1887 



CiL,EA2^1^GS IJN liKE CUL,TUUK. 



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the real facts of the case, the whole establish- 

 ment is kept constantly as neat as wax. 

 Funny, isn't it V But you see the bee has a 

 beautiful apparatus for doing it, as Prof. 

 Cook has told us ; and he not only has the 

 tools, but he uses them. 



THE REVISED EDITION OP THE ABC 

 OF CARP CULTURE. 



A COUPr.E OF ILLUSTRATIONS TAKEN FUOM 

 THE BOOK. 



fIXTEEN pages of this work are now 

 out; and as many of our bee-keeping 

 friends are also interested in carp cul- 

 ture, we shall give some sketches of 

 the new book from time to time. Be- 

 low are a couple of pictures. The first one 

 is intended to help answer the question as 

 to how large we may expect carp to grow 



now LARGE DO CAKP GROW? 



The individual in the picture is supposed 

 to answer the question something as follows: 

 " Well, 1 can not say, friends, just how 

 large they might grow in time ; but this fel- 

 low is probably one of the first I put into my 

 pond when 1 first started." The question 

 now arises, '•'■ How old is the man in the 

 picture ? and is this picture supposed to rep- 

 resent about 1890, "95, or 1900 V " 



The only authority I have for saying that 

 fish reach the size shown in the cut is the 

 following from George Finley, author of 

 " The German, or European Carp." 



" This flsh grows for many years, and to wonder- 

 ful proportions. It has been captured in the Dan- 

 ube weighing sixty-seven pounds; and it is said 

 that it has been talien in Lake Como weighing two 

 hundred pounds; but the latter looks a little 'fishy' 

 and is referred to only because read of somewhere. 

 But that this flsh grows to fifty and sixty and even 

 seventy pounds weight, and lives over a century, is 

 so well authenticated as to be generally believed." 



Xow, perhaps a good many who have 

 carp-ponds full of carp have never had a 

 view of the way the fish behave themselves 

 under water ; and the following sketch is 

 intended to show it as well as I have been 



able to gather from their behavior while in 

 our pond, and in a reservoir in the central 

 part of our greenhouse. 



Perhaps every one who owns a green- 

 house may not know that carp make beauti- 

 ful pets, to be kept in a reservoir or tank in 

 the central part of the house, during the 

 winter time. They very soon get to be so 

 tame as to feed from your hand, and nibble 

 your fingers ; and for variety you may have 

 a few^ gold-fish with them. They get along 



FISII-LIFK rNDlilt WATKR. 



very nicely together; and as they swim 

 about and amuse themselves, occasionally 

 sticking their heads above the surface of 

 the water, tlieir actions very much resem- 

 ble the cut above. 



UNFINISHED SECTIONS, VERSUS SEC- 

 TIONS OP FOUNDATION. 



TO WHAT EXTENT CAN UNb'JNlSHED SKCTIONS BE 

 USED IN SUPEKS WITH PKOFlTy 



AM a producer of comb honey, and have had 

 some experience with unfinished sections. 1 

 jiartly agree with Mr. .1. A. Green in his second 

 drawback. It is a good deal of trouble to keep 

 them free from dust and mice; but when we 

 have them it will by no means pay to melt them up. 

 I don't think I would burn sections that have been 

 used once (unless badly soiled), but I would save 

 them for home use. Every producer of comb hon- 

 er will find out, as I have, that it does not pay to 

 fill the cases full of these unfinished sections. Last 

 year I had hives side by side, one filled with unfin- 

 ished sections and one with fdn. starters, and the 

 ones with fdn. will almost invariably be finished 

 first. We should manage to have as few as possi- 

 ble at the end of the honey-harvest. But when we 

 have them they come very handy to start the bees 

 to work in the sections at the beginning of the hon- 

 ey-How by putting three or four in each case, but 

 not any more than that. 



