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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUliE. 



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KETTLE-SCRAPER. 



have the material'for making it; and that such as 

 wish may make it, I give the recipe: Rosin, five 

 ounces; lard, eight ounces; beeswax, two ounces. 

 Melt together, strain through linen (cotton will do), 

 and stir constantly till cool. It is the best thing I 

 know of for a burn. Soda or saleratus is good, but 

 l-equires more attention. 



A TOOL FOR SCRAPING KETTLES. 



On page 258, April 1, Dr. 

 C. C. Miller speaks of a " 10- 

 cent dish-cloth of iron rings" 

 \ for cleaning pots and ket- 

 O ties. Please let me tell of a 

 household convenience that 

 \ our folks think a great deal 

 I of for that purpose, and 

 ! they have several of differ- 

 ' ent sizes. The accompany- 

 ing diagram shows what 

 they are. One of our boys 

 cut them out of scraps of galvanized sheet iron, 

 with a pair of common shears, and punched the 

 holes, by which to hang them up, with a small 

 punch. Mrs. M. says they are the best things she 

 ever had for scraping kettles, pans, etc., and that 

 she would not be without them. Every side and 

 corner has its use. A. B. Mason. 

 Auburndale, O. 



We have never found any thing better 

 than common sturcli paste lathered over the 

 rolls to prevent the wax from sticking ; but 

 on certain days we do have trouble with the 

 w^ax sticking some. We w^ilJ try to give your 

 washing-fluid a test on our comb-mill rolls. 

 — Your kettle-scraper is easily made, and 

 we have no doubt but that it would be 

 found to be a very useful tool in the kitch- 

 en. Our wire dish-cloth is intended for the 

 same purpose, but whetlier it would do its 

 work any better, we can not say. 



FREE PUFFS. 



GIVING THE PUBLIC AN INSIGHT INTO OUR IN- 

 DUSTRY. 



TN placing our product before the public there is 

 (mP one method bj' which we can draw attention to 

 ^l the importance of our industry, and the 

 agreeableness of the product, which is some- 

 what overlooked. We i-ead of marvelous finds 

 of honey, stories of the freaks of bees, etc., in our 

 daily and weekly press, but seldom do we see an 

 article useful to our interests. Short articles in the 

 newspapers, an illustrated page in Harper's, Prank 

 Leslie's, or the Graphic, an able article for the 

 magazines, all of them could be made charming by 

 enough of the marvelous or novel to draw atten- 

 tion. Describe the condition of the industry here, 

 as compared with it abroad; the apiaries of New 

 Zealand, with a description of them, would inter- 

 est the public much more than a description of a 

 precisely similarly managed apiary in the next 

 town. The workings of the honey-e.xtractor could 

 be explained very well in an attractive description 

 of a California apiary. The heading, " Honey by 

 the Ton," will help to make it readable. I have 

 some honey-labels with a description of the process 

 of extracting printed thereon. A popular doctor 

 in a neighboring town, after reading it, and tasting 



the honey, astounded me by asking me if this was 

 a machine of my own invention. I was most happy 

 to inform him that it was not, and that there were 

 many different manufactures of extractors, and 

 that thousands of them were in use in the U. S., 

 whirling out many tons of honey annually. Upon 

 that he bade me adieu, with an incredulous smile, 

 and doubtless upon arriving home told his wife 



what that crank from tried to gull him with. 



The ignorance of 99 hundreths of the people on 

 this subject calls for the action of hundreds of 

 pens all over the country, with a good story, anec- 

 dote, or ludicrous situation, to make readable the 

 instruction we have to impart. Then, and not be- 

 fore, will our product melt from our gaze by the 

 thousands of tons. J. H. Larrabee. 



Larrabee's Pt., Vt. 



We agree with yon, friend L., that some 

 such means ought to be utilized. The arti- 

 cles designed for the purpose should be in- 

 teresting and popvtlar. leaving out all tech- 

 nicalities. They should show that tons of 

 honey can be produced honestly. 



GETTING BEES INTO SUPERS. 



HOW TO PUT SECTIONS IN T SUPERS. 



fHE T suoers j'ou sent are very nice indeed. 

 The fdn. fastener is a very handy little ma- 

 chine, and works just prime. I had a little 

 trouble in getting my bees into the supers; 

 but then I had been using wide frames when 

 T received the supers. I took all the sections (56) 

 out of the frames, and put them in two supers, put- 

 ting all the filled ones in the top one, and those 

 partly filled, and those with fdn. only, in the bot- 

 tom, so you see there was considerable inducement 

 for the bees to go right into the supers. I am using 

 eight frames in the brood-chamber. They have 

 been pretty well filled with brood, but as yet I do not 

 know how they work in the outside row of sections, 

 but will take particular notice when I put on a new 

 super. 



Thei-e has been a good deal said about inserting 

 the last section in the supers. I find no difiiculty. 

 The way I do it is this: For convenience I will num- 

 ber the rows of sections from 1 to 7—1 being on the 

 side of the super furthest from me, and 1 on the 

 side next to where I stand. I first place the super 

 on a flat surface, to keep the sections from falling 

 through, in case the T tins slip out of place. I then 

 put in my T tins, then row of sections No. 1, then 

 No. 7, then 3, 3, 4. and 5, putting a separator after 

 each row. Instead of putting in the 6th row 1 push 

 the Tth back in its place— that is, the space left for 

 the 6th row, leaving the last row to be inserted next 

 to the side of super, giving one smooth side to work 

 against. In putting this last row in 1 draw the su- 

 per a little forward, so that I can guide the hottom 

 of the section with my left hand, while I push down 

 gently and evenly with my right. In putting this 

 last row in I commence in the left-hand corner, 

 making the last section come in the right-hand cor- 

 ner. I prefer this, for then I have two smooth, sol- 

 id sides to slide the section against, so that, by using 

 your left hand on the bottom, and your right on the 

 top, pressing the section close against the side and 

 end, you will find the difiiculty very much lessened; 

 at least, such is the case with me. To make the sep- 

 arators go in easy, I i-ound the corners a trifle, and 



