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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Jan 



All fur |1,00! to bo sure we sent the money 

 the iiiiuute we trot the circular; and we are 

 {^oiny to look tlie book thronjjh carefully and 

 ■whatever is valuable shall be placed i)eroreour 

 readers in next month's Glkamnos. As this 

 same person sokl common queens fur $5,00, 

 and a receipt for "bee food," for |10,00, two 

 years ago, we perhaps had Ix'tter not place too 

 much faith in so many promises for $1,00. If 

 there is anything new in "bce-dom" we want 

 it for Glea.mnus of course, and we will fur- 

 nish the money for all the receipts atloat, if 

 they look at all plausil)le. 



C,\SI)Y. 



Miav> it youi'self and stiv<' h;ilf your money, or make it 

 for sal,' and havi- a icoc.il inc-oiia-. Reftipls for makiiig 

 lwenty-ti\euf till' l)i-.st and most poijnlir kinds of candy 

 Mjnt to any a lihess lor 2.) eonts. You can save the price 

 of the recc'iois in ni ikiii',,' two pounds of candy. Address 

 T. O. Osljonu^ & Co., West View, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio. 



This one may not belong in this department ; 

 we have sent the money, and when the book 

 comes — it should be a book for 25 cents— if 

 worth the price, we will give Mr. O. & Co., a 

 free advertisement. At any rate our readers 

 shall have the full benelit of it. 



Gleanings in Bee Culture, 



Published Monthly, 



.A^. X. lEiOOT- 

 EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR 



MEDINA, OHIO. 



Terms : ySc. Pei* Atimim. 



[Including Postaf)e.^ 

 For Club Rates see Last Page. 



3VrB3Di:iSr.A., J.A.HST. l, 18'76. 



And lie shad be like a tree planteil by the livers of 

 water, that bringelh I'orlh his Iruit in his season; his 

 leaf also sliall not wither; and whatsoever he do- 

 cih shall iirorper.— l'sa;ms : 1, 8. 



Bt mistake, in our i-.otc last month, wc put the price of 

 llie "Maiui-al of Bee-Keeping" $l,i;0, instead of .<1,25, whieli 

 it .'■liould have been. 



We feel sure that oiu' I'cadere Mill rejoice witli us, in a 

 piece of good news lliii cuuies all the way from CTi'een 

 Bay, Wis. it is a mess lire to "'Blue Eyes," not from "Ka- 

 tie Grhnm" but from a "wee little K.;ilie" who we trust 

 may in due time win as warm a place in the licarts of 

 American bee-keepers as his her mamma. 



CANDY roK Bees. 



After spoilin.;; 20 lbs. of sugar in tryiiiir to make our own 

 crwidy, we decided to pay our coufectioiun- 2 cents jier lb. 

 to make it for lis. But as such a course would not help 

 our re.-ideis, we muslered up coura;<e enomrli to try it 

 si'.'ain, and with 5Irs. ll's help we succeeded b 'autifully. 

 The secret of preveiitint; its buniinj? is that she insisted 

 on havini:: til" kettle kept on the top of the stove aim- it 

 was alxnit half done. Take i lbs. of colToe A sugar, one 

 pint of w iter, and one feaspooiifnl of cream of tarter; boil 

 as above until it is hard and brittle when drojijied into 

 water. Pour into Ion;; shallow tins to cool, and cno! 

 quickbj. If w(Jiked it Mill make very nice cream candy. 



- — mst '^t*^* 4m — 



HO^V TO MAKi: Alt'S'lFICIAL, COMB 



roi .M>A'i'Bor«s. 



^JVERYBODY knows that the cell of the 

 •• L-jj honey comb is six sided, but very few, 

 even among our readers we fear, are aware 

 that the bottom of each cell is composed of 



three beautiful lo/.enge shai)ed plates. As we 

 shall have much to do witn these womlerfnl 

 lozenges, we will remark that each one is 

 Ijouuded by four equal lines as .seen in the tig- 



A 



ure. Now the width, A, C, bears a most sin- 

 gular i)roportion to the lengtii, I), IJ, and if yon 

 will be attentive we will try and tell you just 

 what the relation is. If we assume A, C, as 

 one side of a sfjuare, D, B, will be exactly the 

 diagonal of this square, and the shaped cup 

 that is formed by uniting tiiree of these loz- 

 enges, is the solution of that wonderful prob- 

 lem in mathematics, that we have all read so 

 much about, but want of space here compe's 

 us to direct our readers to page 15U, Vol. Ii, u^ 

 the Americ(ui Bee Journal. 



As we want to be exact in our tool.s for cop- 

 ying the work of the honey bee, we had l)etter 

 make a large model of the bottom of the cell ; 

 and by the way, it will be interesting fur every 

 bee-keeper to have such a dodecaheilron — hgure 

 with twelve ecjual sides — as a curiosity. Get 

 a wooden ball of some kind, those to be bougiit 

 at the toy stores for a few cents will do, axwX 

 tit into a lathe so that you can draw a perfect 

 equator on it with a pencil. Now space off 

 this equator accu!a cly into six equal parts, 

 and draw lines from one pole to the other pass- 

 ing through each one of the six points laid out 

 in the equator. 



Measure oil" the distance at which your divi- 

 ders are set, and add 1-5 to it, then draw lines 

 parallel to the equator — one on each siile — ;uul 

 such a distance Irom it that they are distant 

 froi^n each other the space you have set your 

 dividers. Now yoii ai'e to make six fiat laces 

 on the equator by cutting out the wood be- 

 tween the parallels and the .six meridians from 

 pole to iiole. With knife and lile face down 

 until just the crossing of these lines venuiins 

 ot the surface of the sphere. We now have a 

 six sided cylinder with rounded ends ; these 

 ends are to l)e faced tlown to three of the loz- 

 enges mentioned, iind our guide lor doing it, 

 will be taking the jiole as one point, and each 

 alienate point useil in dressing down the other 

 faces ; the idea being to give the figure twelve 

 equal I'lces. 



Now ye bright mcchanic<\l geniuses here is 

 work for you. If you are not in the habit of 

 doing line, close work, you need not make the 

 attempt, for we are to march boldly into the 

 very work shop of nature herself. Get a piece 

 of kStubs' steel rod, just ,^4 inch in diameter and 

 about 4 inches long, and set it so as to run ac- 

 curately in a lathe, then witii a fine, sharp 

 turning tool turn the end of it as in the an- 

 nexed (liagram. 



The angle at the point of this punch, for 

 punch it is to be, i-;- to be the same as that at 



