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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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HONEY FROM CORN, AGAIN. 



I must tell you that I often get a lot of nice white 

 well-flavored honey from corn — common Indian. I 

 think I c:in't be mistaken. I have grone into the 

 fields and m:ide observation, also at times when 

 bees were getting houey from no other known source. 



W. H. Steele. 



Kossuth, Alcorn Co.. Ml?s , Nov., 1881. 



ITIR. lUERRYBANKS AND HIS NklGH- 

 BOie. 



UONEV FRO.M PF.AS, OAK, ETC. 



I have 23 hives; they have not done much this 

 year; thej- arc githering honey from peas now. I 

 saw in your last number that bees had gathered 

 honey from will'iw roots. I found a bee-tree that 

 had been gathering it from white oak where it had 

 been biuised. The honey tasted like sap. 



J. H. Mattock. 



Horn Lake, Desoto Co., Miss., Aug. T, 1881. 



FUOil ONE to three, AND $16.00 WORTH OF HONEY 

 IN ONE SEASON. 



I commenced the spring of 1881 with one swarm of 

 bees, and now; have three strong swarms; have sold 

 $16 worth of section houey. As I am a beginner, I 

 feel much encouraged, and think girl^ can take care 

 of bees as well as boys or men. Father takes 

 Gleanings. We find it interesting and useful. 



iD.v M. Church. 



Benton Harbor, Mich., Nov. 11, 1881. 



n§€uvaginQ, 



I am in good spirits. I havet ken about 1000 lbs 

 honey; about ?i extracted, the rest In sections. 

 I have nearly Italianized from the tested queen 

 you sent me. She produces many full 1-banded 

 bees, and out of :?0 young queens, none have failed 

 to produce 3-banded bees, and I know that some of 

 them must have met black or hybrid drones. I go 

 into winter-quarters with 26 colonies, all very well 

 supplied with honey. J. D. Fooshe. 



Coronaca, S. C, Nov. 3, 1881. 



hill's device FOR WINTER. 



I see your problem solved on page .=>30, and can as- 

 sure you that it will not euro norprevent dysentery. 

 It is as good as the hcut winter passage, because not 

 solid like a block, but leaves a nice circulating space. 

 I have used it three or four years. See Glean- 

 ings, page 116, 1881, .3d paragraph under cut of my 

 hive. I think I wrote about it to some bee journal 

 about two years ago. My way of using, the curved 

 pieces can't flatten down when dampened. 



Dowagiac, Mich., Nov. It, 1881. Jame.s Heddon. 



^ AM getting a nice start in the bee business. I 

 jiji tried it 20 years with the black bees and box 

 — ' gum, and at the end of that time I would have 

 valued my stock at §.x00. With the help of Glean- 

 ings and other works on bee culture, I have built 

 up a considerable apiary. I use the Simplicitj' hive 

 and the Lawn hive. I have an imported queen, and 

 use the extractor. Mv' ousinets is paying me for all 

 my trouble and investment, and I have bees and 

 honey plenty, and something nice at that, and sell- 

 ing queens besides. I Had bee culture under pres- 

 ent management both a pleasant and profitable 

 business. E. E. Smith. 



Settle, Iredell Co., N. C, Oct. 11, 1881. 



Fear not, little flock; fop it is the Fnther's good 

 pleasure to give you the kingdnm.— I-uke li :32. 



jf,i|[fj,HE new watering-troupch was patronized 

 A aniazingly. Jolm had rigged up a sort 

 of work-bench down ia that playhouse, 

 that you remember he styled liis Temper- 

 ance Hotel, and he enjoyed so much seeing 

 the horses drink, as they 

 came a little shyly at iir.st 

 up to the new trough, he 

 actually dreamed of seeing 

 horses drinking at niglit 

 after he had got to bed. 

 The water, bubbling as it j!^ 

 did right out of the sandy ^ 

 rock, was always fresh, 

 soft aufl cool, and no horse 

 ever refused to drink there, 

 even if he had been wa- 

 tered but a half-hour be- John's dreajl 

 fore out of some muddy, stagnant pool. The 

 tinner's shears had not yet been carried 

 home, and -John had become quite expert 

 with them, fashioning things out of the tin 

 he got out of some oyster cans that had been 

 so recently emptied they were comi)aratively 

 clean and briglit. In fact, he made the tin 

 cup I promised to tell yon about last month, 

 and he became so fond of the business, the 

 passers-by joked him by saying he had bet- 

 ter put his sign. " Tempkr ance Tin^hop," 

 rather than •' Hotel.'' Shall I tell you how 

 he made nice-looking cups out of oyster- 

 cans';' Well, he just cut them open near the 

 seams, so as to get a piece of tin 3 by 12i 

 inches. One oyster-can made just two such 

 pieces. After 'the tin was nicely flattened 

 by a little wooden mallet, he marked it out 

 accurately with his father's square, and then 

 cut it exactly on the line with his snips. 

 After this he snipped off every one of the 

 four corners until his tin looked about like 

 this:— 



B 





Next he folded an ed'..,e on each of the long 

 sides, where you see the dotted lines. He 

 did this by laying it on the square with the 

 edge projecting just enough, and then turned 

 it down with his mallet. He did not pound 

 this seam down hard, for he wished it to 

 look as much as possible as if a wire were 

 turned under the fold. One edge was turned 

 over one way, and the other the other. AV^ell, 

 after this was done he folded it around his 

 mother's potato-masher by means of his mal- 

 let, so it looked much like a cup without 

 handle or bottom. The ends Avere slightly 

 curved with the mallet before rolling it up, 

 so they lay on each other nicely, ready to 

 solder. The clipping, as yen see, made no 

 seams or folds where the lap came Neigh- 

 bor Menybanks good-naturedly loaned him 

 his soldering-iron, with the understanding 

 that John was to pay for all the solder he 

 used, and keep the iron in good order. You 

 know I said one seam was turned out and 



