1891 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



'891 



Both are wrong. Let the bees settle that 

 matter themselves, and they will settle it right. 

 Here we sometimes have swarming in Septem- 

 ber — how shall we stop their breeding in Au- 

 gust? Very likely if you persistently tinker a 

 ■colony into an unnatural condition, so that 

 most "of the population are young bees that 

 have never flown, while the old bees are mostly 

 worn out and gone, the result will be bad; but 

 no danger need be feared from young bees nat- 

 urally raised in September and October. 



Ohio. N. W. E. E. Hasty. 



[We are surprised to know how many of the 

 respondents above favor late breeding, when it 

 comes about naturally on the part of the bees. 

 We have had excellent results in winter with 

 •only old bees to go into winter quarters. The 

 year that we wintered so well neai'ly 200 colo- 

 nies was just following the season when we 

 were having such ravages of foul brood. At 

 least half of the colonies had had their brood 

 destroyed in order to cure the disease, the bees, 

 of course, having been put into clean hives on 

 frames of foundation. All these were old bees, 

 and yet, so far as we could discover, they win- 

 tered just as well as those that didn't have 

 foul brood, and among which brood-rearing 

 continued clear up into October, in some cases. 

 Taking it all in all. we rather prefer to have a 

 lot of young bees go into winter quarters — not 

 the real young fuzzy kind, but those that are 

 sufficiently mature to wear off the downy ap- 

 pearance, and to perform the labors of the 

 hive.] 



Heads of Grain 



FROM DIFFERENT F I E U D S 



THE LEACH .SECTION -FORMER AND FOUNDA- 

 TION-FASTENER COMBINED. 



Friend Root: — Since receiving Gleanings. 

 Oct. 1.5, and reading your note on the combined 

 section and foundation fastener. I have receiv- 

 •ed one of the machines direct from Mr. Leach, 

 with the improved pressure, and I felt anxious 

 to test it at once. I have done so: and I must 

 say, in justice to the machine. I have thorough- 

 ly tested it on sections very difficult to close, 

 and tind it works with perfect ease on any sec- 

 tion, as the pressure is sufficient to even break 

 them. This machine works easily without a 

 hitch or jerk, and it would be hard to imagine 

 -any thing more complete to work, either by 

 hand or foot power. I consider it a most val- 

 uable device in the saving of time. wax. and 

 labor. I understand from Mr. Leach that he is 

 now arranging to have the whole machine con- 

 structed of iron, so as to have all parts perfect, 

 and to weigh only about 8 lbs. If so. it can not 

 fail to give perfect satisfaction. When you re- 

 ceive one of the improved machines you will 

 indorse what I have stated here. R. E. Smith. 



Tilbury Center, Ont., Can., Oct. 22. 



[We are very glad to get this report, as the 

 machine will "be indeed a great labor-saver if 

 successful. We shall be pleased to report on 

 the merits of the new machine when it is per- 

 fected and received.] 



COLORADO. AND ITS IMPORTANCE AS A HONEY 

 STATE. 



Friend Root:—A» winter is fast approaching, 

 and the bees have all gone into their homes. I 

 will now try to give some reports. There will 

 be, as nearly as I can find out. about 2000 colo- 

 nies of bees put up to winter in Larimer and 

 Weld Go's, Col., and I have learned from relia- 



ble sources that the yield has been reckoned at 

 from .50.000 to .5o.(X)0 lbs. I also send a report of 

 the shipment of honey, as reported in TJie &ree- 

 ley Tribune of Oct. 14. It reads as follows: 



A carload of honey, weighing 30.000 lbs., was 

 shipped from this city Monday to Hamblin & 

 Bearss. of Kansas City. This vast amount of 

 sweetness was purchased in Weld and Lar- 

 imer Counties, and represented about 83000. 



Greeley. Col., Oct. 26. Theo. V. Jessvp. 



HOTEL BATES AT ALBANY. 



Inclosed I send you names of hotels for the 

 accommodation of those attending the N. A. B. 

 K. A. to be held in Agricultural Hall. Albany, 

 N. Y. : 



Globe Hotel. 82.00 per day. 



American Hotel. 82.00 per day. 



Cox Brotht-rs, No. 4 Williams St., 81.00 per 

 dav (temperance house). 



W. H. Keeler. 4SS Broadway, European plan. 

 Rooms, .50. 75 cents. 81.00. 



Kimball House. (39 Washington St.. 81.00. 



Merchants" Hotel. 497 Broadway, 82.00. 



I. Keeler. Restaurant. 56 State St. 



Odel Restaurant. 94 State St. 



Thos. Pierce. Committee. 



Gansevoort, N. Y., Oct. 31. 



CLEOMELLA ANGUSTIFOLIA. 



I have a pretty plant from W. Z. Frazier, 

 Carrizo Springs. Texas, that interests me. Mr. 

 F. says this is a very valuable bee-plant. It 

 blooms in May and continues till frost. The 

 bees, he states, are wild after it. He adds that 

 they have had a very dry year, so that all oth- 

 er plants have failed to produce honey; but 

 this has done admirably w<^ll. He thinks it 

 does best in a drouth. He thinks that, but for 

 this plant, the bees would have starved. This 

 pretty plant is CleomcUa (imixtstifolia. We 

 see that the very name is suggestive. Cieome 

 and mella make us think of Rocky Mountain 

 bee-plant and honey at same breath. This 

 plant belongs to the same small family that 

 contains spider-plant and Cleoine integrifoUu, 

 or Rocky Mountain bee-plant; caper family; 

 capparidnce<r. The name, the family, the fact 

 that it gives a good honey crop when all else 

 falls, and that it seems to do best in a drouth, 

 are all points of interest. Will it grow north? 

 Will It hold its own? Will it bloom so long? 

 Will it yield nectar in any and every season? 

 We have arranged to trv it here at the station. 



Ag"l College, Mich., Oct. 14. A. J. Cook. 



PUTTING CANDY IN THE WRONG ENT) OF THE 

 BENTON cage; THE PROPER WAY TO^ 



PUT BEES IN THE CAGE. C=) 



::I have received two queens from different 

 parties in the Benton cage, and the candy was 

 in the opposite end from the hole with the cork, 

 and I had to lift the wire and put candy in that 

 end to introduce by your plan. Should not the 

 shipper put the candy in that end? if not, what 

 is the use of the directions as they are? 

 Stark, Mich. Ben.j. Passage. 



[Most assuredly the candy should be in the 

 cork end of the cage. That end is paraffined, 

 as explained in Gleanings, to prevent the 

 candy from hardening. The directions on. the 

 cover specify which end the candy is to be. 

 The parties mentioned probably did not know 

 how to get bees in the cage except through the 

 small hole through which the bees eat out the 

 candy. We always tack the wire cloth down 

 except over the end hole opposite from the 

 candy end. To put the bees in we simply turn 

 the wire cloth over in such a way that the fold 

 covers half ot the hole. The thumb then acts 



