1881 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUEE. 



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Feb., and have continued, with a few days' excep- 

 tion, to the present time. 



CAN A QUEEN REARKD IN THE FALL BE FERTILIZED 

 IN THE SPRING? 



I thought you said young queens, wintered over 

 before laying in the fall, would be drone-layers and 

 worthless? Now, the two queers above alluded to 

 are truly an exception, for I would not take to-day 

 $5.00 for one of them; if she continues laying at the 

 rate she is now, she will have her hive cltuck full of 

 bees in three weeks more. The peach, plum, apri- 

 cot, and almond trees are blooming. The red elm has 

 been in bloom ever since the 1st of Feb. I look for 

 a large inci-ease of bees this spring, and am prepar- 

 ing to increase my little apiary to 50 hives, which 

 will keep me busy, and cultivate 7 acres in corn, 5 in 



cotton, 5 in honey-plants, and one in potatoes, and 14 

 acre in garden truck, with 5 acres in fruit-trees, to 

 plow over three times, and 100 Simp, hives to make, 

 and 60 acres of oats to sow this and next week ; so 

 you see I have my hands full. B. F. Carroll. 



Dresden, Navarro Co., Texas, March 1, 1881. 



Glad to hear yon are prospering, friend C. 

 My remarks you allude to were to the eifect 

 that no queen that goes into winter-quar- 

 ters, unfertilized in the fall, can ever be fer- 

 tilized in the spring, for the simple reason 

 that she will have passed the age when fer- 

 tilization is possible. In your warm climate, 

 where bees may fly every montli in the win- 

 ter, it would, of course, be quite a different 

 matter. 



A SCOTTISH APIARY. 



OUR BEE FKIENDS IN SCOTIjAND. 



A PEEP INTO A COSY BEE-GARDEN, AWAY ACROSS 

 THE WATER. 



fJjRIEND ROOT:— Enclosed find photo of a Scots- 

 man's apiary — 34 hives huddled together in a 

 — ' small cahbage-garden, right in a small town. 

 The owner, Peter Alexander, is a journeyman shoe- 

 maker in rather poor health, but he hopes soon to 

 be able to give up his unhealthy trade and live by 

 his bees. He gets Gleanings, and will be mightily 



pleased to have you just mention his photo. Many 

 of his hives are very expensive ones, $15.00 and over, 

 but they are his pride. His town is called Kirrie- 

 muir, in the county of Forfar. Wm. Raitt. 



Blairgowrie, Scotland, Dec. 31, 1880. 



Many thanks, friend Eaitt, and you just 

 tell friend Peter that, if I mistake not, there 

 are more than one whose eyes rest on the 

 beautiful picture above, who are mightily 

 pleased at the view he has given us. Why ! 

 one almost feels like walking up and shaking 

 hands, not only with Peter, who stands with 



