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GLEANINCiS IN HPiE CULTURK. 



511 



Heads of Grain 



FROM DIFFERENT FIELDS. 



A TOOI, FOK AV1KI.\« FRAMKS. 



If tiioso who art" wiriiitr frann's by tlio Kcpiicy 

 plan, ami liavc uo small iilitTs, will niaUo ii 

 nook of stilT w ire. jiisi lariii> ctioiigh to slip over 



tlit> nails, ami tit it into a suitable luindlc. 1 am 

 suiv they will be plca.sod. as the hooks can be 

 ft)rmt'd rapidly and easily. 



HOFFMAN FKAMKS VVT TOGETHER WRONG. 



The above diagram shows how HoflFman 

 frames may be put up with the V's on opposite 

 sides, and vet be wrona when placed in the hive. 



Reeds Coineis. ^'. Y. Jame.s Roat. 



[Yes. the Hoffman frames can be nailed togeth- 

 er wrong: but to prevent this, our catalogue, 

 and also the jxinled matter accompanying the 

 frames in the Hat. warn against the mistake, 

 and tell how to put the frames together so that 

 the V edge will always came next to a square 

 edge. Th(! shai'p edge should always point 

 Unnird you. and next to the left thumb, when 

 the frame is suspendi-d by both forefingers.] 



death of an oi.i) bee-keeper. 



Will you kindly announce the death, on May 

 :.*t)lh. at 4 .v. m.. of our esteemed friend Mi'. Oluf 

 Olson, of this place? Mr. Olson, at the time of 

 his death, was about 40 years of age. He was 

 born in Sweden, but canie to America some 22 

 years ago. After visiting and stopi)ing a while 

 in Memphis. St. Louis, ami Cincinnati, he set- 

 lied in Springlield. O. Fnim thej-e he came to 

 Florida, and has been in this State about 11 

 years, though one winter was spent in Cuba 

 assisting Mr. O. O. Poppleton in caring for an 

 apiary there. He was an a|)ianst by occupa- 

 tion: "was well skilled in the different branches 

 of the business, and has nuide some tine records 

 here. Yet he was an exceptionally modest 

 man. and talk<>d but little of iiis successes. His 

 last sickness was brought on by overwork in 

 his line of business: but. though failing for 

 some weeks, his sufferings were not particularly 

 severe, nor had he apparently any fear of death. 



Hawks Park. Fla., June i). "\V. S. Hart. 



sealed covers and absorbents in Tin; 

 ceij.ar. 



I see on page 'iCu you want testimony on win- 

 tering bees in cellar with tight bottoms and 

 sealed covers on. Last fall I put my bees in the 

 cellar just the same as they were in the yard. 

 To make sure most of them were tight. I set 

 one tier of hives with a wide hoard iiiniiing 

 lengthwise of them: then another tiei' of hives 

 (m top. This weight on top would make the 

 lower ones very tight, and they were new hiv(!S. 

 Now. every one of those colonies came out in 

 No.] shape; and I like it so well that all my 

 bees will go in in that way this fall. I winter 

 under my house, and I had more light in the 



cellar this wintei' tiiaii evei' before. I find it 

 made no difference. I set my bees facing the 

 wall, lower tier about a foot from the ground. 

 1 lind the most essential point is to have plenty 

 of bees and stores in the hives. I have also 

 found it does not pay to bother with small weak 

 colonies that are short of stoiH^s — better be 

 united and fed up, as one good swarm is worth 

 a dozen poor ones. 



In conclusion I will say there will be thou- 

 sands of i)ouiids of honey this season for all if 

 it will only stoj) r-aining long enough for the 

 bees to get out. The harvest will come with a 

 iiish w hen it does come. W. D. Soi'ER. 



Jackson, Mich., May 19. 



AirriFICIAI. HONEY. 



Well merited was the fine of SUM) recently 

 imposed ujjon a man in New Hampshire, con- 

 victed of .selling artilicial honey. Now "trot 

 out" the man who "manufactures artificial 

 combs and fills them with artificial honey.'' if 

 he can be found. He is talk(>d about a gi'eat 

 deal: the editui' of th(^ vl. Ti. /. has diligentlv 

 sought him. but his location or a sample of his 

 artificial comb honey the vigilant editor has 

 not yet been able to find. If a Chicago man 

 can make artificial comb honey, a Chicago 

 editor is smai't enough to find him out. 



It can't be that Mr. Newman is after the JilOOO 

 that has been offered for one pound of artificial 

 comb honey. No, he is after the scalp of the 

 fellow that keeps up the ceaseless reiteration 

 of the '"Wiley pleasantly." Mr. N. applies a 

 stronger term usually. The story may have 

 started as a "pleasanti'y," but we can't any 

 longer call it a pleasantry. It is neither pleas- 

 ant nor tiue, and is too serious a "chestnut" to 

 be denominated any thing but a '" lie." If it 

 were true, does anybody believe ttiat the sum 

 of one thousand dollars would remain unclaim- 

 ed for vears? — Wisajnshi Farmer. 



HONEY IN WHITEWOOD-BLOSS<JMS. 



Yes, friend Root (for I feel that I can call you 

 friend since readingtln^ A li C), thatwhitewood- 

 tree you climbi d. if you had taken someof those 

 large buds just as they were opening you would 

 have found the honey ready made that you 

 could have gathei'ed as well as thi^ Iwes. When 

 a boy I have climbed the old poplar-tree to get 

 the honey from its buds. You are right in say- 

 ing that the bud will yield sometimes a tea- 

 spoonful of honey. B. L. INIaddkn. 



Sago. O.. June IJ^ 



A .SHORT TALK FROM FATHER LANGSTUOTU. 



What splendid weather I but, '"Oh. how un- 

 comfortably hot!" ci\y out so many. Well, if we 

 had real comfortable weather, as we usually 

 have in summer weather in (ii'eat HritaitK the 

 could never ripen a bushel of Indian corn. 



Dayton, Ohio. June 1(5. L. L. LangstrotH. 



I'ROF. WEBSTER, OF THE OHIO EXPERIMENT 

 .STATION, AND HIS BAD ADVICE. 



There is an article in the Oliio Fanner of 

 June 4. page 4:27. entitled " Hees and vSpraying." 

 by Fiof. F. M. Webster, of the Ohio Experiment 

 Station, that I think needs some correcting, and 

 it should be done in the same paper it was orig- 

 inally published in. I'lof. Uebster takes ex- 

 ceptions to an article published in (Ji.eanings. 

 entitled ".Spraying Fruit-trees whih; in Hloom," 

 and tries to make out that spraying while trees 

 ai'e in bloom will not injure bec^s. There is too 

 much such stuff simU out by our scientific (?) 

 men. and I think it should be answered by those 

 best posted, in the best and ablest manner pos- 

 sible. J. S. Barb. 



Oakfield. Trumbull Co., O., June 10. 



[Pi'of. Cook is the one to answer the above.] 



