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GLEANINGS IN BEE CUETUilE. 



Aug. 



Friend Roof;— The smoker arrived, and I am well 

 pleased with it. As soon as it came I smoked the 

 bees simply to sec it work, and I tell you it makes 

 them "git furder" every time. Henry Wauu. 



Bufifalo Shoals, Wayne Co., W. Va., June 27, ISSl. 



A POUND OF BEES, AND A HYBRID QUEEN IN .JULY. 



I bought of you last July one hybrid queen and a 

 pound of bees, which have their cap full of honey, 

 and during last month have thrown off six complete 

 swarms that are doing well. K. W. McFahland. 



Paulton, Westmoreland Co., Pa., July 7, 1881. 



I wintered 11 stocks of bees without loss. They 

 were well filled with buckwheat honey. I covered 

 them with the hulls of oats. They were placed side 

 by side, with a runway for them to go out at will; 

 all came out strong, and that in this climate, some- 

 times below »5 degrees below zero, and hardly any 

 thaw for three months. C. Neads. 



Lindsay, Ont., Can., July 5, 1881. 



This has been a poor season for honey so far. I 

 wintered .58 ctilonies, packed on their summer staflds, 

 and did not lose any; but it has been so wet and 

 cold that they are not getting much honey. 



A. AV. Smith. 



Parksville, SuU. Co., N. Y., July 4, 1881. 



[Guess you wrote that before the basswood came, 

 did you not, friend S.?] 



Bees are doing well. The loss was 7 per cent in 

 wintering. They are now filling 3 or 4 stories of 

 Simplicity hives with white-clover honey. White 

 clover is yielding more honey than it has for the 

 last 4 years. I have :J0 stands which I have win- 

 tered. I had tiO last fall; I sold some of them, and 

 fed 50 dollars' worth of sugar. II. F. Carpenter. 



Polo, Ogle Co., 111., June 21, 1881. 



I have just received notice of a shipment of 24 lbs. 

 of bees to Ontario, Canada, with "not a cupful 

 dead." Am I not improving? G. W. Gates. 



Bartlett, Tenu., June 23, 1881. 



[Well, I think you are, fiiend G.,audlamglad of it, 

 too, for I should feel very sad if I thought no one 

 else but ourselves could ship bees by the pound safe- 

 ly every time.] 



It is too bad that the red-clover queen died. I 

 wanted to get another daughter from her. The one 

 I got last summer proved very good stock; her bees 

 at this time work as much on red as on white clover. 

 I wintered 8 out of 21 colonies outdoors iu chaff and 

 sawdust packing; the Italians stoxid it better than 

 the blacks. Aua. J. Hintz. 



Lemont, Cook Co., 111., June 20, 1881. 



A POUND OF BEES IN MAY. 



Bees that I got of you in the spring are doing well. 

 We got what started three colonies, and we now 

 have eight doing well. We put them in hives that 

 the bees died in last winter, and that gives them a 

 good chance. Accept thanks. H. Lewis. 



Muneie, Ind., July 12, 1881. 



[Do you not see how it works, friends? Friend L. 

 had three tested queen.*, with a pound of bees and a 

 frame of brood each, the 10th of May.] 



grape sugar in the SOUTH. 



You know that barrel of grape sugar I got of you? 

 Well, I have a little of it yet, and I will get more 

 when it is out. I am not afraid to feed it to my bees 

 in candy made like your recipe. I have fed nearly 

 a whole barrel away, and I don't think I have lost 



any bees by it, but it has raised lots of them. By 

 using it I have got some of the nicest queens and 

 gentlest bees I ever saw. I very often look through 

 them without smoke, and do not get stung once. 



T. G. Wallace. 

 Stone Mountain, Ga., June 4, 1881. 



CYPRIAN and holy-land BEE.S. 



My Cyprian and Holy-Land colonies are ahead. I 

 think I never saw a better queen than the $1.00 

 Cyprian I got of you last season. They get out ear- 

 lier and work later than any colony that I have. 

 Holy-Land colony is \ery prolific, good honey gath- 

 erers, but very cross. Which are the better sale, 

 Italian or Holy-Land queens? 



F. J. Wakdell. 



Uriehsville, Tusc. Co., O., June 6, If 81. 



ROBBED BEES GOING HOME WITH THE UOBBEKS. 



I will help you answer Doolittle. In two instances 

 I have noticed the remaining bees in a robbed colo- 

 ny come into my apiary in the form of a swarm, and 

 take quarters with their victors; and in both in- 

 stances they were attacked and nearly all killed. 

 This happened once in the fall and once in spring, 

 and both times my neighbor came chasing his swarm 

 of bees. D. AVhite. 



New London, Huron Co., Ohio, June 1, 1880. 



Last ye.ir I had a colony of bees come to me in my 

 dooryard,and I did not know what else to do with 

 them, other than to liiv them. They wintered 

 through nicely, and have sent off two colonies (or 

 swarms) already. I shall ha-\e to get rid of them, or 

 read up and see what I can do with them. Can you 

 give me light on the subject? S. B. M,\ktin. 



Onawa, Monona Co., Iowa, .1 me 24, 1881. 



[Accept them as a gift of God's own sending, 

 friend M., and care for them accordingly.] 



fastening in foundation; a new tool for the 

 business. 



About fastening fdn. in brood-frames. I think 

 that your No. cast hammer is the best thing; use 

 the claw end rubbed in a little honey. It works 

 them down very nicelj'. Some of my hives have 

 bo.xes nearly full of comb and honey, but what is 

 it made of ? They work very little on white clover. 



E. n. Hanford. 



Wakeman, Ohio, June 27, 1881. 



SENDING BEES TO OREGON. 



The queen, in the three-frame nucleus I got from 

 you, is laying all right now; but please make sure to 

 put enough provisions with the queen j-ou send 

 now, for I am sure, if those bees had missed the 

 steamer in San Francisco, and had to wait for the 

 next one (five more days), that they would have all 

 died; but as it is, they are doing well now. 



Will True. 



Astoria, Clatsop Co., Oregon, June 20, 1881. 



FIRST ITALIAN.S WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI. 



I see, by May Gleanings, that some one in Cali- 

 fornia claims the credit of bringing the first Ital- 

 ians we?t of the Mississippi Kiver. I believe that I 

 brought the first Italians west of the Ohio Kiver. 

 Aug, 1st, 18ti0. I received an Italian queen of J. P. 

 Mahan, of Phil;i., he having imported 3 stands, 

 about three months in advance of the Parson 

 bees, of Long Island, imported by the C S. We 

 claim no vrclit, or lionor. Who else will make the 

 claim of prior date? Jesse Oren, M. D. 



La Porte City, Black Hawk Co., la., June 14, 1881. 



