1887 



gleani:ngs in bee culture. 



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We are much obliged to you, friend B., 

 for your suggestions. Your idea in regard 

 to disposing of partly lillecl sections is good ; 

 and where the market is such that it can be 

 retailed in that way, we have no doubt it 

 would pay well. Folks who have a great 

 liking for the good old-fashioned honey, 

 such as our grandfathers used to get, would 

 no doubt even i)refer this sort of chunk 

 honey.— In regard to reducing the cell-walls 

 of combs partly drawn out in the sections, 

 you will see that you have come to the same 

 conclusion that was arrived at by the Chica- 

 go Convention recently. I don't believe it 

 is profitable to use very many full combs 

 drawn out in the supers ; but if you shave 

 or melt it down as you do, it would be 

 practically foundation. Although yourplan 

 for reducing tlie cell-walls is ingenious,! am 

 rather inclined to think I should prefer to 

 use nice clean sections and newly made fdn. 

 It is a good deal of labor to fix over and pre- 

 pare all untinished sections in the manner 

 you describe ; at least so it seems to me ; 

 and if you count your time worth any thing 

 while doing it, could you not almost afford 

 to purchase new sections and clean fdn.? 



THE JAPANESE BUCK"WHEAT. 



ITS LARGE YIELDS, AND ITS MERITS AS COMPARED 

 WITH OTHER BUCKWHEAT. 



TT is a little remarkable, that the reports 

 M so far are quite uniformly favorable to 

 W this new buckwheat. Its yield, when 

 -*■ compared with other varieties, is 

 considerably ahead. To this there is 

 but a single exception in this long list of 

 reports, and that is the one from our friend 

 Abbott L. Swinson, Goldsboro, N. C. 



27'/2 LBS. FROM FOUR OUNCES. 



You ask for reports from those who have tried 

 the Japanese buckwheat. My report is, from ^ lb. 

 bought of you 1 harvested 2754 lbs. C. J. Arnts. 



Meshoppen, Pa., Nov. 11, 1887. 



TEN BUSHELS FROM ONE HALF-PECK. 



I sowed Yi peck this season, which 1 purchased of 

 Mr. Peter Henderson, and I thrashed ten bushels of 

 very fine buckwheat. J. C. Gallup. 



Smithport, Pa., Nov. 31, 1887. 



A YIELD OF ONE QUART FROM A FIVE-CENT PACK- 

 AGE. 



I got a flve-ceat package of Japanese buckwheat 

 of you. During tlie dry weather I watered it quite 

 often, and I got about a quart. I can not tell exact- 

 ly, for I don't know just how much the hens ate. 



Pipestone, Mich., Nov. 24, 1887. G. Clarke. 



TEN BUSHELS FROM ONE PECK. 



I sowed one peck of the new buckwheat on very 

 dry sand, and thrashed ten bushels. I think the 

 old kind would not have given any crop at all, on 

 account of the drought. Mj' bees did not work on 

 it very much. I wish I had bought a bushel of you, 

 and sown it on better land. H. P. Langdon. 



East Constable, N. Y., Nov. 21, 1887. 



ONE AND ONE-HALF BUSHELS FRO.M A POUND OF 

 SEED. 



I sowed 1 lb. of Japanese buckwheat, and, in 

 spite of an early frost, drought, and a flock of 20 

 young guinea fowls, I thrashed out 154 bushels of 



fine, large, and sound seed. I think it is the thing 

 to raise, both for bees and flour. 

 Owosso, Mich. O. G. Josenhans. 



ONLY SIX POUNDS FROM ONE FOURTH-POUND. 



I sowed 4 oz. June 22, and I believe it would have 

 been a total failure had I not carried water to keep 

 the seed from burning up, so 1 raised only (! lbs. of 

 seed from the 4 oz. S. Heath. 



Kimcr, Pa., Nov. 24, 1887. 



seven AND ONE-HALF POUNDS FROM ONE OUNCE. 



On the 11th of July, last, T received from you 4 lbs., 

 and gave it to the tenant on my brother's farm to 

 sow, reservingone ounce to sow in the garden. From 

 the ounce I harvested 7'4 lbs., nice plump grain. 

 That sown on the farm was destroyed by a large 

 Hock of turkeys; but I think it would have made a 

 fair yield. Jesse Brady. 



Little Rock, 111. 



ONE BUSHEL FROM A QUARTER-POUND OF SEED. 



I see that you wanted all those who got Japanese 

 buckwheat of you to report how much they had. 1 

 sowed my '.j-lb. the 2;3d of June, and it filled through 

 the hot weather, and I harvested one bushel. My 

 father sowed Vg acres of black buckwheat, and got 

 50 bushels. 1 call that pretty good. 



Perley Langworthy. 



Rlceville. Pa., Nov. 24, 1887. 



THE JAPANESE AHEAD OF THE SILVERHULL. 



I sowed a pound of Japanese buckwheat, from 

 which I thrashed 1(5 pounds of clean seed. Silver- 

 hull buckwheat alongside of it yielded .5 bushels to 

 one sown, so j ou see the Japanese came out ahead 

 of the silverhull. The weather was very dry, and I 

 think it did very well with the chance it had. 



Barnes, Kan , Nov. 26, 1887. Conrad Gehring. 



ONE-FOURTH POUND YIELDED NINE POUNDS. 



I bought of you '4-lb. of Japanese buckwheat. I 

 dropped about half of it in drills in the garden, and 

 watered it once, so that it came up and produced a 

 crop of 9 lbs., which 1 consider pretty good for this 

 dry season. 1 drilled two acres with the common in 

 the field, and it did not yield any thing, although it 

 was pretty well manured with stable manure. 



We have taken 180 lbs. of extracted and 100 lbs. of 

 comb honey from 21 stands of bees. 



Spring Valley, O., Nov. 26, 1S87. G. W. Thomas. 



JAPANESE YIELDED 40 BUSHELS TO THE ACItE, 

 AND THE SILVERHULL ONLY 27. 



I purchased of you one peck, 1254 lbs., of Japan- 

 ese buckwheat, and on the first of July I sowed it 

 on .50 fifty rods of land : and on the same day in the 

 same field, and no difference in the land, and no 

 fertilizer of any kind used, I sowed three acres of 

 silverhull buckwheat. On the ninth day of Sep- 

 tember I cut, raked, and put up the Japanese buck- 

 wheat. On the 24th of September we thrashed it, 

 and had 1254 bushels of clean buckwheat, one bush- 

 el for every pound of seed sown, or at the rate of 

 forty bushels per acre. On the 21th and 25th of 

 September we cut the silverhull. It was good. We 

 had 83 bushels on three acres, or a little over 27 

 bushels per acre. B. B. Tuthill. 



Gt. Bend, Pa. 



NINE AND A H.ALF BUSHELS FROM FIVE POUNDS. 



We bought five pounds of seed of you last spring. 

 Wishing to test it we prepared a plot of about \ 

 acre by putting on two loads of manure. On the 

 rest of the field, about 5 acres of silverhull was 



