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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUEE. 



Nov. 



the regular goods in common use. If your 

 hives were Simplicity or chaff hives, or even 

 some hive that holds the regular L. frame, 

 you would have little trouble in disposing 

 of them at any time. I admit that you have 

 had, so far, but little to encourage you, but 

 I think you will miss it if you dispose of 

 your stock on hand, at a sacrihce. -Tusthold 

 on to your bees, but make up your mind you 

 are going to stop outgoes, at least until they 

 bring something in, and, my word for it, you 

 will soon be in the Smilery, like the many 

 who have gone before you. Stop investing 

 any more money m them, but be quiet, and 

 keep cool. You will find that " blue grass 

 and cattle " have their ups and downs too. 



I will write you a few lines, and tell you about the 

 bees in this part of the country, as 1 have not seen a 

 repoi't from here yet. This is a very poor place for 

 bees. I have kept them for 4 years, and the best 

 season I can get only about 10 lbs. per colony, and 

 some seasons can not get any. Now, you will say, 

 " Why, B., may be you do not understand the busi- 

 Iness," and may be I don't; but I ought to. I have 

 read books enough. I have read Cook's new manu- 

 al, and several others, besides Gleanings nearly a 

 year. It is the poor country— too poor for white 

 clover to do much good. I wintered C colonies with- 

 out loss, but did not get a pound of honey to sell. I 

 think I will quit until I can get in a better location. 

 Now, friend Root, I see by Gleanings that you em- 

 ploy a good many hands. If you can give me em- 

 ployment, I would try my best to please you. 



R. A. Bagshaw. 



New Providence, Ind., Oct. 6, 1881. 



Eriend B., if you will listen to me I am 

 sure you will come out all right. When L 

 commenced here in Medina Co., I was told, 

 just as you have stated it, that it was only 

 the best seasons that bees would give even 

 10 lbs. to the colony. In less than 5 years I 

 had secured over 3U0 lbs. from a single colo- 

 ny. Keep right along and stick to it.— I am 

 constantly overrun with api)lications for 

 places, and the world is full of people want- 

 ing somebody to set them to work. There 

 is work, plenty of it, I feel sure, right where 

 you are. Please do not think me unkind ; 

 but I have had so much experience in this 

 matter, I am sure I am right. Take up any 

 thing you can get hold of, and work so dili- 

 gently, and with such care and energy, that 

 everybody will be wanting you. Work at 

 something evenings, rainy days ; work any 

 way, even if you do not get more than 3 

 cents an hour; stick to it, and very soon you 

 will have all you can do, at prices that tcill 

 pay. 



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SCOTLAND. 



MY bees are working splendidly, and give me, 

 during the very few leisure hours I have 

 from business, immense pleasure. No 

 swarms yet. I have secured a copy of your ABC. 

 Your apiary must be delightful to witness. 



John Main. 

 Doune, Perthshire, Scotland, May 18, 1881. 



HOLY-LAND BEES. 



I have some bees from my Holj'-Land queen, simi- 

 lar to black mud-wasps, only not quite so long. 



J. W. Marshall. 

 Constantine, St. Jo. Co., Mich., Sept. 3, 1881. 



SIDE-STQUING BOXES. 



I have nineteen colonies now in good condition for 

 wintering. I have the Quinby hive. I like the side 

 boxing the best of any thing I ever used in that line. 



(i. G. Kenyon. 



Central Square, Oswego Co., N. Y., Sept. 20, 1881. 



honey from cotton. 



I have some honey stored from cotton bloom, 

 which I think excels any honey I ever tasted, in 

 point of flavor, and is as pleasing to the eye as to the 

 palate. F. N. Wilder. 



Forsyth, G.'?,., Sept. 19, 1881. 



POLLEN. 



Neighbor H. put that pollen too close to the bees; 

 their heat soured it. When bees fix themselves for 

 winter, the pollen is found outside of the cluster. 

 When winter sets in it helps to keep them warm, as 

 a board would, or inner wall. M. E. Williams. 



Vanceburg, Ky., May 24, 1881. 



A POUND OF bees IN JUNE. 



I feel it my duty to report in regard to the pound 

 of bees you sent me. I received them the )2th of 

 June; the 25th of August they sent out a swarm of 

 6;'4 lbs., and left a good swarm in the old hive. 



Wm. T. Webster. 



East Jeffrey, Cheshire Co., N. H., Sept. 11, 1881. 



I have not done as well as our friend Coggshall, 

 but am well pleased with the results, as I have 

 worked on a farm all the season and cared for my 

 pets (18 stands of black "humming-birds"). They 

 will all take new homes in the spring la Simplicity 

 hives. K. Gardner. 



Hoosick Fails, N. Y., Oct. 10, 1881. 



AND NOW IT IS "hurrah FOR TEXAS!" 



I have a report to make on my bees this season. 

 Will wait awhile, as they are not done gathering 

 honey yet. I have one hive that has given me 484 

 lbs. to date — 300 extracted and 184 comb honey, and 

 they are filling another upper stor3-. 



Dallas, Tex., Sept. 28, 1881. E. J. Atchley. 



Last j'ear the bees worked on corn, but I could not 

 see them on sunflower: this year they are on the 

 sunflower and cockle burr, but do not touch corn. 

 Why is this change? Isa\c B. Rumford. 



Bakersfleld, Kern Co., Cal. 



[Such eases are frequent, friend R., and they should 

 teach some of the A B C class to be a little more 

 careful in saying they do not believe bees ever work 

 on certain plants, just because thev did not under 

 their own observation.] 



I gave the Clark smoker a fair trial. I would not 

 give one of Bingham's for a dozen of them. I have 

 sold it and sent for a Bingham. J. K. Snyder. 



Tillin, Johnson Co., Iowa, Sept. 5, 1881. 



[There, "that's just as I expected." I believe it 

 is the first complaint we have ever had in regard to 

 the hundreds of 50-cent smokers we have sent out; 

 but this is a complaint, and a "stunner" too. Friend 

 Bingham, here is a testimonial for yaur smoker; it is 

 strange, if there isn't some good to be got out of it 

 somewhere.] 



