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GLEANINGS IK BEE CULTUHE. 



AUG. 



often ; and this peculiarity would constantly 

 counteract the tendency you allude to. 



BASSWOOD, ETC. 



My bees are doing finely. The basswood is coming 

 in bloom. "We must have 100 old trees. We have 3 

 acres of ground where we can not plow. There are 

 several hundred young linn-trees and sprouts. I 

 never knew them to be so full of blossoms as they 

 are now. Killbuck Valley is an excellent place for 

 them to grow. I have a young queen raised from 

 the one I got of you. She began to lay on the 8th 

 day after leaving the cell. Have you ever known 

 them to lay so soon? C. F. Uhl. 



Millersburg, O., July ]C, 1883. 



Yes, friend U., we have had many queens 

 to lay in 8 days. You will see by back num- 

 bers that they are reported to lay sometimes 

 as soon as 5 days ; and, if I am not mistaken, 

 even three days are on record. Very likely 

 the latter has been a mistake somewhere, 

 for it is not impossible that young queens, 

 in flying out on their wedding trip, may 

 change places, and an older one get into the 

 hive than the one that went out. All young 

 queens lay in about 9 or 10 days, as a rule ; 

 and I have had several to lay in or 7 days. 



SECTIONS PARTLY FILLED WHEN BASSWOOD CLOSES. 



When I come too often, give me a hint. I don't 

 know where else to go. I have several hundred 

 pounds of honey in sections, cells nearly filled even 

 to cap, but I guess they will leave them so on clover. 

 Would you extract, or leave till fall bloom, golden- 

 rod, etc., to finish? Hard to sell extracted honey 

 here. Wm. M. Young. 



Nevada, O., July 31, 1883. 



Thank you, friend Y. I am always glad 

 to have you come, all of you, when I can 

 help you in any way, and I am glad to have 

 you come when I can 7wt help, only I shall 

 feel sorry to send you away "empty handed." 

 In regard to partly filled* sections of white 

 honey, I would by all means endeavor to get 

 them all filled, by some hook or crook. The 

 usual way is to feed back extracted honey ; 

 but Avhile the bees are getting some honey 

 from the fields, this will hardly do, for it 

 stops outside work almost at once. A bet- 

 ter plan is, I think, to greatly reduce the 

 space for surplus ; that is, after you take 

 out the filled ones, close up the space with 

 a division- board, and crowd the bees on to a 

 few sections. In this way they will often 

 fill them out when they would not otherwise. 

 When they stop work entirely, then feed ex- 

 tracted white honey. I would endeavor to 

 get the white honey all closed up before the 

 dark comes in. You can easily do it by 

 feeding back, and one or two colonies will 

 easily fill and cap over a great many sections. 



BEES AND TEMPERANCE. 



I have been instructed as well as amused by the 

 reports of the brethren; but I have seen but little 

 from our State, and this makes me feel like saying 

 something on the subject of our honey resources. 1 

 have been keeping bees six years. Carelessness is 

 the cause of most all our bee mortality. We winter 

 on summer stands, with little or no protection. I 

 have not lost more than three per cent per annum, 

 on an average. A few years ago I was made sorry 

 to read of so many bees dying in the North, after so 



much expense. It made me better satisfied to live 

 in the South. In 1883 I began the season with 45 col- 

 onies; increased to 85; taken 5000 lbs. honey. I sold 

 nearly out at ISVi cts. retail, 10 wholesale, for ex- 

 tracted; 30 retail, 18 wholesale for pound sections. 

 I did not fix up my bees last fall for winter, not 

 even taking the sections, and top comes off of but 

 few. 1 lost only two. 



I am well pleased with Gleanings. Our Homes, I 

 think, is doing much good. On temperance, in July 

 number, it is hard to beat. I see in your State that 

 temperance men are engaging in a hard struggle 

 against free whisky and license. All temperance 

 menshould unite on prohibition. If we can not stay 

 in our party and put down the great evils of alcohol, 

 let us go out of all into a strong, united majority, 

 and give it such a blow that it never can raise its 

 head again. Brother Root, I will pay for and send 

 some 60 or more copies of the Kansas Prohibitionist 

 to you if you will promise to circulate them where 

 you think they will do the most good in favor of pro- 

 hibition. I will send the" big edition." It will be pub- 

 lished July 18. I am concerned for the cause in 

 Ohio. I do not know whom to send to; but you 

 please let me know soon, if you can comply with 

 my request. A. B. Kirk. 



Columbus, Cherokee Co., Kan., July, 1883. 



Thank you for your kind words, friend K.; 

 but I would suggest that, instead of sending 

 the ()0 or 70 copies to me, you send them to 

 the temperance friends who take Glean- 

 ings, and each one will send his name on a 

 postal card, telling how many he can dis- 

 tribute. We get such quantities of printed 

 matter here daily, that it is almost impos- 

 sible to give it away, and great loads of it 

 are sold for paper-rags, because we do not 

 know anybody who will read it or make use 

 of it. I sometimes think of it sadly. But 

 in the rear and whirl of business here there 

 are few of us who have time to read much 

 but what we are obliged to. 



PEACE in affliction. 



Died near TuUahoma, Tenn., July 10, 1883, Mary E. 

 Good, daughter of I. R and Anna Good, aged one 

 year and twenty-one days. You see, Bro. R., while 

 you have your baby with you to give you joy and 

 comfort, we have laid ours away to sweetly sleep in 

 Jesus until he shall come again, when little Mary 

 shall be raised to life and immortality. There is a 

 peace and joy in laying our children away that I had 

 not known of before. We are comforted. Blessed 

 is the name of the Lord. May the good Lord bless 

 you and all yours is my prayer. I. R. Good. 



We extend you our sympathies, friend G. 

 I rejoice with you that you have found 

 peace, and that balm for the afflicted that 

 nothing but a hope in our Savior can give. 

 Truly, •' great peace have they that love thy 

 law," even in an hour like this. May God 

 comfort you, and may this trial be the means 

 of drawing you nearer to him. 



WHAT SHALL WE DO FOR DRONES? 



The fine queen and half-pound of bees you sent 

 me the 8th of June I stocked up good and strong 

 with worker brood, and about ten days ago I put in 

 a drone comb, but the queen failed to deposit eggs, 

 and the bees filled it with honey. In a day or two I 

 put in another, and she laid in part of it, but they 

 are now capped over, and are worker bees. Hoping 



