1881 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



391 



have been saved had the friends kept open 

 the breathing-passage to the windpipe, by 

 mechanical means. I would suggest the 

 use of the handle of a silver spoon for this 

 purpose, or, perhaps, two spoons used in the 

 same way. The swelling usually goes down 

 in a short time. Can our medical friends 

 suggest any thing better to be done, where 

 the breath threatens to be stopped? 



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I?ei'taliiiiig to Bee Culture. 



We n/spfctfiiUv solicit tlic niil of our fiifiuls in (.•oniliirtiiig 

 this (Icpartiiiciil. and wc.ulil ci.nsidcr it a favor lo liavi- tlii-m 

 sfiiil us all ciriMilars that have a dprcjitivc apiicaiatii-c. The 

 li'roatest care will be at all times maintained to prevent injustice 

 being: done any one. 



fJjHERE Is a man hpre claiming to have a patent 

 on the N. C. MitcheU adjustable bee-hive. He 

 ""^ claims that no other person has the right to 

 use any division-board except by buying a farm 

 right. Is it so, or is it not so? L. E. Miller. 



Honey Grove, Fannin Co., Tex., May 16, 1881. 



Had you read Gleanings; friend M.. you 

 would have known this is an old, old sivi)i- 

 dk. ^litchell has l)een for years published 

 as a liumbug. 



I sent N. C. Mitchell, of Indianapolis, Ind., an order 

 and five dollars for one of his Italian queen bees, 

 model hive, farm right, etc. It has been two months, 

 and he has not sent me the bee yet. As he knows so 

 much about you, I guess you iinow some thing of 

 him. Please let me know what you think of him. I 

 expect to patronize you soon, as N. C. Mitchell will 

 not do. M. C. DOHMOiV. 



WiUiamsville, S. C , July 2, 1881. 



I told our readers, years ago, that money 

 sent JNlitchell was, as far as I knew, like pour- 

 ing water into a tunnel. It was gone, the 

 minute it was out of your hands. 1 am sor- 

 ry to say he is in the ''tunnel business" 

 still, judging by the reports we have given 

 almost monthly, of those who have sent him 

 money. 



Two years ago I happened to get hold of some of 

 N. C Mitchell's writings. I thought he was .just the 

 man I wanted. He claimed to be a heavy dealer in 

 Italian bees; so myself and a neighbor concluded to 

 send for the Italian bees, because wo wanted them 

 badly. So we sent an order of .f u'H.OO, and never re- 

 ceived a single bee, nor do we c\er e.vpect to. This 

 is the way I have been rol^bed by N. C. Mitchell, of 

 Indianapolis, Indiana. Peteh Shokm.vkkk. 



(fichrantou, Crawford Co , Pa . June 10, 1><81. 



Mitchell's customers curse him loud and strong. 

 One of the (jueens I order is for a man his agent 

 "sold." Casper Kettering. 



Apollo, Pa., June 22, 1881. 



STARTERS FULl. SIXE OF THE HONEV 



BOXES. ETC. 



*i^Ji?Y bees commenced swarming on the 1st of 

 jl'M'IJ this month. The honey tiow has been good; 

 ' some hives have stored as much as 50 lbs. 

 since the middle of April, chiefly from honey-dew, 

 red clover, and hoarhound. The latter I consider a 



splendid honey-plant. It commences to bloom about 

 the middle of May, and with favorable weather will 

 continue until frost. If I were making bee-keeping 

 a specialty (which I may do some day), I would 

 plant a piece of ground with it; however, I would not 

 advise farmers to get it on their place, as the burrs 

 get in the wool of sheep. It will grow on almost any 

 ground; but it is hard to eradicate from the soil, as 

 it completely takes possession of it. 



My experience is that it don't pay to use starters 

 much less than full size for boxes. Last year I did 

 not get one section out of 3D0 full enough for sale; 

 starters were about ivj inches wide. This year, hav- 

 ing a lot of TO combs, I thought that I would try an- 

 other plan. Last year I had the top story filled with 

 sections. 1 put 7 combs and two frames of sections 

 below, and four combs and four sections above. You 

 see, I was intent on having the honey oneway or the 

 other. One swarm put most of the honey in sec- 

 tions; the other in the frames. I hived one colony 

 in a chaff hive, and on the 1st day of June gave them 

 four combs below and four frames of sections, one 

 of which contained some comb; also another con- 

 tained a starter almost full size. Now, thebees filled 

 the one containing the comb on one side; and on the 

 other side they passed right by the one containing 

 narrow starters, to the outside one containing start- 

 ers full size. On examining them a few days after- 

 ward, I found the other two frames entirely neg- 

 lected, so I got more frames of sections, took out 

 the narrow starters, and put in nearly full-sized 

 ones, lacking but 'i inch of touching the bottom. I 

 raised the two filled sections, placed them in the 

 middle of the hive, the other on each side, and put 

 three more empty combs below. At this date they are 

 working on about 40 sections. All of this fdn. is of 

 your make, one year old. H. T. Hagen. 



DeSoto, Jefferson Co., Mo., June 12, 1881. 



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m WMY PLANTS TO BE NAMED. 



ILE.X DAHOON. 



SEND, by to-day's mail, a small package of 

 flowers, twigs, and leaves, of a tree that grows 

 her(^ on the limestone glades. It grows about 

 20 or 30 feet high, and blooms about the tlrst of July, 

 generally, or about the time white clover is out of 

 bloom. It must be a splendid honey-bush, for the 

 bees work on it from daylight till dark. They call it 

 gimlet-bandle wood here. Please give the right 

 name. You will see that the flowers arc not in full 

 bloom yet. It lasts, generally, about two weeks or 

 a little longer. Aug. Ghikfith. 



St. Mary, St. Gen. Co., Mo., June 10, 1881. 



The leaf of this tree is much like the ap- 

 ple; but the blossom-lnids ar^ little round 

 balls not much larger than pinheads, and 

 they are clustered so closely right where 

 tlie leaves started out, that 1 was tempted 

 to think them eggs of insects. Prof. Ideal's 

 reply below, however, settles the matter. 



This is Ilex DaliDon, Walt., a species of holly. The 

 books give no common name. W. J. Be.\l. 



Agricultural College, Lansing, Mich. 



