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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUEE. 



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HOW TO OET THE BEES TO BUILD THE HONEY 

 STKAIOHT, IN POUND SECTIONS. 



SHOULD like to learn the method you follow 

 to make your bees build the honey straight in 

 pound sections. John Mitchem.. 



Roseburji-, Mieh., Apr. 6, 1H88. 

 L Use either lull sheets of foundation or sepa- 

 rators, or both. Separators with small starters will 

 answer.l 



.JAPANESE BUCKWHE.\T. 



My Japanese buckwheat, the 3 lbs. I got from you 

 last spring, raised ine 86 lbs., with the same treat- 

 ment that 1 gave the silverhull. It was on poor 

 ground. It was the best buckwheat I ever raised. 



Alleman's, Pa., Oct. 3, 1888. James A. Spacht. 



ONE HITNIIRED FOLD OF .JAPANESE BUCKWHEAT. 



I raised about 10(1 bushels of Japanese buck- 

 wheat from one bushel sowing. The seed I got of 

 J. C. Gallup, of this place, who got the seed from 

 you the year before. F. Andrews. 



Smethport, Pa., Oct. 1, 1888. 



DEATH OCCASIONED BY A STINO. 



The following was published in the old Home- 

 stead, October, 1888: 



Miss Ella Baker, an Englishwoman, the author 

 of several successful stories for yoimg people, was 

 stung under the eye by a bee, and applied some 

 simple remedy. The swelling did mn go down, and 

 in a short time she awoke from a sleep in a convul- 

 sive fit, and died within a minute. 



Douglass, O., Oct. 11, 1888. Fred Lininger. 



late pollen-g.\thering. 



Our bees are to-day having a tly, which may be 

 the last of the season. One colony is carrying in 

 pollen. Ts not this unusual? Koht. H. Shipman. 



Cannington, Ont., Nov. .'>, 1888. 



[Rather late, friend S., for your locality, we should 

 say. Are you sure they were not working on saw- 

 dust or something of the sort ?] 



ONION BLIGHT. 



My neighbor has been applying 30 tons of clear 

 stable manure, with top dressing of Yi ton complete 

 fertilizer (costing $30.(K)) per acre on his onion 

 ground, annually, and every year they blight and 

 bring no onions to perfection. Can ground be 

 made too rich for onions ? M. Garrahan. 



Kingston, Pa. 



[Asa rule, ?io(. I have had no e.vperience with 

 blight.! 



bee-veils not CHIN PROTECTING. 



The bees sting my chin through your bee-veils. 

 It seems to me that bee-veils ought to be in the mar- 

 ket, and sold by you, that protect better. 



McLane, Pa. A. AV. Harrison. 



[If you will wear a broad-brim hat, such as we 

 recommend in our price list, you will have no trou- 

 ble about the bees stinging your chin through the 

 veil. This is one of the reasons why we prefer 

 a broad-brim hat— it protects not only the neck and 

 chin, but the tip end of the nose also. Any other 

 provision for holding the veil away from the face 

 we consider too much toggle. 1 



FOOT-POWER VERSUS STEAM FOR HIVE-MAKING. 



Can a man of ordinary strength make bee-hives 

 of Southern yellow pine, on the Barnes foot-power 

 sawV Julius Gerard. 



Brackett, Tex., Oct. 30, 1888. 



[Yes, you can make hives of yellow pine with a 

 Barnes foot-power saw, but we warn you that it will 

 be hard work. It is hard work, even with our white 

 pine here in the North. As we state in our price 

 list, if you have a good many hives to make you will 



wish pretty severely that you had put in a little 

 more moriey and purchased a little engine. You 

 probably could make all the hives you need for your 

 own use, on a Barnes machine, but it would take 

 great drops of sweat, we assure you. If your time 

 evenings is not worth much, a tread-power would 

 probably be a saving over stefln).] 



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With Replies from our best Authorities on Bees. 



AH queries sent in for this department should be briefly 

 stated, and free from any possible ambiguity. The question 

 or questions should be written upon a separate slip of paper, 

 and marked, " For Our Question-Box." 



Question '.U.^ A I the same piice, would you prefer 

 hives iiKuti- of Iniotty pinr, or Iiives Tnade of clear whit£- 

 wiiiid .' It. is said that tvhitnvood will shrink more thafii 

 pine, a)id consequential be not as desiralde. 



Knotty pine. 



Knotty soft pine. 



I should prefer the pine. 



Wo use redwood exclusively. 



C. C. Miller. 



Dadant & Son. 



L. C. Koot. 



R. WII.KIN. 



Of pine, if the knots are sound. 



Mrs. L. Harrison. 

 The knotty pine, if the knots are sound. 



H. R. BOARDMAN. 



I should piefcr knotty pine to clear whitewood. 

 Dr. a. B. Mason. 

 Knotty pine, as 1 know nothing of whitewood. 



P. H. Elwood. 

 Having had considerable experience with both, I 

 should choose the knotty pine. G. M. DoolittIiE. 



I should prefer pine, but T should wish it reason- 

 ably free from knots. Poor lumber is not fit for 

 hives. A. J. Cook. 



I don't know any thing about whitewood, but I 

 would not have hives of knotty pine— knots that 

 generally get loose. Paul L. Viallon. 



I should prefer to have my hives made of clear 

 lumber at any time, whether that be whitewood or 

 pine. I prefer the latter. Chas. F. Muth. 



1 have never used hives made of whitewood, but 

 I know it is one of the worst kinds of lumber we 

 have for shrinking and swelling. 



O. O. Poppleton. 



I have never used hives made of whitewood, but 

 I do not want to use any thing that shrinks more 

 than pine. Knots, if not loose, are but little injury- 



James A. Green. 



At a higher price I should prefer good pine; but 

 if I were obliged to choose between knotty pine, 

 well-dressed, and clear whitewood, I think I would 

 choose the pine. Geo. Grimm. 



Knots in pine lumber are no objection If they are 

 sound and not loose. I would rather have it than 

 the whitewood clear. 1 don't use shaky lumber of 

 any kind. E. France. 



I would take the hives of knotty pine, provided a 

 careful workman made them. I should not want 

 the awful botches which some workmen can make 

 with knotty lumber. E. E. Hasty. 



I will take the whitewood if it is of the soft, yel- 

 low, light variety. Have it thoroughly seasoned. 

 It takes and holds paint much better than pine. 

 If you are not going to paint your hives, use pine. 



