1876 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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PROM DIFFERENT FIELDS. 



WplHR most extensive bee-keeper in our part of the 

 ^i*|[ ' country, remarked a short 1 irae since, (when I told 

 him of your new liive), that he belioved you had a 

 new hobby every G we- ks. After lendiu'j; liim my lile of 

 Gleaninos for IS75, and doing a liltle talkinc:, I think 1 

 have got him into the ri;rlit channel. I nm young, both 

 in years and the bf e business, but my success last season 

 (thanks toGLEASiNGS! vnis such that I think 1 shall try it 

 a little more extensively this year. I started last season 

 with onl.i 2 stands of bees, and those not very strong, in- 

 creased to ir>, took from them 550 lbs. ext'd. an<l about 800 

 of box honey. Now if I did send to you last season for a 

 Standard hive, and had to pay S-. freight charges on it, 

 and then never made any like it, it is no reason why I 

 should not send again this spring for another hive, simp- 

 ly beeau^c you think it the best. I am child enough 

 to simply take your word for it, without asking any iiues- 

 tions. A. (Campbell, Warsaw. Mo., March 10th '7(>. 



We d() he<x pardon for so many changes, but 

 when any branch of industry is proeressin<; as 

 is bee-culture, there must be chancjes That 

 we are prosjressinjj may be seen from the 

 above report, and we have more similar ones 

 than can possibly be published. These reports 

 too, come many of them from new beg-inners 

 The Universal hive and section bo.xes grew 

 out of the developments made last season with 

 the artificial comb, and whar more may be 

 made this season we are at present unable to 

 foresee. The Universal hive is a success so 

 far as being well adapted to holding almost 

 any frame in use, is concerned, yet it can be 

 packed in so small a compass, that we are to- 

 day packing a two story hive inside of an L. ex- 

 tractor. As both are going to a subscriber in 

 Texas, the saving to him in freight will 

 amount to several dollars. 



Mr. A. ROOT, Sh' :— I had IG stocks of bees last fall and 

 have now only 11. Th -y were on summer stands, no dis- 

 disease, died from lick of food alone. Last sunnner 

 was a very poor one for lione.v. t'ae worst I ever witnessed 

 in my life and I am 87 years of aye. I have kept bees 

 since I was 19 years old. Have b 'en keeiiing bees for four 

 years in North Wales, in straw hives and have made 7 

 sovereigns in the four years from two stocks. T\v last 

 .year I had 21 stocks of bees. I have tried f>ur dilTerent 

 patent hives in this country, Langstroth, American, Eu- 

 reka and J. R. AUen'^. I have how discarded them all 

 but the Langstroth. I cm set more honey from L. shal- 

 low frames, and tliey will winter as well as deep frames--, 

 on summer stands. I have S stocks in L. hive 12 niches 

 deep. Would you advise me to cut them down this 

 spriuE;? for I wi.-h to have them all in ihe shallow frames. 

 Wm. Roberts, Vaugh iisville, O., Marcti 21st, '70. 



We would cert.ainly cut them down so as to 

 have all alike, and while you are about it get 

 them into the standard L. size if you can. 

 For comb honey this frame is destined to su- 

 percede all others in our opinion, and it is very 

 desirable that they are all made of oue exact 

 size. 



You did not sesm to get the right "ilavor" of my re- 

 marks, in Oct. No. I hold that honey should stand in 

 the hi.o about two weeks to got .good llavor, if it s tiiicA 

 when gathered. Wm. II. S. (Jnorr. 



Po! ind Contro, N. Y. 



I am quite gratified to know that you have near 1.500 

 subscribers to Gleasinos. One half of it is .f no use to 

 us here, but it is the best wo can do ; we need )i depart- 

 ment for Californi.i, or else a whole papar oursolvi;s. Our 

 Oounty Bee Keeper's Convention agreed unaiiiuiou.sly to 

 adoi)t the Langstroth frame, and the Harbis in section 

 honey box, although most of the honey here is taken witli 

 the extractor. I furnish all the new extractors. 



R. AViLKi.v, S. B. Ventura, Cal., March 15th, '7(;. 

 You have already quite a bee department in 

 the Weekli/, given this month on our coven 

 Very glad indeed to hear you have decided on 

 the L. frame. Long may it endure. 



I tell you it was fun by the bushel for me, to think that 

 you, A. I Root, editor of Gleanings, should make <ncii 

 work getting your bees out of the house. Dor 't wonder 

 folks wanted to know if the bees were swarming. Be?s 

 h.ave wintered well in this region. S. M. HoLroMU. 



Grand Haven, Mich., Jlarch 20th, '7(;. 



Ple.ase send me circular of honey extractors, also any 

 information in regard to this method of putting up honey. 

 I have an apiary in this county and have been putting up 

 comb honey exclusively, in Harbison's hives. X want to 

 fry the extracting business, and others liere arc thinkinc 

 of doing so. We put about 100 tons of honey in market 

 from this county the past year, and the yield will be much 

 greater this year. The market for comb honey has not 

 l)een satisfactory. Chas. J. Fox, County Surveyor. 



San Diego, Cal., March 2d, '7(>. 



I have been keeping bees for years. I found a swarm in 

 the woods, and from them I have .about 120 hives. I wish 

 to Ittilianize them. I have the box hive, open at the top. 

 with slats across oven with the top of the hive, a honey 

 brard on in the absence of honey boxes, and a cover over 

 that. With such hives, can I be successful with Itnli-in 

 ([ueens? 1 also want to know something about shipping 

 bees. I want to send a few statids to Denver, Colorado. 

 When is the b^^st time? .and how would you p-ick them V 

 I had thou'jht of sending just the bdy of the hive ; taking 

 off the honey board, tacking wire cloth on top and bottom 

 and sendinsr by express. J. M. Davis. 



Milford, Del.. Feb. 17th, 187(1. 



You can Italianize vour bees in such hivrs 

 but there will probably be much loss and vex 

 ation. You will have to drum out thf' bees to 

 get your black queens, and then if they should 

 take a notion to kill the queen introduced, and 

 rear another black one, you can not well helo 

 yourself. We think it will pay you to get 

 them into some kind of a frarse hive, even ♦^ho' 

 it be a cheap one. Ship the bees at any season 

 when it is not very cold or very warm. The 

 plan you have mentioned for such hives as 

 vours, is probably as good a oue as you can 

 have; for everv one could sec and hear that 

 they were "bees," and they would be handled 

 accordingly. Thev would also be sure to have 

 abundant ventilation. 



My 4000 lbs. of honey advert i-ied in Gleinixgs. was all 

 sold lotrg aso. Thanks to GLUxyisas for it. T ask no 

 premitmi for tin name I sMit you, ami hope fo -rot a (rood 

 ma y names for ,vou on the same terms. I s^ill f.^d mu^h 

 indebted to Gi.evxincjs. M. E. McMister. 



P. S.— Mv ,"(i sw.vrms have ill cime throuih goid and 

 strong. Bees goner:illy begin rearing bro xl in this see'ion 

 by the first of Jan. Commenced carrying in pollcTi Fel). 

 nth, this year. M. E. MoM. 



Shclbyville, Mo., March Slli, ^.l. 



