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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Oct. 



PROM 10 TO 19, AND 330 LBS. OF HONEY. 



I UR bees have done well this summer. We in- 

 I creased from 10 to 19, and have taken nearly 

 I 300 lbs. of section honey, mostly white clover. 

 ' and expect moi-e. Franklin Fickes. 



Blackleysville, Ohio. Sept. 6, 188ti. 



My bees have been swarming- all summer, and 

 now honey is coming in with a rush. 



J. C. Mehiui\ian. 

 Deckersville, Mich., Aug-. 7, 1886. 



HONEY-CROP LIGHT. 



The honey-crop is lig-ht in this section. I shall 

 have only about six tons; ordinarily I should have 

 fifteen. I am holding it for better prices, which 

 are sure to come. S. Z. Mill.\ku. 



Banning, Cal., Aug. ^8, 1886. 



I have 30 swarms of bees, mostly black bees, a 

 few hybrids; some of my swarms have given me 

 80 lbs. of fine box honey to a colony, and two new 

 swanns. Ben.i. Ollei«en.siiaw. 



Lima, N. Y., Sept. -', 1886. 



A GOOD SEASON. 



We have had a very good season so far— plenty 

 of rain all summer, and bees have done well on 

 white clo\er and blue thistle. If they had all been 

 in good shape in the spring avc could easily have 

 made 103 lbs. of comb honey per colony; but as it 

 is, some will exceed 100 lbs., while all will average 

 over 50 lbs., spring count. The honey is of nice 

 (|uality. H. W. Bass. 



Happy Creek, Warren Co., Va. .. Aug. !», 1886. 



FROM 81; TO l:i"), ANO 5t,'00 LUS. OF HONEV. 



We are having a terrible drought here at present, 

 not having had sufficient rain to do much good 

 since the fore ])art of Miiy. However, the bees 

 have done remarkably well, and bee men have no 

 reason to complain, except at the low price of hon- 

 ey, which is retailing at l^'j els. for comb in 1-lb. 

 sections, and 8i., for extracted. My report is as 

 follows: 81 colonies, spring count; increased by 

 natural swarming and building up nuclei, to 12.5; 

 took 30C0 lbs. of extracted, and 2000 lbs. of comb 

 honey in sections. Bees are in good condition now. 



Oskaloosa, la., Aug. 37, 1886. S. L. Sherman. 



FROM 24 TO 40, .\NI) 3700 LBS. OF HONEY; FIRST 

 premium on honey, a IjA .V B c. 



1 began the season with 24 stands, about 20 of 

 (hem strong. I increased by natural swarming to 

 40 stands, and took 2.00 lbs. of honey, 1700 lbs. of 

 which was comb honey, mostly in lib. sections. I 

 use the " Langstroth-Simplicity" hive, and think it 

 can't be surpassed for taking comb honey in 1-lb. 

 sections. This has been a splendid season, both for 

 (juality and quantity of the honey-croi). The bees 

 had a long run on white clover and a short but 

 heavy run on basswood. Since basgwood ceased, 

 my bees have gathered enough fall honey to put 

 them in splendid shape for winter. 1 got the first 

 premium on both comb and extracted honey at our 

 county fair this fall, the result of knowing how to 

 take comb honey in nice shape, which I learned 

 from the ABC book and Gleanings. 

 Browntown, Wig., Sept. 16,1886. H.\RKV Lathrop, 



]\[0¥Eg )q[]\[D QOE^IEg. 



hearing queens in greenhouses. 



Up bout those bees in greenhouses, to make cu- 

 gflg, cumbers bear, don't you think that is the 



j^lf place to breed queens and mate them ';" 

 -*^^ A. W. Dennison. 

 Sherburne, N. Y., Sept. 24, ICee. 

 [Friend D., the idea was talked about a good 

 many j ears ago, and considerable experimenting 

 was done in trying to get queens fertilized in wire- 

 cloth houses and in greenhouses; but it all resulted 

 in failure, although a great deal of money was ex- 

 pended in the matter. With the bees working as 

 naturally as they do in friend Rawson's cucumber 

 greenhouses, very likely it might be done, but I 

 hardly think it would succeed, even then, enough to 

 make it practicable. If the colonies in the green- 

 house are fed up to the swarming-point, so as to 

 make the hive pi'oduce drones, perhaps it could be 

 managed ] 



GROWING sweet CLOVER SUCCESSFULLY. 



1 sowed five acres more of sweet clover this year. 

 I was surprised to hear that Dr. Miller could not 

 get a stand of it. I have no trouble at all in getting 

 it to grow. In the fall is the best time to sow it. 



Hillsdale, la. E. W. Pitzer. 



HONEY SEASON ABOUT OVER. 



Coreopsis, Spanish needle, did not yield abund- 

 antly, on account of dry weather. I realized about 

 50 lbs. per colony, and have a little to extract yet. 

 There will probably be 8 or 10 lbs. more. 



lola. Ills., Sept. 18, 18?6. Geo. Wiseheart. 



HONEY ICE-CREAM. 



1 made it last year for the State Fair, and it took 

 well. Now I regularly keep it in my store, and it is 

 much liked, and sells. It is simply using the finest 

 white-clover honey for tlavoring, and not getting it 

 too sweet. This is another avenue to dispose of 

 honey; it is only a little, but the little helps. 



Arthur Todd. 



Germantown Ave.. Philadelphia, Pa. 



A POOR SEASON. 



The hone.y season has been a poor one in this 

 locality this year. I commenced the season with 

 86 good strong colonies, and have taken lOCO lbs. of 

 comb honey and 000 lbs. of extracted, and increas- 

 ed to 125 colonics. I .shall have to feed some, as 

 the bees did not fill up from basswood. This is not 

 a very good report, but it is the best I can do this 

 year. B. B. Wesley. 



La Grange, Lorain Co., O., Sept. 14, J885. 



eggs failing to hatch. 



We have in appearance a very fine queciL a 

 daughter of the one we purchased of you. She was 

 reared in a two-frame nucleus, July 12 being the 

 day of her birth. She now has five frames, mostly 

 filled with eggs; some were laid fourteen days ago, 

 and we have failed yet to see the first egg hatch. 

 Will ytu kindly inlorni us wluit (he lrouL!c is ? 



A. E. Harkek & Bros. 



Ilorncrstown, N. J., Aug. 4, 1886. 



[l can not tell you what the trouble is, friend H., 

 but I can explain that the phenomenon is not new. 

 Perhaps one queen in five or ten thousand will lay 

 eggs that never produce larvte, like the one you 

 ha\e. It is simply an accidental physical defect. | 



C.iNAD.V TH1ST[.ES, AND HOW ERADICATED. 



In regard to Canada thistles, I got the best of a 

 patch about 10 by 13 feet by pulling them up just 

 after a rain. It wug rough on the thumb and flng-er, 



