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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



June 



$€U§ and §ii(iri4s. 



HOW IS THAT FOR CONNECTICUT ? 



y HAD a swarm come out the 16th of May. Applo- 

 j°|[ trees will not bloom for about one week yet. 

 ' Bees wintered with but little loss, in this part 

 of the State. They are more than two weeks ahead 

 of last year. E. H. Cook. 



Andover, Ct., May 18, 1883. 



CELLAR AND SUB-EAUTH VENTILATION. 



I wintered 115 out of 116 in cellar — sub-earth. See 

 Aug. Gleanings, 1883. F. H. Cyrenius. 



Scriba, N. T., May 14, 18813. 



In May Gleanings, p. 249, in editorial note on wil- 

 low, change hilm mark to Kilmarnock. 

 New York, May 7, 1883. John Phin. 



[Thanks, friend P.] 



A good report for THE ZINC HONEY-BOAHDS. 



The zinc honey-boards iviJl di>. Lots of honey, and 

 no brood in upper stories. F. N. Wilder. 



Forsyth, Ga., May 7, 1883. 



I increased the one stand I bought of you last 

 spi'ing to six, and g-ot 2fi lbs. honey, and sold out at 

 $40.00 profit. A. I. Park. 



Concordia, Mead Co., Ky., April 33, 1883. 



Bees are boiling over, but no honey coming in; 

 feeding 100 colonies is quite a job, but it must be 

 done, to keep the bees out of mischief. 



Luling, Texas, Apr. 21, 1883. J. S. Tadlock. 



I have never known bees to gather so much honey 

 from fruit-bloom. My best colonies are literally full 

 of brood and honey, and have queen-cells contain- 

 ing eggs preparatory to swarming. 



Washington, Pa., May 13, 1883. L. W. Vankirk. 



Bees are doing finely now ; they have made such a 

 rush for the boxes the past 3 or 4 days, it makes one 

 feel happy who had to feed them three or four weeks 

 to keep them alive. W. S. Cauthen. 



Pleasant Hill, S. C, Apr. 21, 1883. 



In the May No. you ask those who have known 

 bees to leave for the woods without clustering, to 

 rise up. We had one last summer that left for the 

 woods as soon as they were out of the hive. 



Mrs. a. p. Stanbro. 



Clyde, Oak. Co., Mich., May 13, 1883. 



combs full of HONEY. 



I am in a quandary. I have a great deal of surplus 

 honey taken from hives last fall in combs, and I do 

 not think they will need much if any of it. I use no 

 extractor with my hive; run for box honey. What 

 do you advise to do with it? Wm. M. Young. 



Nevada, O., May 13, 1883. 



[See page 336, friend Y., for an answer.] 



THE BAD WEATHER, ETC. 



Storms all around. A great destruction of life 

 and property. A severe frost last night, badly in j ur- 

 ing small fruits. The pastures and roadsides were 

 beginning to whiten with clover- It is all killed. 

 The air is heavy with the gmell of frost-bitten vege- 

 tation. I shall have to feed my young colonies for 

 some days, as the bloom is all destroyed. 



Marissa, 111., May 33, 1S83. Wm. Little. 



[I think you are borrowing trouble a little, friend 

 L. Feed liberally, and make up for breaji iji honey 

 yield.] 



GOOD FOR ARKANSAS. 



D. A. Sailor, of Clear Lake, Pulaski Co., this State, 

 20 miles north of here, got 1300 lbs. of comb honey in 

 sections, all filled, and some more unfinished ones, 

 which he used at home from 10 stands in the spring, 

 and increased to 30 stands of bees. 



Geo. E. Lytle. 



Flat Bayou, Jeff. Co., Ark., April 19, 1883. 



from 4 to II, AND 350 LBS. OF HONEY. 



I began in spring >)f 1883 with 4 colonies; increased 

 to 11 by natural swarming, and took 350 lbs. surplus 

 honey in comb, nearly all in sections; wintered on 

 summer stands in single - wall hives. All came 

 through safe, and answer to call to-day. 



Minier, 111 , May 19, 1883. Wm. M. Bishop. 



TWO queens in A HIVE. 



I united two stocks last fall. The two queens 

 were working together in harmony on the 15th of 

 this month. I saw them rub together. 



Alex. McKechnie. 



Angus, Out., Can., April 26. 1883. 



[Well, I should think that was close enough for all 

 practical purpose^ friend M. We should like a whole 

 hive full of just such. Who can supply them?] 



DEAD bees under THE WILLOWS. 



Bees are working nicely on fruit-bloom and wil- 

 lows; but under the willows large numbers lie dead. 

 Have any other cases been reported, and do you 

 know the cause? 



FROM 3 TO 8, AND 



I commenced with two swarms in the spring of 

 1883; increased to eight, which I wintered without 

 loss, in a cellar . Joseph S. Seccomb. 



Auburn, N. Y., May 31, 18c3. 



[Don't know, unless it was the cold rains that killed 

 them. Willows are not poison, are they?] 



SMILERY. 



Don't you think I can speak for one little corner 

 of the Smilery? I can say, smilingly, that I believe 

 I have the first natural swarm of hybrids, or any 

 other kind of bees, in Pennsylvania. They issued 

 on the 18th day of May. My wife had them in a new 

 hive five minutes after they had clustered. If any 

 of your readers can boast of an earlier swarm, let 

 them speak out. Wm. F. Geiger. 



Beatty, Westm. Co., Pa., May 19, 1883. 



[I am glad to see you smile, friend G.; but Penn- 

 sylvania is a pretty large State, and it may turn out 

 that somebody else has had a natural swarm before 

 you, especially when this comes in print to call them 

 out.] 



SWARMING WITHOUT CLUSTERING; ANOTHE& 

 "CLINCHER." 



In May Gleanings, page 343, " Old Fogy " has set- 

 tled it to his own satisfaction, that bees never swarm 

 out without settling or alighting on some tree or 

 place of some kind. Now, I will state, for his and 

 others' information, that on Sunday, June 25, 1882, 

 my wife and I were sitting near our apiary, when all 

 of a sudden the bees commenced to swarm out of a 

 hive, and in less than two minutes they struck a hee 

 line for the nearest woods. I tried to follow them, 

 but could not, as they went too fast. So I took their 

 course and followed them about one mile, and found 

 them going into a large oak-tree. So we can say we 

 saw a swarm go off without clustering. If you think 

 worth while to publish this, you may. 



ELIAS HEBSHEy, 



Leaman Place, Pa., May 21, 1883. 



