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GLEANINGS IK BEE CULTUllE. 



Ava. 



working: for comb or extracted honey (that is, if you 

 Avill believe me). Please i-emember that those from 

 which T extracted had to build their comb. 



At the commencment of basswood I had fi-om 44 

 colonics about 1900 pounds of honey, and the combs 

 mostly made. The flow from basswood lasted about 

 1.5 days, and I g-ot U'j IB-g'allon barrels of as beauti- 

 ful, clear, thick honey as man ever looked at, from 

 47 colonies, in l.'> days. In the midst of the flow T 

 got 140 g-allons in just three days. From the re- 

 mainder of my bees, which have hccn woi-kiiig- in 

 sections, T don't think I have f?ot more than 1500 

 pounds. I have my honey in basswood barrels, and 

 am well pleased and well i)aid in this bee business. 

 I have the A 15 C liook. ami take (ir.EANi.vfiS. 



I amg-lad to see the bold stand you take in your 

 journal ag-ainst that pernicious weed tobacco. If I 

 had time I should like to g-ive you 25 Scripture 

 texts ag-ainst the use of tobacco, which onght to 

 convince any man who desires to be an honest, 

 clean Christian. 



I may g-ive you the conclusion of this summer's 

 repoi-t at the close of honey-harvest, f lia\ e a 

 splendid range foi- fall honey here. Thei-e has been 

 no honey coming- in since l)asswood gave out. There 

 was an expert who tolil me the other day that bees 

 make a g-reat deal ot honey from corn tassel, but I 

 hardly believe it. I think lliey g-et pollen from it, 

 and that is about all. A. A. Couey. 



Port Andrew, Wis., Aug-:!, 1S84. 



RABBITS, AND HOW TO RAISE THEM. 



ALSO SOME GENERAL IDEAS CONCERNING TREATISES ON SPECIAL SUB.TECTS. 



fRTEND A. A. FR ADENBUllG has pub- 

 lished ii little l)ook with the above 

 title ;, but l)efore I talk about rabuits 1 

 want to speak about books on special 

 subjects. I do love to talk with a man 

 who has studied some special branch of ag- 

 riculture, or kindred sciences, until he 

 knows all about them, or, i)erhaps, more 

 about them than anybody else. In my boy- 

 hood, before I knew a thing aV)out bees, I 

 used to delight in reading the small bee 

 books that were occasionally to be found 

 then. Last spring I got hold of (Jregory's 

 l)ook on squashes, and T thoroughly enjoyed 

 several evenings in reading wliiit my wife 

 and children called my '^sijuash-book," al- 

 though I had not any idea of raising siiuasli- 

 es at all at that time. Within 11 le last week 

 I have read with a keen relish '■ (Gregory on 

 (.'abbages,"' and since then our cabbage- 

 patch possesses an interest for me that it 

 never did before. And so it is with books 

 on onions, strawberries, and any thing that 



our juveniles will find it very interesting 

 reading. The nicest part of it is, that friend 

 F. mails it free of charge to any one who 

 tells him on a postal card that he would like 

 to liave it. He does this because he expects 

 to sell enougii rabbits to pay him for his 

 trouble. lint if you should get the circular, 

 and profit by the information it contains, 

 and not i)urchase of him at all, I suppose it 

 will be all right ; in fact, I am sure it will. 

 Do you want to know what this has to do 

 with bee cultureV Well, friend F. thinks 

 rabbits are cheaper in the long run than 

 lawn-mowers to keep the grass down around 

 the bee-hives ; in fact, at our bee conven- 

 tion at Columbus last winter he talked rab- 

 bits (luitc a considerable. You will remem- 

 l)cr, tlial oil page (idii, Vol. XI.. he wrote 

 something about them, calling them his 

 four-legged chickens. I wonder if some of 

 the little friends would not like to see a pic- 

 ture of one of these rabbits. Well, here it 

 is. and it was made from a photograi)h. 



has assumed suincient impoitanct to be Now the oidj impleasant thing about this 

 Avorthy of a bu».k. i labbit business is, th.it they kill them tor 



Now, I do not know whether caring for food. Friend F. says they are as good as a 

 rabbits has become an industry sufficient to turkey. I suppose it is right to keep them 

 warrant a l)00k just yet or not; but I do for food, and perhaps it is only a \veakness 

 know that friend Fradenburg's little pam- | on my part that makes me shrink irom ttie 

 phlet about rabbits has proved ((uite interest- i idea of killing tliem. I think you had bet- 

 ing to me. and I think very likely many of tej; send for tlie little pamphlet, any way. 



