1891 



GLEANINGH in bee CULTURE:. 



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THE PUMPKIN BUSINESS. 



PUMPKIN PIES BY THE CARLOAD. 



No, no 1 I do not mean pumpkin jnes by the 

 carload — I mean only the pumpkins themselves. 

 And what put me in mind of it was the excel- 

 lent picture below, sent us by our good friend 

 Cummins, who has a canning-factory. You see, 

 in order to keep his factory going he has to have 

 a pumpkin-ranch, and the picture tells us how 

 it looks. 



As you are interested in fine crojjs, we send you :i 

 photo of a section of our llekl of 24 ai-res, from 

 which we g-athered 391X tons of as fine pumpkins as 

 ever grew. D. Cummins. 



Conneaut, O., May 4. 



NOTES ON THE FIELD. 



UK. MILLEK HAS LOST HEAVII>Y IN WINTEKING. 



I'm not a good bee-keeper. I let bees stai've. 

 I supposed last fall my bees had stores enough: 



PUMPKIN PIES IN PROSPECT. 



By the way, friend C, is there not a chance for 

 getting considerable honey from these great 

 fields? I remember one season, when our bees 

 settled the scales quite perceptibly every morn- 

 ing; and when I followed them to see where 

 they went, it was to a pumpkin-lield where the 

 corn had been killed out; and, didn't they make 

 a humming, though, for an hour or two ! The 

 honey was not of a very tine quality nor color; 

 liut it kept brood-rearing going beautifully dur- 

 ing a dearth of pasturage. Above is all that 

 friend Cummins tells us about the picture. 

 Now, as he is a bee-keeeper, can he tell us any 

 thing about pumpkin honey? A. I. R. 



but toward spring I found some starving. In- 

 stead of stirring them up by feeding all in the 

 cellar, I thought better to let starve what would, 

 and feed as soon as out. 



March 30, maples bloom, but I'm afraid it 

 may come cold again. So it did, cold and snow, 

 no warm weather till April 1-!. Good day to 

 take bees out, if it hadn't been Sunday. Next 

 day good, Init postponed taking bees out, for 

 wash-day. Better have postponed wash-day. 

 The 14th and 15th, too lowery; but Kith pretty 

 good, (iot Tom Bari'y to help, and he, with 

 father Huber and I, emptied both cellars by 

 half-past ten. Hives were so light that we each 



