1873.] 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



115 



Mr. J. E. Moore's article seems to us to bav^ 

 been written mainly (like all of Jasper Hayes's) 

 •with a view of calling forth inquiry in regard 

 to bis patent hive. Had be pursued bis read- 

 ing be would bave found that Novice advised 

 no protection for out-door wintering tbat 

 would exclude the sun in the least, but only to 

 keep oif the cold winds as much as possible. 

 Our readers, we presume, are all familiar with 

 our views, and that we only think out door 

 wintering tolerable when one can't do any bet- 

 ter. It will be a long while before we conclude 

 to buy a patent hive for the sake of double 

 walls for out-door wintering. Is your title 

 clear to your patent, Mr. M. ? 'Tis not a heal- 

 thy plan to advertise patent rights on these 

 pages. 



If Mr. Alley will make us a visit we 11 show 

 him how to make syrup by the barrel without 

 boiling at all, and without cream of tartar, 

 cider vinegar or anything else; and we will 

 show him that the bees bave a way of fixing it 

 for their own use, just as they want it. If 

 there is " bee disease" in his neighborhood, we 

 fear his decision is a rash one. 



'•Farmers should be beekeepers." What a 

 mild suggestion, and just see the " dollars"' 

 away down through the article, that they 

 would make, if they bought the Eureka Hive. 

 Please, Mr. Hayes, tell us how many of your 

 patent hives you have known tried tbat didn't 

 give " 'ary" pound of nice box honey. You 

 are a minister, and should be fair. Now you 

 have told the bright side of the story so long, 

 is it not right you should give us the dark side, 

 too? And while we think of it, do yon know 

 of no way by which large yields of honey 

 could be secured without using your patent 

 hive? 



Mr. W., we beg pardon for doubting in the 

 least that our friends would stand up for us in 

 time of need. "We feel sure now tbat we have 

 many more than we have desired. 



Doesn't Mr. Gallup forget that beekeepers of 

 the present age always give their bees all the 

 room and comb they can possibly cover ? In 

 fact we often overdo the business, and the ex- 

 tra combs are not used ; and somt times we put 

 " an empty comb in the centre for the queen," 

 too fast ; we have all learned what effect that has. 

 When the bees do hatch out fast, and the honey 

 and pollen 611s the combs unexpectedly, we all 

 stand ready to give them our houses and barns 

 at a couple of hours' notice. If it makes a 

 difference in favor of honey to extend the 

 combs horizontally, instead of having one row 

 above, we shall all learn it in due time. 



Thanks, Hedden, for several ideas , but won't 

 you extract honey some if it be too thin, if 

 you don't wait for it to ripen. 



Our spiders have a way of making a web 

 directly across the portico, and when we find a 

 dozen bees caught heavily laden with pollen or 

 honey, we get madder and madder. 



Now, Scientific, you've gone and " spilt our 

 ockepashion," and to be revenged, we insist that 

 you give a full and complete descrijjtion of 

 how your hive is made, and all about it. for the 

 two-fold reason, that we want to know " jist 

 what we're a gettin'," and that some of us Yan- 

 kees may want to make them at home. Now 

 don't say, like Quiuby, that you can't spend 

 time to describe it, even if you do advertisu it 

 on the reading pages. We are 2,000 readers or 

 more, and we wont ask a quarter of a minute 

 apiece. Our thanks, nevertheless, for an at- 

 tempt at lessening the expenses of beekeeping. 

 By the w^ay, Mr. Editor, do you know how 

 many valuable articles you picked up for Octo- 

 ber? 



Bingham's plan is a whole problem, but we 

 must think it could be improved. For instance, 

 he would in time improve his bees so much 

 that they would all run to swarming and 

 swarm all the time. Secondly, his hives are 

 too long without a laying queen, and if the 

 new swarms had a set of empty combs they 

 could fill them for the extra half a dozen times 

 whilst they were waiting for the new ones to 

 be built, and 6,000 lbs. from 181 colonies is. 

 only thirty or forty jDounds to the hive, and — 

 bless my stars, if I don't stop and go home, 

 your next Journal will be all Novice. 



P. S. — On looking over the above, it really 

 seems to read, some parts of it, as though we 

 considered tbat we knew all abmit bees, but, 

 Mr. Editor, it was not so intended, for our read- 

 ers all know that our experience has been one 

 of frequent reverses. 



In the matter of wintering we have carefully 

 weighed and examined a host of reports given 

 in the back numbers since the " bee disease" 

 first appeared, besides quite a correspondence 

 from nearly all parts of our country, and after 

 direct experiments of our own for two winters 

 past we feel that we shall be excused if we do- 

 feel somewhat "at home" on the subject. 



Eeports, Experiences, and Opinions. 



H. Goodlander, Leesburg, Ind., writes Sept.. 

 29, 1873 : 



1 have taken over SOOlbs of honey from one 

 colony of bees this season. 



T. J. Doods, LeClair, la., writes Oct. 8, 1873 : 



Bees have done well vhis season. The Gallup 



twin hive has made me 300 per cent, over and 



above the standard hive. I would like to get a 



description of the oblong hive he tells about. 



Jv^hn Divekey, Aurora, 111., writes Sept. 27 

 1873: 



Mr. W. J. Ronald's statement in regard to 

 wintering bees in the Sept. No. A. B. J. — I 

 have wintered my bees on the same jjlan for 

 nine years, and I must say that I always kept 

 the goose alive that lays the golden egg. 



