1884 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



101 



have very little chance to soil them. Many 

 of the cases designed for setting over the 

 hives permit the bees to go right np on the 

 underside of the section . This I would never 

 allow; and, as you notice, our crates and 

 -wide frames are all made with a view of 

 keeping the section as clean as when it left 

 the saw-table. • 



FROM KANSAS. 



I thought it was time I sent in my report. I com- 

 mcDcedin the spring with 33 colonies. Someof them 

 were very wcali, and I have increased to 51, and got 

 900 lbs. of comb honey. I got 15c. for the extracted, 

 and 20 for the comb honey. I have sold 3 colonies at 

 S8.00 apiece. I left my bees all on their summer 

 stands. We have had a very fine fall and winter till 

 Jan. 1, and then it blew up cold, and stormed very 

 severely. I was uneasy about my bees for two 

 weeks. 1 was very glad when it turned off warm 

 again, so they could Oy. They are all right yet. It 

 was 34° below zero. I am going to have my bee- 

 yard look nice. 1 set out 100 grapevines last spring, 

 and they grew nicely, and this winter I got a nice 

 fence around them. 1 think bees will do well here, 

 if they are attended to as they ought to be. Last 

 summer I attended to my bees, and did my house- 

 work too; but I think I shall have to have some 

 help this season, if my bees do not all die. La^t fall 

 I took some bees and honey to our county fair, and 

 I got the premium on honey, hut they would not 

 give a premium on bees. I will report again in the 

 spring. Mrs. Malinda A. Wilkins. 



Seneca, Nemaha Co., Kan , Jan. 17, 1881. 



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ScH§ ttiid limvie^. 



WANT to get a number of colonies early in the 

 spring, and would like to correspond with some 

 bee-keepers near me as to price. 



D. W. BARTHOLOME^V. 



Bridgewater, McCooke Co., Dakota. 



No report, further than that the V4-lb. bees and 

 queen purchased of you in July, 1883, have increased 

 by natural swarming to five strong colonies. 



Weston, O., Nov. 30, 1883. Ed. Baggai-ey. 



GEO. W. HOUSE'S HONEY-HACK — A DESCRIPTION 

 WANTED. 



Geo. W. House claims to have the best honey-rack 

 in existence. Please have him describe it in Glean- 

 ings. " James Spencer. 



Woodburn, Iowa, Jan. 10, 1884. 



"take notice" labels— a caution. 



I would suggest that your "TaKc Notice" label for 

 extracted honey contain caution about overheating. 

 I have frequently known honey to be nearly spoiled 

 in melting. I would like some of the labels if so 

 printed. II. D. Burrell. 



Bangor, Mich., Nov. 24, 1883. 



A suggestion in regard to friend sturwold's 



nONEY-CASE— SEE PAGE 11. 



lleararding Sturwold's show-case for honey, I 

 would say to you, if you would put a common look- 

 ing-glass in the inside of the door it would make a 

 better show. Jj. T. Colby. 



EiiQeld Ctr., N. H., Jan. 11, 1884. 



GLEANIKC S IM BEE CULTURE. 



EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, 



MEDINA, O. 



TERMS: $1.00 PER YEAR, POST-PAID. 



FOR CLUBBING RATES, SEE FIRST PAGE 

 OF READING MATTER. 



]VCX:XDZ]Nr.Z\., IFXS^. l, 1884. 



Don't send us any more back numbers of Glean- 

 ings of any kind. I guess there must be a good 

 many of the friends who wanted the ten cents more 

 than they did their back numbers, by the way they 

 came flying in. 



In our last issue the types made us say, in speak- 

 ing about wire on spools, "2'/4 feet for one cent," 

 where it should have been 21'/^. No. 25 spool has 215 

 feet. It was all owing to the types, of course. We 

 all know how to " flgger " here. 



We are still out of spider-plant seed. Who has 

 any fresh seed that they are sure will grow, and 

 what will they take for it? By the way, would it 

 not be a good plan for somebody to go into the busi- 

 ness of raising seeds of these staple honey-plants, 

 that we may know where to get a supply next year? 



Dear me: what troubles we do have! Twenty 

 thousand price lists have just been printed, and in 

 every one the price of alsike is put at the old last 

 year's figures— S15. 00 per bushel, when it ought to be 

 $10.00. Probably we shall not have a very large 

 trade in alsike, unless our patrons are subscribers 

 to Gleanings. 



The Bee Keepers' Magazine for January comes to 

 us in new type, on new paper, greatly enlarged, and 

 so much improved throughout that wo hardly knew 

 it. It came to us rather late in the month, it is true; 

 but as Gleanings has been rather on the late style, 

 we think we won't make any comments. Our en- 

 larged printing-oflice, with eight hands hard at work, 

 does not seem to be equal to the demand for circu- 

 lars, labels, and price lists. 



Friend C. S. Ad.4.ms, of Williamson, Wayne Co., 

 N. Y., has a quantity of alsike and timothy, mixed. 

 Perhaps one-third part of the mixture is alsike. The 

 seed is otherwise clean; but as the hulls are off from 

 a great part of the timothy, it is next to impossible to 

 separate it. Neighbor H. says he thinks, however, 

 that timothy will grow just as well. Anybody want- 

 ing such a mixture might correspond with friend 

 Adams. He thinks it ought to be worth about $5.00 

 per bushel. 



WOOPgN SEPARATORS. 



These seem to have lost favor. Dr. Besse men- 

 tioned at the convention, that although he made 

 and sold a great many of them, he had discarded 

 them. The principal objection seemed to be that 

 they will warp. This might be obviated by making 

 them thicker; but this would increase the expense, 

 and also occupy valuable room in the brood-apart- 

 ment. If separators must be used, tin seems to be 

 the best material to occupy little space, without be» 

 iD^g affected by the dampness of the blve. 



