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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



SEn 



The Gle.vnings jast received. And shouW I re- 

 ceive no move, I consiikr that I have received the 

 worth of my money in the August No. 



My six colonies have inci'eased to 24 aJl in good con- 

 dition. Have l«ken 450 lbs extracted honey which 

 has retailed at from la to 30c- per lb. and at present J 

 fin 1 I have many customers who have developed a 

 taste for honey which I caiynot supply. Can you 

 fm-nish clover honey by the Isalf barrel and at what 

 l>rice ? K T. Fog i.e. 



Hartsvillo, Iiid. .-Ing. 5th, 187<>. 



The above show* what may be done with 

 our home market; we think every neighbor- 

 hood will do nearly as well, if it be tboroagb- 

 }y developed. 



Well N'ovice yon forgot ir?y advertisement again didiT't 

 you ? That is the way clTiktreii are usually treated treat- 

 ed and I am somewhat used to it. But I am 19 years old 

 to-ir3orro\T and I hive a notion that 1 ought to prosecute 

 .you "for breech of promise." You mvie proposals which 

 I accepted, complyhig with yom- stipidations, and your 

 failure to perform your psrt of the contr.ict has ruined 

 ray prospect of selling queens this year, and nearly "brok- 

 en my" ambition ; and I feel iudfliereiit whether you 



remember mc now or not, s'm<-e it is to late to do nmch 

 good. 



Comb foundations are a success with nw, lu 2i hours 

 the cells are lengthened and contain honey and eggs. I 

 have ordered 2 lbs. more through J. '\V. Crtmer and our 

 Kellogg of Oneid i, 12 miles fi'om here. I visited their 

 api iries a short time ago, (Kellogg insists th it his is a bee 

 yard) K. rais3s honey , and C. raises fuieen-i. Both have 

 very nice combs built on the foundations, and say that it 

 has been worth |3. or St. per lb to them. 



I think the quickest way to lay out the heKigonal apia- 

 iary, is to take a strip of pine 1 inch square and a little 

 more than C> feet long, bore holes C> feet apart and drive 

 5ome pins into the holes so that they will stick through 

 C) or S inches, then have a straight line across the yard, 

 or commence on one side. Divide the line into points (> 

 feet apart with the measureing rod, drive a stake at each 

 point, then set the point of one of ihe pins at the tirst 

 stake, and with the other make a scratch on the ground 

 in the form of an arc; then place a point at the next 

 stake and make a circle or an arc, and where the Unes cut 

 each other drive the stake for another grape vine, and so 

 on tothe end of the row. Take the second row as a guide to 

 make the third form. The apiary can \ye continued in 

 any direction and will always be aceui-ate. 



There .ire two honey plants that are proof against dry 

 weather. One, a tall wectl with blue blossoms, the other 

 is short with yellow blossoms. They never fail to yield 

 abundantly. They blosssra from the middle of July to 

 middle of Aug. Lots of honey coming in. Some bees 

 have increased six fold. Last night 1 opened a long queen 

 cell and found a chrysalis with her head to the bottom of 

 the cell. l>id any one evei find a queen in such a position 

 before ? Llotd Z. Jonep. 



Galva, Ills. Aug. 8th, 187G. 



We once knew a man who had such an in- 

 veterate habit of telling things that were not 

 (jnite the truth, that his friends finally decided 

 to call on him with a remonstrance. To their 

 surprise he admitted it at once, and gravely 

 informed them he had shed "barrels and bar- 

 rels of tears" over that very infirmity, but all 

 to no avail. Now we have not done quite so 

 badly, in regard to the mixed way in which 

 our business has some of it been done this 

 summer, but we felt so badly about the adver- 

 tisements, that we have given the whole mat- 



ter over into the hands of one of the clerks, 

 and have just bought ber a bran new book ins 

 which to note down all the items, etc. Telb 

 ITS how much will make yoi?r loss and disap- 

 pointment good, friend J., and we'll treat yoiB 

 as deferentially as ifyou were SOinstea-dof lO". 

 Did not your cfueen have so large a cell that 

 she tiTrned ro«nd in it ? 



EstractorspleiKlid so light a-nd nice. My boy ha'S 

 a war dance around it. Will try it right away after 

 dinner. ITiveg full of honey of a splendid quality ani5 

 still coming in, we are busy as beea. 



M. Parsk, Pine BlufT, Ark. Aug. 2d, ISTIJ. 



1 aiw still exiwrimentirKj with c^mb foumlation of al3 

 shades, from you and Mr. Perrine. Haven't tried far, 

 enough to ape.ik deridedly on any point yet. How do you, 

 kn-ow that the bees "draw out" the wa.\ rather than cut 

 it doiri> to tl:>e thickness they choose and theii build out 

 with was from their pouches ? But IJttie honey has been 

 coming in, but why do i»t strong stodis oo ahead ,an(> 

 iiiake 8on'>e progress "drawing out" tl* cells? Does it 

 take both stroia;; stocks, honey and time, to do this 

 •^drawing out" business ? James Heddon. 



But your experinicnting has not gone ^vr^' 

 far if yon have not yet tried a piece of white 

 and a piece of yellow, side by side. We shall 

 have to consider you about a year l>ehind the 

 times if you have not as yet seen your bees 

 use Avax of difterent colors and carry the cells 

 clear to the to"p without any change in color. 

 They will only t>uild oi>t the combs when they 

 are needing- them, bwt with a very moderate 

 yield of honey, we get a frame foil of founda- 

 tion made into fair comb in 24 hours. 



1 have had better success with box iToney than ever be- 

 i fore, and will tell you the reason. They usually swarm 

 i when the boxes are p:^rtly filled, which stops work in 

 them at once. If you cut out c^ueen cells and return tlio 

 swarms the,' refuse to work or soon svifarm out aiiain. 

 The w;}y I foal them is this : when they swarm put tlicn; 

 in an empty hive just beside their old stand ; when nicidy 

 at work, say in one or two days, give them their own did 

 combs and boxes and everything goe^ on just as though 

 nothing had happened. My bees are now working finely 

 on the rape and buckwheat. I have about 2300 lbs. of 

 white clover honey. 



J. L. Wolfendex, Adams, Wis. 



We are inclined to think your plan which 

 has bten given several times before, with 

 some variation, the best one if comb honey is 

 wanted, and no increase of stocks. If left very 

 long, considerable comb will be built, but this 

 is just what is needed for starters. We think 

 if the new hive is put close to the old one, it 

 may be removed so as to oblige them to take 

 their old premises the very next day. We 

 judge so l>ecause we have hived them in their 

 own hive successfully by simply moving it a, 

 few feet. We certainly do not wish to be 

 obliged to lug them about just to accommo- 

 date their whims, more than is really necessary. 



I am an.xious to see one of your ca5es of boxes, or 

 frames. Have a good strong swarm ready to fill it as 

 soon as received. This swarm is in the Finn liive, 

 and has given me 110 lbs. of honey besides a swarm. 

 Bees liave done exceedingly well here this season. 1 

 received one lot of fdn. of you last spring, which 1 

 used for guiiles ; it did liaely. 



CacouGK L. Gast, Le Clair, Iowa, .Vug. 4!h, ''''>■ 



