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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Jan. 



angle bend. A couple of blows with a 

 small hammer will drive the prongs into the 

 wood, and so hold the projecting iron se- 

 curely. Practice agreed with theory in all 

 but the last point; viz., that the T-tin sup- 

 ports so fastened would not be secure. 

 While they might answer the purpose of 

 one season's use, they would, in any event, 

 be in constant danger' of being pulled out. 



I mention this attempt, not as being in 

 any way practical in its results, but to pre- 

 vent some one else wasting time in the 

 same way. If a cheaper and better method, 

 at the same time not at a sacrifice of 

 strength and durability, could be devised, 

 we should hail it with joy. 



TRANSPLANTING TUBES. 



THEIR SIMULTANEOUS DISCOVEl.Y IN MICHIGAN 

 .4ND OHIO. 



R. ROOT:— Last spring I planted, as usual, a 

 patch of melons, numbering 1180 hills. 

 They were just nine feet apart each way. I 

 put from ten to forty seerls in a broad hill. 

 I noticed the cut-worms were at their work, 

 so Clarence and I went over the hills regularly every 

 day for about ten days, digging the worms out and 

 destroying them with sharpened sticks; but it 

 seemed impossible to save i.jy tuelons. But as 

 "necessity is the mother of invention "' I set about 

 andgathereda wagon-load of tomato cans, melting 

 and knocking the ends out. I set them over some 

 of the plants in the hills, to act as a fence to keep 

 the worms out. Well, I kept out those which were 

 out; and those which were in I soon caught and 

 destroyed. Two-thirds of my melon-hills were 

 saved, but toplant the vines anew would cause them 

 to come on too late for market. _^ I found, on press- 

 ing the tubes into the soil deep enough to get below 

 the tap-root of my tender melons, the plan would 

 work like a charm. I transplanted them so nicely 

 that they grew right along without stopping, and 

 some of the largest I had were from those that I 

 removed. I used the thickest tins to take up the 

 plants with— those with an open seam, and one a 

 size larger to make the holes for the plant. Place 

 the open tube over the plant; press it down to the 

 proper depth; take hold of the top of the tube with 

 both hands, and hold it a little skewing, so as to 

 make the bottom smaller than the top. Draw it up 

 and place it in the hole; loosen your grip, and the 

 work is done, with a little packing and leveling 

 about the hills or plants. So it seems that your in- 

 vention and mine are about the same, with only 

 this difference: I dump the plants out of the tube 

 dry, and you wet them to get them out. Now, I had 

 not thought of being an inventor until I saw 

 Gleanings of Nov. 15, 1887. O. I. Miller. 



Augusta, Kal. Co., Mich., Nov., 1887. 



You are right, friend Miller. You are 

 just as much the inventor as I am, only you 

 invented yours for a special purpose, and I 

 invented mine for a somewhat different 

 purpose. I tried them with one edge loose ; 

 but you can not throw them into a wheel- 

 barrow and wheel tiiem out into the field if 

 you do tiiat way. Your plan would, how- 

 ever, 1)6 the simplest and easiest for filling 

 up hills destroyed by cut- worms. We have 

 for several years done this with cucumbers 



by taking the plants up with a shovel or 

 spade; but your tubes are quicker and 

 safer. For market-gardeners, when the 

 ground is nicely manured and prepared, it 

 is a big loss to "have missing hills; but by 

 means of the transplanting-tubes we can 

 have a plant in every hill, and no mistake. 

 I am very glad indeed to know that you 

 made it answer so nicely in circumventing 

 the cut-worms. Xo doubt you can earn ten 

 dollars a day in getting " rid of the cut- 

 worms, and succeeding in getting a crop 

 when nobody else does. I wish you would 

 tell how much the 1180 hills brought you, if 

 you can readily. 



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HOW I produce comb HONEY. 



This is the title of a little pamphlet by our 

 friend Geo. E. Hilton, Fremont, Mich. It contains 

 13 pages of reading-matter, appropriately illustrat- 

 ed. The instructions are plain and practical. 

 Just before closing the subject, the writer adds: 



In closing. I feel I ean not uij^e too stronpjly the use of the 

 zinc iiueen-exchulinp honey-board. I consider it one of the 

 g-randest inventions of the age — no brood in the sect'ons; no 

 fastening the sections, crate and all, to the brood-frames, thus 

 tearing otf the bottom of the sections, or lifting the brood- 

 fr.imes out by their adhering to the crate. In tact, with the 

 experience I have had willi ii , 1 would as soon think of putting 

 on sections withont Imiiidal mn starters as putting on crates 

 without a iiui-en-exeluding hojiey-board. 



The price of the little book is 5 cts., postpaid, and 

 it can be obtained of the author as above. 



THE STANLEY AUTOM.A^TIC HONEY - EXTRACTOR 

 CHANGED HANDS. 



Mr. Edward R. Newcomb, of Pleasant ^'alley, N. 

 Y., has recently purchased of Mr. G. W. Stanley, of 

 Wyoming, N. Y., the privilege of making and sell- 

 ing his automatic honey-e.xtractor. Mr. Newcomb 

 informs us that the extractors will be crated all 

 ready to be sent out. There will not only be sub- 

 stantial improvements madein its construction, but 

 the price will be ver.v greatly reduced. Parties de- 

 siring to purchase can obtain these extractors of 

 us, or of Mr. Newcomb, as above. In the next 



