560 



JUVENILE GLEANINGS. 



Sept. 



might do, and then, again, a strong colony might 

 need the whole ten.] 



What is your rule for making such candy as you 

 put in your queen-cages? 



Would not that candy run in a wired frame be 

 preferable to syrup to feed for winter and spring, 

 and less liable to attract robbers, and less apt to 

 sour? I made some candy last sprin^r, and ran it in 

 a frame. It was so hard that bees were loth to 

 touch it. That which you send In j'our queen-cages 

 is much more pliable. I should be pleased to know 

 its proportion. 



LThe recipe for the candy in queen-cages is given 

 in our price list. It is simply the best common pul- 

 verized sugar, powdered, and kneaded up into a 

 d )Ugh with honey. The candy we use in queen- 

 c.iges would not be apt to stand in a wired frame. 

 Little balls, say the size of a biscuit, placed upon the 

 top of the frames, I should say, would be the better 

 way.] 



Would it not be a good plan to let one of Jones's 

 queen-traps remain at the entrance for one or two 

 weeks, after introducing a queen? 



[Your plan might prevent the qu^en from escap- 

 ing, but I do not believe they very often go out of 

 the hive after being introduced.] 



How many combs of honey, lO.xU, would you rec- 

 ommend to winter a fair-sized swarm? 



[I would recommend about 8 combs, 10x11, for a 

 fair-sized swarm.] 



If there should not be more than one pound of 

 bees in a hive, would you recommend uniting for 

 winter ? 



[I would not attempt to winter a single pound of 

 bees.] 



What would be the least weight of bees you would 

 recommend to lay away for winttr? 



[Better have at least three or four pounds.] 



Syracuse, N. Y. ABC Scholar. 



THE GOLDEN BEE-HIVE. 



Is there such a hive as the "Golden," and is there 

 a patent on it? There is a man selling such a hive 

 here. His name is Pickerel. 



Litchfield, Mich. J. D. Kennelsbrook. 



[Friend K., we have published complaints of the 

 Golden bee-hive men a good many times in our back 

 volumes. If the hive is not a swindle, It is pretty 

 near it, and you and everybody else will do better to 

 let it alone. We can only reiterate, that the success- 

 ful honey-raisers to-day do not use any patent hive 

 of any kind. If any man talks patent to you, set 

 him down as either bad or ignorant; and in either 

 case do not have any thing to do with him.] 



EXTRACTING FROM THE BROOD-NEST. 



I am old in years, hut young in bees. I bought 2 

 colonies last spring; Increased to four; have taken 

 out 170 Iii9. of honey, and season just fairly opened. 

 I have put one-pound boxes on the top of one hive; 

 should I extract below? There does not appear to 

 be room enough for the queen, as all the cells are 

 full of honey. Should I extract before combs are 

 capped over? James Ackeman. 



Pella, Colo., Aug. 13, 18S3. 



[There are different opinions in regard to this 

 matter, friend A.; and as localities also differ very 

 widely, perhaps it is difficult to give a general an- 

 swer. In our locality, I should by all means say, do 

 not extract. If you get the bees to working all in 

 the sections, they will take the honey out of the 

 w^y of the queen as fast as she needs it; and hybrids 



will 'sometimes take so much of their honey from 

 them that they will not have enough remaining for 

 winter stores.] 



GOIiDENROD. 



THE GREAT FALL HONEY-PLANT. 



MS this is the season for goldenrod, I 

 ycy\ thought it might be well to direct at- 

 ' tention to it. It is now in the height 

 of full bloom with us ; but T am sorry to say, 

 that I have never seen goldenrod honey in 

 our locality. Further north, by the lake- 

 shore, where the soil is sandy, the bees get 

 so much honey from it that they till their 

 hives, and the honey looks almost as yellow 

 and golden as the flowers themselves. I 

 have often wondered why it is that no one 

 has ever thought of cultivating the golden- 

 rod as an ornamental plant for our yards and 

 flower-gardens. Again and again have I 

 stopped in wonder and astonishment when I 

 passed by clumps of these beautiful masses 

 of "gold, dotted here and therewith beauti- 

 fully marked Italians. I wonder if any one 

 adniires them as much as I do. Below we 

 give you a picture of three of the common 

 varieties. 



GOLDENROD. 



One thing that adds to the beauty of these 

 flowers is, the different varieties are always 

 found side by side. You examine the deli- 

 cate pencil- work and coloring of the flowers 

 of one stalk, and then look at the next, 

 which is just enough different to give added 

 charms, and so on with the other ones ; and 

 may be, if you examine closely, you will find 

 that there are many different ones in the 

 same patch. Several years ago I found one 

 quite late in October, away back in the 

 fields, and it was,so literally covered with 

 bees that I had a root of it put in our flower- 

 garden'; but it never did well. Although 

 we gave it the best ground and most careful 

 attention, it seemed to prefer its tangled 

 fence-corner, .where I first found it. It is 

 No. 1 in the cut above. Our artist has tried 

 to show you one of the little flowrets. 



