1888 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUKE. 



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sections of comb honey; one, A No. 1, and one a lit- 

 tle off in color, or detective; also honey in jelly-tum- 

 blers of different qualities so as to give every one a 

 taste, and to explain the various qualities. When 

 the route had been established, the sample case 

 was seldom used. In this way, I am informed the 

 apiarist disposed of 4000 

 lbs. of honey in his own 

 and adjoining- towns, and 

 which netted him a better 

 price than if sold through 

 a commission house. The 

 time spent in disposing 

 of this honey was about 

 si.Y weeks in the months 

 WEBB'S HONEY-PACKAGE FOB of September and Octo- 



RETAILING. , T, . . 



ber. Many times, in or- 

 der to make a sale, the peddler resorted to barter, 

 and w(juld take eggs or oats, the latter in limited 

 amounts for feeding his horse. Having had suc- 

 cess in the past in disposing of his honey in such a 

 satisfactory manner, T understand the apiarist is 

 devoting more of his time to the production of 

 honey, and will this fall peddle his own honey, with 

 this improvement: The honey will be carried in 

 pails ranging from one to ten pounds. This ar- 

 rangement will dispense with drawing off the hon- 

 ey, which is slow business in cold weather, and 

 sticky business if dipped out. In connection with 

 the sale of honey, the apiarist has made arrange- 

 ments with a large tea company to canvass and de- 

 liver teas, coffees, and spices. Thus every house 

 will be canvassed once a month, and the business 

 can be kept up indefinitely. 



In peddling honey, the statements of the peddler, 

 if stated candidly and truthfully, will be accepted 

 by the majority of people, for the most people have 

 common sense, and can detect overdrawn state- 

 ments, and judge the man and the business accord- 

 ingly. 



Mr. W. had many amusing incidents to relate. 

 Many persons would persist in saying that his hon- 

 ey was adulterated; even buckwheat honey was 

 put under the ban. 







A MISHAP IN PEDDLING HONEY NEAR A SCHOOL- 

 HOUSE. 



Many times a person would want only half a 

 pound of honey, and bring out a ten-quart pail to 

 get it in; then there would be a looking into the 

 pail to find it. The only serious mishap encoun- 

 tered was the frightening of his horse near a 

 school house. The sketch above explains the result. 



The Rambler. 



GOULD'S DEVICE FOR "WIRING 

 FRAMES. 



LATE HATCHING OF EGGS. 



fRIEND ROOT:— I send you by mail to-day a 

 model of the arrangement I use to hold the 

 spool of wire when wiring frames. I use the 

 1-lb. spool. A small bolt, or wire nail of 

 proper size, passing through the side posts, 

 holds the spool, allowing it to turn freely. A double- 

 pointed tack. A, is driven into the top-piece, also 

 one into the block to which the posts are fastened 

 as at B. The wire is passed through these tacks, 

 and, when not in use, is fastened to a tack driven 

 into the block. I use a block one inch thick, and 

 two 1^-inch wire nails to fasten it to the bench. 



GOULD'S WIRIN(5-DEVICE. 



When I am done wiring I loosen the block and tack 

 it up on the wall. When the wire is sewed through 

 the frame and the end fastened, it may be tighten- 

 ed by holding the spool with one hand and pulling 

 the frame gently with the other, making very easy 

 work of it, even for clumsy fingers. Perhaps it 

 would not work so well with your method of wiring; 

 but with mine (see p. 83, Gleanings, 1888) it works 

 well; and as many bee-keepers wire only length- 

 wise of the frame it would, without doubt, be very 

 handy for them. Its greatest value lies in the fact 

 that the wire can not unwind faster than it is used, 

 and never kinks. 



eggs hatching WHEN T DAYS OLD. 



My first swarm this season came out June 20th. I 

 hived them according to the Heddon method to 

 prevent after-swarming. Two days afterward I di- 

 vided the old stock into nuclei. There was less 

 than a pound of bees left in the hive; and as there 

 were seven frames of brood, the nuclei were rather 

 weak in bees. One especially was very weak in 

 bees; but as the weather was moderately warm 

 and some of the brood hatching. I concluded to see 

 what they would amount to. One - third of one 

 comb was filled with eggs; and on the 36th, when I 

 examined the nucleus I found the eggs yet un- 

 hatched, and concluded that they had chilled. You 

 can imagine my surprise to find them hatched the 

 next day— just seven days and two hours after the 

 swarm came out. Possibly they hatched on the 

 si.xth day after I had looked at them. Has any 

 thing else of the kind ever come under your notice? 

 William E. Gould. 



Fremont, Mich., .Tuly 11, 1888. 



It has several times been interred, friend 

 G., that eggs, under certain circumstances, 

 might be a week or two in hatcliing ; but I 

 do not remember that we have before had 

 anyusuch direct and positive proof as you 

 give us. Doolittle has suggested that bees 



