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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 



sections. Seven months of the time I was away 

 IroMi home fi-om dni light till dark. Not more than 

 three weeks was spent in the apiary. Bees are 

 working- every day, but no surplus. Extracted I 

 sold for !t cents; comb, 1:1^2. S. C. (orwin. 



Sarasota. Fla.. Nov. 16. 1888. 



KEPORT Of 1888. 



Spring- count, 3!t colonies; fall count, 5ii. Extract- 

 ed, 34iH( lbs. of honey. Comb. KNt lbs. Honey all sold. 

 St. Marys, Ohio. Jos. FIarbington. 



BEES DOING WELL. 



Bees did very well this year. 1 got 3.500 lbs. of 

 section honey, and 200 gallons extracted. I have 7.5 

 stands in the cellar, doing well. .1. K. Whipps. 



I>e Sueur Center, Minn. 



UEKS AND buckwheat; FROM 7 TO 13, AND :i!MI 

 POUNDS OF HONEY. 



From 7 hives, spring- count, I increased to 12, and 

 obtained about 300 pounds of honey, nearly all in I- 

 pound sections, of which I sold $41.00 worth, besides 

 giving some to friends and using a lot in the family. 

 My report of Japanese buckwheat is 2SU bushels 

 from Vt bushel. 1 bought it of you in July. Bees 

 have done well for the care bestowed on them. All 

 the time I could give them was about half a day 

 each week. They are all in good condition for 

 winter. Samuel S. Saumenig. 



Ivory, Md.. Nov. 19, 1888. 



hoot's chaff hive and 5038 lbs. of HONEY. 



I began the season with 91 colonies. Nine of 

 those were in old box hives. The spring was very 

 cold. .\o honey was gathered from apple-blossoms. 

 I put on surplus boxes on the first of June, up to 

 the sth, when the bees had hardly gone to work. 1 

 did not look at them again until about July 6th. 

 They had done very well, and about the last of July 

 I took otl :i000 pounds of the nicest honey I ever 

 had ; and up to about the first of October T had 

 taken S7.5 pounds of extracted and 4153 pounds of 

 comb honey. 1 have every pound of my honey sold, 

 both comb and extracted, and there are calls for 

 more almost every day. I never saw so much white 

 clover, but I saw only fifteen bees on it this j ear. I 

 increased to 11.5 colonies. There are none but A. 1. 

 Root's chatf hives in my apiary now, so the cam- 

 paign is over. Hurrah once more for .\. I. Koot's 

 chaff hive and 5038 pounds of honey '. 



Fked Bki'I'knuakek. 



Honesdale, Pa., Nov. 16, 1888. 



^EP@]^3F}5 Dipcea^^ifiiN^i. 



NO FALL honey; BEES SHORT OF STORES. 



Y report for the latter part of the season, 

 lor the eastern part of Pennsylvania, is as 

 follows: There was too much rain from 

 September to date; no fall honey; bees 

 short of stores. 1 had to feed nearly all 

 colonies with sugar syrup to winter on. All are 

 well stocked with bees. Blacks are away behind 

 the Italians. Those that I have not fed up will 

 meet with great losses, All my bees are packed for 

 winter, lam selling honey in lib. sections at 25 

 cents per section, ready sale. Others are selling 

 from 18 to ;i5 cents; extracted, from 8 to 30 cents 

 per lb. JosiAH Eastburn. 



Pallslngton, Pa., Dec. 7, 1888. 



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the first POLLEN. 



I have been watching my pa's bees to see when 

 they brought in the first pollen; and the first that 1 

 saw them bring in was on April 14th. I hunted 

 around to see where they got it, and found them 

 gathering it from our soft-maple trees. The pollen 

 was of a whitish color. Some of our soft maples 

 blossomed out before either the poplars or pussy 

 willows, which pa says doesn't often happen. 



Williamstown, la. Joe George. 



pa's entrance-board. 



There are several bee-keepers around here, and 

 they go plodding along in the old style. 1 bav°e been 

 trying to get some of them to take Gleanings, but 

 have not succeeded yet. Pa had bees only three 

 years, and we have only 18 stands. We use only the 

 American hive. He has made several improvements 

 on it. Instead of having a stick with notches cut in 

 it for the entrance, pa has a board that fits across 

 the portico, and si.x inches wide. A slot is cut one 

 inch long in the center; a thumb-screw is put 

 through, and screwed into the hive. The entrance 

 can then be adjusted to any size. 



Mooresburg, Pa. Samuel Bower. 



