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GLEAXiNGS IN BEE CULTUUE. 



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private individual to make liis own honey- 

 pails, I am well awai-e; but it can not well 

 be helped, for this same thing is now com- 

 ing up in regard to almost every thing we 

 use largely in domestic life. It is, however, 

 a boon to' bee-keepers, because these pails 

 can be very prettily labeled, and even then 

 given awav with the lionev. 



You will ol^serve, fiiends, that 100 pails of 

 eiich size cost SHT.T-j.while 100 nests are worth 

 only §3.5.00. The difference is in conse- 

 quence of the extra boxes that avouUI be re- 

 quired, if they are shipped without being 

 nested inside "of each other, and this is an 

 argument in favor of nested pails. It also 

 accommodates customers; for if you keep 

 one of each size constantly filled witli honey, 

 you can be in leadincss to suit the taste or 

 pocketbook of almost any one wlio wants to 

 purchase honey. 



l^ECE^T DEYEL0PMEN5^g, 



And Suggestions and Queries Particularly Pertaining 

 to the Season. 



j some are seven oi- eight feet high. The bees work 

 ! on it early and late in the sunshine, and in quite a 

 fall of rain. I think it is the finest honej'-plant I 

 ever saw. If there is any plant that will pay to cul- 

 j tivate for honey alone, surely this is the one. 1 can 

 let you or some of your customers have from one 

 hundred to a thousand roots for transplanting in 

 spring. Bees have done pretty well here this year 

 —too much honey-dew: it is on almost everything 

 —the beech, oak, maple, red gum, peach, and even 

 on the rose-bushes. I have increased from T in the 

 spring, to 2S. Not much honey just now. 



R. P. WiM-TAMS. 



Afaynard's Cove, Ala., .Tuly 30, 1884. 



IS VOUR BUSINESS A PLEASURE TO VOUV 



It is a pleasure to me to do business with a man 

 \ who is always ready and willing to do right; then if 

 any mistakes should occur (which they will), you 

 need have no fears but that it will all work out 

 right. This is my I'ule in all my business with my 

 customers, if 1 have to do even more than what is 

 exactly fair. .T. S. Tadi.ock. 



Luling, Texas, July 28, 188t. 



MRS. COTTON. 



fRIEND ROOT:— If any of the many readers of 

 Gi.EANiNOS would like to have Mrs. Cotton's 

 book, which she sells for ifl.OO, and the draw- 

 ings for making her " Controllable hive," foi- 

 which I paid her $3.00, if they will send me 

 $1.2.") by registered mail, I will send them to them 

 bj' return registered mail, just as good as they were 

 when I paid her $4.00 for them. L. Hall. 



Sparta, Miss., Aug. 5,1884. 

 Thank you, friend II., for reducing the 

 price; but" it seems to me that .51.25 would 

 be a little expensive, even yet. If you paid 

 S4.(KJ, however, it seems to me the reduction 

 you make ought to be considered a pretty 

 liberal one. The above illustrates tlie point 

 I have been trying for some time to get at. 

 A commodity ought to be worth pretty near- 

 ly what it costs; that is, to any person who 

 wants the article in question, and I believe 

 this holds true with almost all of the or- 

 dinary supplies for the apiary. 



THE GOLDEN BEE-HIVE IN MICHIGAN. 



The Golden bee-hive man js selling rights in Mich- 

 igan. Is reported to have taken f400 from one 

 vicinity in the last two weeks. Ton Imd! Oh for 

 more knowledge and honesty! A. J. Cook. 



Lansing, Mich., July 30, 1884. 



GOOD FOR FLORIDA, HONEY FROM THE MANGROVE. 



The honey crop will be above the average here 

 this season, as we have had and are having a heavy 

 flow fi"om the mangrove. I have got '203 lbs. per 

 colony from my 88 colonies, spring count, and ha\e 

 Incresed to 110 or 113, so far. You see by this that 

 I have no reason yet to take back the assertion, that 

 "the mangi-ove never fails to give a good paying 

 crop." W. S. Hart. 



New Smyrna, Fla., July, 1884. 



A GOOD REPORT FROM FIGWORT. 



I feel like telling you that the flgwort seed I got 

 from you last spring has done wonderfully. I sowed 

 it in a bed in the garden; it came up well, and some 

 of it is 4 feet high. I transplanted about one hun- 

 dred plants, and gavd them some c\iltivation, and 



A PAKODV ON BEAUTIFUL BEES. 



We were a little undecided as to what de- 

 partment the following belonged in, but 

 finally concluded tliat tliis was the proper 

 place. Jt is surely original, and I think I am 

 right in calling it fully up to the times. See 

 wliat you think of it, "friends. 



bees bees O buteful bees 

 T love to ear you hum 



1 kno that in the neare future 

 There will be honey to cum. 



O bees bees O buteful bees 



That stores the honey so snug 

 That all the bvs and giirls do stt 



That it is veregud. 

 ( » bees bees O buteful bees 



I love to se you fly 

 And se you work opon those flowers 



That grose so low or 'i. 

 () bees bees () buteful bees 



How i|uarel('som vou can be 

 If troiii your ive 



We go to take sum honey for oure tee. 

 O bees bees O buteful bees 



Don'te get youre backs to M 

 Or you will get sum gud strong smoke 



That will put you on the Hi. 

 Highlandville, Mass. J. Lincoln Twigo. 



AN ABC SCHOLAR ASKS SOME QUESTIONS. 



On opening a hive of hybrids a few days ago, I 

 found a great quantity of drone-comb on the sides. 

 I had previously put about two inches of workei*- 

 foundation along the top-bar; they drew the foun- 

 dation out, and made worker-comb of it, and filled 

 it with honey and pollen; below this they made 

 drone-comb in two of the lai-ge frames (20x11 in.), 

 and in another hive the same, except they put honey 

 in it, and no drone-brood or pollen. 



Now for questions. Do bees make drone-comb for 

 any other purpose than to rear drones therein? 



I believe bees do not make drone-comb for 

 any other purpose than to rear brood. 



Can they rear worker-bees in drone-comb? 



Occasionally, instances are given where 

 workers are hatched from drone-comb, but 

 it is the exception and not the rule. 



Do you think I have a drone-laying queen? 



A drone-laying queen won't make the bees 

 build drone-comb. I do not think you have 

 a drone-laying queen. 



