1881 



GLEAININGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



99 



GIEAWIWC S m BEE CULTURE* 



-A.. I. I^OOT, 

 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, 



MEDINA, O. 



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 OF READISG MATTER. 



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Finally, by brethren, be stroiig- in the Lord, and in 

 the power of lii3 might.— Eph. 6:10. 



"We have now 3563 subscribers, which is 921 more 

 than we had last month. Thank you. 



Look after your bees, and don't let them die; they 

 will probably be scarce and high in price in the 

 spring. 



Fkiend Deworlh has consented to have the price 

 of his mamirel put at $2. .50, as I sugg-ested lust 

 month, instead vt $2. 75, and therefore $2..50 is the 

 price. 



Our friends will see by our price lists, that we 

 have succeeded in getting a reduced price on the 

 Simonds saws that enables us to place them as low, 

 or lower, than the common saws usually found at 

 your hardware stores. 



Did you ever! We have just receired from the 

 manufacturers a solid cast-steel adze-eje hammer, 

 weighing 1 lb. 5 oz., that we can sell for only 35 cts. 

 The hammer is exactly like the T,")-cent one; only the 

 polish is not quite as good. If wanted by mail, post- 

 age will be 21 cents. 



We have added to our printing-ollice a tine new 

 TJnlversal printing-press, especially for printing let- 

 ter-heads, postal cards, bill-heads, etc. For speci- 

 mens of our work, see the stationery we are now 

 using. We shall next month have small job print- 

 ing added to our counter store. 



•WHOfjESALE PRICES ON COMB FOTTNDATIOV. 



In answer to many inquiries in regard to the above, 

 I would remind our friends that Inasmuch as fdn. is 

 offered in quantities for 35c, while the wax itself is 

 25c, there is no chance for awholesale price. If you 

 wish to sell fdn., you must buy a mill or machine for 

 making it. 



Several friends have asked us to keep their 

 names going, and they would remit soon. Well, 

 when they remitted they sent it to Doolittle, with- 

 out saying a word to us. Do yon not see, friends, 

 how this '• makes troubles come"? Nobody has au- 

 thorized you to send money to friend D. that you are 

 owing us. 



OUR OWN BEES ? 



Well,, the most of them are wintering finely under 

 the snow-drifts. Some of those in the house apiary 

 are dyin < badly with the dysentery. Very likely it is 

 because the snow-drifts can not cover them up, and 

 because the hives do not get warmed up by the sun 

 and dried ovit by the winds, as do the chaff hives. If 

 you haven't got a house apiary, don't builJ one. 



When any watch is first wound, it frequently 

 needs a little shaking to start it, and especially is 

 this the case with the Waterbury watches, owing to 

 the nature of their peculiar escapement. I say 

 shaking, but it would be more proper to say " twirl- 

 ing." Several have returned their watches, saying 

 they would not " go " when wound, but it was only 

 because they did not start them. One came clear 

 back from California. 



Our friend Oliver Foster has made very decided 

 Improvements in making fdn. We can hardly say 

 by the dipping process, for he doesn't dip his plate's 

 at all; he, on the contrary, dips the wax on to the 

 plates. The plates arc kept constantly in water, or, 

 rather, partially submerged in it. He sent us excel- 



lent samples of full-sized sheets, and I have ordered 

 a machine. A full explanation, with drawings, will 

 be given next month. I need not say that any thing 

 coming from friend F. is free to all. 



THE PEET cage. 



We have decided to adopt, for the coming season, 

 the Peet cage, with the water-bottle omitted. The 

 candy of which friend Viallon gave us the formulae 

 on page 427, Sept. No. for last year, has answered so 

 well that we have decided to adopt it. at least for 

 the present. I/CSt it may be thought we are 

 appropriating friend Feet's cage without permission 

 or recognition, I will state that I have paid him 

 $25.00 for his invention— not that he did not give it 

 freely to you all, but that he accepted the gift as a 

 token of our appreciation of his services. I think 

 we all owe him a vote of thanks besides. Do I not 

 hear a second? All you who wish to tender thanks to 

 friend Peet for his excellent shipping and introduc- 

 ing cage, as well as to friend Nellis for his zeal in 

 bringing it so thoroughly before the public, please 

 say — '• Ay I " I shan't offer any " contrary." 



WaAT TO DO WITH COMBS FROM WHICH THE BEES 

 HAVE DIED. 



I PRESUME I shall have to keep repeating, every 

 spring, that combs and honey from which bees have 

 died are excellent for new swarms, or even for put- 

 ting a pound of bees and queen on, before new 

 swarms come. A great part of thQ ABC class (and 

 some others?) will have hives with the bees all dead 

 every spring: and from reports, I think there will 

 be an unusual number this spring. The hives may 

 stand right where they are, if you are careful to 

 close them up, so that no bees can possibly get in 

 and carry off the honey left, as soon as they begin 

 to fly. When it gets warm, it will be well to lift out 

 the combs and brush out the bees; then you can set 

 them back, and let them remain until you are ready 

 to put more bees on them. Don't let any robbers 

 get In, and you will be all right. If you have not 

 got bees on all the combs by May or June, you will 

 have to keep a little watch, and see that the moth 

 miller does not get to working on them. The combs 

 filled with stores are worth half the price of a hive 

 of live bees, on an average. There is going to be a 

 great call for bees by the pound in the spring, and 

 our friends in the South should be able to do a nice 

 trade on them early in the season. The fact of the 

 bees having died on these combs will not hurt them 

 a particle for use in the summer time, not even if 

 they died with the worst kind of dysentery, but they 

 may not be well to use for another winter. Get ail 

 svich stores used up in rearing bees and brood. 



Under this head will be inserted, free of charge, the names of 

 all those having honey to sell, as well as those wanting to buy. 

 Please mention how much, what kind, and prices, as far as pos- 

 sible. As a general thing. I would not advise you to send vour 

 honey away to be sold on commission. IE near home, wnei'e 

 you can look after it. it is often a very good way. Bvall means, 

 develop your home market. For 2d cents we can furnish little 

 boards to hang up in your dooi-yard, with the words, ' ' Honey 

 for Sale, " neatly painted. If wanted by mail, 10 cents extra for 

 postage. Boards Baying ' ' Bees and liueens for Sale, ' ' same 

 p 'ice. 



I have for sale one barrel of nice white granulated 

 linden honey for sale at 10 cents per pound, includ- 

 ing barrel. Nathaxiel Murhay. 



Ada, Hardin Co., O. 



T have for sale 700 lbs. good honey, gathered from 

 fall flowers, in one 22-gal. keg; the rest in 2-gal. tin 

 honey-pails, at 1,3c per lb., money in advance. We 

 will dcli\er on board cars. $1 50 extra for keg; cans, 

 25c apiece extra. Dayid Kirk. 



Columbus, Chex-okec Co., Kansas. 



I have 4 barrels of light extracted honey, clover 

 and basswood mixed. Barrels iron bound, painted, 

 and waxed; will sell for 9!ic on cars here. 



F. K. Johnson. 



Box 354, Union City, Branch Co., Mich. 



I ha\-€ about 1000 lbs. section and 1000 lbs. extract- 

 ed white clover and linden honey for sale. 



H. R. BOARDMAN. 



East Townsend, Huron Co., O., Jan. 26, 1881. 



