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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 



FIVE QUESTIONS BY AN A B SCHOLAR. 



Ts pollen consumed by the old bees, or by the 

 young larvae? Can the laying qualities of inferior 

 queens be improved? Do you remove honey-boxes 

 in feeding, during intervals of no honey-flow? .Will 

 brood be reared in winter, if no pollen is in the hive? 

 Do you think bees will winter more quietly without 

 pollen? H. D. Stewart. 



Landisburg, Pa. 



[I think pollen is consumed by both old and young 

 bees, when they have unsealed larvte in the hive, 

 and perhaps to some extent when they have none.— 

 I do not know how you can improve the laying qual- 

 ities of an inferior queen.— I think I should remove 

 the honey-boxes, if the bees began to need feeding. 

 If you do not, they will often take the honey out of 

 them and carry it below.— As a rule, I do not think 

 that brood-rearing can go forward to any extent at 

 any season of the year without pollen. In the ABC 

 book I have told you of the result of my experi- 

 ments under glass, or in a cold frame.— I think bees 

 will winter more quietly and more safely without a 

 particle of pollen. When you want them to com- 

 mence rearing brood, give them combs containing 

 pollen.] 



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We are rejoicing to-day, Oct. 31, in having on our 

 subscription list 6238 names. 



SunscRiPTiONS received after this date will be ex- 

 tended until Jan. 1, 1885; that is, you can have it the 

 rest of this year free. 



In the list of members of the N. A. B. K. A., pub- 

 lished last month, the name of W. A. Morrison was 

 wrongly printed. His address is Frelighsburg, Que- 

 bec, Canada. 



HONEV PEAS. 



We have sold a good many of these for seed, but 

 have as yet had no report in regard to their honey- 

 bearing. We are very anxious to know whether 

 they bear honey in the North as they do in the 

 Southern States. You see, the rush of bubiness 

 here prevented our planting until so late the frost 

 nipped them. Who has seen the honey in the honey 

 peas in the North ? 



In a recent article on one-piece sections, I men- 

 tioned the Hutchings patent, but omitted to state 

 that his patent is on the machine for making sec- 

 tions, and not on the section itself. But, of course, 

 this would cut off all possibility of calling a one- 

 piece section a new thing. His machine cuts the 

 section right from the log, properly scored, and with 

 the ends dovetailed, but leaves no entrance for the 

 bees. 



APIS DORSATA AND BEESWAX. 



Since the article on page 571 was in print, it has 

 occurred to me that, if we can not get the Apis dor- 

 sata domesticated in the more northern portions of 

 the United States, possibly they might be on the 

 southern line ; and if we should fail then in getting 

 honey from them profitably, perhaps we can set 

 them to producing bee.swax to relieve the stress on 

 the market, caused by supplying so many fdn. 

 mills ; and then if it should so happen that we can 

 not keep Apig dorsata here at all, why, we will .iust 

 send over to the Timorese, and get them into the 

 business of raising beeswax. Do you "catch on" ? 



THOSE OLD NUMBERS. 



Back numbers have gone off quite lively since our 

 offer of them at 3 cts. a copy. But I think I shall 

 have to make this provision : If you want us to 

 pick out single numbers, we shall have to charge 

 about 10 cts. each. The labor of hunting over old 

 heaps is worth so much more ; but if you will take 

 such as we have on hand (no two alike, of course, if 

 you want them so ), we will continue to furnish them 

 at 3 cts. each, and we can give you any of them for 

 11 years back, with but few exceptions. There are a 

 few numbers that we have to buy up at 10 cts. a 

 number, and these we can not furnish at less than 

 15 cts., and pay postage. 



Our untested queens are all gone, and yet orders 

 are coming in daily; and if this fine weather contin- 

 ues, I fear all the tested ones we have to spare 

 will be gone also. If any one who sees this has any un- 

 tested queens to spare at this season of the year, we 

 should be glad to have him send them to us at once. 

 Why wouldn't it be a fine idea for some of our friends 

 down South to keep dollar queens ready to ship 

 away, along into the fall months? For that matter, 

 he might have them ready all winter for anybody 

 wanting them. Surely they could do it in Florida. 

 But then, in extremely cold weather they would 

 need to go at the buyer's risk, if they were wanted 

 in our Northern States. 



ROOTS OF THE FIGWORT, OR SIMPSON HONEY-PLANT. 



We have a very nice lot of these plants this fall, 

 and they are now growing finely. We can send them 

 safely by mail at the following figures: One root, 5 

 cents; ten roots, 20 cents; 100, SLOG; 500, $3.25; 1000, 

 i>5 00. Now, while I used to think that these were 

 almost sure when planted in the fall or spring, I am 

 at present a little undecided about fall planting. We 

 put out several thousand last fall, but the hard 

 freezing weather threw them out of the ground, the 

 greater part of them. Where they were not trans- 

 planted in the fall at all, they started in the spring 

 all right. Perhaps, therfore, you had better not or- 

 der them until spring; but if you know how to man- 

 age them, so the frost will not lift them out, we 

 shall be glad to send them to you now, while we 

 have plenty of time. 



THE NEW 7-LB. HONEY-PAIL. 



Quite a trade has sprung up in the Dadant pail we 

 illustrated last month. As they hold about 7 lbs. of 

 honey, they are just right to retail for an even dol- 

 lar, pail and all. That is, you get 13 cts. per lb. for 

 the honey, pail thrown in. If you wish to sell for 

 about $1.00 at wholesale, for 75 cts. you would get a 

 little more than cost for the pail, and 9 cts. for your 

 honey; and any grocer would be ready to take con- 

 sidei-able pains in making a sale if he could make a 



