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JUVENILE GLEANINGS. 



Sept. 



of c<):nb cniitjtinintr S'lme bni' d and honey, and a 

 few oKtr-!, into tho upper story (if a sTanp^e hive. 1 

 cut a sma 1 h ilo tbr.Hij:^ the c .voring mat. about 2 

 inclifs linjr and one inch wide; laid the Ir .m'> on its 

 Fidp over this hole; propped it up ab mt two inches 

 liifjh, >md tliprc let if fmiin two or thive dijs. The 

 )if"f s i;lnslt"<d Oil both sVl.'S the comb, a^if ilosirous 

 (t kecpinK the soiled br.'ol w.irm. The / r('mov»-d 

 but H sm<ll portion of the l;0 !• > . boi did nra ive 

 (•MT.\ I i^j in tb»> 1 iider Pidc > f th< c tn»\ leaving 

 ih <»■ ill tl-.e >i|>i).T iiiiKnie i< d. Ast...th imI )i.ies nre 

 It liMii. 1 t'li'll '"it i'<' niilc to lUcii).- whethtT the.^o 

 ( u>f.» woM' <i<p Hi od ill r< IN li- jnw nr ixit, but hive 

 jri< d rca-oMS lo think they wo e. This experiment 

 d 1 s 1 "t pr 'Vi' that be' 8 will rob a sTinro hive of 

 (jr^s, li'it d OS cfrtiiiily show that their wonderful 

 instinct !• a I e- thf ni to p-e.^ervo all the 'v .rker 

 f riM' ili<'\ o'li, and that 1he>' reus m d on' the fuel 

 Ihiii lll(•^ C'li'd bi Iter d ) so b, talcing' the eys? from 

 the <• ild upper storj i:it i the warm liro d ch.imber. 



IIUICHINSOV O.N' AI.,LKV'S NRW BOOK. 



I rertd friend Hutchin'^on's criliqw:. on friend Al- 

 l->'s tiew booh, !ind WrfS iimuscd at his stMtemeut 

 (in siib-tance> m .do after sRving he had not given 

 the mi'tlol discribed a Iria', that 'he mnti lulations 

 d'-ijiiled we e so complin tt'd. iirid c.tused so much 

 lahnr iiiid trctible that he w-mld give up qneen- 

 reariug moner than use them. Now, if friend H. 

 had not given them a trinl, how c uld he know any 

 thing abiiit them? Friend H., would it not hive 

 1 e M nii^ro sei sii'le f r you to have given them a 

 trill bef. >re setting the seal of (iondemnation on 

 them? AVhat smv \ on? and. friinkly, d i you think 

 that )oii, »i ti Miir four or ti^'e > rar«' experience 

 only, are fully coinpetent, without trying them, of 

 passing in jiKlijinent upon the plans of one who, for 

 1 wf-niy-flve year-, has miide nueen-roaring a mutter 

 of stud/ and expeiiment? |i i< easy lo condemn, 

 but hiifdiy frtir to do so with ait evid. nee. Give any 

 method, friend H., a fair triil; and if yoti don't 

 view it favorably, give your r^ H«ons for ai unfavor- 

 able criticism, nnd no om will ft id any fa dr; but to 

 condemn a m titer (.f mtinual m-i-iipulation without 

 trying, is like cond.^miiiugan accused without know- 

 lug the evidence .-igainst him. J. E. Pond, J«. 



North Attijboro. Mas-i., Sept. 1883. 



AVheii preparinsr our bees for shipment we 

 do so ill ju^t tlie way yon mention ; and the 

 Simpliciiy hive favois tliis by its construc- 

 tion. Wiien making the ])ieces to eo around 

 llie cover we sort out the poor strips and save 

 iliem for frames for holding the wire cloth 

 to put over the bees. You see. these strips 

 bring the wire cloth about two inches above 

 the tops of the frimes; and where there is 

 wire cloth over the bottom of the hive al- 

 so, the bees can nevei' suffer for lack of 

 ventilation. — Hees do remove the eggs from 

 the combs sometimes, but I have never been 

 able to ])iovethat they put them somewhere 

 else in other combs. Some way I just got 

 the idea that they ate tliem up only to get 

 ihem out of the way.— T believe I agree with 

 xoii, friend P., in all your points. I do not 

 think that, as a rtile, one should condemn 

 any i)rocess wlio has not tried it ; or, at least, 

 lie should not condemn it very vehemently. 

 Our friend Hutchinson may have erred in 

 the way you mention ; but has not friend 

 Alley erred in condemning lamp nurseries, 

 while he says in almost the same sentence 

 he never used oneV I am asked to try a 



great many things before deciding against 

 them ; but it is often impossible. Notwith- 

 standing I am compelled to decline even 

 giving tlie hive or process a trial, I think I 

 am justified in deciding against it. Your 

 remarks in regard to open ventilation and 

 open-top sections seem to show that there is 

 to be so wide a difference in this matter of 

 ventilation that it will remain, like many 

 other points, for a long time unsettled. 



NOTES OF TRAVEL AITIOXG THE BEE- 

 FRIEIVD.S OF iniCIIIGAN. 



BV OUK PUOSPECTIVK ASStSTANT EDITOR. 



■fip HAVI'i just compl 'ted a part of mv trip am ng 

 ^ bC'^-friends in Michisran. Starting from home 

 on M(Hiday night I arrived at Cleveliad on the 

 same evening, an I from thence took the steamer 

 for Ddtrilt. Here, according to previous agree- 

 ment, T met friend M. H. Hunt, a man full of en- 

 thusiasm, and one*, too, who m ikes bees pay. Anx- 

 i uis to fee all that co jld be seen, we at once took a 

 car for Otto Klainow's, at the other end of the city. 

 Reaching there my eves were first greeted with a 

 large and elegtint tiower-ga -den — one of the finest 

 I have ever seen. After viewing this a short time 

 we went, in company with Mr. Kleinow, to his api- 

 ary, which appeared to be well care i for. One thing 

 in ptrtieul-tr attracted m? attention, and that was 

 some very large Simpson plants. They had attained 

 a height fnr exceeding any thing 1 ever saw before, 

 and T have seen some pretty large ones too. Well, 

 after having had a pleasant talk, Mr. Hunt and my- 

 self went back through the city again. At various 

 places he pointed to me where his honey was kept 

 at retail. Finally F inquired how many of these 

 places he kept supplied with his honey. He replied, 

 that there were about sixty, and that he had already 

 put upon the market about two tons of honey. He 

 has about as much more to come off the hives, and 

 at this rate will probably have to buy more to keep 

 pace with the dem \n 1. 



But, to return. After seeing the city we started 

 for Mr. H.'s two npiarips. Stopping shortly at the 

 first we went on to the second, at his home. Both 

 apiaries are Kept in splendid order, and the bees 

 were housed in very pretty chaff hives of Mr. Hunt's 

 own design and make. At the rear of the barn was 

 the horse-powei', a modification of which was given 

 in Gr.,KANiNGS a short time ago. Up t > thistime Mr. 

 Hunt has made all his hives with this, and he says 

 it works well too. 



Next morning I toik the train for Lansing, and 

 from thence started on foot for the Agricultural 

 College (3 rounds, about 3'/2 miles from the city. Un- 

 fortunately, however, I learned too late that this 

 was during vacation ; but on making some further 

 inquiries I soon found Mr. Hershiser, a student of 

 Prof. Cook in aoiculture. In company with Mr. H. 

 1 visited the Ool'ege Apiary, where, under Prof. 

 Cook, the boys are taught bee culture at its present 

 stage of advancement, together with the use and 

 management of apiarian inaplements. From here 

 we went to the museum, then to a large spacious 

 hot-house. The grounds and every thing in general 

 were kept in splendid order, and I must say that it 

 is one of the finest places I have ever visited. 



Not having much time to spare I returned back to 



