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GLEANINGS In BJSE GtJLTUtl^. 



Jan. 



until it was curled around almost far enough to 

 touch the tin. The result in case no tin was there 

 might easily be imagined. Besides, our customers 

 will eventually get sharp enough to object to honey 

 built on foundation. Natural comb is almost invisi- 

 ble when bathed in white honey; but the bright yel- 

 low of thin foundation is far too conspicuous to 

 look nice, when cut on the tea-table. Foundation 

 has also an unpleasant taste of its own, different 

 from virgin wax. This taste is easily detected in 

 the honey, when once one's attention is called to it. 



E. E. Hasty. 

 Richards, Lucas Co., O., Dec. 13, 1883. 



Why, friend H., you are going back to old 

 matters ttiat have been dropped and settled. 

 Nobody nowadays sees any difference be- 

 tween natural honey and that built on fdn. 

 I am afraid your '' shirts " won't look well, 

 will they ? Won't they look " shift "-less. 



MARKETING HONEY. 



HOW OUR FRIEND DAN WHITE DOES IT. 



flRlEND ROOT wants to know where 1 put so 

 much honey, and asks several questions, 

 ■ which I will answer after telling my success 

 getting customers to buy honey. The first season I 

 got any quantity of extracted honey, the trouble 

 seemed to be to sell it, although I offered it at 10 

 cents a pound, and a flrst-class article of thick ripe 

 honey too. Nearly everybody would say, " I should 

 like some comb honey, but don't like strained hon- 

 ey." It seemed to be the general opinion, that I had 

 come the Yankee on it by adulterating it with some- 

 thing; at least they were afraid of the stuff. But I 

 had the honey, and it must be sold some way; and 

 when out with horses and wagon, sometimes ten 

 miles from home, I would stop at every house and 

 make a sale if possible, even if not more than one 

 pound. If this could not be done, which was fre- 

 quently the case, they would not object to my filling 

 a saucer and giving them some, which I would not 

 fail to do. Well, I overdid the business; for long 

 after the honey was all gone they kept on coming 

 from far and near with pails and crocks after more 

 of that dreadful strained honey. You know we all 

 have more or less friends and company come a vis- 

 iting, and I believe this caused me to overdo the 

 business. So you see honey seems to agree with 

 visitors; and if there is any in the house they get a 

 lick at it. They would, of course, say, "What beau- 

 tiful honey! " " Where did you get it?" " What did 

 it cost? " 

 " Got it of Dan White for ten cents a pound." 

 " Well, I do declare! I will send Joshua after two 

 or three dollars' worth to-morrow;" and if Joshua 

 bolted, as I often think he did, Jane Ann would 

 hitch the old mare to the buggy and come herself. 

 Lots of " Jane Anns" came this season when I was 

 extracting; and when I assisted them out of the 

 carriage, I would almost stick fast to them, and 

 nothing could amuse me more than to see them eat 

 cappings. They would go away " too sweet to men- 

 tion." 



My this season's crop of 8000 lbs. of extracted hon- 

 ey was disposed of as follows: shipped to friend 

 Root and others by rail, 1100 lbs. ; sold, to put in 

 grocery stores to retail, 600 lbs. ; sent a man on the 

 road 6 days, and he disposed of 1880 lbs.; 3420 lbs. 

 has been taken away by ctlStomers who came to the 



door after it, with the exception of probably 500 lbs. 

 which I received orders for, and delivered, mostly 

 in the village. I got 11 cents a pound for all except 

 50-pound lots and upward, which brought 10 cents; 

 and I now have on hand, at a low estimate, 1000 lbs. 

 in L. frames, laid away to feed, if needed, next 

 spring. 



I don't propose to be caught as I was last spring 

 with hives running over with bees, and nothing to 

 feed them except sugar. I bought and fed daily, as 

 you would sheep and cattle. Last spring, when white 

 clover first gave honey, I actually believe there 

 was not 100 lbs. of sweet in my whole 80 colonies. 



Now, if I would add to my other report 30 lbs. to 

 each colony left for wintering, 120 colonies would 

 show that my 80 colonies made not far from 11,600 

 pounds. 



I weighed what I extracted from one of my strong- 

 est working colonies; it gave 213 lbs., and I think I 

 had several that did equally well. The 400 lb=i. of 

 comb honey (my share of the 10 colonies), I took 

 charge of away from home; sold for 18 cents a 

 pound, all but about 80 lbs; that, Julia took charge 

 of. Come and see us, and I presume you will see a 

 chunk of it on the table— extracted too; take your 

 choice. The forty 4-frame nuclei brought $4.00 

 each; the fifty-two 3-frame nuclei $3.00 each; 57 

 queens brought me f 63.00. 



Now I have gone on and told you all about the 

 honey on hand laid away for the bees, so I will say I 

 have two dogs, and they will b ark ! 



New London, O., Dec. 11, 1882. Dan White. 



Many thanks, friend W., for standing up 

 and " speaking your little piece " so well ; 

 but you did not tell us who "Julia" was. 

 We know Daisy and Bertha ; is she any re- 

 lation to them ? And is she a " bee-wo- 

 man "V I believe heartily in your plan of 

 working up a home market. 



DOOLITTLE'S NEIGHBORHOOD. 



BY ONE OJB* HIS NEIGHBORS. 



COMMENCED keeping bees in 1878, with three 

 colonies; in 1881 my spring count was 7 colo- 

 nies; one of them had about one gill of bees, 

 and one queenless. I doubled the two, which made 

 me 6 colonies, and not very strong; increased to 13; 

 made and sold 1100 lbs.; went into winter quarters 

 with 13 colonies; spring count, 1883, 13 colonies; lost 

 none through the winter. The season of 1882, up to 

 July 4, was very poor, for at that date starvation 

 was upon them. On the 10th of July they went to 

 work and found sustenance enough to feed them* 

 selves until the 18th, when basswood came into 

 bloom, and from that date for 16 days they made 

 1310 lbs., which 1 sold, and increased my stock to 25 

 colonies, with which I go into winter quarters, with 

 an abundance to wiuter upon. The season has been 

 to me all that I could ask for. I reside about 2Vi 

 miles from G. M. Doolittle, and with the same pro- 

 duction for honey range, and I can not agree with 

 him that this has been a poor year, or that the bass' 

 word product lasted for only 7 days; for with me it 

 lasted 16 days, and from that source I made all of 

 my honey (despite what A. A. Fradenburg may 

 say in the premises). There are others in this sec- 

 tion who make bee-keeping pay, Mr. Editor, equally 

 as well as Mr. Doolittle, and have just as good stock, 

 etc., as he has; but when our favorite basswood, to 



