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SOME OF GLEANINGS' CONTHIBU- 

 TOKS. 



TAKING A LOOK AT THEIR FACKS. 



JT is a rare pleasure to meet, face to face. 

 those who have written for tlie pages of 

 any periodical we love. This has often 

 occurred to me when attending the vari- 

 ous bee keepers' conventions. Well, the 

 next best thing— that is, where we can not 

 meet tliem face to face— is to see tlieir faces 

 illustrated through our journals ; and we 

 take pleasure in submitting to you the pic- 

 ture below — a very good one of our friend 

 T. B. Terry. 



T. B. TERUY, THE POTATO MAN. 



Mr. Terry is pretty well known to the 

 readers of Gleanings, through his articles 

 here and elsewhere, lie commenced on a 

 poor farm, with only little capital to start 

 with, unless it was an education a little bet- 

 ter, perhaps, than the average young farmer 

 has; faith ii; himself, and a determination 

 to make his way by his own strength of mus- 

 cle and vigor of "brain, and last, but not 

 least, by the hearty co-operatiou of his good 

 wife. The great feature of ]Mr. Terry's lil'e, 

 and the one that has made him sought after 

 by different States to address farmeis" in- 

 stitutes, is the fact that he started in tlie 

 outset to see if the labor and drudgery of 

 farmwork could not be shortened and made 

 easier by better tools and better methods of 

 management. Our friends who read the 

 Ohio Farmer will notice that our friend Ter- 

 ry has been pretty severely pulled to pieces, 

 especially in regard to this matter of im- 

 proved tools ; but he seems to be abundant- 

 ly able to keep up his side of the argument, 

 especially while he has his own small farm, 

 his own stock, and his own tool-house full 

 of tools to back him up. It is not theory 

 that friend Terry writes— it is actual exi)eri- 

 ence, and the "fruits of earnest, faithful, 

 hard work. lie is heartily in love with his 

 farm and farmwork, and his love and en- 

 thusiasm are so contagious that one can 

 scarcely read his writings without wanting 

 to be a farmer too. I did not know till just 

 now that friend Terry was with me on the 



tobacco question. But I might have known 

 it; for how could a man in these times be 

 progressive, and be a tobacco-userV 



HOW I FIXED MY BEES FOR CELLAR 

 WINTERING. 



HAIPINGCO.MBS SO AS TO LKAVF, TWO OR THREK 

 lNrHE.S OF SP.ACE UNDER THE BROOr-FRAMES. 



AVING my bees in the cellar, fi.xed to suit mo, 

 I thought perhaps the renders of Glean- 

 ings mig-ht like to know in what manner I 

 had them prepared. The doors to the cellar 

 were left open for two weeks before I set 

 the bees in, so as to cool the cellar off as much as 

 possible, for, as a usual thing', the temperature is 

 too hig-h if I do not do this. A daj' was chosen for 

 setting in, which was mild, and a little above the 

 freezing-point, so that the hives would come off the 

 bottora-boai'ds without snapping, so as to irritate 

 (he bees. T also find that bees are less easily dis- 

 turbed in such weather than they are when it is 

 colder. Before setting the first one in I placed a 

 bottom-board on the ground, and upon this I set 

 a cap, or cover, to a hive, so as to raise the hive a 

 little distance above the cellar bottom, on account 

 of damp and impure air. On top of this cap was 

 •■pread a jiart of a newspaper so as to keep the 

 droppings from the liees off the top of the cover; 

 for I have found there is nothing that will spoil the 

 paint quicker than will these droppings. On top 

 of this paper I placed a rim, or frame, made by 

 nailing four jtieces of half-inch stuff, which was 13 

 inches wide, together, so as to be the same size as 

 the bottom of the hive. On this rim the hive is 

 placed, which gives about 4 inches of space between 

 the bottom of the hive and paper below, for plen- 

 ty of room for dead bees to drop, and for fi-esh air 

 to circulate. 



Before setting in the cellar I made a sawdust 

 cushion as follows: A rim was gotten out, the 

 same as that uiion which the hive is placed; and up- 

 on one side of this was tacked a sheet of cotton 

 cloth, which cost only .5 cents per yard. To hold 

 the cloth securely to the frame, a strip of the same 

 was torn otf and folded so as to be three double, 

 this being placed on top of the sheet, along the 

 edge, 'so as to clamp the sheet between it and the 

 frame when the nails were driven. After nailing 

 on the first sheet the rim is turned over and filled 

 with fine dry basswood sawdust, which was saved 

 when sawing sections last winter, the sawdust be- 

 ing well packed down. Now nail on another sheet 

 the same as the first, and the_ cushion is made. He- 

 fore putting this on the hive I took off the(|uilt, 

 or honey-board, and substituted two sheets of this 

 same cotton cloth; for from the experience of the 

 past three winters 1 find that such is much the best, 

 as it allows the moisture from the bees to jiass off', 

 yet keeps the bees dry and nice. Especially do I 

 find this so in cellar wintering. As it takes only 

 one yard of this .5-cent cloth for one of my hives, 

 the expense is very little; while the cushion will 

 last for a lifetime, if lu-operly cared for. When the 

 hive is set in the cellar a sheet of newspaper is 

 spread over the cushion, the same as was the one 

 on top of the cap, when another rim is placed on 

 this, and we proceed as before. The cellar is high 

 enough to pile four on top of each other, and wide 

 enough to place three tier side by side, but I set 



