1887 



GLEANINGS IN BEK CULTURE. 



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^ood-sized door in front of the passageway 

 in front of the mangers. Wlien this is open 

 the sun in the winter time shines right in 

 their faces. F tiiink I have heard it stated, 

 that stables should not liave too much di- 

 rect sunlight. Will friend Terry tell us 

 what he knows in regard to the matter? 



IN MEMORIAM OF OUR OLD FRIEND A. K. MOON. 



A {food many of your readers will remember tlie 

 late A. F. Moon, the veteran bee-keeper who de- 

 parted this lite in Rome. Ga., some three years ago. 



Mr. Moon, for many years, was a bee-keeper at 

 Rome, Ga., having some two hundred hives con- 

 stantly under his supervision. He made a business 

 of raising- cjueens mostly, and his product was sold 

 all over the United States and Australia. From 

 this, as well as the cultivation of tiowers, which 

 was as pleasant to him as the honey-bee, he derived 

 a meager support; l)ut among all his trials he was 

 always the genial gentleman, who always welcom- 

 ed visitors, a^d liked to "talk bees." To say that 

 Mr. Moon was one of nature's nobleman is not to 

 say too much. He was a gentleman in every re- 

 spect, and the veteran bee-keeper of the South. 

 At our Southern fairs he was nearly always on 

 hand to transfer, for the amusement and instruc- 

 tion of the attendants, and he had learned to trans- 

 fer so well and so quicklj' that he could complete 

 the job in 17 minutes from the word " go." 



At one of our fairs he accidentally broke his leg; 

 and the first amputation which was necessary, be- 

 ing incompletely done, or done in an unskilltul 

 manner, led In after years to a second amputation 

 from which he never recovered. He died, regretted 

 by the entire inhabitants of Rome, among whom 

 he had made his home for a lung number of j'ears. 



Genial and warm-hearted in life, he died like 

 '• one who wraps the drai^erj- of his couch about 

 him and lies down to pleasant dreams." In the 

 great hereafter, where he has gone before, may we 

 meet again some summer day. T. E. Hanbury. 



.\tlanta, Ga.. Dec. 9, 1886. 



SELLING HONEY IN NEVADA. 



I have been prettj- busy putting up honey in 

 those little glass pails, and packing my sections for 

 market. I put 'ZO lbs. in a box, which I have made 

 on purpose for them, compact and close, and each 

 wrapped in blue paper, so when they get to their 

 destination thej- are in good condition. T feel satis- 

 tied, when I hear the remarks of the parties to 

 whom they were shipped; as, for instance, "Hid 

 you ever in your life see honey packed as nicely as 

 this?" I tell you, I feel proud of it (but not envi- 

 ous) to know that all parties are satisfied. Well, 

 now, in regard to those pails, there were two dozen 

 broken (out of i(M)), but otherwise all right. If they 

 could only make the mouth of them a little smooth- 

 er it would be a great advantage to all parties. 

 My honey is going off at good prices. For the 

 finest of it I get 2.t cts. per section in San F'raneisco, 

 as well as in the adjacent counties. There is plen- 

 ty of honey here that can be bought for 12 cts., but 

 it is not so attractive, and, of course, does not sell 

 as well as mine. I have found out that honej', as 

 well as any thing else that is put up in proper 

 shape, provided the quality is good, will sell, and it 

 will pay, too, if you only take a little pains with it. 

 That is my experience; and I know that, if we all 

 take a little care, we can all do well. 



Keno, Nevada, Nov. 26, 188tt. E. A. Moohk. 



BOX-HIVE MEN IN KENTUCKY. 



Of the 6074 subscribers you report in Deo. I, No., 

 it occurs to nic that but few if any are taken on the 

 line of my recent trip across this State and into 

 three small towns in Kentucky. The country 

 abounds in natural resources and box gums, but 

 few frame hives. I saw some at only one place, 

 and the>- appeared to have been neglected. Many 

 would get movable frames if, as they say, they 

 knew enough aViout bees and the management of 

 the hi\ es. When they fovuid out I had no interest 

 in patent hives and clap-traps, none to sell, but, 

 like them, kept bees for the pleasure and profit 

 they gave, 1 had eager listeners for what I had to 

 say, and many were the questions asked, and 

 genuine and pressing the invitations to stay all 

 night 01' spend the day. They get marvelous quan- 

 tities of honey in an old-fashioned, awkward sort 

 of way. That Mississippi bottom is a great place 

 for bees, fish, and game, and— big graveyards. 



W. P. Henderson. 



Murfreesboro, Tenu., Dec. 4, 1886. 



jMewEf^ n]iB QaE^iEg. 



GREAT DROUGHT. 



T SOU) my bees down to 67 colonies to com- 

 m[ mence the season with — about 50 good eolo- 

 ^t nies, the rest below par. The fore part of the 

 "*• season was very good; the honey gathered 

 was e.xtra, on account of being heavy, caused 

 by hot dry weather; but the season closed with the 

 most severe drought experienced in this section 

 since 1871, the fall of the great Chicago fire. 1 

 made 4000 lbs. of white-clover honey in ]-lli. sec- 

 tions, and about 2000 lbs. of extracted. L increased 

 to 130 colonies, which are all in the cellar in splen- 

 did condition. I had to feed only a few pounds. 

 North Prairie, Wis. W. Addenbrook. 



How shall we make labels stick on tin > 

 Wheatland, Mich. Joel V. Mmerriman. 



[Several recipes have been given in our back vol- 

 umes. Briefly, put some honey with your paste, or 

 sandpaper the tin a little, or rub the tin with salei-- 

 atus water. Lastly, use the Royal glue found on 

 our 10-cent counter.] 



OLD hope for smoker FUEL. 



Among all the smoker fuels mentioned in 

 Glean tNOS, I had not seen old ropes spoken of. 1 

 tie them in knots, then cut the knots apart, and 

 they make a good and durable fuel when used with 

 rotton wood. etc. Rukdette H.\s.«!ett. 



Howard Center. Iowa. Dec. 10, 1886. 



how to kkep postage-stamps fro.m sticking to 

 letters. 



If j'ou will tell customers, when sending stamps, 

 to rub them on their hair in its natural state it will 

 prevent sticking together, and not injure the 

 stamps in the least. T. D. Waller. 



Port Andrew. Wis., Dec. .'», 18H(i. 



[Thanks, friend W., forgiving us one solution, at 

 least, to the postage-stamp trouble. The only ob- 

 jection I can think of is, that if you use hair-oil you 

 might get the stamp so greasy it would not stick 

 when it was necessary. The other is, that "t'other 

 fellow" might lick his tongue on his stamp after 

 it had been rubbed on your greasy hair. But even 

 this would be better than having them stuck fast to 

 letters, so far as we are concerned— begging pardon 

 if we seem selfish.] 



