1881 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



559 



Wo are having a splendid flow of honey just now, 

 the latest in the season I ever knew. I have to-day 

 thrown out 7 gallons of fine fall honej', taking only a 

 frame or two from those hives where the queens had 

 no room, or not sullicicnt for brood. The honey is 

 gathered from the wild asters, and is of a beautiful 

 yellow color, but rather thin. S. L. Greer. 



Friendsville, Blount Co., Tenn., Oct. 5, 1881. 



Please tell me what kind of frame Neighbor H. 

 uses. I am anxious to know, since he wintered so 

 well last winter. Kobebt M. Teats. 



Globe Mills, Snyder Co., Pa., Sept. 30, 1881. 



[Neighbor H. first used the Adair frame; but now 

 houses Ihe Langstroth frame in chaff hives, and 

 saj s you could not get him to take any other frame 

 or hive as a gift.] 



(•'VPUIANS AHEAD. 



Queen duly to hand; introduced to an ordinarily 

 good colony; in four weeks she had so built it up 

 that they wore preparing' to swarm, though in the 

 middle of September. We put on an upper storj', 

 gave her 10 additional frames, which she is tilling up 

 very fast. I never had a queen lay so well; if this 

 be Cyprian, I want more of them. 



Stelton, N. J., Sept. 22, 1881. G. W. Thompson. 



I commenced the season of iiSi with 48 colonies, 

 one-half in good condition, the rest weak; have ta- 

 ken off about 1100 lbs. in 1-lb. sections, and about 

 1400 lbs. extracted. I have fed 200 lbs. granulated 

 sugar, and have sold bees and queens enough to pay 

 for it; have about 80 colonies now in good condition. 

 Have never failed to have a fair income from my 

 bees. John T. Newton. 



West Kichfleld, ()., Oct. 17, 1881. 



USING HONEY FOR SHIPPING BEES BY THE POUND. 



AVhy not put about 1 lb. of thick honey in a tin 

 bottle with cloth fastened over the mouth, and fas- 

 ten this bottom upward in the box when shipping a 

 pound of boos by express? Chas. Kingsley. 



Greenville, Tenn., May 24, 1881. 



[Bees would gnaw through ; besides, honey does 

 not seem to answer as well as sugar for shipping 

 bees.] 



HONEY-DEW THAT BEES WON'T GATHER. 



[In answer to our query on p. 450, Sept. No., 

 friend Greer writes as follows:] 



The honey-dew mentioned in last Gleanings, so 

 far as I could judge from appearance and taste, was 

 as nice and sweet as I ever saw, and lasted a good 

 while, say 2 or 3 weeks, yet bees did not gather it. 

 The drought here for two months past will cut the 

 fall supply of honey short, unless frost delays its 

 advent awhile. S. L. Greer. 



Friendsville, Tenn., Sept., 1881. 



stirring up postmasters. 

 In the postoflice this morning I told the postmas- 

 ter that there certainly was one journal kept back. Ho 

 looked in another place, and found the August No. 

 that I have been writing to you about. I have got it. 



Jas. H. Brown. 



Croston, la., Sept. 2t, 1881. 



[You see, my friends, how we sometimes get blam- 

 ed when the ti'onble is not at our end of the route at 

 all; for all that, we alwiiys supply missing copies 

 without charge, and expect to; but please be mild 

 when complaining.] 



de worth's perforating machine. 



I have tried the machine, and it did all that it was 

 claimed it would, and gave entire satisfaction. If 

 you want to give Mr. DoWorth a puff in your paper, 

 and sign my name to it, please do so. It is a splen- 

 did piece of work. If Mr. DeWorth gets up such 

 machinery he deserves to be recommended by 

 every bee-keeper who buys and uses one of his ma- 

 chines. Christopher Grimm. 



.Jefferson, Wis., Oct. 17, 1881. 



HONEY IN NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA. 



I have been extensively engaged with bees, and 

 have sold from my bees as high as ten tons of box 

 honey in a year, and though now in the nursery and 

 orchard business, I yet take an interest in bees. 

 Would pay for any reading matter on them of inter- 

 est. F. P. Sharp. 



Woodstock, N. B., Can., Sept. 11, 1881. 



[It would seem from reports that as much, if not 

 more, honey is produced in Canada and vicinity, 

 than in the parts further south. Is the northern 

 part of North America being developed for the 

 honey-bee as it should be?] 



MARKING WEIGHT ON SHIPPING-CANS. 



I see in Oct. Gleanings, the suggestion of having 



weight of packages marked on them before they 



are filled, which is good so far, but I would improve 



by having printed labels, like this: 



Weight of yiackage lbs., oz. 



Weight of eontenty, lbs., oz. , 



leaving a space before "lbs." and "oz." blank, to be 

 filled as needed; then if the labels were printed in 

 sheets, and gummed, as our postage stamps are, 

 they would be as handy as a pocket in a shirt, and 

 could be used for all kinds of merchandise where 

 separate weights are wanted. 



Cleveland, O., Oct. 17, '81. A. A. Fradenburg. 



[Thanks, friend F. We will print such labels for 

 10c per 100; by mail, 12c.] 



ladk/ §qfiaviiff0it 



^ HAVE eight swarms, and love to work with 

 Jijl them, but Mr. M. is afraid' of them, so I have no 

 help. He loves to read Gleanings as well as I 

 do, but begs to be excused when I want his help 

 around with the hives, where the bees are. We are 

 having lovely weather here now, and the little 

 creatures are as busy as they can be. 



Mrs. M. E. McCullers. 

 Medville, Burk Co., Ga., Sept. 26, 1881. 



I am much ashamed of the neglect to sign my 

 name to my last letter (containing money too), and 

 that such an omission may not occur again, I wish 

 you to send me one of those rubber stamps. I wish 

 my name and address and name of apiary. I am in 

 a hurry for it too, because I wish to stamp all my 

 honey with it. I can brag of a black colony giving 

 98 lbs. of honey in sections. 



We have a famous old elm-tree over 100 years old, 

 which came from Boston Commons, on our place: 

 therefore I name my apiary after it. 



Mrs. T. M. Squire. 



Elm Tree Apiary, Redding, Conn., Aug. 10, 1881. <j 



