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GLEANINGS IN BEE OULTURE. 



Oct. 



level as possible. He then pours in the 

 feed. If, after pouring in the syrup, they 

 should prove not'to be level, he tilts them 

 again until they are, after which he fills 

 them level full of syrup. We will suppose 

 that the hive in question had five tacks, 

 with two feeders in the hive, each holding 

 about one pound of syrup. He draws out 

 two of the tacks and pushes them into the 

 edge of the hive. In like manner he passes 

 on through all of the colonies. The next 

 time he passes around with the feed the 

 remaining tack in the ridge - boards will 

 tell the amoiuit of syrup which is to be fed, 

 and the two tacks'in the edge of the hive 

 show the amount which he has already fed. 

 You observe that the beauty of this system 

 is, that the condition of the hive is told at a 

 glance 50 or 100 feet away, and I can assure 

 you that it is a pleasure to walk directly to 

 the hive which is to be fed^ rather than to 

 hunt aroimd over useless ground, especially 

 where the next colony is needing your at- 

 tention. 



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Wliosofver, tliereloif. sliall be ashaiiit-tl uC iiu' and of my 

 words, ill this adidterous and sinful fjeneration, of him also 

 sliall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the gloi"}' 

 of his F.ather with the holy angels.— Mark 8: 38. 



BEING SURE A COLONY IS QUEENLESS. 



Neighbor H. suggests that he feels sure a great 

 many imagine their colonies are queenless because 

 thej' don't find brood or eggs in October. They ac- 

 cordingly send for a queen. The queen, of course, 

 is killed; 1^ and when the co^.ony shows no different 

 kind of bees in the spring, our customer writes 

 back that we sent him a black queen instead of an 

 Italian. See editorial in regard to this matter in 

 our last issue. 



UNTESTED QUEENS. 



Our Stock for the season is exhausted, and tbose 

 in the South or elsewhere, having any to spare, 

 would do well to advertise them. I would suggest, 

 that in your advertisements you say, "On hand, 

 ready for shipment." It is not advisable, nor is it 

 worth while, to send them to us to be remailed 

 elsewhere. There will probably be considerable 

 demand for them through this month and the ne.\t; 

 and now is the time for our friends further South 

 to take care of this branch of our industrj% 



ASTERS AND OOLDENRODS. 



Reports come from many different points, that 

 the bees are getting much honey from these two 

 fall plants, especially the aster, and many samples 

 are sent in for us to name. See cuts and descrip- 

 tion in the ABC book. Wherever you find bees 



working on a plant three or four feet high, found 

 in the fields at this season of the year, you may be 

 pretty sure it is one of the large family of asters. 

 There are forty or fifty varieties, and they pro- 

 duce different-colored blossoms, with petals stand- 

 ing out like the rays of a star— hence the name. 



the WASHBURN ROTARY ENGINE. 



Although Ernest has given this a pretty ex- 

 tended notice on another page, it seems to me he 

 has touched only lightly on the great point con- 

 cerning beekeepers. It is this: By making the en- 

 gine a part of the mandrel that holds the buzz-saw, 

 we throw away belting, line shafting, and their at- 

 tendant counter shafts, and in their place use only 

 a slender steam pipe. Nothing revolves but the 

 buzz-saw. In fact, a shop full of machinery would 

 have no shafting or belting at all. Nothing moves 

 but the tools that do the work, and these are all 

 stopped and started by turning a valve that admits 

 steam to each separate little engine. 



SIX WEEKS DAY AND SIX WEEKS NIGHT. 



When friend Young was here we asked hlift a 

 g'reat number of questions about the part of his 

 country where they have no night at one season of 

 the year and no day at another season, for a period 

 of about six weeks. I asked him if they had towns 

 and cities where they had this great big- night. 

 "Oh, yes!" replied he. Then came the question, 

 " But, friend Young, how in the world do the people 

 get around and attend to business during this long 

 night time?" "Why, bless your heart, sir, they 

 keep it light by burning Amerivan coal nil." And 

 then he had one of his big laughs at my expense. 

 They don't have any railroads that run up to this 

 strange country, but you can go partly there by 

 railway and the rest by steamer. I suggested that 

 it would be a grand place to start greenhouses, 

 where we could have perpetual sunshine on the 

 lettuce; but he couldn't tell me that anybody had 

 ever explored this industry. May be there wouldn't 

 be any market for the lettuce. He says the northern 

 lights contribute greatly in the absence of daylight; 

 and the displays they give during these six weeks 

 are beyond the power of language to describe. 



GIVING the name OF YOUR COUNTY AS WELL 

 AS FOSTOFFICE AND STATE. 



I HOPE the friends will be patient with us for 

 bringing up this matter so many times; but I want 

 to tell you that it has cost me in hard cash the sum 

 of $131.94 on one single transaction, for having 

 supplied the name of the county when our custom- 

 er neglected to give it. We went to Bradstreet, our 

 postal guides, and our railroad guides, to be sure we 

 had made no mistake. You may ask why we were 

 out this amount of cash when we so distinctly state 

 that we will not be responsible where the name of 

 the county is not given. I stood this loss because I 

 felt sorry for our customer; and the amount I have 

 mentioned above was exactly half of the whole 

 amount that we were both out of pocket by the 

 blunder. For further particulars, see page 430, 

 issue for June 1. It was on a steam-engine heavy 

 enough to make a carload ; and getting the wrong 

 county sent it to the northern part of the great 

 State of Michigan. Now, can you blame me for de- 

 claring very positively, that, unless you give the 

 county in which your station is located, as well as 

 that of your postofflce, you will have to bear all 

 losses resulting- from this omission? As a great 



