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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



June 



in larg-c numbers; but so they do in the other pro- 

 fessions. We in the U. S. have about 80,000 phj-si- 

 cians. Jesse Oken. 



La Porte City, la., Fcl). t, IWt. 



Thank you, friend O., for your kiud re- 

 miuiler that we are in danger of uncharita- 

 l)hi fault-tindiuo-. I confess, I had some- 

 thhift- of tlie feeling you have expressed, when 

 I cain(^ to think over tlie general tendency 

 of that article. It occurred to me, too, tliat 

 the pliysicians of our land are, many of them, 

 our near neighbors, iierliaps near relatives ; 

 and to call them iuiscru])ulous, or even ig- 

 norant, in their line of work, wotdd he a very 

 unkind thing at least. Some of the best 

 friends I have are among the medical frater- 

 nity, and I am sure they are, as a class, in no 

 sense behind the times, compared with men 

 of other professions. I do know, too. that it 

 is a very bad habit to get into, of criticising 

 and tinding fault with those ))elonging to 

 other trades or professions than our own. I 

 am satislied, that, as a rule, it woulil be safer 

 to ti-ust a i-ase enliiely in the hands of our 

 family pliysician, irhm a ithijdciHu U mdltj 

 needed, than to attempt sometliing out of our 

 line, or, woisc still, to trust the case in the 

 hands of somebody we do not know. My lit- 

 tle text, "We oe bretliren," it seems to me, 

 applies here as well as in any other depart- 

 ment of life. In regard to the harm such a 

 man as Mr. Ingersoll might do during a re- 

 vival time, I have had some experience in 

 just that line, and I have also had some ex- 

 perience of the evils of criticising and fault- 

 finding with a good honest physician who 

 was doing the very best he knew how. 



HOW TO MAKE A REVERSIBLE FRAME. 



SOME SUGOESTIONS FROM A r,ADY. 



tITH your jiermission, T will toll beg-inners 

 the liind of reversible frame ivc use, 

 and how to make them. For Simplicity 

 frame, cut heavy hoop iron (one inch wide) 

 .5' 2 inches long-; bend one end at right 

 angles, % of an inch long for the projection; punch 

 a hole for the sci-ew, i^i inches from this turn; saw 

 the projection from a frame, make a small hole in 

 the center of the end, and screw on the i-evei-sible 

 attachment, and you have it. 



HOW TO MAKE THEM. 



All you need is a hammer, punch (an old file will 

 dO), monkey-wrench, a cold chisel or an old ax to cut 

 the iron with. Close the wi-eneh so it will just re- 

 ceive the end of the iron; lay it on a block, or some- 

 thing solid; insei't one end of the iron, bend it over 

 and strike it with the hammer, to make a square 

 turn; then punch the hole for the screw. ~ 



I think this the most simple arrangement I have 

 seen. It is cheap, and easily made, and can be 

 adapted to any hanging frame. 



Addie I. Johnston. 



Brock, Nemaha Co., Neb., May 3,5, 1884. 



I need hardly tell our friends, that the 

 above device has been ligured and desciibed 

 on our pages. A few days ago a man came 

 to see me, but did not seem inclined to make 

 his errand known till he could see me private- 

 ly. After a little preface he said he had 

 come quite a distance, and that he had quite 



an impcutant invention to communicate. I 

 coidd hardly persuade him that it was of no 

 value, until I turned to the page in Glean- 

 ings where his invention was described. He 

 then threw his models away, and concUuled 

 it would pay one who is making inventions, 

 to have a bee-journal on tile. In regard to 

 reversible frames, I very much doulit wheth- 

 er the reversing device would )»e used, after 

 we go to the expense of attaching them to 

 our frames. ]Many thanks, m> friend, how- 

 ever, tor the very i»lain directi(ms you give 

 for a home-made reversil)le frame. 



The revei-sible frame described above will 

 be found illustrated on page lofi, and also 

 on page o2() of our advertiping colunms. 



WORKER-EGGS WITHOUT 

 ZATION. 



EERTILI- 



SOME EUHTHEU facts IN THE MATTEH. 



f"^ HE plan of artificial fertilization in Glean- 

 V iNGS of May 1, as I understand it, has been 

 > tested on three cells, the following being the 

 details: The cells, before being capped, 

 were inoculated with fluid from drone-larva^, 

 two by actually introducing the larva into the 

 queen-cell, the third by touching the queen-larva 

 with the end of a match, previously wet with the 

 di-one-fluid. All three were capped, the two first 

 never hatching, the third hatching on May 18th, and 

 laying in just two weeks, having been fertilized, I 

 believe, in the natural way. I shall experiment 

 further, and report. J. W. Crenshaw. 



Versailles, Ky., June 1, 1884. 



Friend C, I have been watching anxiously 

 for reports. Now, has any one else tried it, 

 and has any one succeeded any better in the 

 matter V 



We have a j'oung queen with no wings that would 

 be of any use to her to fly with, one of them being 

 about one-third as long as a natural wing. The 

 other is still shorter liy one-half, and both raveled 

 out at the ends, so thoy would play but a small part 

 in bearing her weight in the air. She is a fine pro- 

 lific queen, and her brood is worker-brood. Now, 

 then, what are we going to do about it? Bees are 

 still doing well; we are now well on the eighth 

 month since we landed here, and only a few days' 

 dearth of honey. A. W. Osburn. 



San Miguel dc Jaruco, Cuba. 



Friend ()., we have on record several re- 

 ports like yours ; and so far as I know, we 

 have no good explanation in the matter. Per- 

 haps the queen managed to tlutter enough 

 with her stumpy wings to become fertiUzed 

 in the usual way, but this is hardly probable, 

 however. In tossing queens up in the air, 

 that don't lay, 1 have several times found 

 some thatccmldllv tolerably well, say as high 

 as a common apple-tree, but they would 

 eventuallv come down and alight before go- 

 ing a great way. Now, these queens never 

 became fertile, and therefore it would seem 

 that yours must liave been fertiUzed in the 

 hive.'o)' ai'ound the entrance, or else she was 

 never fertilized at all. This latter idea has 

 been sevei'al times suggested, but it lacks 

 proof. We should be glad of more facts on 

 the subject. 



