1875. 



(CLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



ISv. 



inlly from a distance, must not be tlisappointeil at failures. 

 'SVhile a few have succeeded where it was sent long dis- 

 tances, more have failed. Unless the lar^ic can be put 

 into the hive within 48 hours, and unless the temperature 

 he above G&°, it wi!l die, and wll fall ont of the cells. If 

 the bees remove it from the cells, you maj" "i-te sure it is 

 l)ecauso it has become chilled or starved. Send to some 

 •-<ne who has an imported queen Rear .vo\i, durins; the sum- 

 mer months, do not have the larv:v out of the hive riiore 

 'Jian 45 hours, and you can scarcJy fail to get nice queens. 



AVE are veiy glad indeed to ha able to give the reduced 

 rates on fdii. &s given on another page. Semothing new 

 •omes up almost daily in the process of maimfacture. 

 Our latest discovery is that the sheets may be dipped on 

 sheets of very thick galvanized iroi;. and that the dis- 

 vigreeable and troviUiesome soaping operation may be 

 viispensed witfc entirely, if the iron be first coated with a 

 ihin fi!ra of wax. "SVe now offer IVW lbs. of yellow, in 

 >heets 12 hy K for $54.00, or the same bleached, for §72.e0. 

 'The prettiest lot of yellow wax we have ever wjrked up 

 <)r seen, was "ent us by Herbert A. Burch. Will friend B. 

 (ilease tell us how he secured it in such nice shape r 



liECO<jNiztN-<j th-e fact that mistakes will hapjsen, we 

 try to avoid them where ever it is possible to do so. 

 After much paiiis and care, we manage to get your 

 names oa our subscription list all set up right, and to 

 have every thing so your papers go straight every 

 lime; bi\t soon comes the eml of the year, and then 

 ».he greater part of it has to be done over again. Xow 

 of course wo cannot ask yon to pay for next year be- 

 ■ibre the time coaies, or unless we make it some ob- 

 iect for 3'ow so to do. We will thercfoie make you 

 vhis offer ; to all who will renew t5ieir subscnption 

 >>ne month or Twove, before they should receive their 

 iast number, we will give any of the premiums offered 

 '.or two subscribers, or we will allow you to deduct 10 

 !>er cent from our regular r;Ucs, as you may choose. 

 When you wish to avail yourselves of this offer, please 

 refer to this notice. 



IPertaiiiiiig to Hoo dilliiro. 



[We respectfully solicit tlie aid of our friends in 

 v-onilucting this department, and wonUl consider it 

 ", favor to have tliem send us all circulars that have 

 .1 deceptive appearance. The greatest care will be at 

 ;'U times maintained to prevent injustice being done 

 any one.] 



"■, q^RIEXD ROOT ;— The following letter explains its- 



^f''' seif. Please publish it for the beuelit of those hav- 



ing honey to sell. Commf nts from me are nnnec- 



<-cssary. J. F. Montgomkev. 



.r. F. MoNiGoiiEET. Chicago. .Tunc 12th, 1S7(>. 



Lincoln, Lincoln Co., Tenn. 



Your pi)stal card of 

 .he 7th, inst. at hand. We will say, if you do ( or have 

 done) as jou say, we will fight the pa,vment of your claim 

 lo the bitter end. We stated that you would be paid for 

 vour honey if it were sho\vii to be pure, on analysis, or 

 could be sold for pure honey. When your last iwstal 

 came to hand, we answered saying, that no i-eport had 

 been given, we would in all probabihty know by the 15th. 

 or thereabouts, and when a report was given we would 

 remit. Now if you think to cf'jfke it ont, all we have to 

 say is, try it on. Our reputation is worth more than a 

 btirrel of Tennessee honey, and your course is uof the 

 i)cst to pursue, if you calculate to get your pay. A law- 

 ■oi- of tliis place who had .some of it, says it is not pure, 

 :itiil if we do not wish to pay for it. he will defend us in a 

 :>uit without one dollar of expense. Thi'; howcvi-r is not 



our desire, but if you force us to it, with yourself rests the 

 blame. J. K. McAllister. 



We have heard "Philadelphia lawyer.s'' 

 quoted as beino; equal to almost any task, but 

 never before knew that Clikago lawyers were 

 so much smarter than common people. The 

 pretext t() avoid payinj? for the honey is a 

 bare-faced fraud, and if the A. B. J. or any one 

 else knew that McxVUister & Co., wen; of that 

 stripe, why were our people not warned as 

 they should have been long ago. Mr. Mont- 

 gomery is a man who is widely known, and 

 who would never dream of sending spurious 

 honey to Chicago. 



We have had several reports of the doings 

 of the man Gillispie since our last, and he is 

 getting more money than one would think 

 possible by his absurd claim of having a pa- 

 tent covering all two story hives. He tells 

 those whom he is trying to dupe, of having sold 

 rights to most of our promiKent bee-keepers, 

 and also of having recovered large amounts 

 for damages in lawsuits with others. It may 

 be well to keep him before the people, as 

 thoroughly as we did Mitchell, a few months 

 ago^ 



FEEBIXCi BEES HONEY CAPPINGS, &;C. 



s^jjDITOR GLEANINItS-.— In the answer to S. R. 

 i^fij/il Leonard's query, "Can queens be safely winter 



' ed, &c.,'^ you say that they can only l>e wintered 



salely in full colonies. 



I wintered two viuecns last winter in one of Js. C, 

 Mitcheirs swindles, the Rough and Ready hive; they 

 are made for'^Hrames, 12x12, & 2 false ends; frames fit 

 tight at sides which makes them double all round af- 

 ter the bees have glued the joints, which tlsey do so 

 effectually, that I liave to run a long knife down be- 

 tween them every time I want them out, even if it is 

 twice a day. I fixed it for raiding queens by tacking a 

 piece of carpet on the false ends and putting them in 

 the fourth notch from the ends, making three divis- 

 ions of three frames each, with the entrance to the 

 middle one, on one siile, and the two end ones on the 

 others. I have raised many ijueeus in it. For winter- 

 ing I simply tack a piece of wire cloth on one frame 

 for a partition, put six frames io 'he centre and the 

 false ends against the frames, put several thicknesses 

 of old carpet on the top, and All the ends with the 

 same material. Wintered two in this way ia the win- 

 ter of To and -74. Did not try any in 74 and '75. Per- 

 haps it miglit not succeed in a very cold winter. 



If friend Pierce had tacked a piece of cloth of some 

 kind to the top of his wire gauze frames he might 

 have saved all his queens, and probably each colony 

 would have been as strong by the lirst of 3Iay as they 

 were after uniting. 



Some ten or twelve days since. I accidentally dis- 

 covered that bees would work up new comb if left 

 at the entrance of then- hive in the evening. I 

 had put an empty frame in the upper story of an old- 

 fashioned hive with i ortico, ."iud instead of tilling it 

 out at one upper corner, they had spliced out the cells 

 on either side so the frames could not be taken out. I 

 sliced them off and threw tlie trimmings into the ijor- 

 tico. Next morning they were all cleaned up. Tak- 

 ing a hint from that, and having a quantltj' of cap- 

 pings on hand, I gave them about two ounces of cap- 

 inngs tlie nest evening, and it was all used up by the 

 next night. T had a swarm from a hive that was hiv- 

 ed on May 2Sth, on the 8th inst.. which I put in a Uni- 

 versal hive, and gave a lot of cajipings. Thc}- have 



