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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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I wish to move my api n\v :i disiance of about WO yards 

 sometime next season. Please tel! me when is the best | 

 lime to do it, and how to proceed in order to prevent (he 

 Jiees from going back to their present situation. 



Ctecs McQueen, Buena Vists, Olio. 



Ghocse a time in the winter or &priii2, after 

 they have been confined to their hives tor sev- 

 <erai weeks, and phice them quietly on their 

 :ie\v stands beiore they have liad a fly. If they 

 should be so much disturbed as to come out 

 while being removed, many of them would be 

 ^ost, but if they do not come out until the 

 weather jiermits, nearly all will adhere to the 

 new stand, providing tliey have not iiad a fly 

 ior a coiiple of weeks or more. If moved in 

 svarm weather, most of the stocks will l>e se- 

 riously injured. 



We extracted 110 lbs. of honey the firet afternoon we 

 received tl>o extractor from you. It was all taken in 

 iibont an hour and a half from 4 stands of bees wliich had 

 so filled their hives as to leave no room for the queen. 

 Ail the brood tliey had was in 3 or 4 frames while others 

 had from 7 to S. We also received the balance of fdn. 

 <'omb in as good condiu ii as it was shipped and were 

 M'cll pleased with it. This being of a better quality, and 

 iieavier, is not so liable to warp after being placed in the 

 J.iive. We went into winter (luarters with 102 stands of 

 bees all in movable frame hives. We had 5(5 in the bee 

 house, 11 on summej- stands and .>5 in the cell;:r. We lost 

 •1 in the bee house, 3 on summer stands and 2 in the cel- 

 ■\nr. Two being queenless we united them with others 

 :ind sold 7 this spring, leaving us 87 with which to coui- 

 jncnce the season's w-oric. Up to this date we have 33 

 .iiew stands all being first swarms. You may ask how we 

 inanaged to stop second swarming. If we have young 

 <|ucenE, we put them in after they swarm and take the 

 ^■oyal cells to fee hatched for the next that swarms. This 

 -sisually prev^ents second swarming. To make suie'work 

 of il;, examine in nine days ajid if there are more royal 

 '■ells, repeat the operation. If no queens are on hand 

 v/ait or 7 days, then take out all the roj-a! cells except 

 one ; see in five days whether the one left is hatched, and 

 if new ores are started dciitroy them ; but in all cases be 

 sure you know the one you left in hatches. If you wait so 

 long that the queens are peeping, before taking out the 

 <'!ills they sometimes swarm out and leave no queen in 

 (ho old staaid, and Jio way to niise one. 



Now I must go back and tell you about (he honey of 

 jurbeef. There are 73, all working in boxes. We have 

 Hi to 21 four lb. boxes on a liive and think thoy will be all 

 sealed before basswood is over. How did we get them 

 on ? Tliey are made so that it takes 8 to cover the hive 

 hv taking elf honey board, and there is a two inch hole in 

 the toj) and bottom so we can set them top of each other 

 one, two and three tiers accordijig to the staiid. 



We think we will have to extract the honey from the 

 rest as we did from the 1 when we got the extractor. 

 'They seem to work like new swarms since. 



I have been reading different methods of putting comb 

 i'dn. in frames, and think tlie best way Ls to cut the comb 

 one-half inch smaller than intide of frame and fasten 

 with glue to tlie top of frame. If the comb is tender and 

 Ihin, put two little sti-ips one irich fi-om the bottom of 

 !t.!ie cc«ib on both sides to keej) it from warping. 



Henry Ke'jpp & Bro. 

 Wane«J., Warren Co.. Pa., July i2th, 1876. 



extractor to tlie tin-smith and got it mended, I can 

 put a new handle on the knife myself, an<l the quilts, 

 the v«-omen folks can piece out, so it can all be fixed 

 up without sending in a bill of damagcf?. I think this 

 is the way things should be ilono, instead of one hav- 

 ing to do it all. My honey crop this season was ?.2io 

 Ib^. of extracted honey. W. P. liiisii. 



New Portage, Summit Co. Ohio. 



"We are very glad indeed, friend I., to have 

 our friends tell us how oar supplies answer 

 the purpose, and when they voluteer, to stand 

 the inconvenience of making good any little 

 faults with our wares, we take it as especially 

 kind, and as a mark of real friendship. Where 

 the loss is clearly the result of our own care- 

 lessness, we, as we have often said, prefer to 

 make the article good. As a general thing, 

 we tliink it our duty, to take back goods that 

 are defective, or to return the money paid us, 

 if the goods will not warrent returning; but of 

 late there have been one or two claims that 

 we feel are hardly fair, and that we really 

 cannot stand. As a parallel case, we will 

 mention that our confectioner last fall slight- 

 ly burnt some of our bee candy in making; 

 this resulted in the loss of two or three good 

 colonies of bees. Should our confectioner pay 

 us ^2."). 00 for these bees y We could not feel 

 that he ought, even if he had been somewhat 

 careless, for he certainly had no idea that it 

 would kill them any more than had we, and 

 although we thought he might if he chose pay 

 for the candj', we felt no unkindness toward 

 him when he made no such ofier. The seeds 

 we sell, wc take great paics to have pure and 

 good, and if tliey should prove otherwise, we 

 are ready to return the money paid us, but we 

 can under no circumstances undertake to pay 

 for all the trouble that our customers have 

 been to in preparing the ground, nor do w-e 

 ask as much from any of whom we purchase. 

 When w^c proposed to pay damages on the fdn., 

 it was without thinking that a bill might be 

 presented larger than the amount paid us for 

 the goods, if those who choose to try it are 

 disappointed, we will take it back and refund 

 the money, but we can do 'nothing more. The 

 doubtful ones had better try a little at a time, 

 and we supposed of course all would test the 

 article on a small scale, before investing 

 largely. 



We have had but one complaint before, of 

 knives coming out of the handle, bat we are 

 very glad to loe told of it, for we can now give 

 notice of the fact to the workmen who make 

 them. Also in regard to the quilts; Ave made 

 them we supposed just the dimensions given, 

 but as they are much better too large than too 

 small, we think we will in fulure allow a little 

 more for shrinkage. If any faulty soldering is 

 found in oar extractors, we prefer to pay the 

 expense of making it good. Please tell the 

 "women folks" we tender them our compli- 

 ments friend I., for we too have had experience 

 in piecing out quilts. 



You have been paying some rather larp;c bills icr 

 tlamag-es. I too might bring in a bill. The extractor . 

 you sent me broke, the handle of the houcy knife i 

 came off, and the lifty (juilts 1 got of yen, are all too 1 

 small, by 1 inch erch way ; but what of it. 1 tcok the ! 



HOW TO C.^TCn ALL THE ANTS. 



Take a common gliss fruit jar with a tin top held on by 

 a wire. With a small awl make holes in the tin top pre- 

 ci-ely as you would to make a bee feeder ; fill the jir half 

 full of honey and water and place where the ants are, 

 or bury in the grcund near the hive infested. 



C. L. Stratton, Knoxv; ]o. Tenn. 



