1886 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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swarms. This sprinjr he lost a good many swarms i 

 by the bees swarming' out and trying- to enter other 

 hives, and then they s-et killed and lie on the j 

 ground. He lias one swarm that makes a business i 

 of robbing, and the only way he could stop it was j 

 by taking- a frame of brood from the others and ! 

 placing- it in the hive they were robbing, and p\».c- j 

 iug the robbers In tlie place of the hive that was 1 

 being robbed, and the other in the place of the 

 robbers. He says that will stop the worst robbing. 

 I don't work with bees, though T am not much i 

 afraid of them. M.w TiKi.f. TIoiiN. 



Flicksville, Pa., April :.\s. ISSii. 



Thank yoti, little friend. The way in 

 which your father cnres a swarm that per- 

 sists in robbing is tiie same as the one given 

 in the A IJ C book. It works '• to a charm," 

 doesn't it y Eunest. 



THE RESULT OF A QUEEN GETTING INTO TIIE 

 WRONG HIVE. 



Pa has five swarms of bees in chaff hives which 

 he made himself. In transferring them into chatf 

 hives the queen from one swarm went into the 

 wrong hive, and we supposed she was stung to 

 death, for we found her dead. Pa takes Glean- 

 ings, and has your ABC book, and would not be 

 without it. Alma Newton, age 11. 



Stella, Vinton Co., O., June 15, 188li. 



HOW BKOTHER FUED made .V SOLAIl WAX-EX- 

 TIIACTOU AND FIIIED AN EGG WITH IT. 



Brother Fred made a solar wa.v-extractor in the 

 spring, and in March he tried it to see how it would 

 do about melting wa.\. It does real well. He got 

 some of the nicest wax with it I ever saw. He 

 thought he would try to see if it would roast an 

 egg, so he put one in a dish in the extractor about 

 noon, and about the middle of the afternoon it was 

 cooked — too hard to eat. We were going to 

 have one to eat, but lost it. so we have not 

 tried to roast any since then. Fred had one colony 

 of bees swarm, and took 2'Z lbs. of honey off, and 

 two 12-pound crates aje on yet, and they have got 

 those about half full. Pehl Z. Cuanston, age 14. 



Woodstock, Champaign (^o., O., June ~2, 188 i. 



Tell your brother that he has done re- 

 markably well. Now. if he or you either 

 will give a clear description of how he made 

 that extractor, so that any one el.se can 

 make one like it, we will send him any 

 thing he may choose from the 2.>cent coun- 

 ter, and possibly Ave may do better than 

 that even. If Fred's solar extractor will 

 fry eggs, it certainly will melt wax ; and I 

 think we all want to know how it was made, 

 as it is probably simple in its construction. 

 Let ns hear from you, so it can be published 

 in next Juvenile Gleaninc;s. You will re- 

 member that I fried an egg, but, like your 

 egg, it was cooked so hard as to be unrit to 

 eat. EKNEsr. 



MORE ABOUT BROTHER FRED'S BEES. 



We have a little cherry-tree in our yard, that 

 father was mowing around one day, and we noticed 

 on the tree, right down close to the ground, that 

 the bark was bursted, and quite a number of little 

 roots were coming through. The bark was bursted 

 in three places. It looks o;ld. We have about 80 

 little chicks and ~3 goslings. Brother Fred's bees 

 have swarmed four times. The first swarm that 

 came out. Fi-ed and Perl had .lust started out to 

 work after diuuer. and we rung the beli for them, 



and before they could get here the bees started off, 

 and lather stopped them by throwing cupsful of 

 water on them while they were flying. I like to 

 help hive the bees. Fred has ten swarms now, and 

 they are all doing well, and we are expecting more 

 any time. Nettie H. Cranston, age 11. 



Woodstock, Champaign Co., O., June S, 18SH. 



You are sure, are you, tliat the water had 

 the effect of bringing the bees down V 



Ebne-'-^t. 



FROM TWO NUCLEI TO 13 COLONIES. 



Pa made a new start last year with bees, b3' 

 getting two li-t'rame nucleus colonies of Italians 

 from Hemphill & Goodman, of Elsberry, Mo. 

 These nuclei increased to 13. Pa sold one swarm, 

 and we let two get away. Wc had 9 to start in the 

 winter. All wintered well on their summer stands. 

 We have sold :i swarms, and have hived V and lost 

 several. Pa has some of the queens' wings clipped. 

 We have some beautiful <jueens. I like to look at 

 them. We have taken in all about 1.50 lbs. of hone.v 

 this spring, and pa says ho could take about ~'00 lbs. 

 more right away if he had the time to do so. He 

 makes his hives and frames himself. We use alto- 

 gether the Simplicity pattern of hive, for pa thinks 

 it is the best. Wc all like to read Gleanings. Pa 

 says it has much of a Christian spirit about it that 

 is good, and says that he is stronglj' in favor of 

 uniting religious matters with bee-matters. We all 

 esteem your Christian spirit highly. My letter has 

 become quite long already. I wish to say before I 

 close that 1 have one sister and three little brothers 

 here, and two brothers gone to live with Jesus. I 

 am the eldest living, ten years; my eldest brother 

 living is named Ernest— a namesake of Mr. Ernegt 

 Itoot. Essie Staff. 



Moscow Mills, Mo., June 2t), 18815. 



BEES FLYING INTO THE NOZZLE OF THE SMOKER; 

 HORNED TOADS. 



When my father is at work among the bees, he 

 sometimes smokes them away, and they have so 

 much curiosity as to fly right into the nozzle of the 

 smoker, and there are burned. My father has 

 about 150 stands ol bees. 1 have for pets, horned 

 toads. They are rather hard to catch; and when 1 

 do catch them I bring them home and put them 

 in a tin pail or bucket, and keeji them a few days 

 and then let them go. They can live a long lime 

 without any thing to cat. Eddie Butleh, age l;.\ 



Los Gatos, Cal., June 19, 1886. 



It it quite a common occurrence for bees, 

 when enraged, to lly into the nozzle of the 

 smoker. This is somewhat the way little 

 boys and girls do when they are mad— they 

 rush right into something that is sure to 

 bring them to grief, witliout thinking or 

 knowing the consequences. — Don't you 

 think you are just a little cruel to keep the 

 horned toads several days in a pail without 

 anything to eat. This I judge you do, as 

 you say they will live a long time witliout 

 food. We have one now in our apiary, which 

 has l)een sent us by one of our friends. I 

 presume it was in the mails nearly a week ; 

 but when it arrived it was very evident that 

 it was quite ivak. ' Eunest. 



WHV DID OUR BEES LE.WEV 



Papa bought a stand of bees last spring, and from 

 that he ha/1 Hve stands. He thought he could win- 

 ter !hr fiftj! one; but the poof bees died, so he \mA 



