1886 



GLEANINGS IN BEE Cl^T-TrUi:. 



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that they were seeking-; but exactly what tliat was, 

 J did not know. Happily, about two years ago an 

 accident enabled me, as I think, to solve this. It 

 became necessary tor me to move my meat-house 

 from where it had stood lor about 30 years, and 

 thus I e.\posed a little plot of ground that was filled 

 with salt. My bees immediately took to it, as I 

 had seen them in the above-described places. I 

 saw that their reason for preferring- the ridg-es and 

 ))oints was that, being more exposed, the evapora- 

 tion was greatest there, and hence there was more 

 salt deposited, or its solution made stronger. Now, 

 as salt is the only thing likely to be found in all 

 such places, and to fill all the requirements of the 

 facts, I think salt is the element the bees were car- 

 rying to their hives; and with your permission, I 

 will compound a new word for beekeepers, and 

 call such places "bee-licks." Further, I want to 

 call the attention of beekeepers, and emphasize 

 the remark of friend Niman, in regard to what the 

 bees were carrying in, " The want of it may be the 

 c;iuse of disease." W. H. Gi'.kefj. 



Paris, Tenn., Jan. lf>, ISJsG. 



Friend G., I shoiildirt be surprised if yon 

 liad liit the secret of tliis strtin^e conduct of 

 the bees. Further investigation, however, 

 will be necessary to decide tlie matter. Tlie 

 fondness that bees many times exhibit for 

 salt has been several times gone over in our 

 past volumes. Of late. I notice that the 

 poiiltrj'-journals are deciding that poultry 

 must have salt in sm;il! cpiantities, or they 

 will pluck out each other's feathers, etc. 

 Now, let lis see to it that our bees have a 

 bee-lick near the apiary, where they can at 

 all times help themselves. A glass jar of 

 salt water over one of the grooved boards 

 we advertise will. [ think, be al)out the 

 right thing. May be some sawdust around 

 the jar would ])lease them better, for I have 

 seen them fairly burrow in sawdust where 

 salt brine h.ad been poured out on it. 



PERTAINING TO BEE CULTURE. 



We Vf-jievllully Miliuit the aid of cmv frienils in coniluetina 

 this ilep.xrtinL'uf. .■uid uf.u il cnn.^idci- it a (avdp tii liave tlieiii 

 fieiidusall cin/ulars tliat Ipive a dci-cptivp ii|ipeirancf. Tlit 

 Ri-patest r u-e will be at all times inaiiitained to prevent iiijus 

 tice t)einx done any du'". 



THE nOLDKX UEE-HIVE. 



« FEW days ago 1 saw an agent of the Golden 

 bee-hive. He argued in favor of the (iolden, 

 while I was in favor of the Simplicity hives. 

 At this time 1 use neither of the kind men- 

 tioned. The agent said to me that A. I. Root 

 had abandoned the Simplicity, and was using the 

 Golden exclusively. Ho attempted to produce a 

 paper to that effect, Ijut afterward said he did not 

 have it with him, but would show it to me at anotli- 

 cr time. 1 concludeil to write and hear from you 

 at once, before 1 saw him again, to know if such bo 

 the fact. F. A. P.^ksons. 



Oconee, Wash. Co., Ga., Feb. 1(1, 1886. 



Friend P.. the patent-right man is trying 

 to come the old trick over you. I have 

 never seen a Golden bee-hive in my life, but 

 we have publislied the agents as humbugs 

 and swindlers for years past. We use the 



Simplicity hive for a summer hive entirely, 

 just as Ave have done for the past thirteen 

 years. The chaff hive is the same thing ex- 

 actly, inside, and takes the same frame. It 

 is better protected from Avinter's frosts and 

 summer's heat. 



THC BOHEMIAN-OAT .SWINDLE, AND THE W.A.V THE 

 AUTHORITIES AKE HEGINNING TO HANDLE IT. 



The following we clip from the Medina 

 Democrat : 



A Bohemian-oats trial was recently held in Ohio, 

 where a man sued some parties who sold Bohemian 

 oats. He brought suit to recover the mone.v, and 

 won the case. He received damages in the sum of 

 $200, and interest on the same for one j'ear. Good 

 deeision. 



We extract the following from the Cincin- 

 nati Commercial Gazetlc: 



West Sono«.\, O., January ;?8.— A new bait in the 

 Bohemian oats is some kind of new-fangled wheat, 

 and it is sold at the same modest price often dollars 

 per l)ushel, the farmer i-eceiving a contract that his 

 entire ci-op will be purchased from him in one yeai- 

 at $7.50 per bushel. Few persons have any concep- 

 tion of the gigantic extent of the I5<ihemian-oats 

 swindle in Preble County. About $75, OOi) worth of 

 notes have been given by Preble CV^unty farmers 

 for the Bohemian oats. Most of the purchasers 

 knew that the venture was risky, and a good deal 

 in the nature of a swindle, bui; many thought the 

 bubble would not burst for two or three years, or 

 else they could bulldoze their mone.v out of the 

 agents without much difficulty. So in they went, 

 and now they are rushing frantically ai-ound try- 

 ing to get a small per cent of their money back. 



It behooves us as citizens of Ohio to try to 

 clear off this slur from the reputation of our 

 State, for it seems that this swindle was 

 first inaugurated here. It seems to me that 

 notices like the above ought to be sutticient 

 to wind up the Ijoliemiau oats, not only in 

 Ohio, l)iit in every other State. 



THE RASPBEKRY. 



fc'UUTHEU EACTS, CONCLUDED FKO.M I'ACE Gti8. 

 SOIL. 



DEEP rich ui)land clay loam is ijrefeiable, 

 >i but the raspberry can be grown successfully 

 [f on about any soil that is worth planting to 

 corn, and the number of bushels of Gregg 

 rasjiberries which can be grown on a piece of 

 land will compare favorably with the number of 

 bushels of corn that could he obtained from the 

 same land. In the spring of 18t'l we set 500 Gregg- 

 plants on a i)iece of rather thin gravelly land which 

 had been in corn the previous season; and without 

 applying any fertilizers to either the corn or rasji- 

 berry-plants we have gathered four crops of berries, 

 and have a growth of canes for next year which 

 ought to yield at the rate of thirty or forty bushels 

 per acre. 



PKEPAR.VTION OK LAND. 



The land should be plowed and harrowed as for 

 potatoes or corn, and then " run out" three or four 

 inches deep, in rows si.v or seven feet apart; or it 

 nuiy be "run out" in rows three or three and a 

 half feet apart, and i)otatocs, sweet corn, or some- 

 thing of that sort, planted in alternate rows, with 

 the berry-|)lants the first yeai-. During the first 

 yeai-, and especially at the time of planting, si.\' 

 feet seems like entirely too much room between the 

 rows; but the num who puts the rows much closer 

 will lie pretty sure to regret it in two years. The 

 plants should be set about three feet apart in the 

 rows. 



