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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Aug?. 



Hrive used iilovcs for ten jears. Do not like rubber, 

 tftey make the linuils sweat so. I use thin buckskin. 

 Should not think of touching them witlwut. Have had 

 more stings in live minutes without tbem than I now get 

 in a year. E. C, Newell. 



V/orfboro Junction, N. H., July rth, 1'87(>. 



My bees commenced swarming the 11th oi' June. Up 

 to the lOtb of July have had 40 large swai-ms. -it d:ite, 

 are doing well. 



What should a swarm weigh? I weighed one that 

 pulled down 5;f pounds. Is that a good swarra or not V 



Rose, N. Y., July 17th,. 1S7<>. Lyman Lego. 



My best swarm has made 150 pownds oi mie honey in 

 amall sections or frames. ■mv\ has two set on now, one of 

 them ready to cap ; they have not commenced to work 

 an basswood yet. V. M. DiCEiNSOX. 



Whitney's Poiot, X. Y., June 13, 1876. 



I have 50 colonies of bees here that have clone 

 poorly this season in tbc way of honey ; I will 

 have about 1,<J0(» pounds cxtracteii. The freeze in 

 the spring killed nearly all the pophw blooro, and since 

 linwoort and sourwood came into bloom it has rained 

 nearly every day ; in the last 17 days it has rained l.>, 

 from copious showers np to giMi/ wa^Jcers. 



I have commenced making nuclei tobi^ild npsvyarras 

 as soon as I casn raise the yueens ; will bivy honey to 

 feed with. My .son, Milton, was here from Indiana 

 last week ; he had taken 4,300 pounds of very light 

 colored thick honey from 36 colonies, and he vyrote 

 me since that be thought there was enough to take 

 out to make ic s>,000 pownds. 



Comb foundations have not worked well with me 

 this year ; a large portion of them in the sections 

 seemed to get so soft that they would fall down in the 

 section*. 



Is John Long in the comb foimdati m business yet ? 

 1 sent him, in January last, §100 for white comb foun- 

 dations. He sent me 28 pounds in March, and that is 

 the last I heard from him. I have written several 

 times ; any information concerning him will be tlMink- 

 fnlly leceived. I got 50 pounds of foundations from 

 Perrine at .§1.3» per pound. P. W. McFatkii>oe. 



I-:loi!A, Tennessee, July U, 1876. 



It seeras frieud M., that as far as houey is 

 concerned, you would have fared better at 

 home than where you are ; we wonder if it is 

 not generally the case that our own localities 

 properly developed would do about as well as 

 any otlier. The case mentioned is tlie only one 

 we have seen against Mr. Long, with one ex- 

 ception. Can he not fix up these two, and have 

 his dealings all stand fair and square V 



How would you proceed to get a nice lot of worker 

 comb built yet this summer ? What real advantage is 

 there in comb foundations ? 



J. M. MoiiLEK, Covington, Ohio. 

 We would use yellow fdn., and would, if the 

 yield of honey were not sultlcient to make 

 them build them out, feed common yellow sug- 

 ar. This yellow sugar will produce more 

 comb than the white sugar, and if fed in Aug. 

 and Sept., is perfectly safe to winter. The ad- 

 vantages of fdn. are that you secure all work- 

 er comb, that you get it much quicker, and 

 that you, by furnishing most of the material, 

 make a great saving in honey. In surplus 

 boxes, we get fine crops by their use, where 

 we otherwise would get very little, or none at 

 all. 



Last fall I put 10 swarms into my cellar ; they all came- 

 through alive, though three were very weak ; one had not 

 over a half cup full of bees ; I g ive it bees from others^ 

 and as sooii as there wa» brood, gave tliem some. 



I have made five liew sv?arma antl extracted 1,.300' 

 pounds : the greatest quftnfity from one swai-m, 28t^ 

 pounds^ extraeted as follows - 



June 12 22 lbs, 



"• 16- 38 



" 21 33- 



" 2-i 41 



'= 27 2i 



July 1 43 



" 3 25 



'^ la 61 



29 286 



Subtracting the 22' fb«. will leave 264 lbs. gathered in 2S 

 days ; a little more than 9 lbs. per day. 



I. B. Daniels^ 

 Lost, July 17, 1S7C.. 



I have ha<i bees stationed inside my barii some two oy 

 tbree years, and with good success. They are on the east 

 side ; there is an entrance eut through ao that they pass 

 out and in the saiise as if thej' were out dows in a com- 

 mon hive. I now have some 25 swarms arranged on 

 shelves— a j>!an something iike yours. The barn is old,, 

 wilh plenty oS cracks bet weea the boards. I put hay on 

 and around them in cold weather. IL L. Lakkton. 



H ARTPORD', Conn., July, 187C\ 



Allow me to suggest that you add to your Mst the price- 

 of tin cans, say 10, 55, 2& and 30 gaflons ; with raised 

 bottom like extractors, with a Ikl, side handles and hoTiey 

 pate. I can't get the tinners here to put on the price, 

 till the work is done ; and then tbey wJll charge two 

 prices. I wish the can for carrying the honey to market. 

 Henry Cflp, Hillkud, O., Jaly 15th, 1S76. 

 We can furnish the cans for our extractors 

 probably much cheaper than any tinner, and 

 considerably (;heai)er than tliey could be made 

 did we not make them in as large quantities 

 as we do. We will furnish the No. 1. can^ 

 holding about 15 gallons^, for f;j.50. No. 4 or 

 5, holding about 20 gallons, for $400. No. 10, 

 the largest, holding about oO gallons, for $5.00. 

 A gallon of honey weighs about 11 pound.s-. 

 The cans mentioned ure I'urnished with honey- 

 gate and cloth cover. If f-ide handles are 

 wanted we will add them for 50 cents extra. 



In the summer of ISii I had 2,j stands of bees. I ex- 

 tracted all the basswood honey from them, 'iiiteading 

 to feed sugar &yrui> in the fall, if they gathered noth- 

 ing ; in the fall I was very sick and so lost all but (> 

 weak stands. The following season I got up to 13(thi& 

 was the grasshopijer year when bees starved in June) 

 and have novv, July 10th, -i!) stands from which I have 

 taken Wto lbs. basswood honey, all extracted. Would 

 like to sell it at 16 cts. This spring bees have done 

 nothing on white clover. Basswood is all over ; 

 white clover is thick but the bees get no honey from 

 it. By the way, I would like to know the best way to 

 wax a barrel, and whether good new white oak bbls. 

 made to hold whiskey, will do to hold honey. 



F. J. Fakr. Independence, Mo. July 10th, 1S7(>. 



P. S. Mr. James Meader, of this city, had 11 swarms 

 cluster on one limb, one day this season. How is 

 that for a big swarm ? Have you seen it beaten ? F. J.F. 



There is a moral to the first part of the 

 above that it will be well to heed. If you 

 have been so careless as to rob your bees, you 

 had better see about getting it Ixick to them 

 now; that is, if they are gathering no honey. 

 Very full instructions for waxing barrels were 



