1884 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



533 



170 now, and 6 tons of honey as the season's work. 

 We shall be apt to have a little more of inferior 

 honey, but that is not counted generally. To show 

 what two men can do, I must tell you of the amount 

 Mr. Hilton and the hired man did the IVth of May. 

 They commenced extracting- at 1.30 p. m., and ex- 

 tracted 850 lbs., and quit at 6.30 p. M. 1 think that 

 was lively work; KiO is the usual afternoon's work. 

 Los Alamos, Cal., July 1, 1.SS4. Mhs. Hi lton. 



430 I.BS. PER COLONY FOR TEXAS. 



I have at present 430 lbs. of honey per colony, with 

 1000 or 1200 more ready to come. I have extracted 

 from supers only. My lower stories are too much 

 crowded with honey and pollen for the usual mid- 

 summer breeding-, but 1 shall leave them as they 

 are, as I am satisfied with my yield, and shall very 

 likely get a ton or two more, anyhow. I will, if you 

 wish, g-ive a full report at the close of the season. 

 1 am only an amateiu-. V. A. \V heeler. 



Selma, Texas, .July 13, 1884. 



Why, friend W., this is truly wonderful ; 

 l)ut you have ue^'lerted to tell iis how nian> 

 coloiiies you have. If you have only three 

 or tour, and they are extra <'-ood ones, it is 

 not so extraordinary ; l)ut if you have an api- 

 ary of forty or lifty," it is one of the best re- 

 ports ever made. Why not always give your 

 iuiinl)er, as friend V. C. Miller has so vehe- 

 mently re(iuestedy 



\IeWEf5 MB QaERIE^. 



PUN AND HARD WORK BOTH TOGETHER. 



\M in just the condition that friend Hutchinson, 



fj- of the Banner A])iary, is, only a little more so, 

 i as I have no hurt brother lor company; but it 

 is lots of fun, even if I do have tog-ctupat3 

 o'clock in the morning-, and work until nine at 

 night, without any iioonii'g-; but it will be over in 

 ten or fifteen dajs, and then we can have time to 

 look around and figure the results. 

 Sodus, Mich., July 0, 1884. W.\i. L. KlNO. 



Poor season here for honey. Dry weather; only 

 about 1000 lbs. from 33; increase 34. I extracted, 

 the latter part of June, 300 lbs. of the genuine 

 honeydcw honey— dark, but very thick and g-ood. 



Creighton, O., July 17, 1884. A. H. Duff. 



REMEDY FOR ANTS. 



Five cents' worth of tartar-emetic in a sauce-plate 

 wet with sweetened water, put in their way, and left 

 for the summer. W. P. Irish. 



Norton Center, O., July 14, 1884. 



ONE PECK INSTEAD OF THREE PECKS OF BUCK- 

 WHEAT TO THE ACRE. 



I have ten acres of buckwheat or more sown with 

 ten pecks of seed, which I think will beat your al- 

 lowance of three pecks to the acre for buckwheat 

 or honey, if the frost don't g-et it too soon. 



Olidden, Iowa, July 20, 1884. David Eppert. 



BEES IN china. 



Last January I saw in Singapore, upon a tree in 

 the hotel yard, a large colony of bees. They had no 

 hive nor covering; had been there several months. 

 Like the other natives, they did very little work. 

 They wore high up on a large limb, and no comb 

 was to be seen. I was reminded that necessity is 

 the mother of industry. H. D. Stiles. 



Vineland, N. J., July 13, 1884. 



ants, once more. 



I see that J. M. Brooks wants to know how to get 

 rid of the little pests, red ants. Please tell him to 

 scatter tansy around on the floor and shelves of his 

 honey-room quite freely. I think this will give him 

 satisfaction. So far it gave us good satisfaction in 

 the cellar and cupboards when infested with the 

 little pests. I have not been troubled at all in my 

 honey-room so far. A. F. Yodek. 



Goshen, Ind., July 23, 1884. 



bee-stinos and ants. 



1 think Mrs. Hayhurst gets it about right, when 

 she says cold water in preference to whisky for bee- 

 stings. The only thing I do is to have a pan of cold 

 water ready when I go amongst the bees; and if 

 any chance to sting nie, I just put cold water on, 

 and the pain is gone immediately. If Mr. E. D. 

 Howell will strew tansy around the floor of his hon- 

 ey-room it will rid out the ants, or around the bee- 

 hives either. Geo.- VV. Putnam. 



Holland, Iowa, July 7, 1884. 



PLENTY OF WORK .\T GOOD WAGES. 



I am ^■ery busy making bee-hives, and transfer- 

 ring for my neighbors. I made *9.7.5 in three days, 

 making- hives and transferring. F. P. S.mith. 



Greenwood, W. Va., May 19, 1884. 



[Friend S., when you become expert in the busi- 

 ness, so you can do a job of transferring quickly 

 and nicely, and keep in stock good accurate hives 

 to receive the transferred bees, you will find you 

 will always have plenty of work to do, and good 

 pay.] 



about the E.KTRACTED honey that WOULDN'T 

 SELL. 



As for the honey, I have none. I sold all I had, 

 and could have sold as much more of just that kind 

 of honey here at home; and when I got my extract- 

 or I was told that I could not sell extracted honey 

 here— that they would not buy it; but I carried a 

 sample up town to show; and as quick as they saw 

 it the.y all wanted some of it. I sold out at 20 cents 

 per 11). We had only about three weeks of a good 

 flow of honey, and that was the last of May and the 

 first of June. Bees are doing well. 



E. Urudgington. 



Breckenridge, Texas, July 24, 1884. 



borax for ants. 



If Mr. Brooks will scatter borax on his honey- 

 table, I think it will keep the ants away. While in 

 the tropics the ants were a great pest, and I found 

 it the best remedy, either in lumps or pulverized. 

 The pans of water in which he puts the legs of the 

 table will have to be removed often, as they will 

 not prevent ants getting on it. A. A. T. 



Lewistown, Pa., July 15, 1884. 



[You will notice, friend T., that the same thing is 

 given in the ABC book. \Vhere they get into 

 houses and around tables, however, we have not 

 found it to work so well, for the borax needs to be 

 wet by the rain to make it oflensive to them.l 



In using the Simplicity hives with seven brood- 

 frames and two wide ones for sections, how do you 

 numage about these last ones! Are seven brood- 

 frames enough to rear l)rood and store honey for 

 winter, and do you lea\e the wide frames in the 

 whole year? Gustave Gross. 



Greenville, III., June 17, 1884. 



[Friend G., 1 think seven frames are a great plen- 



