1881 



GLEANOGS IX BEE CULTURE. 



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what does that hum of joy mean? why, honey from 

 somewhere, and I must find out from whence it 

 comes * * * * from red clover! and how they 

 do work! August lOih. still at work, and one hive 

 has sent out a rousing- swarm. I gave them i combs, 

 containing brood in all stages; 4 frames filled with 

 fdn., and 2 empty frames, and also 48 one-pound 

 boxes. August 20th, still hard at work on iron-weed, 

 boneset, goldenrod, and buckwheat. September 

 10th, Jack Frost settled the business on short notice. 

 Itesult: 12 hives last spring, 22 at present, with 

 abundant supplies for winter, with about 30O lbs. 

 surplus. My August swarm filled ten American 

 frames and 20 one-pound sections. November I'Jth, 

 bees all in good winter trim, I think. This morning 

 the thermometer indicated 10° below zero. I peeped 

 into a hive, and found the outside of a cluster mov- 

 ing about, and concluded I have them in very good 

 shape. I will tell you next spring how I succeeded 

 in wintering them, and how manj' section boxes I 

 want. S. H. L.iNE. 



Whitestown, Boone Co., Ind., Nov. 19, 1880. 



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DAILY YIELD. 



f' TOLD you last month that I had under 

 way a scale that I thought would meet 

 — ' all requirements. It was made by our 

 great scale man, Chatillon, and will weigh 

 from i lb. up to 128 lbs. One of them is now 

 in the office, and, by setting it on the floor, 

 we can weigh the girls (the most of them) as 

 fast as they can step on and step off from the 

 platform. Of course, it will weigh boys too, 

 providing they do not weigh over 128 lbs. In 



off the tare, much the same as the Family 

 Favorite scales, and a small screw just un- 

 derneath this quickly adjusts the scales, if it 

 ever gets out of adjustment. These scales 

 are very nicely made, and I do not know but 

 they are just as reliable as a beam scale, al- 

 though there was a prejudice against them 

 before the recent great improvements were 

 made. The screw mentioned will take off 

 tare to the amount of 25 lbs., and the makers 

 say they can make them to take off still more, 

 if desired; so you see we can set the dial to 

 show just the weight of the bees and honey 

 if need be. 



J3y a little figuring, you can get the weiglit 

 of an article weighing 150 lbs., for the 25 lbs. 

 tare will make a little over that amount; but 

 of course the pointer will not point it out as 

 readily as it does any thing less than 128 lbs. 

 The scale can not be injured by an over- 

 strain, because the platform strikes the cast- 

 ings after it has been loaded doAvn to the 150 

 lbs. or thereabouts I have mentioned. The 

 smallest divisions on the dial are ilbs.; but 

 with practice we can get at even 2 oz. pretty 

 accurately, so it will answer for all practical 

 purposes for weighing honey. As the whole 

 machine is only 83 lbs. in weight, it can be 

 readily lifted by its convenient handles from 

 floor to counter, and vice versa, as occasion 

 may require. 



There is a dial and pointer on each side, so 

 if you are in any part of the apiary, or even 

 off quite a distance, you can tell at a glance 

 what the bees are doing. Now, as these 

 scales cost me $11.50 at the factory, I can 

 not well sell them, after paying freights, for 

 less than 814.00, and I belieVethe usual price 



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fact, it will exactly weigh me with coat mid 

 hat off, as I work at the type-writer. Where 

 a great many things are to be weighed, such 

 as hives of bees, or boxes of honey, etc., it 

 will weigh them as fast as we can readily set 

 the weights down with a book and pencil. 

 Above, we give a cut of the same. 



The scalehas a marble platform that can 

 be used, when not wanted in the apiary, to 

 set a hive on. This marble slab is neat and 

 convenient ; for if you let a little honey drip 

 on it, it can be quickly cleaned with a damp 

 cloth; also in weighing any kinds of food or 

 vegetables, you will not need to get a paper 

 to lay on flrst, to keep the edibles from being 

 soiled. A screw at the left of the dial takes 



IS d5.vju. This suni IS quite nil iteui,! know, 

 especially for those of us who are in the 

 Blasted Hopes department; and if they 

 were to be used for no other purpose than to 

 set a hive of bees on in the summer time, I 

 should hardly feel like recommending them; 

 but, my friends. I do not believe there is one 

 of you but would save a great part of the 

 price of this scale, if you made it a point to 

 measure and weigh every bit of merchandise 

 you purchase during the year, and insist on 

 having full weight and measure every time. 

 I want you to do the same with me. and I 

 expect "to do the same with you. Let us 

 check each other, and have every thing right 

 every time. 



