1888 



gleakings m bee culture. 



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Can you tell me the largest amount of comb hon- 

 ey made bj' one colony in one season? also the 

 largest amount of extracted? also the largest 

 amount of money received from the honey from 

 one colony in one season? 



I am to deliver an essay on bee-keeping for pleas- 

 ure and for profit. Any thing you could tell me in 

 this line would be thankfully received. 



New Milford, Pa., Feb. 1, 1888. F. W. Dean. 



Friend D., we sliall have to accord to you 

 the credit of originality at least, for sug- 

 gesting this matter of honey by the bushel. 

 I think, however, our veterans in lioney- 

 producing will tell you that you will save 

 labor and manipulation by putting your sec- 

 tions filled witli starters right into the 

 crates to sit over the hives. 1 don't know 

 any better suggestion for your essay than 

 to give in substance what you liave given 

 above, and entitle it, '• Honey by the Bush- 

 el.''' — Regarding the largest amoimt of comb 

 honey produced by a single colony, we have 

 several times run over 100 lbs., in our locali- 

 ty ; and a neighbor of ours, during one very 

 favorable season, received sometliing over 

 1:00 lbs. from a single colony. Various ac- 

 counts have been received through the bee- 

 journals, of, I think, oOO lbs., or may be 

 more, of comb honey from a single colony 

 during a single season, but such things are 

 the rare exception. See Special Notices for 

 separators. 



A WARNING IN REGARD TO WALKING OH STANDING 

 ON THE RAILWAY TRACK. 



Mr. Root;— As my husband had written to you, in- 

 tending to renew his subscrijjtion for Gleanings, 

 but was called to eternity without a moment's warn- 

 ing, I will send his letter with these few lines. He 

 was walking beside the railroad track when he slip- 

 ped and fell, on Christmas day, and was killed by a 

 passing train. Oh! can it be possible that anyone 

 should be called away without one moment to pre- 

 pare? Mrs. C.T.Clarke. 



Albion, Ind., Jan. 3. 1888. 



The following letter of kind words is the 

 one referred to above : 



Dear Sir;— Please find inclosed one dollar for 

 Gleanings for 1888. I have been at Miller since 

 March, 1880, and, I must say, in all that time I have 

 never had to complain of Gleanings not coming to 

 me regularly, never missing once. 1 still hope 

 that it will reach me still the same here as long as I 

 stay. Give my kind regards to yourself and family, 

 also to all the employes of your factory, wishing 

 you merry Christmas and a happy New Year. 



Chas. T. Clarke. 



Albion, Noble Co., Ind., Dec. 24, 1887. 



May God help you, dear friend, in your 

 terrible affliction. It is indeed but too true, 

 that we are often called to meet our Creator 

 without a momenfs warning ; and in view 

 of this, does it not behoove us to be always 

 ready V What a kind, cheery letter it "is 

 that your husband wrote us'! There was 

 certainly nothing in his heart at the time 

 but kindness and good will toward all hu- 

 manity on that day before Christmas. Think 

 of the words, " A merry Christmas and a 

 happy New Year." And now let us draw 

 a moral from this sad event : I notice in 

 our large cities there are signs up, and no- 

 tices warning people to keep off the tracks, 

 especially where many tracks run side by 

 side ; and I have often noticed, too, that al- 



most every one is liable to get in the way of 

 moving trains, even though he be perfectly 

 familiar with them. Even though your 

 husband was an employe of the.railroad com- 

 pany, and it was his daily business, it seems 

 he took risks that perhaps he need not have 

 taken. Not very long ago, right near our 

 factory, a carpenter was employed in mak- 

 ing some repairs near the track. A locomo- 

 tive passed him, and he supposed it was out 

 of the way ; and so much was his mind on 

 the work he was doing thathedid not notice 

 it went ahead a little just to back up. Be- 

 fore any one knew what he was doing, he 

 knelt down to the work, with one of his 

 legs across the track; and although there 

 was quite a number standing around, and 

 the engineer, too, was on the watch, a leg 

 was cut off before anybody knew it. Be- 

 ware of locomotives ; and especially beware 

 of trains that are switching and backing up. 

 Don't take foolish risks. Remember how 

 easy a matter it is for your foot to slip, as in 

 the above sad case. 



AN invitation TO FLORIDA. 



Mr. Riiot:— You have expressed a desire to see 

 Florida. Just jump on a car some morning and 

 come. I think you cku come right here without 

 changing cars, and Miss Adams and myself will 

 meet you at the depot and protect you from the 

 "land agents" which are more to be dreaded by 

 a new comer than mosquito-hawks by the queen- 

 rearer. My husband (we have not a foot of land to 

 sell) will take you as far as y(m care to drive, and 

 see oi-ange-growing, while T will entertain your 

 wife or daughter who may accompany you. Then 

 buy a grove to supply you with oranges, and give 

 you a warm home to Hy to when weary of the cold 

 —a bee-keeper's Florida home, where you or your 

 friends can spend some of their time. 



Mrs. a. a. Needham. 



Sorrento, Fla., Jan. 2(>, 1888. 



You may rest assured, good friend, that 

 when we do go to Florida we shall certainly 

 take advantage of your kind offer; but with 

 present responsibilities we do not see our 

 way clear just yetu 



history of carniolans in the u. s. 



I find that Carniolans were, in 1879, 1880, 1882, usu- 

 ally called " Krainor bees," and some colonies were 

 received here under that name; but in 1879 a dozen 

 queens labeled " Cyprians " arrived in New York, 

 consigned to bome one with a German name in 

 Iowa. They were not Cyprians, but Carniolans, as 

 the shipper afterward confessed. Can any reader 

 advise me who got these Cyprians? Or does any 

 one know of an earlier importation of Krainer 

 bees? I should be thankful for an early answer 

 direct to me, and Gleanings will very early have 

 the benefit of it. S. W. Morrison, M. D. 



Oxford, Pa., Jan. 27, 1888. 



"Krainer'' is simply the German for 

 " Carniolan," friend M. 



bees and neighbors ; a suggestion. 

 Would it not be well for bee-keepers to supply 

 their neighbors within a radius of a mile or so 

 around them with honey at a reduced price of, say, 

 20 per cent or more, or less, according to the near- 

 ness of those neighbors? Would it not cause them 

 to feel that our bees were not in their way, and 



