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JUVENILE GLEANINGS. 



Aug. 



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WINTERED 18 colonies without loss, on their 

 summer stands; sold two; commenced with 16 

 colonies; have increased so far to 41 fair to 

 good colwnies, all Italians and hybrids; have taken 

 so far 400 B)s. honej', mostly extracted, besides run- 

 ning a 100-acre farm ; would have taken more than 

 twice as much surplus, had I given my entire atten- 

 tion to the bees. I have seen a bee go from dande- 

 lion to ground-ivy flowers the same visit. My bees 

 worked on the lilac this spring. What the species 

 of lilac is, I do not know; it is our common kind, 

 and the only kind I have ever seen. 

 North Robinson, O., Aug. 5, 1883. J. H. Eby. 



I have shipped $770 worth of queens to date. 

 Mortonsville, Ky., July 30, 1883. J. T. Wii,son. 



Honey crop is most excellenthere this year. Hives 

 are full, inside and out, so to speak. 

 Cairo, 111., Aug. 3, 1883. M. R. Kuehne. 



We are about the middle of basswood, and are 

 having the heaviest yield from it that we ever had 

 here. E. LoOMis. 



Algona, la., July 38, 1883. 



The past year has been a very good honey season. 

 I extracted 9 barrels of honey, and got 670 lbs. of 

 comb honey. I have now 41 stands, for which I owe 

 many thanks to bee papers. 



Henry W. Schmadakek. 



We are having a good yield of honey, the first for 

 4 or 5 years; but I have had my dish right side up 

 all this time. Clover, clover, clover; I never saw it 

 more plentiful. Jos. M. Brooks. 



Columbus, Ind., June 19, 1883. 



I have just extracted all my honey, and the "big 

 6-story hives " didn't do quite as well as I hoped. 

 The averaue from the large hives was 16 gallons. 

 The honey, though not sealed, was very thick. 



R. C. Taylor. 



Wilmington, N. C, Aug. 3, 1883. 



IMPORTANCE OF FEEDING WHEN THE HONEY STOPS. 



I started in the bee-keeping business last spring 

 with 3 colonies; now have 4, and have extracted 140 

 lbs. of flrst-class honey (no box) ; I am in love with 

 the subject, and like to be among the bees. For a 

 short time past the queens have not been laying 

 much. I commenced feeding a little sugar syrup, 

 and to-day find cvenj cell filled with eggs. I find that 

 feeding them a little is a first-rate thing to do, and 

 pays icell for the trouble. A. N. Clark. 



Flatbush, L. I., Aug. 7, 1883. 



I have got one patent hive, and I want to know 

 where it was made. It is a sash hive. The sash are 

 tipped with tin at the corners; and whei'e they rest 

 on the hive they have tin horns, so that the bees 

 never fasten them, and they can be lifted out with- 

 out the least trouble. Please inform me who makes 

 them, and the price. Jno. Boyd. 



Hobbs, Ind., July 24, 1883. 



Now, I really do not know whether this 

 belongs in " Reports Encouraging," or not ; 

 but I guess it does. Your humble servant 

 is the man who invented the frames with 

 " tin horns " on them, friend Boyd. 



TOO MANY SWARMS TO HIVE. 



Such a honey crop as this year I never had before, 

 and I never was out of bees since 1860; but I came 

 near getting sick from overwork, extracting, hiv- 

 ing and returning swarms, and cutting queen-cells. 

 I increased to only 37 f ronC 37, and sold and gave 

 away only six. Swarms were no sale this year; 

 farmers found and hived runaways from fences and 

 bushes as they came to them, and they have been so 

 numor'>us that a gond many let them go pgain for 

 want of litne :iiii1 a Hive. Gko. L. HoiiLENisACH. 



Noblcsvillo, hid., July 24, 1883. 



]2.000 LBS. 



We are having a little too much rain, but it keeps 

 the white clover stili blooming finely; and with the 

 bush, swamp woodbine, Indian corn, and sorghum, 

 the bees are bringing in the nectar with a rush. I 

 have taken off to date, 12,000 lbs., and extracting at 

 the rate of ,500 lbs. per day. This is the greatest 

 country for honey anywhere to be found; but the 

 fear of malaria will keep away many Northern bee- 

 keepers. None but the Southern salamander will 

 try it, although I must say, on an average we have 

 as healthful a country as anywhere. We shall soon 

 be cut up with railroads, and then Northern men 

 will come and prospect around. O. M. Blanton. 



Greenville, Miss., July 9, 1883. 



1 like Gleanings well. I know the instruction I 

 got from it was worth several times the price. I 

 will recommend it to my neighbors. I expect to 

 take it as long as I have a stand of bees. I started 

 with three stands last year. I got 200 lbs. of honey, 

 and part of it in 1-lb sections. I sold for 33 cts. per 

 lb., and the rest we used. My bees cost me $30.00, 

 and I have 7 good stands at work now. I shall try 

 to double this number by natural swarming this 

 season. I like to watch and handle bees, even if 

 they do sting me once in a while. I started my bees 

 on maple sap as soon as it would run, and it did 

 them good. They are now at work on clover, sumac, 

 and buckwheat. W. J. Philow. 



Paola, Kan., June 33, 1883. 



A CROSS between ITALIANS AND HOT,Y-LANDS; 383 



LBS. FROM THE OLD STOCK, AND 341 LBS. FROM 



ITS SWARM. 



I think I have the " boss" bees at last, which are a 

 cross between the Italian and the Holy-Lands. Aft- 

 er getting Italian queens from a dozen or more 

 breeders, I at last got what I thought was a good 

 strain of Italians, then I sent to Henry Alley for a 

 select tested Holy-Land, and let them cross with my 

 best Italians. Well, the result was I got one swarm 

 from them last year the 11th of May, which made 

 me 394'^ lbs. of comb honey, after filling the hive, so 

 I thought I would run them this year for extracted 

 honey, but they would swarm, on the 31st of May; 

 but from the old swarm I have extracted 383 lbs., 

 and from the new swarm 341 lbs. comb honey up to 

 July 13. How is that? O. E. Coon. 



Le Moore, Cal., June 15, 1883. 



BEES IN MANITOBA. 



The hive of bees you expressed to me July 6th 

 came through in eight days. They flew very lively 

 for a few minutes, and settled down all right. They 

 carried in pollen in two hours after they were let 

 loose. Some of my black bees went into their hive. 

 They were soon driven out. 



Wbitewood is 250 miles west of Winnipeg, and 40 



