1899 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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failure of it. Come west, young man; here is 

 the right kind, and fishing that you can tie to. 



We think we are doing the appropriate 

 thing in Southern California when we have a 

 bee-keeper by the name of Honey ; but here 

 in the northwest portion of Oregon there is a 

 town named Apiary ; also a man bearing the 

 same name. I wanted to get out to that place 

 to find if they were properly joined to a bee- 

 apiary; but if you had seen the water drip off 

 my hat-brim you'd have given it up just as I 

 did. I was fortunate, though, to stumble 

 upon an honest German bee keeper who seem- 

 ed willing to impart information upon the 

 resources of the country, and we had quite a 

 little convention. 



" Yes, I vas a bee-keeper," said he; "I lifes 

 out in Yamhill Co. I hafs one liddle ranch of 

 sixdy acres. I hafs brunes, cherries, vruits 

 all kindts, unt I hafs veat ; my ranch vas 

 brosberous, so much more so than any oder 

 ranch." 



" But," asked I, " did your bees prosper? " 



" I dells you; my veat vas the best yieldt in 

 Yamhill Co. Eferybody ven they saw dot 

 veat they shoost stopped in der middle of der 

 dracks, unt said it vas shoost vonderful." 



" Was your wheat-field the only one in that 

 vicinity? " said I. 



" No, mine frient ; eferybody has veat ; but 

 you must know how to raise veat. It vas my 

 blan to blou deep ; den ven de veat gomes a 

 leedle up I puts a harrow ofer it. Eferybody 

 say dot olt Tuchman cot crazy mit his head, 

 but I ton't. It is so vet here somedimes dot 

 de verns shoke de veat ; blou deep, unt har- 

 row, unt de veat crows like eferydings, unt de 

 verns don't crow." 



" But how about your bees? " asked I again. 



"Yes, dose pees. I had ofer one huntret 

 svarms ven I lifed in Michigan. I had some- 



dimes seex tousant pounts of honeys. I made 

 some moneys. Michigan vas one goot State 

 for pees." 



" But how is it here in Oregon for bees? " 

 asked I. 



"My frient, it is too vet; somedimes the 

 pees make goot zweet honeys, but it is too vet, 

 too vet. Ven I lifed in Michigan I could prag 

 apout my pees all tay long, und my vrow 

 could prag all night, so ve praged all de time 



apout de pees ; but ve prag here apout our 

 veat unt our brunes. No, it vas too vet here 

 to prag apout pees." 



I regretted very much that I could not meet 

 a bee-keeper here who could " prag " about 

 his bees. I think there are plenty of them, 

 and I shall have to try Oregon again when 

 the weather is not so wet. 



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QUESTIONS 



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"PROOF OF THE PUDDING IN THE EATING." 



Question. — I use the Gallup frames, or at 

 least supposed I was using that frame, till I 

 read what Mr. Chas. Dadant has to say on 

 pages 257 and 258 of Gleanings for April 1 . 

 Since reading his article I am not so sure what 

 kind of frame I do have. The frame I have 

 always called the Gallup is lO^xlO^ inches, 

 inside measure, which figures out 1153^ square 

 inches of comb to the frame. And as ' ' Uang- 

 stroth on the Hive and Honey-bee," as revised 

 by Chas. Dadant and Son, gives, on page 40 of 

 that book, 55 as the correct number of cells to 

 the square inch of comb, I figure that one of 

 my combs contains 6366 cells in place of the 

 4600 given on page 258 of Gleanings ; while 

 nine such frames would give 57,294 cells in- 

 stead of 41,400, as Mr. Dadant gives, or more 

 than one-third more than he allows. What is 

 the trouble ? Am I not using the Gallup 

 frame? or does Mr. Dadant make a mistake in 

 figuring? 



Answer. — If the questioner has "The Bee- 

 keepers' Guide, or Manual of the Apiary," by 

 A. J. Cook, and will turn to page 191, he will 

 find the dimensions of all of the frames in 

 general use, with cuts of the same. The size 

 of the Gallup frame, as there given, is 11 %X 

 \\ x /i inches, outside measure, and as Prof. 

 Cook says such frames are made of stuff % 

 inch thick, it will be seen that the questioner 

 has given the right inside dimensions of the 

 Gallup frame, on the authority of Prof. Cook, 

 and as Gallup used to give it, which is the 

 same I use. I can not see any flaw in the 

 questioner's figures, hence can only come to 

 the conclusion that Bro. Dadant is ignorant 

 regarding the size of the Gallup frame, or 

 thought to make a stronger case by being un- 

 fair with what he placed before the readers of 

 this journal. I can hardly believe the former, 

 and would suppose that he would realize that 

 the latter would only tend to injure his case, 

 for such a course gives credence to the idea 

 that all of the rest of his arguments and state- 

 ments may be as erroneous as this one is; and, 

 if so, the whole of his logic is based on false 

 premises, which can not give stability to the 

 structure he is trying to build. Mr. Dadant 

 tells us he "noticed that a queen lays about 

 six eggs a minute, 360 an hour, and 3600 in 

 10 hours, 75,000 in 21 days." This figuring is 

 about on a par with that about the Gallup 



