1883 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUEE. 



TOS 



ed, is, that there are races of bees that mi- 

 grate, much as birds do, storing honey, build- 

 ing combs during the summer months, and 

 then migrating to a more favorable clime 

 during the wet weather; and, stranger still, 

 we are told they sometimes come back and 

 ocenpy their old hives the next season. The 

 above article seems to add more to our stock 

 of information in regard to bees from Fur- 

 ther India and that vicinity, than any thing 

 we have ever had. 



A mACHTNE: FOR ADDRESSING BOXES 

 AND PACKAGES RAPIDLY. 



A SUGGESTION TO COMB-HONEY PRODUCERS. 



M FEW days ago while at the Cleveland 

 ^^ seed-store I saw one of friend Keiidels 

 men using the little implement we 

 figure below, to mark baskets of grapes. 

 The baskets were" nicely addressed, about as 

 fast as a boy could hand them out the wagon, 

 and another one set them. The letters were 

 so plain and distinct, and the work was done 

 with such marvelous rapidity, that I have 

 had the machine engraved. 



course, different addresses can be put upon 

 j the same roller by having different sheets of 

 j rubber. Friend Kendel writes the follow- 

 ing in regard to.it : 



The machine was g'otten up for us by Messrs. 

 F. Ijambe & Co., No. 178 Superior St., manufacturers 

 of rubber stamps. They answer our purpose very 

 nicely, on either smooth or uneven surfaces. We 

 are not sure but there may be a patent on a roller 

 stamp. We have not seen or heard of such a thing, 

 but there may be. A. C. Kendel. 



Cleveland, O., Oct. 31, 1883. 



We can furnish the machines with one 

 rubber stamp, for $2.50 ; an extya rubber, 

 for §1.25. 



ADDRESSING-MACHINE. 



It is, as you will see, a little roller set in- 

 to a frame, with a rubber stamp tacked to 

 its circumference. The coiled spring in- 

 side brings the roller back promptly lo its 

 place as soon as it is lifted from the box. A 

 screw set in at the right point causes the 

 roller to stop where dt sired. After rolling 

 it on the box cover or basket cover, it is 

 rolled on an ordinary inking-pad. As the 

 rubber is pliable, even if the surface should 

 be uneven it makes a plain, disiinct letter 

 all the SMme. Of course, these machines 

 can be used only where you are sending a 

 great many packages to one firm ,| as it is in- 

 tended for only one. However, if you have 

 been in the habit of sending your honey 

 right along to some particular lirm, it would 

 be well to have a stamp for the tirm, Of 



UNSEALED BROOD FOR SWARMS. 



WILL BEES DESERT UNSEALED BROOD WHILE UNDER 

 THE INFLUENCE OF THE SWARMING FEVER? 



HERE seems to be quite a controversy goui£ on 

 at the present time over the above question; 

 and as I have had some experience in the 

 matter, I will try to give It as iDtelllgently as I can. 

 Several J ears a^o, while living in another part of 

 this county, 1 had some trouble about bees leaving 

 after having been hived. On one occasion I bad a 

 swarm come out ihe next day after being hived, and 

 1 compelltd it to cluster, and I again hived it, and 

 in the afternoon it agdin came out, and this time I 

 put it into another new hive, giving it two combs of 

 brood in all stHg^s, from the egg to sealed larvae. 

 Toe next day they did as before, and were repeated- 

 ly hived aay after day for four days, and they finally 

 left for the timber, going against a strong N. W. 

 wind. 



I followed them, and had the satisfaction of seeing 

 them go into a large limb of a very tall oak-tree; 

 and as their repeated swarming had so reduced them 

 that tht^y were no lunger a large swarm, 1 Ci>ncluded 

 they were not worth the work it would take to get 

 them. A couple of years later, while helping my 

 father harvest, they had a swarm of bees which 

 retu-ied to stay in any hive they were put into, and 

 my father, being an old-fashioned bee-keeper, fcraeio 

 piisitively th&t something must be wrong with the 

 hives, but could not Qnd out what it was. He had 

 washed some out with salt, and smoked some with 

 sulphur, and still others were merely cleaned, so as 

 to smell sweet ; still his bees would not stay. I told 

 him I had heard that sometimes bees would stay if 

 given unsealed brood. He laughed, and said, 

 '•Where will you get unsealed brood?" " Why, in 

 an<»ther hive, of course," said I. "Then," said he, 

 "just you get some, and give It to them." And as 

 the swarm had by this time got hungry and very 

 cross, he expected to see some fun. I first got a roll 

 of cotton raifs in lieu of a smoker, and went to one 

 of his L. hives (he had just two with bees in, the rest 

 being gums), and took 2 frames of unsealed brood, 

 and put into an empty L. hive, and then took a pan 

 of sweetened water that my mother had prepared 

 by my direction, while I was getting the brood 

 ready, and I sprinkled that swarm so that the bees 

 were quite wet ; and after waiting a few minutes un- 

 til they were no longer hungry, they were shaken 

 down on a sheet in front of the hive, and they ran 

 in so contentedly that we all voted the thing a suc- 

 cess, and went to our work in the harvest-field, my 

 mother volunteering to watch„the .bees. When we 



