloves, or how to get it off. I am sure 

 they would like to know. Mrs. H. J. Proper. 



Franklin Corners, Pa., Sept. 19, 1889. 



My good friend, we can not answer you 

 from actual experience, for no one uses rub- 

 ber gloves in our apiary, that I know of ; 

 and although we sell hundreds of dollars' 

 worth of these gloves, it has always seemed 

 to me that it was a mistaken notion that 

 they were needed in handling bees. The 

 solvent for propolis is benzine ; but wheth- 

 er it will resolve the rubber also, can be as- 

 certained by experiment alone. 



BEE-STINGS A REMEDY FOR RHEUMATISM. 



I commenced in 1887, with one stand, and now 

 have 32. Although the season has been very poor, 

 I have been able to get 600 lbs. extracted and 100 

 lbs. comb honey, most of it raspberry and white 

 clover, so far this season. The fall flow has com- 

 menced now, and prospects are good. I think 1 

 shall be able to get more this fall than last spring. 

 The greatest benefit received from the bees, which 

 I hope you will give through Gleanings, was be- 

 ing cured of the rheumatism. I had the white 

 swelling when 14 years old; and although it was 

 cured I had been bothered ever since a great deal 

 with rheumatism, until I commenced working with 

 bees. 1 have not had a single hard spell since. I 

 have felt several times as if I were going to have a 

 spell; but a sting or two seemed to relieve it imme- 

 diately. C. E. Layman. 



Troutville Station, Va., Sept. 13, 1889. 



BEE-STINGS NOT A REMEDY FOR RHEUMATISM. 



I agree with Mrs. John Burr, of Braceville, 111., 

 that bee-stings are no relief for rheumatism. Five 

 years ago, as I began bee-keeping I suffered from 

 rheumatism about as badly as a man could, and I 

 have it yet, although not so bad this summer; but 

 last year I was disabled for six months. But as I 

 began bee-keeping, I was told by several parties, 

 " Now let the bees sting you as much as they have 

 a mind to, for that will cure you." A rather bold 

 remedy, is it not? Well, I confess I was stung 

 enough for the entire season. My hands were 

 swollen to double their natural size, and sometimes 

 the face also; but it did not affect the rheumatism; 

 but, strange as it is, since the first season, the bees 

 may sting me ever so bad and it never swells in the 

 least. I believe the reason for bee-stings and many 

 other remedies recommended for rheumatism, is 

 because it will sometimes leave a person all at 

 once, in a change of weather or even a change of 

 wind ; then when the sufferer has been using some- 

 thing he is ready to say it cured him. I have been 

 fooled many a time the same way, although I am 

 not very apt to jump at conclusions. But I have 

 many a time thought I had something that cured 

 me, only to find, when the trouble returned, that it 



had no effect upon it at all. 



Julius Johannsen. 

 Port Clinton, O., Sept. 9, 1889. 



You make a good point, my friend, where 

 you mention that rheumatism and like ail- 



